The Slavic DH Working Group at Princeton was launched in 2017. Emerging out of fruitful conversations, collaborations and friendships between Princeton faculty, graduate students, librarians and DH scholars, the Working Group seeks to support and sustain digitally-inflected research and teaching in Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies. Drawing on Princeton’s traditional strength in Slavic scholarship, the wealth of its library and archival collections, and the research focus of the Center for Digital Humanities, the Working Group is enriching Slavic research at Princeton and supporting scholarship that brings Slavic Studies into new methodological frameworks and to broader audiences.
The Working Group meets regularly during the course of the academic year to share works-in-progress, host visiting speakers, and read and discuss key works in digital humanities. Membership is open to undergraduates, graduate students, postdocs, faculty and staff with any level of DH experience.
One of our group’s major initiatives is collaboration with the Herder Institute for Historical Research on East Central Europe in Marburg, Germany. With the goal of creating lasting and sustained ties between our two institutions, the Princeton-Herder partnership supports the exchange of knowledge and ideas between scholars in America and Europe. Supported generously by the Princeton International Fund, the Slavic Working Group co-organized a successful 5-day summer school at the Herder Institute in August 2018, and plans to hold regular annual summer institutes.
The Slavic DH Working Group was founded with support by a Seed Grant from the Center for Digital Humanities. Founders and current co-chairs are:Thomas Keenan (Slavic East European and Eurasian Studies Librarian) and Natalia Ermolaev (Executive Director, Center for Digital Humanities). Kat Reischl (Assistant Professor, Slavic Department), and Philip Gleissner, now Assistant Professor in the Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures at The Ohio State University) were also our group’s founders.
For information, please contact Natalia Ermolaev nataliae@princeton.edu
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