This project involves the digitization and analysis of a cache of poetry recordings made at Columbia University in the 1930s and ‘40s. This project was partially funded by the Digital Humanities Forum. More
Digital Humanities Forum Projects
The Price Lab grew out of the Digital Humanities Forum, a two-year pilot initiative supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and led by the Penn Humanities Forum. The DHF incubated the projects listed here, providing early guidance and seed funding. Among the lead researchers are several members of the Price Lab Executive Board and other scholars closely involved in the Lab's activities.
Forensic Audio Analysis to Determine the Provenance of Poetry Recordings
P.I.: Chris Mustazza, Director, Student Technology, School of Arts & Sciences Computing
Co-Investigators: Al Filreis and Charles Bernstein, Directors, PennSound
Cross-border Migration and Empire-Making in Early Modern China
P.I.: Siyen Fei, Associate Professor of History
This project will utilize GIS tools to map the cross border population flow—both voluntary (merchants, settlers) and forced (captives, slaves)—in late 16th and early 17th century China. This project was partially funded by the Digital Humanities Forum. More
Late Antique Beth Shean
P.I.: Robert G. Ousterhout, Professor of Byzantine Art and Architecture and Director, Center for Ancient Studies
Robert Ousterhout will create an online exhibit, including a digital archive, that will show the little-explored Late Antique history of the city, Beth Shean in the Galilee, destroyed by an earthquake in 749 CE and excavated by the University of Pennsylvania in the 1920s. This project was partially funded by the Digital Humanities Forum. More
Mapping the Cultural Landscape of Gordion through Aerial Photogrammetry
P.I.: Lucas Stephens, PhD Student, Art and Archaeology of the Mediterranean World Program
Co-Investigator: C. Brian Rose, James B. Pritchard Professor of Archaeology and Professor of Classical Studies
Stephens uses a Phantom 2 Vision Plus Quadcopter with GPS to map the ancient capital city of King Midas, the archaeological site of Gordion in central Turkey. This project was partially funded by the Digital Humanities Forum. More
Tivoli Stories: A Multi-Media Installation and Web Application
P.I.: Deborah A. Thomas, Professor of Anthropology and Africana Studies
“Tivoli Stories” is a multi-media installation and social memory project designed to create an archive of people’s experiences during the May 2010 state of emergency when Jamaican security forces entered West Kingston to apprehend and extradite Christopher “Dudus” Coke to the United States. This project was partially funded by the Digital Humanities Forum. More