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

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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

Introducing our Taxonomy of DH Methods and Approaches

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
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NEWS & BLOGS

Merve Tekgürler awarded Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Innovation Fellowship

Merve Tekgürler, a 2023 CESTA Digital Humanities Graduate Fellow and PhD candidate in History has been awarded a 2023-24  Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Innovation Fellowships .

Graduate Student Opportunity: Mellon Sawyer Doctoral Fellowships

The Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis (CESTA) invites applications for two (2) Mellon Sawyer Doctoral Fellowships to participate in the Sawyer seminar series “The Data that Divide Us: Recalibrating Data Methods for New Knowledge Frameworks Across the Humanities” for the 2023-24 academic year.

Estelle Freedman publishes in Oral History Review

Estelle Freedman, director of  the Oral History Text Analysis Project (OHTAP) at CESTA, recently published an essay in the Oral History Review titled '“Not a Word Was Said Ever Again”: Silence and Speech in Women’s Oral History Accounts of Sexual Harassment'. Drawing on a large dataset of

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CESTA, I've had the opportunity to learn and work on many different things that I'm interested in, such as working with historical documents, coding music analysis programs, and graphic designing for the anthology.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.