Projects

Projects

Building a Comparative Database for the Study of the Old and New Tang Histories

a comparative database that will allow scholars to visualise and analyse information from the two Histories

Finding the Fifth Century in Britain

Burial sites from more than a hundred fifth-century cemeteries
Built by CDH

Princeton Prosody Archive

Compelling users to rethink the past through a collection of historical prosodic works.

Remedies across Contexts

oral histories of healthcare access by queer and trans health activists of color

Selling Menthol

Visualizing Big Tobacco’s Targeted Market Strategies

The Ethiopian Miracles of Mary Project

the medieval Ethiopian Täˀammərä Maryam (Miracles of Mary) tales

The Justinianic Plague

a standardised, open-access repository of data on the plague
Built by CDH

The Shakespeare and Company Project

Recreating the world of the Lost Generation in interwar Paris.

The UNOW Oral History Project

recording the history of Princeton’s affiliated nursery school
Built by CDH

The Winthrop Family on the Page

Developing a web platform to provide a dynamic sense of how colonial readers interacted with texts and each other.

Themed Historical Walking Tours and Virtual Markers

highlighting lesser-known histories of Princeton using virtual reality web apps

Past Projects

bitKlavier

A software tool for exploring the prepared digital piano, an instrument at the charged border between body and computer.

Mapping Iranian Migrants and their Networks in Bahrain, 1920-1950

Highlighting the multiple communities of Iranians immigrants to Bahrain and the networks that connected them.

Mapping the Suffrage Metropolis

Mapping suffrage sites in NYC 1870-1917 to explore the relationship between urban landscapes, gender, and political movements.

Reconstructing the Past

Developing software to document historic structures today, enabling digital reconstruction and dissemination of VR models.

The Victoria Press Circle

Graphing the community of the Victoria Press to reconstruct feminist print networks.

ABC Books

Showcasing an interactive digital archive of rare children’s alphabet books.

Chinese Exchange Poems

A Social-Network Analysis of Late Medieval China.

Critical Studies in Gaming Lab

Digital gaming to experiment with how we think, talk, play, and create.
Built by CDH

Derrida’s Margins

An online research tool for the philosopher’s annotations that provides a behind-the-scenes look at his reading practices and the philosophy of deconstruction.

Designing Empire

Unlocking the Atlantic-wide origins of the British and French colonial city to develop the paradigm of “circulatory urbanization.”

Digital Oulipo: Programming Potential Literature

Using electronic versions of Oulipian texts to disrupt any traditional linear modes of reading.

Grassroots Minstrelsy in Bronzeville

Unmasking the lost archives of two minstrelsy institutions that dominated South Side society for 50 years.

Mapping Phono-Post

Exploring maps and visualizations of the first ever online audio-visual archive of individually recorded audio letters.

Playing Soviet

Toying with the visual languages of Early Soviet children's books.

Princeton and Slavery

Acknowledging the impact and legacy of slavery at Princeton through a multimodal archive and research environment.

Rhizomatic Reading

Developing and moderating a communal digital space to read Deleuze and Guattari’s A Thousand Plateaus.

Soviet Journals Reconnected

Mapping the networks of co-publication in the Soviet “thick” journals to show interrelations between cultural forms and social groups.