Center for Digital Humanities

Revisiting the 2025 Vienna HTR Winter School for Medievalists Revisiting the 2025 Vienna HTR Winter School for Medievalists

Earlier this winter, CDH / @marbasprinceton.bsky.social postdoc @cmroughan.bsky.social returned to Vienna for the second year in a row to share her experience using Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) technology for medieval texts. cdh.princeton.edu/blog/2026/02...

Speaking of, @mmvty.bsky.social also presents this month! Her keynote, “Humanities and AI: Modeling Culture Across Disciplines,” was given last week at the National University of Singapore, and will be next week on March 18 at Hong Kong Baptist University: digitalfutures.hkbu.edu.hk/eng/program....

Tomorrow at NYU, @wouterhaverals.bsky.social presents "Style and Prejudice: Attribution Bias in Human and AI Literary Judgment" as part of the Cultural AI: An Emerging Field conference. The talk comes out of the Exercises in Literary Style project with @mmvty.bsky.social, linked below.

Princeton University Research Software Engineering Summer Fellows Program - 2026 Call for Applications Are you an undergraduate or graduate student enrolled at a US-accredited College or University? Are you enthusiastic about software & programming and interested in applying your skills to exciting…

The Princeton Logion Project has an opening for an RSE Summer Fellow for summer 2026! This is a great opportunity for those interested in gathering demonstrable work experience as a research software engineer on a DH project. Applications close March 31, 2026.

Join us for the public talk later today!

Modeling Culture: New Humanities Practices in the Age of AI Modeling Culture: New Humanities Practices in the Age of AI

“There’s no reason why humanists can’t feel empowered to build better models, to participate in model architecture, to think about the kinds of data on which various models are trained and why.” Learn more about our #ModelingCulture program here:

AI and the humanities: Across the Princeton campus, an era of collaboration is underway. Princeton has firmly established its presence at the forefront of AI research — including transformative work in humanities scholarship.

"We should try our hardest to put the humanities into every aspect of AI development," says faculty director @mmvty.bsky.social in a new @princeton.edu feature spotlighting CDH-affiliated scholars—including associate faculty director @vierth.bsky.social—doing exactly that, some for over a decade.

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Modeling Culture is generously funded by a @princetonainews.bsky.social seed grant, with additional support from the Humanities Council and the Princeton Humanities Initiative.

Liberating Information: Exploring Computational Methods to Study Histories of Information, from Decolonization to Digital Humanities Liberating Information: Exploring Computational Methods to Study Histories of Information, from Decolonization to Digital Humanities

Next week! For our Modeling Culture program, @zoeleblanc.bsky.social presents two projects exploring how computational methods can help us understand past and present struggles to make information more just. Join us on Tuesday, March 3, 4:30 PM @ CDH!

@us-rse.bsky.social @comphumresearch.bsky.social

👏 Congrats all, and to former CDH postdoc @jimccasey1.bsky.social, also mentioned, for “Communities in the Loop: AI for Cultures and Contexts in Multimodal Archives.”

From Philadelphia to Luxembourg: RSE Team at Fall Conferences From Philadelphia to Luxembourg: RSE Team at Fall Conferences

Each year, our RSE team travels near and far to share their cutting-edge work and learn about new developments in the fields of research software engineering and digital humanities. Last fall: Philadelphia and Luxembourg! More on their presentation and adventures, by @marynaydan.bsky.social.

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Graduate Editorial Assistants:
Cecelia Ramsey, Princeton University (Managing Editor)
Odalis Garcia Gorra, University of Texas at Austin
Haiqi Zhou, McGill University
@arnaudemilien.bsky.social, Princeton University

Former Editorial Assistant:
@katrohrbacher.bsky.social

Editors:
@mmvty.bsky.social, Princeton University
@tanyaclement.bsky.social, University of Texas at Austin
Amelia Acker, Rutgers University

Special Features Editor:
@lbmcgrath.bsky.social, Temple University

Data Editor:
@sarah-rc.bsky.social, Princeton University Library

Journal of Cultural Analytics Enters New Chapter with CDH, Joins Open Journals Collective Journal of Cultural Analytics Enters New Chapter with CDH, Joins Open Journals Collective

CDH announces new role as publisher of @culturalanalytics.bsky.social! New website launches with expanded vision for cultural analytics scholarship, supported by @schmidtsciences.bsky.social HAVI program. JCA also joins @ojcollective.bsky.social. More on editorial team and new features below.

