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
Modeling Culture: New Humanities Practices in the Age of AI
A year-long seminar for faculty and grads with a public lecture series, culminating in a comprehensive and accessible curriculum for advanced humanities researchers.
ABC Books
Showcasing an interactive digital archive of rare children’s alphabet books.
Archival Justice for the Enslaved
Decolonizing the archive by shifting the narrative from slaveholder to enslaved
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
Computer-Assisted Pattern Analysis of Domenico Scarlatti's Keyboard Sonatas
Enabling new research on the Baroque composer by facilitating quantitative approaches
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.
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
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
Languages of Art Writing
A database of keywords from artists’ statements, manifestos, and art-critical works published in Western Europe since the late 1940s
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.
MuSE (Multilingual Semantic Embeddings)
Linking concepts in music-theoretical texts across languages
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
Selling Menthol
Visualizing Big Tobacco’s Targeted Market Strategies
Shakespeare and Company Project
Recreating the world of the Lost Generation in interwar Paris
Simulating risk, risking simulations
Simulating risk attitudes in group interactions and putting computational philosophy in conversation with digital humanities
The Monastery, the Bridge and the River
Mapping mobility in a mountainous terrain
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.
