DIGITAL HUMANITIES - Key Persons
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- Computing Support Specialist
Aaron Dunn serves as Computing Support Specialist. He divides his time between the Center for Digital Humanities (CDH) and the Center for Statistics and Machine Learning (CSML). At both the CDH and CSML, Aaron provides overall administration and support of desktop computing and works to improve business operations through analysis, development, and improvement of IT processes. Before joining the CDH and CSML, Aaron most recently worked as a technical support specialist at the Support and Operations Center at Princeton. He has also worked at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, ExxonMobile Research and Engineering, and Novartis Pharmaceuticals.
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- Voices Fellow at the Center
AG McGee is a senior in the Philosophy department, also receiving certificates in Cognitive Science and Creative Writing. McGee's research interests include the ethics of belief, the epistemology and metaphysics of gender identity, and the philosophy of bias. McGee's thesis for the philosophy department explores intersections between metaphysics and trans philosophy. For the Creative Writing department, McGee's thesis is an extended poetic elegy set within Western Kentucky. McGee is a managing editor for The Daily Princetonian and co-president of the student group Songline Slam Poetry.
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- NLP Humanities Undergraduate Summer Fellow
Alan Ding '22 hails from the Columbus, Ohio area, and is pursuing a major in computer science as well as a certificate in statistics and machine learning. With the Center for Digital Humanities, he is working as a summer fellow with the New Languages for NLP program on context-aware predictions of Classical Chinese phonology. He is also broadly interested in researching the applications of computational, statistical, and mathematical techniques to improving various aspects of political and societal spheres, such as combatting gerrymandering. On campus, Alan is primarily involved with the Princeton Running Club, Princeton Undergraduate Composers Collective, and the Princeton University Wind Ensemble.
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- Humanities Data Science Institute Participant
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- Graduate Researcher 2020 Graduate Fellow
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- Member of the Executive Committee
- Professor of American Studies and the High Meadows Environmental Institute
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- Data Science Institute Instructor
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- Humanities Data Science Institute Participant
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- 2020 Undergraduate Intern
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- Humanities Data Science Institute Participant
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- Member of the Executive Committee
- Professor of East Asian Studies
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- Undergraduate Communications Assistant
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- Member of the Executive Committee
- Professor of Computer Science
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- Member of the Executive Committee
- Assistant Professor of English and African American Studies
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- Member of the Executive Committee
- Ewing Professor of Greek Language and Literature
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- Humanities Data Science Institute Participant
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- Project Grant Recipient 2015 - 2016 Graduate Fellow
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- Humanities Data Science Institute Participant
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- Member of the Executive Committee
- Assistant Professor of Sociology
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- Member of the Executive Committee
- 2021 - 2022 Acting Faculty Director
- Professor of Computer Science
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- Member of the Executive Committee
- Associate Professor of German and Art & Archaeology
- Humanities Data Science Institute Participant
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- Data Fellow 2021 Graduate Fellow
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- Research Associate ( 2020 ) and Postdoctoral Fellow and Communications Lead
Camey VanSant was Postgraduate Research Associate (2020) and Postdoctoral Fellow and Communications Lead (2020-21) at the Center for Digital Humanities. She served as Project Manager of the Shakespeare and Company Project and contributed to many of the CDH's communications initiatives. Camey earned her Ph.D. in English from Princeton in April 2020.
Camey continues to work on CDH communications in a consulting role.
As Communications Manager, Carrie supports the CDH's mission through the development and implementation of the department's communications strategy. Her focus is the publicity of CDH projects, programs, events, and news. Over the 2023-24 academic year, Carrie will co-lead the website redevelopment project in preparation for the CDH's ten-year anniversary.
Carrie's background is in marketing, communications, and the visual arts. Prior to joining the CDH, she was the Communications Manager at Princeton University School of Architecture where she supported and promoted the school's many lectures, exhibitions, conferences, academic programs, and recruitment events from 2019-2023. She also previously worked on a number of nonprofit and entrepreneurial projects developing bespoke digital marketing strategies. As an artist, Carrie regularly exhibits her sculptural work nationally and has received grants and scholarships for her studio practice and for her role in community-centered arts initiatives. Carrie has a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Professional Visual Arts from Rutgers University and an Associate of Science degree in Humanities from Ocean County College.
