Center for Digital Humanities @ Princeton University Updates

Congratulations to Christina Li, co-winner of the 2026 CDH Senior Thesis Prize ! Christina recently graduated with a B.S.E. in Operations Research and Financial Engineering and minors in Art History and French Language and Culture. Her thesis, entitled “The Value of Art,” was advised by Alain Kornhauser (ORFE). Let’s start with a quick summary. How would you describe your work in a few sentences?…

Looking to explore DH-relevant courses–both at Princeton and beyond? We’ve made a list of graduate courses for fall 2026 offered throughout the Inter-University Doctoral Consortium (IUDC) . With the approval of the certificate director, these courses can be used to satisfy the elective requirement for the CDH’s Graduate Certificate in Digital Humanities . To enroll in a course, submit a completed…

Looking to explore DH-relevant courses–both at Princeton and beyond? We’ve made a list of graduate courses for fall 2026 offered throughout the Inter-University Doctoral Consortium (IUDC) . With the approval of the certificate director, these courses can be used to satisfy the elective requirement for the CDH’s Graduate Certificate in Digital Humanities . To enroll in a course, submit a completed…

Meredith Martin , Professor of English and Director for Center for Digital Humanities at Princeton, was a co-organizer of the inaugural " Culture × AI: Evaluating AI as a Cultural Technology ," a workshop held at the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) on Friday, July 10, 2026, in Seoul, South Korea. The ICML is the leading annual conference for machine learning research, publishi…

Meredith Martin , Professor of English and Director for Center for Digital Humanities at Princeton, was a co-organizer of the inaugural " Culture × AI: Evaluating AI as a Cultural Technology ," a workshop held at the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) on Friday, July 10, 2026, in Seoul, South Korea. The ICML is the leading annual conference for machine learning research, publishi…

The Center for Digital Humanities (CDH) at Princeton University announces the publication of "Princeton Geniza Project Datasets," a new data essay by Rebecca Sutton Koeser (CDH) and Marina Rustow (Near Eastern Studies/History, Princeton University), published in the Journal of Cultural Analytics (Koeser and Rustow 2026, 11(3): 1–35, DOI: 10.22148/jca.1084). The essay presents, for the first time,…

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…

DH Strategist and head of CDH graduate programs Grant Wythoff has published a new chapter in the latest Debates in DH volume, Critical Infrastructure Studies and Digital Humanities. The chapter — Alternative Infrastructures for Digital Equity: Community-Based Internet Access —  details the creation of Philly Community Wireless (PCW), a community-controlled network. PCW offers free public Wi-Fi ac…

This spring, six CDH Graduate Fellows arrived with their research in progress, asking six different questions across multiple disciplines ranging from History and Comparative Literature to Music and English. Their findings? Working with data and computational methods rarely unfolded the way they expected, and while oftentimes arduous, the labor uncovered “strange and beautiful” discoveries. "We a…

We are delighted to announce the recipients of the Fall 2026 CDH Graduate Fellowship . Grad Fellows are mentored by CDH staff to employ computational and data-driven methods in their research. As a cohort, fellows explore tools, methods, and best practices that will benefit them throughout their careers. Please join us in congratulating this cohort: Maximilian Diemer (History) is researching the …

Location AI Lab-41 William Street, Princeton, NJ 08540 Open Date May 25, 2026 Salary Range or Pay Grade $100,000 Deadline Jul 01, 2026 at 11:59 PM Eastern Time Description Princeton University is seeking to hire AI Postdoctoral Research Fellows to join the Princeton Laboratory for Artificial Intelligence to conduct research focused on societal AI. Postdoctoral Research Fellows will be part of a d…

Location AI Lab-41 William Street, Princeton, NJ 08540 Open Date May 25, 2026 Salary Range or Pay Grade $100,000 Deadline Jul 01, 2026 at 11:59 PM Eastern Time Description Princeton University is seeking to hire AI Postdoctoral Research Fellows to join the Princeton Laboratory for Artificial Intelligence with affiliation to the Center for Digital Humanities to conduct research focused on societal…

The Center for Digital Humanities is excited to announce its Affiliate Labs designation – a formal recognition of our partnerships with Princeton research groups whose work sits at the intersection of humanistic inquiry and digital and computational methods. Affiliation reflects the depth and ongoing nature of these collaborations, and signals CDH’s commitment to fostering a broad and vibrant eco…

May 4, 2026 By Alaina O'Regan Last Friday, Princeton graduate students gathered to present research spanning the evolution of social behavior through natural selection, the quantum nature of atomic nuclei, and the effect of tropical cyclones on global climate. The annual data and computation joint graduate certificate colloquium , held on April 24, brought together students across the humanities,…

Fall course selection starts this month! Wondering what to register for? We've compiled a list of courses on media studies, technology, data and culture, and more. This list includes both undergraduate and graduate courses . Grad courses are marked with an asterisk ( * ). ANTHROPOLOGY ANT 422 / EAS 422: Digital China: Technology and Society (Jamie Wong) ARCHITECTURE ARC 311 / STC 311: Building Sc…

This past January, the CDH kicked off a new Collaborative Research Partnership with Anna Yu Wang (Assistant Professor of Music) and Jürgen Hackl (Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering), the researchers behind the larger Music Theory in the Plural project. MuSE —short for Multilingual Semantic Embeddings—asks: when scholars write about music theory across languages, including …

By Allison Gasparini, Center for Statistics and Machine Learning, and AI Lab Originally published on the Princeton homepage . With the launch of the Princeton Laboratory for Artificial Intelligence and the New Jersey AI Hub, over the last few years Princeton University has firmly established its presence at the forefront of artificial intelligence research — including transformative work in human…

The Center for Digital Humanities (CDH) is proud to announce its collaboration with ATRIUM (Advancing fronTier Research In the arts and hUManities), a major European research infrastructure project funded by the European Commission and coordinated by DARIAH-EU. Princeton CDH is the first U.S.-based institution to work with ATRIUM partners, aiming to generate new avenues of transatlantic collabora…

Earlier this winter, CDH / MARBAS Postdoctoral Research Associate Christine Roughan returned to Vienna for the second year in a row to share her experience using Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) technology for medieval texts. The workshops were part of HTR Winter School 2025 , hosted by the Institute for Medieval Research of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in collaboration with MARBAS and the …

Last Fall, the CDH Research Software Engineering team traveled near and far to share their cutting-edge work and learn from others about new developments in the fields of research software engineering and digital humanities. 🔔 Philadelphia From October 6–8, the RSE team participated in the third annual conference of the United States Research Software Engineer Association . Held in Philadelphia, …