Previous Projects Supported by CESTA

How might we understand the experiences of enslavement at the Cape of Good Hope in the long 18th century, and what are its legacies?

The goal of this project is to identify and evaluate software approaches to the transcription of Arabic, Classical Arabic and Ottoman Turkish handwriting, and if necessary build/fine-tune an advanced model to transcribe pre-selected segments of…

Merchant textbooks were exchanged for centuries in Western Europe (especially Low Countries, France and Italy) and included various types of information, including, but not limited to, describing the ideal of the profession and their desired…

Breve is a tool for researchers who have to work with very incomplete and messy data.

CISTERN is building a database and a virtual research space that bring together geographic sources in Turkish, Arabic, and English.

This project combines critical race and social justice theory with novel computational methods to study the urgent problem of bias within the U.S. court system.

This project considers ways in which online cultural experiences may be rendered more inclusive for Disabled people.

What did medieval canon law look like from the perspective of local communities?

Hot Metal Empire is a history of linotype, particularly in the non-Latin alphabetic world.

This project will increase the accessibility of ancient languages through braille to students and scholars who are blind, visually impaired, or otherwise print disabled. Through the integration of high-quality, dependable braille tables into the…

The early colonial Cape of Good Hope was subject to a large number of travel accounts by Europeans, roughly 1488 to 1900. For all the obvious ethnocentrism of their colonial gaze, they are historically valuable in that they contain unique…

What do the methods and patterns of transportation reveal about the early modern period?

Egypt has held an exceptional place in the western imagination.

EpicConnect is an open-source, open access productivity platform.

The goal of this project is to expand the way English Language Arts (ELA) is taught in U.S. high schools.

Since 1998, well over 6 million stories have been uploaded to FanFiction.net. This archive offers a unique source of data on prose writing.

This project traces the spatial history of payments to local communities for federal lands. In 2014, the eleven states of the Far West received $2.695 billion dollars from federal land management agencies. Why?

Few Americans are aware of…

This project investigates IT blogs’ impact on public discussion of matters situated at the intersection of technology and society.

Stanford has numerous faculty and students working in various African countries. These engagements take the form of fellowships, internships, study abroad trips, research trips, etc. We would love to build an interactive database, geomap, that…

An African American slave (1797–1888) challenged by laws that prevented him from learning to read and write, Horton developed a method of composing poetry orally.

The Global Medieval Sourcebook presents medieval texts in their original language and in new English translations.

Over the last several decades, millions of people have migrated from rural villages and towns into urban contexts. Today, cities hold over half of the world’s population.

In the eighteenth century, thousands of Northern Europeans traveled to Italy for a journey of cultural and symbolic capital they called the Grand Tour.

The project "A human rights-based accountability framework for halting government hacking abuses" aims to look into contemporary public policy and industrial and technological tendencies that surround "government hacking" activities. This…

This project traces the history of urban planning in San Francisco, placing special emphasis on unrealized schemes.

The goal of this project is to revitalize, preserve, and assure universal open access to the Interactive Nolli Map Website.