Eve Krakowski and Marina Rustow , co-director and director of Princeton's Geniza Lab — an affiliate lab of the Center for Digital Humanities — have each been awarded $300,000 from the National Endowment for the Humanities to produce new scholarly editions and translations from the Cairo Geniza, a cache of over 400,000 medieval manuscripts. Krakowski's project traces the social history of death in medieval Egypt, while Rustow's brings to light Jewish traders' letters, legal documents, and ledgers from the medieval Indian Ocean trade. The news follows a related CDH milestone: Rustow and CDH's Rebecca Sutton Koeser recently published a data essay opening the Princeton Geniza Project's rich and complex historical material to data science approaches. Read more at Princeton University → Related posts Princeton Geniza Lab At the forefront of DH scholarship on the Cairo Geniza, preserving and providing access to this vast and invaluable collection of historical texts. Director: Marina Rustow Princeton Geniza Project Accessing the medieval Islamic world through digital tools Built by CDH