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- Project Manager
- 2021 - 2022 Project Manager
Caterina Agostini earned her PhD in Italian from Rutgers University, where she has been awarded the 2021 Rutgers School of Graduate Studies Award for Excellence in Outreach and Service. Her dissertation, "Scientific Thinking and Narrative Discourse in Early Modern Italy," examines how science is represented in the Italian tradition in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, discussing how Galileo aimed at creating a new scientific language and style to share his discoveries and build a scientific community.
Caterina has collaborated on digital textual and visual projects at the Rutgers Digital Humanities Initiative and Lab, the New York City Digital Humanities group, Europeana, and PHAROS, The International Consortium of Photo Archives led by the Frick Collection. As a Co-Chair of the IIIF Outreach Community Group, she advocates to expand the outreach of the International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF) and include underrepresented communities and languages. Caterina's digital work with data in the history of science and medical humanities has been supported by the Open Knowledge Practicum Fellowship at the University of Victoria, the Eugene Garfield Fellowship at the American Philosophical Society, and the D'Argenio Fellowships in History and Data Visualization at Seton Hall University. She has taught courses on the history of science, Italian language, culture, and gastronomy, and workshops on research data in the humanities, digital editions, exhibitions, and collections, geospatial humanities, IIIF, and text analysis. Caterina has work published or forthcoming with Interdisciplinary Digital Engagement in Arts & Humanities, La parola del testo: Rivista internazionale di letteratura italiana e comparata, Galilaeana, Iter Press, Palgrave Macmillan, Cambridge Scholars, as well as the Women Writers Project blog at Northeastern University and the Circulating Now blog at the National Library of Medicine. At Princeton, Caterina serves as the Digital Humanities Project Manager to support collaborative scholarly initiatives at the Center for Digital Humanities.
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- Member of the Executive Committee
- Assistant Professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies
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- Member of the Executive Committee
- Graduate Program Assistant
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- Member of the Executive Committee
- Senior Research Scholar, Computer Science
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- Research Associate
- CDH / MARBAS Postdoctoral Research Associate
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- Fellow
- 2015 - 2017 Perkins Postdoctoral Fellow
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- Member of the Executive Committee
- Associate CIO, Research Computing & PICSciE
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- 2022 - 2023 Humanities Data Science Institute Instructor 2021 - 2022 Graduate Fellow 2021 NLP Humanities Graduate Summer Fellow
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- Humanities Data Teaching Fellow
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- Member of the Executive Committee
- Professor of Music
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- Humanities Data Science Institute Instructor
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- Graduate Fellow 2018 Graduate Assistant
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- Member of the Executive Committee
- Giger Professor of Latin
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- Member of the Executive Committee
- Professor of German
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- University Administrative Fellow 2019 Graduate Fellow
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- Member of the Executive Committee
- Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. Director, Council on Science and Technology
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- 2020 Graduate Fellow 2019 - 2020 University Administrative Fellow
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- 2021 DH Software Development Graduate Fellow 2020 Graduate Fellow
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- Humanities Data Science Institute Participant
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- 2020 Undergraduate Intern
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- Humanities Data Science Institute Participant
As Center Manager, Elizabeth supports the leadership and staff in helping the CDH achieve its strategic and organizational goals. Her core responsibilities are budget and financial management, including management of sponsored project grants and grant award administration. She also helps to manage personnel needs, including the hiring and onboarding of new CDH employees and supervision of student workers.
Prior to joining the CDH, Elizabeth worked as a conference and communications manager in the Office of Public Affairs and Communications at the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs (SPIA), where she oversaw the Princeton-Fung Global Forum, "Can Liberty Survive the Digital Age?" held in Berlin, Germany in Spring 2017, and more recently, "Defending Democracy: Civil and Military Responses to Weaponized Information," held on Princeton's campus in April 2018. Previously, she was the program manager for Innovations for Successful Societies, a SPIA program that documents government innovation, especially in low- and middle-income countries. Prior to working at Princeton University, Elizabeth was in product management at a pharmaceutical company.
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- Undergraduate Course Fellow
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- 2021 - 2023 HC3 Curriculum Specialist
- Specialist
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- Humanities Data Science Institute Participant
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- Member of the Executive Committee
- Professor of History
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- Member of the Executive Committee
- Assistant Professor of East Asian Studies and Comparative Literature
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- Chairman of the Executive Committee
- Chairman, Humanities Council
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- Data Fellow 2019 Graduate Fellow
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- 2018 - 2023 User Experience Designer
- User Experience Designer
Gissoo is a User Experience Designer, involved in designing and implementing the user experience and visuals of CDH sponsored projects as well as focusing on creating an efficient and collaborative process between design and development. She provides design expertise for consultations, and provides a critical perspective on humanistic data. Gissoo contributed to the Princeton Prosody Archive by focusing on creating a more usable and cohesive visual language for the project. She is revising the content architecture, designing usable and accessible interfaces, and conducting usability testing sessions for The Shakespeare and Company Project . She also helped adapt the CDH charter structure for the Princeton Ethiopian Miracles of Mary project, and provides project management support for this project. Gissoo is a collaborator on the Data Beyond Vision research project , where she contributed by creating a framework for weaving references in Jacques Derrida's de la Grammatologie based on data from Derrida's Margins.
