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Posts from CESTA staff and the community.

This is a write-up of a talk delivered at Stanford University in April 2026 by Nikita Rokotyan. Nikita is an award-winning data visualization engineer and designer, known for creating tools and frameworks for data exploration and analytics…
Three CESTA interns are co-authors of this article from Slavery & Abolition: A Journal of Slave and Post-Slave Studies. Between 1857 and 1903, nearly 29,000 enslaved people presented themselves before French colonial officials in Senegal to…

Past CESTA Research Anthologies on a network web.

On January 30th, 2024, we gathered for a luncheon to celebrate and discuss the future of the CESTA Anthology. We opened the floor to a forum of discussion. People were interested in the ways an online platform can make projects with interactive…
By Eyup Eren Yurek
The research that CESTA supports not only spans more than twenty academic departments but deploys a staggeringly diverse range of methods and tools. This makes for an exciting atmosphere of discovery, but presents a challenge when it comes to…
By Mae Velloso-Lyons, Eric Harvey, Alix Keener
The following blog post is co-authored by Nika Mavrody, PhD Candidate in English and a 2020 Digital Humanities Graduate Fellow, and Regina Ta, a First Year Undergraduate Research Intern at CESTA. Their collaboration represents a new program at the…
By Nika Mavrody and Regina Ta
At CESTA’s core is paradigm-shifting research that applies technologies across the humanities and social sciences to enhance our understanding of the world. With the Digital Humanities minor’s recent feature in the Stanford Daily and the…
By Vincent Nicandro