The Price Lab

Grad students: join us next Thursday as we discuss some simple & useful tools for DH projects 🧰 3:30pm on 10/16 in Williams 623

A sneak peak of some of the exciting (and illuminating) data visualization you'll find in the article

Former Price Lab faculty director @jacquesanglais.bsky.social and current Associate Director of Digital Research in the Humanities @jdporter.bsky.social are in @culturalanalytics.bsky.social on “eclectic” reading practices as documented by Goodreads users:

Their project draws from a Department of Housing and Urban development database—which (with a team of undergraduate student collaborators), they’ve enhanced & mapped with GIS. Explore the map here: buildinginequality.us

Mortgaging Out: Fha Credit Policy, Segregated Rental Housing, and the Remaking of Metropolitan America On a hot afternoon in July 1954, Fred C. Trump sat as a witness before the Senate Committee on Banking and Currency. He had been subpoenaed for an investig

Price Lab exec committee member @brentcebul.bsky.social and Mike Glass are in the Journal of American History on FHA housing and segregation

Alpha Phi Alpha at Penn Digitizing Early Black Student Experiences, 1914 -1930

Explore Jordan’s living digital archive:

Working with imperfect and incomplete archival sources, Jordan gathered photographs, documents, timelines, and biographies into a searchable platform that explores how Black students at Penn in the early 20th century navigated the racial dynamics of predominantly white institutions.

This summer, Ph.D. student @jdeanross.bsky.social was awarded an Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship to develop his project, Alpha Phi Alpha at Penn: Digitizing Early Black Student Experiences, 1914-1930.

Angelina Eimannsberger (Price Lab Fellow 2021-22) on reading in the digital age:

Join us on Monday 9/29 as we discuss A.I. policies in the classroom at Penn and beyond. We’ll meet in person (Williams 623) with an online option (Zoom link: tinyurl.com/CritAIF25). See you there!

Manuscript Data Curation Fellow University Overview The University of Pennsylvania, the largest private employer in Philadelphia, is a world-renowned leader in education, research, and innovation. This historic, Ivy League school co...

🚨 Job alert! UPenn Libraries, on behalf of @digitalscriptorium.bsky.social, seeks to appoint an early career library professional or postdoctoral researcher with a background in premodern manuscript studies for an NEH-funded, 22-month Manuscript Data Curation Fellowship 📜

This Thursday 9/25 at the Kelly Writer's House: editors of & contributors to OUTPUT will present a selection of computer-generated texts. Register online: t.e2ma.net/click/kvc06k...

The book manuscript has been submitted to FUP for review and will be published late next year. And of course, our essays at falseimage.pennds.org are still available!

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The book will feature improved and expanded versions of the articles on our website, brand new chapters on newspapers, authors, and monuments, as well as expanded historical and methodological sections surveying the background of the Black press and our approach to building our database.

Coming soon to a library near you: The False Image of History Project book!

We're thrilled to announce that the False Image of History project will be published as a book as part of the Reconstructing America series at Fordham University Press @fordhampress.bsky.social!

Attn Penn grad students interested in digital humanities: join us this Thursday for our first grad student working group meeting of the year! Meet the crew, hear what the Price Lab is up to, and enjoy snacks on us 🫶 9/18 at 3:30pm in Williams 623

Our Critical Approaches to AI working group will be back at it this Monday 9/15. Join us in person or on Zoom! (Zoom link: tinyurl.com/CritAIF25)

First year student Prisha Saraiya with temperature-reactive mug

Conference table with supplies for workshop in design thinking such as colorful paper, markers, and blank mugs

The Price Lab hosted a preceptorial, Design Thinking and Making with Digital Humanities, where new @upenn.edu students like Prisha Saraiya went from brainstorming to sketching to designing vectors to cutting vinyl to make temperature-reactive mugs! #DHMakes

Omeka Intensive Course Info Session Sign up to join us for the Omeka Intensive Course Info Session on Wednesday, August 27th at 7:30 PM EDT. We will circulate the Zoom link the day of the event.

Join us August 27th at 7:30 PM EDT to learn more about the Omeka Intensive Courses! Instructor Dani Willcutt will briefly present on the Classic and S courses before addressing your questions. We hope to see you there! Register:

YouTube video by LibraryofVa Virginia Humanities Fellow Donovan Schaefer Introduces the "False Image of History" Website

Curious what the False Image of History Project is all about?

Here's an overview with project leader Donovan Schaefer on the origins of the project (and the meaning of the name!) as part of a Virginia Humanities Public Humanities Fellowship at the Library of Virginia.

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Another year of Dream Lab completed! @vierth.bsky.social and I had another fantastic group of folks learning DH for East Asian Studies with us for the past four days. 🙌 Many thanks as always to the @pricelab.bsky.social for supporting us!

Had a blast with so many new friends at the @pricelab.bsky.social’s Dream Lab workshop last week! For anyone interested in applying DH methods to book history questions, here’s a mini-site with a guide and all the materials from “Digital Approaches to Early Modern Books”: jrladd.com/digitalbooks/

Game board with pollinators cards

3D printed dice and wood game board laser cut in a honeycomb pattern.

Teaching “DH in the Classroom” at DREAM Lab @pricelab.bsky.social was a rewarding experience. Fantastics students, the best collaborator @betovargas.github.io, and friends old and new. We covered a huge range of topics, but here’s a peek at the game we made in the #DHMakes unit.

• Javier R. Ardila, PhD student in history
• Mohamud Mohamed, PhD candidate in history
• Farrah Rahaman, PhD candidate in communication

Pictured from left to right:
• Eleanor Webb, PhD candidate in history
• Jordan Ross, PhD student in history and education
• Liz Rose, PhD candidate in comparative literature
• Will Kelly, Penn SAS senior majoring in English

Congratulations to our Andrew W. Mellon Summer Fellows! This summer, these students will receive support to pursue research in the digital humanities. Check back in the fall to hear about what they have accomplished 😎

Dream Lab 2025, over and out 💭 Thank you to all our instructors, participants, and behind-the-scene facilitators, especially our friends at Penn Libraries 🫶 Until next year—keep dreaming!

Class photo in front wall with slideshow projection

Class sitting at table during Show N Tell presentation

Class sitting at table during Show N Tell presentation with display of project documentation

DH Project Maintenance, Care, and Migration: An Experiment with the Colored Conventions Project

🙌🏽 🙌🏽 to #DreamLab2025 crew who jumped in the deep end w/ me to experiment crowdsourcing the migration of @ccp-org.bsky.social exhibits to out-of-box WordPress template w/ care, curiosity & determination! Completed 6 exhibits in 9 hours (avg 11 pgs/hr) ➕documentation! 🎉

A catering table with a blue tablecloth that features three kinds of Tastykakes and Philadelphia-style pretzels (with mustard)

Tastykakes and Philly-style pretzels at Dream Lab, all stellar Philadelphia institutions. Thank you @pricelab.bsky.social!

We did our best to fix tic tac toe ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Thanks to Profs John Sharp & @colleenmacklin.bsky.social for illustrating the value of failure & iteration in game design and beyond