Gissoo earned a Master of Fine Arts in Interaction Design from the College for Creative Studies in Detroit, Michigan. She has worked on projects that involved systems design and systems thinking, research and usability testing methods, interface design, data visualization through D3.js, as well as programming with the C language. Her professional experience includes a UX internship at Cengage Learning, where she conducted usability engineering processes, proposed new designs, and was consulted for designing interview questions and usability testing sessions.
She cares about ethics in design, systems thinking, as well as iterative and collaborative processes. Her graduate thesis project focused on improving the collaborations between Designers and Software Developers where she studied and conducted research on the current design and collaboration tools as well as research and testing with Designers and Developers who currently work in corporate agile environments. She is continuing that work at CDH by revising Design workflows when collaborating with the development team in the context of DH projects, with particular interest in revising the approach of designing for and with data.
She is interested in creating frameworks for efficient workflows and processes, humanistic search engines, and rethinking content management systems.
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- 2020 Undergraduate Intern
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- Cofounder of the Philly Community Wireless
- Strategist
Grant is cofounder of the Philly Community Wireless Project, a coalition of organizers, technologists, researchers, and librarians working toward digital equity in Philadelphia by building community-owned and -operated mesh networks. Grant is also the editor of Startwords, a journal for experimental humanities research that he designed and built with colleagues at the CDH.
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- 2023 Humanities Data Science Institute Participant
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- University Administrative Fellow
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- Member of the Executive Committee
- Assistant Professor of History and East Asian Studies
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- Undergraduate Course Fellow
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- Humanities Data Science Institute Participant
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- 2020 Undergraduate Intern
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- 2022 - 2023 Humanities Data Science Institute Participant
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- Humanities Data Science Institute Participant
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- Member of the Executive Committee
- Associate Professor of Sociology
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- Member of the Executive Committee
- VP for Information Technology and Chief Information Officer
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- Associate Director
- 2014 - 2018 Associate Director
Jean Bauer served as Associate Director of the CDH between 2014-2018, working closely with Faculty Director Meredith Martin to build the Center's staff and programming.
Through a combination of formal training and curiosity Bauer is an early American historian, database designer, and photographer. Prior to working at Princeton she was the Digital Humanities Librarian at Brown University from 2011-2014. At the University of Virginia she developed and built The Early American Foreign Service Database, which she used to do analysis for her dissertation " Republicans of Letters: The Early American Foreign Service as Information Network, 1775-1825." She blogs and tweets at http://packets.jeanbauer.com and @jean_bauer, respectively.
She is the founder of Lemon and Eggs Data Design, a woman-owned and -operated technology and management consulting firm dedicated to finding meaningful answers in messy data. Lemon and Eggs specializes in complex data structures for visualization and analysis, strategic planning, and management consulting. For more information see lemoneggsdata.com and www.jeanbauer.com.
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- Events and Office Administrator
As Events and Office Administrator, Jean provides office support to Center for Digital Humanities staff and is responsible for essential administrative functions. Jean plans and executes departmental events, special visitors, workshops, and conferences.
Jean's background is in elementary education and literacy studies. She spent years teaching elementary school. Prior to joining the CDH, she spent time as a research associate and supported searches for school leadership positions at independent schools throughout the United States and abroad. Jean has a Bachelor of Science degree in Elementary Education and Sociology from Bucknell University. She has a Master of Science degree in Literacy Studies from Hofstra University.
As assistant director, Jeri focuses on issues around data, research infrastructure, and educational models for the digital humanities.
A historian of American religion, Jeri's research focuses on the application of computational methods within historical research and on the intersection of technology, gender, and culture. Her scholarship engages with issues of data construction and curation, machine learning, and natural language processing with historical sources.
