Projects

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

Increasing the representation of African languages in NLP by creating quality datasets for eleven African languages

Decolonizing the archive by shifting the narrative from slaveholder to enslaved

A database that includes images and objects relating to the issues of colonial medicine, artistic representation and race

Scarifications as testaments of life and death

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

Customizing the eScriptorium HTR software for use on Princeton high performance computing hardware

a comparative database that will allow scholars to visualise and analyse two historical chronicles of Tang China

Illuminating the geography of China’s medieval metropolis

Investigating the structure of state archives in China

A Social-Network Analysis of Late Medieval China.

Identifying Marx citations within Die Neue Zeit

Bringing Nineteenth-Century Black Organizing to Digital Life

A Database of Annotations in Early Modern Playbooks

Experiments in NLP for texts in Yoruba and Efik

Enabling new research on the Baroque composer by facilitating quantitative approaches

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

Examining the interaction between Dallas elites’ economic behavior and their social world

experimental physical representations of humanities data

Interactive, Iterative Schema Documentation

Katy, a participant in last summer’s Athens DH workshop, is conducting an analysis of ancient urban density during “the peak of Roman urbanization in the first two centuries CE.”

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.

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

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

Digital Intertextual Resonances in Early Chinese Texts

Investigating the capacity of LLMs to discern and classify literary styles through a series of controlled experiments

A database of graves and cemeteries in use between 350–550 CE

Artistic Innovations and Scientific Explorations in Nineteenth-Century Nature Paintings from Guangdong, China

Creating teaching resources from historical spatial data

Mapping borrowing patterns in the Shakespeare and Company library

Critical Theories of Material Abstractions in Art & Literature from the 20th Century to the Present

A network analysis and mapping project focusing on Victoria Ocampo’s impact and influence on Latin American literature.

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

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

Visualizing and mapping the Byzantine and post-Byzantine cult of the Virgin Zoodochos Pege

Applying computational tools to learn about the “history of histories” in medieval Europe

A Bodrum neighborhood was built from the ruins of the ancient Mausoleum of Halikarnassos on Anatolia’s southwestern coast.

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

A database of keywords from artists’ statements, manifestos, and art-critical works published in Western Europe since the late 1940s

interwoven histories of Princeton University community and Lenape peoples of Lunaapahkiing, “the land of the Lenape.”

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

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

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

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

Transforming images into Mondrian paintings

Linking concepts in music-theoretical texts across languages

Diversifying NLP by teaching humanists to create data and models for new languages

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

Using machine learning to transform Soviet performing arts periodicals into data

Puns, Alliterations, and Rhymes in Early Chinese Texts

Collecting and analyzing Christian and Jewish religious discourse following the Uvalde school shooting

Building community-controlled networks in Philadelphia.

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

Reuniting Pope's manuscripts in order to examine and learn from his revisions.

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

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

Accessing the medieval Islamic world through digital tools

Establishing research infrastructures to support Princeton use of HTR for manuscripts and archival documents in a variety of languages and scripts

Inviting users to rethink poetry's past through a collection of historical prosodic works

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

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

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

Computational methods for classifying and analyzing visual aspects of the manuscript folio

Visualizing Big Tobacco’s Targeted Market Strategies

Recreating the world of the Lost Generation in interwar Paris

Compiling datasets for the thousands of works attributed to Shen Nanpin (1682–1760?) to explore the circulation of painting between China and Japan

Simulating risk attitudes in group interactions and putting computational philosophy in conversation with digital humanities

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

A journal for experimental humanities research, irregularly published by the CDH

Building a database of manuscript annotations to examine book culture in medieval Cairo

Discovering patterns in poetry’s data with machine learning

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

Mapping mobility in a mountainous terrain

The influence of a performance space on the music performed there, as well as listeners’ “musical daydreams in live concert settings.”

Making the world of Pliny the Younger accessible

Using DH tools to explore archival collections

recording the history of Princeton’s affiliated nursery school

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

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

Exploring how to analyze deathbed gifts to and from women in medieval Cairo