Affiliate Labs & Working Groups

Research infrastructures and interdisciplinary communities for DH research, teaching and practice

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Affiliate Labs

Affiliation reflects the depth and ongoing nature of CDH collaborations, signaling our commitment to fostering a vibrant ecosystem of digital humanities across campus. Affiliate Labs represent a range of approaches — from open-access archival preservation and computational text analysis to the development of language technologies and digital reconstructions of historical places.

Princeton Geniza Lab

At the forefront of DH scholarship on the Cairo Geniza, preserving and providing access to this vast and invaluable collection of historical texts. Director: Marina Rustow

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African Language Technologies Lab

Focused on increasing the representation of African languages in NLP, LLMs, and AI. Directors: Christiane Fellbaum, Happy Buzaaba

Infrastructure for African Languages

REACH² Lab

Centered on digital analysis of the literature, culture, and history of East Asia. Director: Paul Vierthaler

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Poetry's Data Lab

Using the poetry found in the Princeton Prosody Archive datasets to analyze patterns of anglophone poetry teaching over time. Director: Meredith Martin

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Working Groups

Humanities for AI

Foregrounding the centrality of the humanities in the development, use, and interpretation of the field broadly known as “AI”

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Text Technologies for Manuscript Cultures

Using emerging technologies to transform research, teaching and understanding of pre-modern evidence

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Data & Digital Art and Archeology Working Group

Training & exploration in computational methods for art historical and archaeological research

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Past groups

East Asian DH Working Group

Building a DH community in East Asian Studies at Princeton

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Slavic DH Working Group

Building DH community in Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies at Princeton

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South Asia DH Working Group

Building a DH community in South Asian Studies at Princeton

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Indigenous Studies DH Working Group

Building DH community for Indigenous Studies at Princeton

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Machine Learning + Humanities Working Group

Building DH community for Machine Learning in the Humanities at Princeton

MLH Research Group