Two CDH-Affiliated Scholars Win Major NEH Grants for Cairo Geniza Research

Eve Krakowski and Marina Rustow, co-director and director of Princeton's Geniza Lab — an affiliate lab of the Center for Digital Humanities — have each been awarded $300,000 from the National Endowment for the Humanities to produce new scholarly editions and translations from the Cairo Geniza, a cache of over 400,000 medieval manuscripts. Krakowski's project traces the social history of death in medieval Egypt, while Rustow's brings to light Jewish traders' letters, legal documents, and ledgers from the medieval Indian Ocean trade.

The news follows a related CDH milestone: Rustow and CDH's Rebecca Sutton Koeser recently published a data essay opening the Princeton Geniza Project's rich and complex historical material to data science approaches.

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