Thank you for sharing your experience! 🙌

Two professors receive grants from Schmidt Sciences to use AI to accelerate humanities research Meredith Martin will use AI tools to parse English poetry across millenia. Peter Henderson is building artificial intelligence to better understand the law.

👏 Professors @mmvty.bsky.social and @peterhenderson.bsky.social are among 23 teams of researchers around the world who have been selected by @schmidtsciences.bsky.social for an award from the foundation’s new Humanities and AI Virtual Institute.

Last year I had the opportunity to participate in the 2025 Summer Institute: Digital Humanities for Hellenic Studies at Princeton Athens Center. It was an extremely rewarding experience; rich learning, inspiring people, and insightful conversations. Highly recommend applying if you're interested!

Love as/in Game, or Chinese Streaming Media in the Age of Involution Around 2021, involution (in Chinese: neijuan) emerged as a widely used term in everyday discourse to critique the culture of overwork in contemporary China, which pushes younger generations into relen...

Our friends at Princeton EAS are hosting Jianqing Chen Wednesday at 4:30 p.m. for "Love as/in Game, or Chinese Streaming Media in the Age of Involution." Looks interesting!

Details here: eap.princeton.edu/events/love-...

In Athens, Photographs from A&A’s Visual Resources Collection Digitally Revive a Lost Neighborhood In Athens, Photographs from A&A’s Visual Resources Collection Digitally Revive a Lost Neighborhood

Read about last year's program here: cdh.princeton.edu/blog/athens-...

Deadline is March 15!

Call for Applications for the 2026 Summer Institute: Digital Humanities for Hellenic Studies – Historic Athens in 3D Call for Applications for the 2026 Summer Institute: Digital Humanities for Hellenic Studies – Historic Athens in 3D

Apply to the 2026 Summer Institute: Digital Humanities for Hellenic Studies - Historic Athens in 3D, July 6-10, 2026!

Open to scholars in all disciplines interested in exploring digital humanities methods for representing archival information and rich narratives about historical urban spaces. 🏺🏛️ 🇬🇷

Modeling ‘Worth by Association’ in U.S. Book Reviews, 1905–1925 Modeling ‘Worth by Association’ in U.S. Book Reviews, 1905–1925

👋 We're kicking off the spring semester with the return of our Modeling Culture program! Join us on February 2 for "Modeling ‘Worth by Association’ in U.S. Book Reviews, 1905–1925" with Matthew J. Lavin, Assistant Professor of Humanities Analytics at Denison U.

cdh.princeton.edu/events/2026/...

Human and Machine Intelligence in Networks of Early Modern Print: Q&A with John Ladd Human and Machine Intelligence in Networks of Early Modern Print: Q&A with John Ladd

Our December feature is now online! 📰 After his talk for our Modeling Culture series, @jrladd.com discusses how AI fits into a long history of text technologies—from the printing press to large language models, as well as his hopes/concerns for AI in humanities scholarship. Read the Q&A below!

Meredith Martin Receives $450K HAVI Award as Co-PI on Johns Hopkins-Led Project Analyzing Hierarchical Structure in Poetry, Music, and Narrative Meredith Martin Receives $450K HAVI Award as Co-PI on Johns Hopkins-Led Project Analyzing Hierarchical Structure in Poetry, Music, and Narrative

More on their project, "An ML Toolkit to Find Hierarchical Structure in Multi-Modal/Lingual Data," here.

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🎉 Congratulations to @mmvty.bsky.social, a 2025 HAVI awardee by @schmidtsciences.bsky.social! This grant of up to $450K, led by Tom Lippincott @jhu.edu with co-PIs John Hale (JHU) & Robert Lieck (@durham.ac.uk), will develop ML tools to analyze hierarchical structure in poetry, narrative & music.

Do you write research software for the humanities?
Consider writing a software paper to share your work!

Reach out to me, @nolauren.bsky.social , or any of the other editors at the CHR journal with your questions or ideas.