She is currently working on a The Tie that Binds, a book and digital project based on her dissertation, A Gospel of Health and Salvation: Modeling the Religious Culture of Seventh-day Adventism, 1843-1920. The project offers a history of the Seventh-day Adventist church through their uses of print, as well as presents a digital scholarly edition of the periodical literature of the denomination. The digital project is an experiment in curating, describing, analyzing, and visualizing a historical corpus in a way to foregrounds the contextual, contingent, and constructed nature of the data. She is also working on a data project with Zoe LeBlanc to study the DH community on Github. She has written on data in religious studies in Digital Humanities and Libraries and Archives in Religious Studies, on digital dissertations within the historical profession (with Celeste Sharpe and Zoe LeBlanc) in Debates in Digital Humanities, and has presented at the American Historical Association, the American Academy of Religion, DH, and the Association for Computers and the Humanities.
Prior to joining the CDH, Jeri was assistant professor in the department of religious studies at The University of Alabama where she taught classes in DH as well as content courses. She was the founding director of the REL Digital Lab, a digital humanities lab created in 2021 for supporting the research and teaching of the department. She received her PhD in History from George Mason University in 2019, completing a fully digital dissertation. She worked previously as the digital publishing production lead with the George Mason University Libraries and as a research assistant at the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media on projects such as Omeka and PressForward.
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- 2019 Postgraduate Research Associate
Jessica is a historian of modern Latin America whose research focuses on intellectual life, urban transformation, and the public sphere in twentieth-century Mexico. She is a Postgraduate Research Associate in Princeton's Department of History where she recently defended her dissertation, an urban history of Ciudad Universitaria, the midcentury campus of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM). At the CDH, Jessica is working on a textual analysis project, "Tracking Intellectual Production in Mexico: UNAM Theses from 1929-1982," with support from a Latin American Digital Humanities Seed Grant. Using UNAM thesis data over this long arc, she will analyze intellectual change at Mexico's largest university in order to shed light on the relationship between shifting national priorities and intellectual production. Jessica is also working on a digital mapping project of Ciudad Universitaria and the surrounding areas of Mexico City before, during and after the campus construction. She is a contributor to the Princeton & Slavery digital history project and has broad interest in public history and archival quandaries.
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- Fellow
- 2017 - 2020 Perkins Postdoctoral Fellow
- Research Associate of the Center
Jim Casey is postdoctoral research associate of the Center for Digital Humanities. At the University of Delaware, he co-founded the award-winning Colored Conventions Project. His current book project is The Invention of Editors, 1740-1872. With P. Gabrielle Foreman, he is co-editor of The Colored Convention Movement: Black Organizing in the Nineteenth Century (forthcoming from UNC Press). His research interests include nineteenth-century African American studies, periodicals, print culture, and editorship studies. In the public and digital humanities, his practice centers around critical approaches to data, print/digital archives, and crowdsourcing. He directs Douglass Day, an annual participatory history event for expanding participation in the work and memory of African American history. He serves as vice president of the Research Society for American Periodicals. For more, see jim-casey.com.
Next, Jim Casey will be an Assistant Professor of African American Studies, History, and English at Pennsylvania State University.
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- Member of the Executive Committee
- Deputy University Librarian and Director of Information Technology and Metadata Services
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- 2016 - 2017 Postdoctoral Fellow
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- Member of the Executive Committee
- Associate Professor of History and African American Studies
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- Humanities Data Science Institute Participant
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- University Administrative Fellow
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- Graduate Fellow 2021 Graduate Fellow 2020 Summer Fellow
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- Member of the Executive Committee
- Assistant Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures
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- Member of the Executive Committee
- Director of the McGraw Center for Teaching and Learning, McGraw Center for Teaching and Learning
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- Member of the Executive Committee
- Executive Director, Humanities Council
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- 2020 - 2021 Public Writing Graduate Fellow 2019 - 2020 Graduate Communications Assistant
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- Member of the Executive Committee
- Associate Professor of French and Italian
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- Research Associate
- 2021 - 2022 Postdoctoral Research Associate
- Postdoctoral Research Associate
Kavita Kulkarni is a postdoctoral research associate and an ACLS Emerging Voices Fellow at the Center for Digital Humanities. Kavita earned her PhD from the Department of Media, Culture, and Communication at NYU in May of 2019. Through an interdisciplinary lens of media studies, Black studies, and critical geography, her research focuses on late 20th- and early 21st- century practices of Black placemaking in the context of urban development and gentrification in New York City. Kavita was a 2017-2018 Helena Rubenstein fellow in Critical Studies at the Whitney Independent Study Program, and a 2018-2019 inaugural resident of the Shandaken: Governors Island program for artists and cultural practitioners. Kavita has taught at NYU, Columbia University, and John Jay College, and prior to pursuing her graduate studies, Kavita was a community organizer working on various economic and housing justice issues in Atlanta, Georgia and Brooklyn, New York.
