Gian Duri Rominger *23 Wins DH Dissertation Prize

The Center for Digital Humanities is pleased to announce that Gian Duri Rominger *23 (East Asian Studies) has been awarded the 2023 Digital Humanities Dissertation Prize for his dissertation, “Aural Texts and the Association of Sound and Meaning in Early China.”

In a recent CDH interview, Rominger explained that his dissertation was “based in part on a text mining approach” that he “designed for ancient Chinese texts . . . . Essentially, I was reapplying data from historical linguistics to the study of early Chinese literature,” he added.

While at Princeton, Rominger was a CDH Graduate Fellow and Data Fellow. He participated in the NEH-sponsored New Languages for NLP workshop series and collaborated with former CDH Developer Nick Budak on several projects, including an article on the process of applying machine learning to historical languages in the October 2023 issue of Startwords, the CDH research periodical. In Fall 2023, Rominger became one of the first two recipients of the Graduate Certificate in Digital Humanities.

Rominger is now assistant professor in the Department of East Asian Languages and Literature at the University of Washington in Seattle, where he also teaches in the Data Science minor.

The Digital Humanities Dissertation Prize accepts nominations annually for exceptional doctoral work and is awarded for the most successful use of DH in a dissertation. The prize carries an award of $2,000. For more information on application process and previous winners, visit: https://cdh.princeton.edu/funding/cdh-dissertation-prize/.