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…
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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…
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…
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…
Last week, the summer Research Assistants all wrote reflections on their first impressions of CESTA and the digital humanities. Take a peek at this word cloud that shows the most used words in our…
This week, I took a first leap with some more text visualization and dove deeper than last week’s word cloud. This was my first experience with text analysis, and it was interesting to say the least…
CESTA’s Research Assistants are now in week 5 of the summer program, and we’ve been hard at work with translating, mapping, and coding, but we’re never too busy to recognize some of the amazing work…
This week, we conducted an interview with one of our Research Assistants, Nikki Tran ‘18, to get an insider’s perspective on doing research at CESTA. She has been working with CESTA as a RA for two…
This week, we wanted to take a deeper dive on the CESTA Summer RAs and the diverse demographics. Of the 30 undergraduate and co-term RAs currently on board, there are 19 humanities majors, 6 studying…
After presenting at SURPS, Jeongeun Park took some time to reflect on the way that her experience at CESTA shaped her research and personal development. We can't wait to work with more RAs like…