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- Graduate Administrative Fellow
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- 2020 - 2022 Research Software Developer
- Research Software Developer
After graduating Princeton in 2018 with a degree in Music, Kevin worked as a machine learning engineer in the energy sector, where he developed deep learning software that helps utilities predict electric consumption.
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- Member of the Executive Committee
- Professor of Jewish Civilization in the Near East
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- Research Software Engineer
As a research software engineer, Laure builds tools and creates methodologies that enable scholars to use machine learning, natural language processing, and statistical methods for studying humanities collections at scale. She collaborates with Princeton scholars on longer-term CDH-sponsored projects. She also advises and consults with the Princeton community on a wide range of computational and data-intensive projects.
Laure's expertise is in natural language processing with particular interests in cultural analytics, interpretability, and data-centric interventions. Her research focuses on understanding what computational models actually learn and how we can intentionally change what they learn. She works with a wide range of cultural heritage corpora: from texts of science fiction novels and medieval manuscripts to images of avant-garde journals and magical gems from the ancient Mediterranean.
Before coming to Princeton, Laure was an assistant professor in the College of Computer and Information Sciences at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She received her PhD in Computer Science from Cornell University in 2020 where she was advised by David Mimno. During her time at Cornell, she also completed a graduate minor in classical archaeology advised by Caitie Barrett.
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- 2019 - 2022 Events and Office Coordinator
- Events and Office Coordinator
Mana is assisting the CDH with administrative and event planning support. Prior to working at Princeton University, Mana spent years in the financial and merchandising areas of the fashion industry.
Mana is very active in the Princeton schools and community. At two of the elementary schools, she launched an after school activities program and helped with many of the family events. Mana is also involved with the Princeton YMCA, where she participates in many of their initiatives, including co-chairing their biggest fundraiser of the year.
Mana studied Diplomatic History and Japanese at the University of Pennsylvania.
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- 2020 Undergraduate Intern
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- Member of the Executive Committee
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- Humanities Data Science Institute Participant
As Digital Humanities Project Manager, Mary provides project management oversight and guidance for CDH-sponsored projects. She supports Princeton faculty and students in the incubation, planning, implementation, and conclusion stages of their projects. Working closely with PIs, Research Software Engineers, and graduate student Project Managers, she consults regularly with project teams to problem-solve, track documentation, and coordinate events and publicity. Over the 2023-24 academic year, Mary will oversee all aspects of the final phase of the Princeton Prosody Archive, the CDH's flagship project, in preparation for the CDH's ten-year anniversary. She also collaborates with the Executive Director, Assistant Director, and Events and Office Administrator to assist with internal CDH administration and coordination of select events.
Mary's research background is in twentieth-century Anglo-American literature, genre fiction, and poetry/poetics. Her dissertation, Forms of Fantasy: World-Building between the World Wars, draws on a wealth of digitized archival material-from readers' letters and unpublished manuscripts, to radio listener statistics and film advertisements-to tell a new history of the modern Anglo-American fantasy genre's formation between 1920-1940 within various media formats and communities of readers and writers.
Prior to joining the CDH as a staff member, Mary worked at the CDH as a Graduate Student Assistant, a Researcher for the Shakespeare and Company Project, a Project Manager for the Princeton Prosody Archive, and the Senior Project Management Fellow. She is passionate about best practices in data set curation, research software testing, and project management.
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- Undergraduate Communications Assistant
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- Member of the Executive Committee
- Smith Family Professor of History
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- Developer
- 2016 - 2019 Digital Humanities Developer
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- Graduate Communications Assistant
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- Member of the Executive Committee
- CDH Faculty Director
- Faculty Director
Meredith Martin specializes in anglophone poetry, historical prosody, historical poetics, poetry and public culture, and disciplinary and pedagogical history. She is the Faculty Director of the Center for Digital Humanities at Princeton which started under her leadership in 2014. Her book, The Rise and Fall of Meter, Poetry and English National Culture, 1860-1930 (Princeton UP, 2012), was the winner of the MLA Prize for a First Book, the Warren Brooks Prize for Literary Criticism, and co-winner of the Sonya Rudikoff Prize for the Best First Book in Victorian Studies. With several collaborators, she has been building and directing, since 2007, the Princeton Prosody Archive, which contains writing on poetics, prosody, rhetoric, grammar, speech, and literary history published between 1570-1923, and is the subject of her next book, Prosody as Archive. Dr. Mary Naydan (Princeton class of 2023) has been the project manager of the PPA since 2019. In 2015, Martin received the Andrew W. Mellon New Directions Fellowship for research on Before We Were Disciplines: Poetry at the Origin of Language. For the past year, she has been co-writing Data Work in the Humanities with Zoe LeBlanc, Assistant Professor in the School of Information Sciences at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign and former CDH Post-Doctoral Fellow. Martin is an original member of the nineteenth-century Historical Poetics Reading Group that has met once per term since 2007 and has co-organized conferences with the eighteenth-century Historical Poetics reading group. She also oversees that website, with Dr. John Schulz, at historicalpoetics.org, where you can find much of the group's recent scholarship. Martin has recently taken over as chair of the Victorian Data Caucus for the North American Victorian Studies Association, and, with Megan Ward, is co-editor of the Nineteenth-Century Data Collective. University Administrative Fellows and Princeton Graduate students Mi Yu and Anthie Georgiadi are managing editors. In 2023, Martin became the inaugural Faculty Director of the first Graduate Certificate in Digital Humanities at Princeton.
Martin is eager to work with graduate students who are thinking about archival theory, Digital Humanities, computational literary study, the history of poetic forms, Comparative and Anglophone poetry from 1830 to the present day, disciplinary history and the history of education, and literary study in relation to other disciplines. In 2021 she was the recipient of the Princeton University Graduate Mentoring Award by the McGraw Center for Teaching and Learning and is devoted to mentoring graduate students with both rigor and compassion. In 2023 she received the Clio Award from the Princeton Graduate School for significant contributions to Princeton Graduate student's professional development. She advises several University Administrative Fellows each year.
Martin spends most of her time working on collective projects with the Center for Digital Humanities and the Historical Poetics Reading Group, and is committed to the often invisible labor of building infrastructures to support the creation of new knowledge - and new ways of communicating that knowledge - both in the humanities and across the humanities-oriented disciplines.
Martin is happy to serve as an advisor, reader, or co-advisor for projects that help undergraduate students complete the requirements for the Certificates in Applications in Computer Science, Statistics in Machine Learning Certificate, Journalism, Technology and Society, as well as the varieties of certificates also listed on the English Department website. She teaches undergraduate courses in 19th-century poetry, 20th-century poetry, Literature and War, Poetry and Public Culture, Introduction to Poetry, and develops new courses with collaborators across campus.
CDH Faculty Director Meredith Martin responds to Emily M. Bender's presentation on the co-authored paper "AI and the Everything in the Whole Wide World Benchmark" at a recent Rutgers-ANU Data Ontologies workshop.
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- Project Grant Recipient 2017 - 2018 Graduate Fellow
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- Member of the Executive Committee
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- Executive Director
- Member of the Executive Committee
- CDH Executive Director
As CDH Executive Director, Natalia Ermolaev works with the Faculty Director to shape the vision for CDH programs and scholarly initiatives, and is responsible for overseeing Center staffing and personnel, budget, operations, intellectual community, and slate of projects, programming and grants. Along with the Faculty Director and Executive Committee, Natalia helps build and sustain campus, national, and international partnerships to advance the Center's goals and strategic plan. Natalia has been with the CDH since it started in 2014.
Natalia's scholarly background is in Slavic languages and literatures, and her research interests include Russian émigré writing, Russian religious thought, periodical studies, digital libraries and archives. She is active in promoting digital humanities in the Slavic Studies field, especially through Princeton's Slavic Digital Humanities Working Group.
Natalia is co-PI (with Andy Janco) of New Languages for NLP: Building Linguistic Diversity in the Digital Humanities, an initiative funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities and collaboration with DARIAH-EU. She co-directs (with Thomas Keenan) the Pages of Early Soviet Performance project, helps facilitate the Machine Learning + Humanities Working Group, and advises the Indigenous Studies Digital Humanities Working Group.
Natalia has extensive experience managing digital humanities projects, and offers consultations on project design and strategy, project management, and grant writing. Along with Rebecca Munson and Meredith Martin, Natalia is author of "Graduate Students and Project Management: A Humanities Perspective," to be published in The Digital Futures of Graduate Study in the Humanities. Debates in the Digital Humanities Series (forthcoming).
