Projects
Researchers on our projects include faculty, staff, and students from across the university.
Projects may be affiliated with one of CESTA's core labs or entirely self-standing; in either case, project lead(s) receive administrative, technical, and financial support from CESTA. Many are aided by the contributions of Undergraduate Research Interns. At times, these projects may last a set period of time and culminate in a piece of traditional or digital scholarship; in other cases, a project may develop a life of its own and continue even after the founder has moved on.
Aftermaths of Enslavement
CISTERN
Computational Border Studies
Considering Disability in Online Cultural Experiences
DH Asia: Hot Metal Empire
Early Modern Mobility
Expanding the Discipline of English Language Arts
Fan Fiction
Follow the Money Project
Few Americans are aware of…
Free Speech, Regulation, and Democracy in the Digital Age
George Moses Horton Project
Global Medieval Sourcebook
Global Urbanization and its Discontents
Grand Tour Project
Imagined San Francisco
Interactive Nolli Map Website of Rome
Josquin Research Project
Kindred Britain
KSR (Know Systemic Racism)
Know Systemic Racism, a project led by Stanford's inaugural Racial Justice and Social Equity Librarian, Felicia Smith, is a data repository and data discovery environment unique in its focus on interconnections of discriminatory systems that…
Lacuna Stories
Land Talk
Life in Quarantine
Literature of Social Distancing
Mapping Manuscripts
Mapping Ottoman Epirus
Mapping Shared Sacred Sites
Mapping the Cape Colony
Some 124 cadastral maps of the Cape Colony together give a uniquely detailed view of territory that would soon become the Union of South Africa. The maps are linked to the 1891 census.
Mapping the Musical Renaissance
Mapping the Republic of Letters
Medieval Networks of Memory
Modeling Representations of Otherness in Star Wars
Modernist Archives Publishing Project
Oceanic Imaginaries
Ocean worlds make up more than 70% of our planet’s surface and tie together sprawling histories of empire, global capital, and migration. In an age of rising sea levels and heating ocean basins, the imperative to think with the maritime across…
OpenGulf
Oral History Text Analysis Project (OHTAP)
Panic and Pandemic
Personhood Project
Playing with Time: Great Perfection History in VR
This project is part of Elaine Lai’s PhD dissertation in Buddhism which is about how time functions in Buddhist literature. This VR project aims to trace the teacher-student relationships for three different transmission streams of the…
Pobladores Project
This project traces the life histories of early California settlers from their origins in Mexico and elsewhere to their final days in California.
Poetic Thinking
Railroaded Project
An interactive collection of over 2,000 footnotes to Richard White’s book on the transcontinental railroads.
Books have historically been constrained by the limitations of print medium, and even digital books are usually just…
Richard Pryor's Peoria Project
Our aim is to present an interactive archive of the first two decades of the life of Richard Pryor in Peoria, Illinois.
Rumsey Map Center: Cherokee History
Scofflaws and Debt Collectors
Shipwrecks and the Maritime Heritage of Millennia of Sicilian Connections
Social Networks in Roman Comedy
Social Networks in the Early Islamic World
Stanford Ordinary People Extraordinary Stories (SOPES)
Technologies of Domesticity
The African Archive Beyond Colonization
The Church of Baghdad
How does our understanding of Christianity shift when we recognize that for over half its history Christianity’s geographic center was not Rome, nor even Constantinople, but rather Baghdad? My work explores this question through an examination of…
The Senegal Liberations Project
Tracing the Arctic Regions
Representations of the Arctic elusively mirror a landscape defined by strange light and shifting features.
Translation
Transparency and Racial Equity in Public Corporations
Urban Ecology of the Pandemic
Urban Studies and Practice of Theory
Using Data Visualizations to Help Students See Texts Differently in English Language Arts
Visible Bodies
Voortrekker Monumentality
Warhol’s Photo Archive
Women in Provenance
Writing Rights
Young Readers Database of Literature (YRDL)
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Ottoman Fiscal Codex
The "Ottoman Fiscal Codex" project is an ambitious research initiative exploring the complex financial and political networks of the Ottoman Empire between 1750 and 1850, through the detailed analysis of the fiscal codex MAD 9726. Our work…