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Rachel Williams, a Stern Center Curatorial Fellow, works with a 17th-century “paper supercomputer” created by Italian friar Vincenzo Maria Coronelli. By twisting its wheels, users can perform complex astrological and astronomical calculations, determine Catholic feast days, and more.
Arts+Culture
Browsing through history
Published Jan 17, 2025
The Johns Hopkins Virginia Fox Stern Center for the History of the Book in the Renaissance provides many opportunities for students and researchers to gain archival experience
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Artificial intelligence
Arts and sciences meets AI
Published Jan 7, 2025
How researchers are tapping into the power of artificial intelligence to propel research advances in history, sociology, and more
A clothesline strewn with drying clothes hangs in front of a tent at a refugee shelter in northern Iraq
Photography
Finding home
Published Summer 2024
Photojournalist Hailey Sadler, SAIS '22 (MIPP), draws from her experiences on Capitol Hill to explore the concepts of home and displacement around the world / Johns Hopkins Magazine
Gregory Smaldone
Society of Fellows
New avenues for humanities expertise
Published June 14, 2023
Grad students in history, English, Assyriology, and political science awarded Krieger School fellowships combining research with hands-on experience
Sigrid Edson
Arts+Humanities
Playwright wins Sudler Prize
Published June 12, 2023
A member of the Class of 2023, Sigrid Edson received the Sudler Prize in recognition of her plays about the LGBTQ+ community
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Student honors
Society of Fellows in the Humanities names first cohort
Published May 19, 2022
The Society of Fellows in the Humanities will provide funding to nine Johns Hopkins fellows to pursue hands-on experiences to complement their postgraduate studies
An historical etching showing a woman vendor with basket, holding a chicken
History+Humanities
Archival project focuses on Colonial Louisiana
Published Jan 20, 2022
"Kinship and Longing: Keywords for Black Louisiana" project led by historian Jessica Marie Johnson will translate and bring to light records that are vital to the understanding of American history
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Digital humanities
New project unites digital humanities, Black studies, and data and computation
Published July 15, 2021
Black Beyond Data, a new project backed by a $300,000 Mellon grant, will seek to create an open resource for scholars to combat racial injustice through digital humanities
Screenshot of Electric Marronage website shows four artistic images and a simple site navigation bar
Arts+Culture
'A space for love'
Published June 28, 2021
Electric Marronage digital humanities project fosters Black exploration and expression free from the confines of traditional academia
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A perfect symmetry of science and the humanities
Published May 17, 2021
Since launching in 2015, the major in medicine, science, and the humanities has allowed students the freedom to design meaningful, challenging courses of study