Projects
We collaborate with faculty, students, and staff to design and develop world-class projects that generate critical discussions about data, technology, and the human experience
Projects list
ABC Books
Showcasing an interactive digital archive of rare children’s alphabet books.

African_UD: Universal Dependencies Treebank for African Languages
Increasing the representation of African languages in NLP by creating quality datasets for eleven African languages

Archival Justice for the Enslaved
Decolonizing the archive by shifting the narrative from slaveholder to enslaved

Art Hx: Visual and Medical Legacies of British Colonialism
A database that includes images and objects relating to the issues of colonial medicine, artistic representation and race

Beyond Beauty
Scarifications as testaments of life and death

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

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

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

Chang’an: A Deep Map
Illuminating the geography of China’s medieval metropolis

Chinese Archival Handbooks
Investigating the structure of state archives in China

Chinese Exchange Poems
A Social-Network Analysis of Late Medieval China.

Citing Marx
Identifying Marx citations within Die Neue Zeit

Colored Conventions Project
Bringing Nineteenth-Century Black Organizing to Digital Life

Common Readers
A Database of Annotations in Early Modern Playbooks

Computational Approaches to Nigerian Literature
Experiments in NLP for texts in Yoruba and Efik

Computer-Assisted Pattern Analysis of Domenico Scarlatti's Keyboard Sonatas
Enabling new research on the Baroque composer by facilitating quantitative approaches

Critical Studies in Gaming Lab
Digital gaming to experiment with how we think, talk, play, and create.

Dallas: Wealth and Inheritance in a Population of Elites, 1890-1950
Examining the interaction between Dallas elites’ economic behavior and their social world

Data Beyond Vision
experimental physical representations of humanities data

davila.js
Interactive, Iterative Schema Documentation

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.

DIRECT
Digital Intertextual Resonances in Early Chinese Texts

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

Finding the Fifth Century in Britain
A database of graves and cemeteries in use between 350–550 CE

From Map to Dataset
Creating teaching resources from historical spatial data

Global Networks of Cultural Production
A network analysis and mapping project focusing on Victoria Ocampo’s impact and influence on Latin American literature.

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

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

Healing, Water, and Art
Visualizing and mapping the Byzantine and post-Byzantine cult of the Virgin Zoodochos Pege

History Books and the History of the Book in the Middle Ages
Applying computational tools to learn about the “history of histories” in medieval Europe

(In)Visible Princeton
highlighting lesser-known histories of Princeton using virtual reality web apps

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

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

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

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

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

Mondrianify
Transforming images into Mondrian paintings

MUSE (Multilingual Semantic Embeddings)
Linking concepts in music-theoretical texts across languages

New Languages for NLP: Building Linguistic Diversity in the Digital Humanities
Diversifying NLP by teaching humanists to create data and models for new languages

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.

Pages of Early Soviet Performance
Using machine learning to transform Soviet performing arts periodicals into data

PARECT
Puns, Alliterations, and Rhymes in Early Chinese Texts

Pastoral Discourse After a Mass Shooting
Collecting and analyzing Christian and Jewish religious discourse following the Uvalde school shooting

Philly Community Wireless
Building community-controlled networks in Philadelphia.

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

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

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

Princeton Ethiopian Miracles of Mary Project
Folklore about How the Virgin Mary Helps Believers in Ethiopian Literature and Art

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

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

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

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

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

Segmenting Paratextual Material in Arabic Scientific Manuscripts
Computational methods for classifying and analyzing visual aspects of the manuscript folio

Selling Menthol
Visualizing Big Tobacco’s Targeted Market Strategies

Shakespeare and Company Project
Recreating the world of the Lost Generation in interwar Paris

Shen Nanpin and the Problem of Authenticity
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, risking simulations
Simulating risk attitudes in group interactions and putting computational philosophy in conversation with digital humanities

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

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

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

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

The Monastery, the Bridge and the River
Mapping mobility in a mountainous terrain

The Pliny Project
Making the world of Pliny the Younger accessible

The Serge Prokofiev Archive as Data
Using DH tools to explore archival collections

The UNOW Oral History Project
recording the history of Princeton’s affiliated nursery school

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

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.

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