Graduate Program

Since its founding in 2014, the Center for Digital Humanities (CDH) has trained hundreds of graduate students from all fourteen PhD-granting Princeton humanities departments plus Anthropology, Architecture, Computer Science, History, History of Science, Politics, and Sociology. We teach students to reveal new insights about human culture through the informed and discerning use of data and computation. Our students ground these pursuits in a deep engagement with the history, theory, and political economy of AI. Whether applying or studying machine learning, our students draw on media studies, critical data studies, critical archival studies, cultural analytics, and computational humanities.

The CDH equips Princeton graduate students to be interdisciplinary, forward-thinking researchers in a competitive academic job market. Further, the expertise CDH grads acquire prime them for careers across a broad range of professional futures. Alumni of CDH graduate programs have gone on to careers in nonprofits, education policy, museums, consultancies, the tech industry, and more.

Students have the opportunity to act in a variety of roles, including as research assistants, co-authors, project managers, University Administrative Fellows, workshop leaders, consultants, teachers, speakers, and participants in our events, working groups, and courses.

Our range of curricular and co-curricular offerings has expanded over the years. Some students hold multiple CDH positions in a single academic year.

There is no one right way to sequence the workshops, classes, and fellowships offered by the CDH and by our campus partners like PUL Digital Scholarship and PICSciE. (For details on campus partners and their offerings, see the Grad Student Handbook.) But the diagram below suggests some pathways that PhD students might want to follow: from introductory classes, to project-based learning, to advanced training, and finally capstone presentations.

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