2021 Updates

Working with Rebecca Munson, sharing a first name with her, and missing her.

Rebecca was a beloved friend, colleague, scholar, and mentor who served as Assistant Director of Interdisciplinary Education at the CDH.

William Ughetta ’21 creates a benchmarking tool for two databases of historic legal reports.

Doroudian, User Experience Designer at the CDH, delivered a lightning talk on Bona Fide, a project in the concept stage that invites users to think about search engines in a new way. Comments welcome!

The series aims to expand natural language processing (NLP) resources to low-resource and historical languages.

Visualizing the Virus, co-sponsored by the CDH, is an interdisciplinary digital project through which one can visualize and understand the Coronavirus pandemic from a variety of perspectives.

Lauren created a digital ethnography about urban Philadelphia neighborhoods and health crises.

Ara Eagan ’21 reflects on two years as Undergraduate Communications Assistant at the CDH.

Reflections on a major milestone in the Princeton Geniza Project research partnership, including some of the challenges and preliminary insights from migrating the metadata into a relational database.

Masha’s project uncovered connections between surveillance technologies and health data.

The series of roundtable discussions, held in April, built on the work of the Scribes of the Cairo Geniza crowdsourcing project.

Toward the end of the 2020–21 academic year, we held the final event in our Privacy Initiative @ the CDH series.