For the first time since the Princeton Geniza Project began in 1986, we have published our metadata collated from over 30,000 Geniza documents and the People, Places, and histories of the Middle East and premodern Jewish communities found therein! zenodo.org/records/1583...

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: JCA seeks a Managing Editor to support day-to-day operations of our peer-reviewed, open-access journal at the forefront of computational and data-driven approaches to humanistic inquiry. More info on requirements and how to apply: cdh.princeton.edu/opportunitie...

Yesterday with @genizalab.bsky.social team & @jerielizabeth.bsky.social in @princeton.edu Commons Visualization Lab to see how the "CURVE" could enable new research on Princeton Geniza Project materials. Shown: mosaic of "join" fragments arranged by similarity; prototype PGP image search/browse.

Neighbors maintain a free broadband network in Philadelphia — @phillywireless.bsky.social — that now serves 7,600+ users. Read about the six-year project to build community-supported infrastructure in the latest Debates in DH volume from @uminnpress.bsky.social cdh.princeton.edu/blog/2026/06...

Each DDH volume is an innovation, and this one is no exception. In CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE STUDIES, @alanyliu.bsky.social, Urszula Pawlicka-Deger, and @jamessmithies.bsky.social present the "manifest," a documenting of the infrastructure used to research and produce each chapter. Dig in here!

This spring, Grad Fellows across humanities disciplines applied methods such as scanning, modeling, and mapping to their research questions. Their findings? Working with data and computational methods rarely unfolded the way they expected, the labor uncovering “strange and beautiful” discoveries.

Our June newsletter goes out this week! Subscribe to get a summer's worth of news, events, opportunities, and recommendations! We'll be taking a summer break for some R & D until September 💙🏖️✍️🔬

@princeton.edu is seeking to hire AI Postdoctoral Research Fellows affiliated with the AI Lab (@princetonainews.bsky.social) and the Center for Digital Humanities to conduct research focused on societal AI. Applications open through Jul 1! cdh.princeton.edu/news/2026/05...

Recently published: article on the research that went into the 2.0 version of the Shakespeare and Company Project datasets, and the potential of the updates and additional data on member addresses and authors. doi.org/10.22148/jca... One of the first few in the newly launched JCA!

Ranging from computational text analysis to the development of language technologies and digital reconstructions of historical places, meet our four inaugural CDH Affiliate Labs! Affiliation recognizes rigorous, innovative work at the intersection of humanities and computation at @princeton.edu.

🎶 When scholars write about music theory across languages, including Chinese, Japanese, Spanish, and Portuguese, are they talking about the same things? A new @princetoncdh.bsky.social Collaborative Research Partnership called MuSE (Multilingual Semantic Embeddings) hopes to find out.

"Bears Will Be Boys" was a featured "Link we're digging" in our August 2025 newsletter. Congrats @mellymeldubs.bsky.social!

When scholars write about music theory across languages, including Chinese, Japanese, Spanish, & Portuguese, are they talking about the same things? Check out our new Collaborative Research Partnership w/ assistant professors Anna Yu Wang (Music) & Jürgen Hackl (Civil & Environmental Engineering).

A more than timely rediscovery of the first 1897 robot-film. Especially given what @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social said today at @princetoncdh.bsky.social about how we shouldn't buy AI company's framing AI as genial automata. (In hindsight, and with Benjamin's "Mechanical Turk," an instructional film…)

Experimentation. Iteration. Time. These are pretty much the core ingredients of everything related to DATA BY DESIGN, and the cover is no exception. But now it is final and out there on the internet and also right here for you to see! Preorder at: mitpress.mit.edu/978026205618...

4/14: Art historian @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social (UMass Amherst) talks on non-generative AI—particularly computer vision—as a driving force behind the AI industry's most profitable ventures, & the role art historians in museums & universities have played, wittingly and unwittingly, in its development.

