2021 Updates
I just finished putting a lot of time into collecting, cleaning, and analyzing Fortune 100 tweets from the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests. After a few thousand tweets, I hit plenty of hurdles and corner cases. Below I’ve l…
CDH hosted two events on February 13 to recognize Douglass Day, an annual celebration of Black history in honor of Frederick Douglass's chosen birthday.
Next month, the CDH kicks off How We Work, a new series for graduate students on the theme of work. How do you pursue “traditional” careers in a changing educational landscape? Is there anything truly “alte…
Plenty of people use Google Sheets for data curation; what would it look like to use Google Sheets as a lightweight relational database? Read about experiment with this on the Princeton Ethiopian Miracles of Mary (PEMM) proj…
We are celebrating Frederick Douglass's chosen birthday with two events focusing on the relationship between education and activism. You are invited!
On Monday, the Shakespeare and Company Project team reached an important milestone: we published updated data exports.
DARIAH, formed in 2014 as as European Research Infrastructure Consortium, facilitates arts and humanities research by coordinating working groups, assembling educational materials, collaborating with research organizations, …
As a graduate fellow at the CDH, Madeline Gambino worked on GIS mapping to supplement the more familiar archival and ethnographic research methods of her field, religious studies.
Wonder what’s new with one of our large-scale research partnerships? Ask the graduate student project manager.
Before we move ahead, we're taking this moment to celebrate all that the CDH did accomplish in 2020, even as our staff and project management meetings moved to Zoom and we saw more of each others’ homes, pets, and family mem…
Announcing the Humanities Data Teaching Fellowship, a new opportunity for Princeton Ph.D. students, supported by the Humanities Council Magic Grants for Innovation!
In 2020, PPA worked to expand the collection of eighteenth-century materials in the Archive, responded to the COVID-19 crisis by creating internship and assistantship opportunities for students, and pushed key updates to the…