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- Developer
- 2018 - 2021 Digital Humanities Developer
Nick is a web developer who enjoys imagining and implementing accessible, dynamic interfaces for digital humanities projects. His current research is in the area of computational phonology tools for Old Chinese through the DIRECT project. He also participates in Data Beyond Vision, an ongoing effort to explore physicalization of humanities data. In 2019, he moderated the Collections as Data Jam, a full-day community collaborative DH workshop at the ACH2019 conference in Pittsburgh. Nick is a Certified Professional of Web Accessibility through the IAAP.
Before coming to Princeton, Nick served as Digital Projects Developer for Lewis & Clark College's Watzek Library in his hometown of Portland, OR. There he led a team to redesign the library's website, wrote scripts and tools used in bioinformatics research, and assembled a poetry robot. As a former member of the Orbis Cascade Alliance Primo Customization Standing Group, Nick published a variety of open-source customization packages for library catalogs. In 2017, he was awarded first prize in the Primo Open Discovery Challenge for this work.
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- Fellow
- 2017 - 2019 Weld Postdoctoral Fellow
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- 2020 Undergraduate Intern
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- Project Grant Recipient 2016 - 2017 Graduate Fellow
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- Member of the Executive Committee
- Professor of Art and Archaeology and American Studies
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- 2022 - 2023 Humanities Data Science Institute Participant 2021 - 2022 Project Manager
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- Member of the Executive Committee
- Director of the McGraw Center and Associate Dean of the College
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- 2021 Assistant Director for Interdisciplinary Education
- Assistant Director for Interdisciplinary Education at the CDH
Rebecca Munson is the Assistant Director for Interdisciplinary Education at the CDH. Building on her past work with Princeton graduate students and expertise in project management, Rebecca oversees CDH initiatives, particularly those related to graduate education. She identifies key opportunities for Princeton graduate students to integrate digital humanities methods into their work and to develop core competencies in working with humanities objects as data. In addition, she coordinates the implementation of CDH internal projects and research partnerships with faculty, overseeing and troubleshooting workflows as well as mentoring graduate student project managers.
Rebecca's background is as a literary scholar, working primarily on Shakespeare and other early modern dramatists. She holds an undergraduate degree from Columbia, a Master's from Oxford, and a Ph.D. from Berkeley. Before coming to Princeton, she held postdoctoral fellowships at UCLA, where she was a Fellow in the History of Material Texts, and Emory, where she was a member of the Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry. She is the founder and director of Common Readers, a digital initiative dedicated to gathering and analyzing annotations in early modern play texts through a custom-designed relational database.
She is hoping to join her work in DH and Shakespeare studies in a related monograph, Breaking Shakespeare: Modularity in Material and Interpretive Practices, which argues that from their inception Shakespeare's plays have always been experienced, and made sense of, in parts. It explores the implications of modular reading for literary theory, demonstrating how DH methods support and further the aims of established literary critical approaches. Her dissertation, Shakespeare in Common, 1603-1660, also centered on reception history, arguing that Shakespeare's immediate and enduring popularity derived from the productively ambiguous politics of his plays.
Rebecca's research interests are concerned with the intersections of early modern drama, book history, and digital methodologies. Most recently, she has published on "Mongrel Forms: Print-Manuscript Hybridity and Digital Methods in Annotated Plays" in the collection Early British Drama in Manuscript, edited by Tamara Atkin and Laura Estill (Brepols, 2019), and delivered papers on "The Stuff of Thought: Annotated Plays, Data Modeling, and Cognition," "Thinking Through Objects: Tiny Ontologies and Database Design," and "Marking by the Numbers: Early Modern Women's Annotations as Data." She will be a contributor to the Routledge Handbook of Shakespeare and Interface (edited by Paul Budra and Clifford Werier).
She also researches and writes on theories of project management and higher education. Along with Natasha Ermolaev, she has taught several project management workshops and released public documentation. Publication of a chapter on "Graduate Students and Project Management: A Humanities Perspective" (with Natalia Ermolaev and Meredith Martin) is forthcoming in The Digital Futures of Graduate Study in the Humanities (eds. Simon Appleford, Gabriel Hankins, Anouk Lang).
She is available to act as a reader on dissertations or senior theses with DH components and teaches DH-related courses when she can, most recently "Literature, Data and Interpretation" (English/IHUM) with Meredith Martin.
