Christine Roughan

As Digital Humanities Project Manager, Christine Roughan is responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining a wide range of project management processes for the CDH and its Collaborative Research Partnerships and Digital Humanities Accelerator. Christine works closely with the CDH’s Research Software Engineering (RSE) team as a technical project manager, supporting the design, planning, implementation, and conclusion stages of CDH faculty collaborations. She regularly consults with Princeton faculty, students, and staff on strategizing and implementing their digital humanities projects.

Christine’s background is in the Ancient World and focuses on the transmission of knowledge and the history of science in the medieval Mediterranean. Prior to joining the CDH as a full-time staff member in 2026, Christine held a term as Postdoctoral Research Associate with Princeton’s CDH and Manuscript, Rare Book, & Archive Studies (MARBAS). She has been and continues to be involved in building institutional infrastructure to support research with handwritten text recognition (HTR) through the Princeton Open HTR Initiative and the HTR2HPC project. Christine is also a co-organizer of the Source Codes of the Past workshop – an international network for automated text recognition of historical sources – and serves as a group organizer and instructor for the Vienna HTR Winter School (2024, 2025, 2026) hosted by the Institute for Medieval Research of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. In past years she developed and taught an undergraduate seminar titled “Text and Technology: from Handwritten to Digital Formats” as well as taught the CDH’s regularly offered “Introduction to Digital Humanities” seminar.

Her other work in the digital humanities includes relational and graph database design, data visualization, natural language processing, computer vision, and machine learning. For more, visit cmroughan.github.io/. Recent DH publications and presentations are listed below:

• "The Multiplicity of Medieval Editions: Digital Approaches to the ‘Middle Books’ of Astronomy," presentation at The 2026 ESHS/HSS Joint Meeting (Edinburgh, Scotland), doi: 10.5281/zenodo.22031243.
• with Rebecca Sutton Koeser, "Integrating ATR Software with University HPC Infrastructure: balancing diverse compute needs," USRSE’25 Conference Proceedings, doi: 10.5281/zenodo.17245595.
• with Luigi Bambaci, George Kiraz, Matthieu Freyder, and Daniel Stökl Ben Ezra, "Steps towards mining manuscript images for untranscribed texts: A case study from the Syriac collection at the Vatican Library," Proceedings of the Computational Humanities Research Conference 2024, [link].