Welcome to CESTA

At CESTA, students and faculty combine the power of humanistic investigation with new technologies to document, analyze and understand the changing human experience.

Applications for Digital Humanities Research Scholars Residency is Open!

The Digital Humanities Research Scholars Residency at CESTA (formerly known as DH Research Fellows Program) is designed to prepare graduate students for a future where digital scholarship is the norm

Reflections on the Digital Humanities

A Stanford Arcade and CESTA collaboration

Articles and interviews of digital humanities practicioners and professors at Stanford. Curated and edited by Charlotte Lindemann (PhD Candidate).

Introducing our Taxonomy of DH Methods and Approaches

Read about a unique feature of our new publications page: a taxonomy of methods and approaches which can be used to filter our publications

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Featured Project

The Senegalese Slave Liberations Project, led by Professors Richard Roberts, Joel Cabrita, and Fatoumata Seck at Stanford, Babacar Fall and Ibrahima Seck in Senegal, and Rebecca Wall at Hamilton College, together with Joshua Goodwin at Stanford and Erica Ivins at Columbia University, is investigating slavery and  freedom in  19th-century West Africa.

How is humanities research transformed in a digital age? How can we harness the power of digitization in order to recover, preserve, and curate cultures and cultural artifacts? Like no other place on campus, we work across the boundary typically separating the humanities and technology, asking essential questions about the future of humanistic thought.
Giovanna Ceserani
Faculty Director

EVENTS

November
12
Date
Tuesday, November 12, 2024. 12:00pm - 1:15pm
Location
Building 160, Wallenberg Hall
450 Jane Stanford Way, Building 160, Stanford, CA 94305
433A
November
14
Date
Thursday, November 14, 2024. 12:00pm - 1:15pm
Location
Building 160, Wallenberg Hall
450 Jane Stanford Way, Building 160, Stanford, CA 94305
433A
November
19
Date
Tuesday, November 19, 2024. 12:00pm - 1:15pm
Location
Wallenberg Hall, Room 433A, and virtually

NEWS & BLOGS

Giovanna Ceserani reflects on the meaning of open access for digital humanities in her new Arcade article.
The Digital Horizons Lecture (a collaboration between CESTA and Stanford Humanities Center) with Professor Lauren Klein (Applied Quantitative Methods, and English Departments, Emory University) has been rescheduled to April 15th, 2025, 4-6 pm, at Levinthal Hall, Stanford Humanities Center.
Professor Joel Cabrita launches the "Regina Gelana Twala Digital Archive".
Throughout my time with CESTA, I've had the opportunity to learn and work on many different things that I'm interested in, such as working with historical documents, coding music analysis programs, and graphic designing for the anthology. In each project I've been a part of, it has been exciting to see how much technological innovation has to offer for humanities research, and how interdisciplinary study can enhance collaboration from people with different backgrounds and perspectives.
Kiana Hu
Undergraduate Research Intern

CESTA is open to all persons concerned with the study and teaching of digital humanities, in that field’s most capacious definition. Our Center welcomes researchers and interested participants from all walks of academic life, including, but not limited to, faculty and academic-related staff, postdoctoral fellows, graduates and undergraduates, independent scholars, and technological experts. We aim to encourage an environment of collegiality and collaboration, diversity, inclusion, and academic freedom for all participants.

We explicitly affirm the right of students and junior faculty to receive supportive, professional mentoring that respects their intellectual freedom and personal integrity. We expect anyone coming to CESTA, or representing CESTA, to abide by and promote these values so that together we may build a stronger, more welcoming, considerate, and equal community.