This week, @princeton.edu is hosting the 29th Annual ALTA Conference, April 9–11, co-organized by @happybuzaaba1.bsky.social, Associate Research Scholar at @princetonainews.bsky.social and CDH affiliate! Theme: "Reimagining African Language Pedagogy in the Digital Age." Open to all to attend.

Today @ 4:30pm @ CDH! 💙 Please RSVP.

Attn @princeton.edu humanities faculty! Curious about AI as a research tool but aren't sure where to start or how to use it? RSVP to this workshop on April 8th where we'll break down the jargon, explain how to make informed choices about AI tools, and show what resources are available at Princeton.

In a panel on 3/26 from the Humanities Council & @princetoncitp.bsky.social, experts will share how AI is already impacting all aspects of the field of journalism – from national to small local newsrooms to data analysis, gathering and checking facts, ensuring source security, and what’s to come.

Numerous sources have claimed that GPT-produced text is indistinguishable from human-written text across several genres. On 3/31, Gabi Kirilloff & @claudia42.bsky.social give a talk arguing that not only does GPT not write fictional narratives like a human, it also often fails to write about humans.

Cultural AI felt very real this week at NYU. Outstanding conference; wide-ranging and argumentative in the best way, and full of people trying to build vocab and practices for this emerging space. Huge thanks to @leifw.bsky.social and @t-shoemaker.bsky.social for organizing it!

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...

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.

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!

"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.

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!

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.

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.

👏 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!

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-...

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. 🏺🏛️ 🇬🇷

👋 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/...

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!

🎉 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.

Check out the recently published software paper on Digital Collections Explorer by @yh-huang.bsky.social and @bcgl.bsky.social - web-based, open-source exploratory, multimodal search for cultural heritage collections doi.org/10.1017/chr....

Our November story feature on new research from @mmvty.bsky.social and @wouterhaverals.bsky.social is now on the CDH blog and a @dhnow.bsky.social editor's pick :)

*Tonight* at 4:30, our fall semester of Modeling Culture talks closes w/ Anna Preus. This talk draws on industry-wide publishing data to explore the output of London’s book business, emphasizing the influence of high-profile authors from colonized nations on British print in the early 20th century.

Join us *today* at 4:30 at CDH, as we continue the Modeling Culture talk series with @mellymeldubs.bsky.social! Drawn from her book in progress, Melanie Walsh will explore how social media—and now AI—have transformed the circulation and representation of 20th-century literary works. More info/RSVP:

I'm very excited to give this talk at Princeton tomorrow! I'm sharing new work from my book on "viral authors" and social media. In particular, I will be exploring David Foster Wallace's complicated fandom and anti-fandom, following it to some of the seediest corners of the internet...

Editors' Choice: The Future of Storytelling in the Age of AI: Q&A with Nnedi Okorafor cdh.princeton.edu/bl...

And we feature software papers! Check out @suttonkoeser.bsky.social Julia Damerow, Robert Casties, Cole Crawford exciting work on working with dates in computational humanities!

I'm very pleased to share my new article on the python library undate, which is an ambitious in-progress effort to make it easier to work with incomplete dates and multiple calendars, building on work from Shakespeare and Company Project, Princeton Geniza Project, etc. doi.org/10.1017/chr....

Thanks to @taylor-arnold.bsky.social for working with us to publish proceedings from the 2025 Digital Humanities Tech Symposium in the new ACH anthology. This volume collects short papers from a DH2025 pre-conference event hosted by @dhtech-community.bsky.social

For our October newsletter, we checked in with Ed Baring, Professor of History and Human Values, to learn more about the origins of an innovative and collaborative project with CDH that will transform how scholars understand the circulation and interpretation of Marxist ideas. Read about it here:

With support from a Graduate Training Grant from the Center for Digital Humanities, four Princeton grads across multiple humanities departments made the most of their summer by traveling to programs and conferences where they explored DH-related topics. Read more on where the grants took them here: