The Price Lab
@pricelab.bsky.social
The Price Lab for Digital Humanities @ The University of Pennsylvania
Wishing a merry end of semester to everyone ⛄ We'll see you in 2026!
December 17, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Wishing a merry end of semester to everyone ⛄ We'll see you in 2026!
The Price Lab is here for you during finals season 🫶 Drop in to office hours Fridays 1pm-3pm in Williams 616 for some end-of-semester support on projects or papers
December 8, 2025 at 3:18 PM
The Price Lab is here for you during finals season 🫶 Drop in to office hours Fridays 1pm-3pm in Williams 616 for some end-of-semester support on projects or papers
Our Critical Approaches to A.I. Working Group will hold its final meeting of the semester next Monday, 12/8 at noon in Williams 623 and via Zoom (link: tinyurl.com/CritAIF25 )—we hope to see you there!
December 5, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Our Critical Approaches to A.I. Working Group will hold its final meeting of the semester next Monday, 12/8 at noon in Williams 623 and via Zoom (link: tinyurl.com/CritAIF25 )—we hope to see you there!
Today!
Our last grad student working group meeting of the semester! Join us this Thurs 12/4 for a discussion with @whitneytrettien.bsky.social, @jacquesanglais.bsky.social, @emilyfbrooks.bsky.social, and Emily Hammer about DH work and the job market 💼
December 4, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Today!
Our last grad student working group meeting of the semester! Join us this Thurs 12/4 for a discussion with @whitneytrettien.bsky.social, @jacquesanglais.bsky.social, @emilyfbrooks.bsky.social, and Emily Hammer about DH work and the job market 💼
December 1, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Our last grad student working group meeting of the semester! Join us this Thurs 12/4 for a discussion with @whitneytrettien.bsky.social, @jacquesanglais.bsky.social, @emilyfbrooks.bsky.social, and Emily Hammer about DH work and the job market 💼
Join us once again on Monday 11/24 as we continue our discussion about AI policies in the classroom. We’ll meet in person (Williams 623) with an online option (Zoom link: tinyurl.com/CritAIF25). See you there!
November 21, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Join us once again on Monday 11/24 as we continue our discussion about AI policies in the classroom. We’ll meet in person (Williams 623) with an online option (Zoom link: tinyurl.com/CritAIF25). See you there!
Today @natmcgartland.bsky.social, PhD candidate in English at the University of Maryland, spoke to us about data representation through textiles. From Jacquard loom punch cards to crochet patterns to paper weaving, Nat showed us that weaving & textile work has always been a form of data practice 🧶📊
November 17, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Today @natmcgartland.bsky.social, PhD candidate in English at the University of Maryland, spoke to us about data representation through textiles. From Jacquard loom punch cards to crochet patterns to paper weaving, Nat showed us that weaving & textile work has always been a form of data practice 🧶📊
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When Scott Enderle <https://pricelab.sas.upenn.edu/news/jonathan-scott-enderle-1979-2021> and I were building the Shakespeare Census, one of the first things he insisted on was making it open and easily adaptable for others. I'm so pleased to his hard work on that part of the project bearing fruit.
Pleased to announce the Wheatley Census is ready for 1.0 public release! As detailed a census as possible (right now) of the first six editions - those printed in the 18th century - of Phillis Wheatley’s Poems on Various Subjects, is available here: www.wheatleycensus.org.
Wheatley Census
www.wheatleycensus.org
November 17, 2025 at 4:48 PM
When Scott Enderle <https://pricelab.sas.upenn.edu/news/jonathan-scott-enderle-1979-2021> and I were building the Shakespeare Census, one of the first things he insisted on was making it open and easily adaptable for others. I'm so pleased to his hard work on that part of the project bearing fruit.
The Post45 Data Collective invites graduate students in the humanities or adjacent fields to explore cultural data reflexively and collaboratively in a mini-workshop hosted virtually on Friday, March 13. Details here: data.post45.org/news/grad-wo...
November 12, 2025 at 4:12 PM
The Post45 Data Collective invites graduate students in the humanities or adjacent fields to explore cultural data reflexively and collaboratively in a mini-workshop hosted virtually on Friday, March 13. Details here: data.post45.org/news/grad-wo...
This week, J.D. Porter speaks to our grad student working group about AI & LLMs—whether you love them or hate them, tools like ChatGPT and Gemini are increasingly hard to ignore in academic research. J.D. will explain how these tools actually work, enabling us to be better users/critics of AI.
November 10, 2025 at 2:57 PM
This week, J.D. Porter speaks to our grad student working group about AI & LLMs—whether you love them or hate them, tools like ChatGPT and Gemini are increasingly hard to ignore in academic research. J.D. will explain how these tools actually work, enabling us to be better users/critics of AI.
For Penn undergrads with a nascent interest in DH, J.D. Porter’s spring course offers a practical introduction to computational methods for humanities research. No prior programming knowledge is required! More info on Path@Penn.
November 3, 2025 at 4:25 PM
For Penn undergrads with a nascent interest in DH, J.D. Porter’s spring course offers a practical introduction to computational methods for humanities research. No prior programming knowledge is required! More info on Path@Penn.
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The 100th episode of American Vandal. Launching the 12th season. Live at UPenn English Faculty Lounge with @cnewf.bsky.social, @whitneytrettien.bsky.social, & an incredible assembly of faculty, students, visiting scholars, & friends of the pod.
Criticism & The Chatbot Bubble (Vandal Live at UPenn English)
with Christopher Newfield & Whitney Trettien
theamericanvandal.substack.com
October 31, 2025 at 2:25 PM
The 100th episode of American Vandal. Launching the 12th season. Live at UPenn English Faculty Lounge with @cnewf.bsky.social, @whitneytrettien.bsky.social, & an incredible assembly of faculty, students, visiting scholars, & friends of the pod.
Did you know 🤔 that the Price Lab has office hours ⁉️ Pop by Williams 616 on Fridays from 1pm-3pm to chat with our resident DH experts about tools, projects, dreams, courses, ideas, notions, etc., etc. We’re ready to help!
October 27, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Did you know 🤔 that the Price Lab has office hours ⁉️ Pop by Williams 616 on Fridays from 1pm-3pm to chat with our resident DH experts about tools, projects, dreams, courses, ideas, notions, etc., etc. We’re ready to help!
This fall, the “Reinventing Aristotle” exhibit opened in Penn's Kislak Center. Curated by Eva Del Soldato, Lynne Farrington, and Hannah Marcus, the exhibit shows how the philosopher has been refigured and reimagined in the centuries since his death.
October 22, 2025 at 3:05 PM
This fall, the “Reinventing Aristotle” exhibit opened in Penn's Kislak Center. Curated by Eva Del Soldato, Lynne Farrington, and Hannah Marcus, the exhibit shows how the philosopher has been refigured and reimagined in the centuries since his death.
For those local to Philly: next Wed., 10/22, our faculty director @whitneytrettien.bsky.social will join @mattseybold.bsky.social and Christopher Newfield to tape an episode of The American Vandal podcast. Join the live audience! 5-7pm in UPenn's Fisher Bennett Hall, room 135.
October 17, 2025 at 5:46 PM
For those local to Philly: next Wed., 10/22, our faculty director @whitneytrettien.bsky.social will join @mattseybold.bsky.social and Christopher Newfield to tape an episode of The American Vandal podcast. Join the live audience! 5-7pm in UPenn's Fisher Bennett Hall, room 135.
Tomorrow afternoon!
Grad students: join us next Thursday as we discuss some simple & useful tools for DH projects 🧰 3:30pm on 10/16 in Williams 623
October 15, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Tomorrow afternoon!
History PhD candidate & Summer Mellon Fellow Eleanor Webb joined Prof Emily Steiner’s inter-disciplinary team to help bring a 15th-cent genealogical roll held by @freelibrary.bsky.social online. Created circa 1461-1464, the roll is 15 ft long and consists of 11 sewn parchment membranes.
October 13, 2025 at 1:25 PM
History PhD candidate & Summer Mellon Fellow Eleanor Webb joined Prof Emily Steiner’s inter-disciplinary team to help bring a 15th-cent genealogical roll held by @freelibrary.bsky.social online. Created circa 1461-1464, the roll is 15 ft long and consists of 11 sewn parchment membranes.
Join us next Monday 10/13 as we continue our discussion about AI policies in the classroom. We’ll meet in person (Williams 623) with an online option (Zoom link: tinyurl.com/CritAIF25). See you there!
October 10, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Join us next Monday 10/13 as we continue our discussion about AI policies in the classroom. We’ll meet in person (Williams 623) with an online option (Zoom link: tinyurl.com/CritAIF25). See you there!
Our faculty director, Whitney Trettien, delivered one of the presentations at this Ben Talks event—she talked about "innovation" in technology via the Pianotyp, a machine invented in 1840 that purported to automate typesetting. Read more about it in the article linked below!
At the year’s first Ben Talks, which took place in Los Angeles in September, alums heard a faculty panel discuss the evolution of printing technologies, art as a nuanced archive of sexuality, memory cards as media distributors, and more.
A Conversation about Art Artifacts and Society
At the year’s first Ben Talks, which took place in Los Angeles in September, alums heard a faculty panel discuss the evolution of printing technologies, art as a nuanced archive of sexuality, memory…
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October 9, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Our faculty director, Whitney Trettien, delivered one of the presentations at this Ben Talks event—she talked about "innovation" in technology via the Pianotyp, a machine invented in 1840 that purported to automate typesetting. Read more about it in the article linked below!
Grad students: join us next Thursday as we discuss some simple & useful tools for DH projects 🧰 3:30pm on 10/16 in Williams 623
October 8, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Grad students: join us next Thursday as we discuss some simple & useful tools for DH projects 🧰 3:30pm on 10/16 in Williams 623
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:
The Eclectic Reader | Published in Journal of Cultural Analytics
By James English, J. D. Porter. Using Goodreads data, this study explores the overlooked eclecticism of readers, revealing both patterns of cultural hierarchy and the conceptual limits of eclecticism ...
culturalanalytics.org
October 6, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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:
Price Lab exec committee member @brentcebul.bsky.social and Mike Glass are in the Journal of American History on FHA housing and segregation
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
academic.oup.com
October 3, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Price Lab exec committee member @brentcebul.bsky.social and Mike Glass are in the Journal of American History on FHA housing and segregation
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.
October 1, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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:
In Angelina Eimannsberger’s review of “Digital Social Reading” (@mitpress.bsky.social), she finds serious value in online reading.
“Given everything we are up against,” she concludes, “what more joyful yet profoundly argued conclusion could a scholar offer?”
“Given everything we are up against,” she concludes, “what more joyful yet profoundly argued conclusion could a scholar offer?”
Our Golden Age of Reading (Online)
There is an urgent need for new, more affirmative ways to participate in culture, especially against the ongoing systematic whiteness of publishing and the exclusivity of elite institutions.
www.publicbooks.org
September 29, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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!
September 26, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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!