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- Project Grant Recipient 2017 - 2018 Project Manager
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- Member of the Executive Committee
- Lead Research Software Engineer
As Lead Research Software Engineer, Rebecca leads the CDH Research Software Team in the design and development of custom software for CDH research partnership projects. She is currently Co-PI with Marina Rustow and Technical Lead on the Princeton Geniza Project research partnership; she continues to provide technical leadership for The Shakespeare and Company Project, and served as Technical Lead on Princeton Prosody Archive, Derrida's Margins, and Princeton Ethiopian Miracles of Mary. She has written about why and how we test software, development best practices, lessons learned from working on Derrida's Margins, and reflected on the 1.0 release of Shakespeare and Company Project.
Rebecca's current research interests include experiments with data physicalizations, modeling and visualizing data structures in accessible ways, and critical perspectives on Agile software development. The data physicalization project "Data Beyond Vision" is featured in an essay in the inaugural issue of Startwords. She is also Project Director of the Hale/Eliot Letters and is co-editing (with Joshua Kotin) a cluster of articles based on the Shakespeare and Company Project, to be published by the Journal of Cultural Analytics and Modernism/modernity in 2023.
Rebecca has training in both English Literature and Computer Science, and many years of experience with software development in an academic environment. She cares deeply about accessibility, and holds the IAAP Web Accessibility Specialist (WAS) certification. Before joining CDH, she was a senior software engineer with Emory University Libraries and IT Services, where she contributed to a diverse array of Digital Library and Digital Humanities projects and open source tools. Previous projects include Belfast Group Poetry|Networks, Serendip-o-matic as a member of the 2013 One Week One Tool team, and Readux. In 2016 she published an article on software and scholarship in the Digital Humanities entitled Trusting Others to 'Do the Math'.
For 2019-2023, Rebecca is serving as a member of the Executive Council of the Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH). She is also a member of the inaugural steering committee for DHTech (an ADHO Special Interest Group).
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- Member of the Executive Committee
- Assistant Professor of History
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- Member of the Executive Committee
- Assistant Professor of History
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- Member of the Executive Committee
- Professor of Politics Director of DDSS
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- Member of the Executive Committee
- Faculty Fellow
- Professor of African American Studies
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- 2022 - 2024 Research Software Engineer
- Research Software Engineer
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- 2020 Undergraduate Intern
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- Member of the Executive Committee
- Executive Director, Council on Science and Technology
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- Member of the Executive Committee
- Librarian of the Marquand Library of Art and Archaeology
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- 2022 - 2023 Humanities Data Science Institute Participant
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- Administrative Coordinator
- Finance
- 2016 - 2018 Finance & Administrative Coordinator
Sarah has a BA in Geography from Durham University in the UK, a Post Graduate Diploma in English Literature, and is a qualified Chartered Accountant (UK-equivalent of a CPA). She worked in audit and financial reporting for some of the UK's largest private and public-sector organizations, before moving into audit, accounting and grant management roles in Higher Education. She has previously worked at Oxford University and The Open University (the UK's largest distance-learning institution), and at The College of New Jersey.
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- Fellow
- 2022 - 2023 Perkins Postdoctoral Fellow and CDH - RSE Collaboration Project Manager
Sierra Eckert is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Center for Digital Humanities and a Perkins Fellow at the Humanities Council. Sierra defended her dissertation in English and comparative literature at Columbia University in July 2020. She is currently working on a book project entitled, The Research Aesthetic: Information and the Form of the Victorian Novel and a second project on quantitative methods and disciplinary history. As a practitioner and historian of digital humanities, her work examines the literary significance of systems of information and labor, from the nineteenth century to the present. Her research and teaching in digital humanities include quantitative textual analysis, data visualization, archive and manuscript studies, and critical approaches to metadata, statistical modeling, and the intersection of print and digital collections. In 2017, she helped co-found the University Seminar in Material Texts at Columbia University. She is happy to meet for consultations. For more, visit sceckert.github.io.
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- 2021 Graduate Fellow 2019 - 2020 Graduate Assistant
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- Member of the Executive Committee
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- Communications Specialist
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- 2020 Undergraduate Intern
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- Member of the Executive Committee
- Associate Professor of German
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- Humanities Data Science Institute Participant
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- Member of the Executive Committee
- Assistant Professor of Architecture
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- 2020 Undergraduate Intern
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- 2018 - 2019 University Administrative Fellow 2018 - 2019 Graduate Assistant
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- Member of the Executive Committee
- Professor
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- Member of the Executive Committee
- Associate University Librarian for Special Collections
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- Member of the Executive Committee
- Director, Princeton Research Data Service
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- Perkins Postdoctoral Fellow
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- Member of the Executive Committee
- Professor of History
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- 2019 - 2021 Weld Postdoctoral Fellow