Projects

Archival Justice for the Enslaved

Decolonizing the archive by shifting the narrative from slaveholder to enslaved

Chinese Archival Handbooks

Investigating the structure of state archives in China

Computer-Assisted Pattern Analysis of Domenico Scarlatti's Keyboard Sonatas

Enabling new research on the Baroque composer by facilitating quantitative approaches

East Asian DH Working Group

Building a DH community in East Asian Studies at Princeton

Hale/Eliot Letters

Recovering Emily Hale's voice by cataloguing T.S. Eliot's letters to her

Implementation of preposition-based Semantic Annotation in Busa’s Index Thomisticus

Diving deep into Roberto Busa's interdisciplinary project

Indigenous Studies DH Working Group

Fostering community at the intersections of Indigenous Studies, advocacy, and the digital humanities.

Mapping Medieval Metadata

Illuminating communication in the medieval Byzantine Empire through a dataset of geo-referenced lead seals

New Languages for NLP: Building Linguistic Diversity in the Digital Humanities

An NEH-funded workshop to help scholars use NLP for new languages

Pages of Early Soviet Performance

Transforming images of Soviet performing arts periodicals into data for computational analysis

Princeton Geniza Project

Accessing the medieval Islamic world through digital tools

Princeton Prosody Archive

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

Shakespeare and Company Project

Recreating the world of the Lost Generation in interwar Paris.

Slavic DH Working Group

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

South Asia DH Working Group

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 two historical chronicles of Tang China

Curating Analyses of the Complete Beethoven Quartets

The Making (and Unmaking) of Environmental Carcinogens, 1960–2000

Princeton Ethiopian Miracles of Mary Project

Folklore about How the Virgin Mary Helps Believers in Ethiopian Literature and Art

Pacific Northwest Maritime Trade

This project uses digital mapping and data visualization to explore the role of maritime commerce in American settlement of the Pacific Northwest.

The Justinianic Plague

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

Finding the Fifth Century in Britain

Burial sites from more than a hundred fifth-century cemeteries

Selling Menthol

Visualizing Big Tobacco’s Targeted Market Strategies

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.

(In)Visible Princeton

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

Remedies across Contexts

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

The UNOW Oral History Project

recording the history of Princeton’s affiliated nursery school

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.

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.