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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 French colonial officials in Senegal to…

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Mark Algee-Hewitt, Associate Professor of English at Stanford, has been appointed the new faculty director of the Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis (CESTA).

Founded in 2012, CESTA is Stanford’s premier institute for the digital…

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The Center for Spatial and Textual and Analysis (CESTA) is pleased to welcome the summer 2025 Undergraduate Interns, a community of digital humanities researchers.

CESTA runs undergraduate research internship programs in the winter, spring…

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Congratulations to the SLP team on the publication of their wonderful work on the politics and ethics of naming of enslaved people in Digital Humanities projects—read the collection of essays they have put together on this essential question for…

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How have colonial and imperial regimes imagined and represented the Persian Gulf?

Co-sponsored by the Department of History, CESTA, and Stanford Libraries, this all-day symposium and exhibit on May 23 explore how the British, Ottoman and…