Wafa F. Isfahani
Wafa Isfahani graduated with an MA from the Near Eastern Studies department at Princeton in 2019. Wafa worked at the CDH as a University Administrative Fellow and Graduate Assistant from 2018-2019 on the Year of Data project. Over the course of the year, Wafa got to know the wonderful staff at CDH, and learnt a lot about DH practices. Currently Wafa works as a Special Collections Assistant for the Near Eastern Collections at the Princeton University Library. Wafa is also co-organizing the first South Asia Digital Humanities Workshop at Princeton taking place in Spring 2020 with Ellen Ambrosone (South Asia Librarian, PUL) and Amna Qayyum (PhD, History) with sponsorship by the CDH. When Wafa is not working, she is either dancing or listening to South Asian classical music.
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Life on B Floor: My UAF Experience
16 May 2019
My name is Wafa Isfahani, and I’m a second year MA student in Near Eastern Studies. I study Indo-Islamic thought in the 18th and 19th centuries, especially the reception of ideas of prophecy and revelation and the ways in which they were employed by South Asian thinkers in the articulation of their reformatory ideals. Besides my research, I enjoy reading Urdu poetry, listening to Indo-Pakistani ghazals, or cooking with my housemates.DH at Princeton and Beyond: CDH Graduate Fellows Expand Their Horizons with help from Travel Grants
8 May 2019
CDH Graduate Fellows have so many opportunities to learn about how DH is practiced at Princeton. Throughout the spring semester, the current cohort of 10 graduate fellows met monthly to learn about and support each other’s projects, covering a vast range of subjects from conceptions of race, gender, and resistance, to 20th-century French music, to ancient Chinese texts. Each meeting provided glimpses of new ideas, tools and techniques so that, as a group, they gained valuable skills and insights not only from their own research but from their peers’ experiences.
Congratulations to our Spring 2019 Seed Grant Winners!
24 April 2019
Congratulations to the recipients of Spring 2019 CDH Seed Grants! This semester, awards were given to faculty and librarians to support a variety of endeavors related to digitally-inflected scholarship and inquiry.