Research
Critical digital humanities scholars are widely dispersed across the University of Toronto’s many divisions and three campuses. The central mandate of the Digital Humanities Network and the Critical Digital Humanities Initiative is to build and strength our research network. Faculty members have created over 40 digital humanities projects and labs over the past several years, and more are being founded each month. Do you have a project that you’d like to see listed here? Let us know by filling out this form [link to come.]
Afrosonic Innovation Lab
Website: https://afrosonicinnovationlab.com/ Description: The Afrosonic Innovation Lab is a team of artists, creatives, and scholars actively engaged in the making of music, sound experimentation, and musicological analysis. We actively seek and cultivate projects globally which involve research creation, performance, publication, field research, and curation. While based in Toronto, we work across a number of sites in Canada and internationally. Instagram: afrosonicinnovationlab X (Twitter):...
Age of Vedanta Project with the Prosopographical Database of Indic Texts (PANDiT)
The “Age of Vedanta” Project transcribes descriptive catalogues of Vedānta manuscripts to the Prosopographical Database of Indic Texts (PANDiT).
Jackson Bibliography of Romantic Poetry
A searchable catalogue of all extant editions of all verse in English published between 1770 and 1835 including metadata from first-hand observations.
Digital Dostoevsky
Creating an open-access database of Dostoevsky’s works and analyzing them with digital text analysis methods.
Northside Hip Hop Archive
Website: https://www.nshharchive.ca/ Description: Northside Hip Hop Archive is a digital collection of Canadian hip-hop history and culture. This site is a living archive, which means we are always in the process of digitizing, cataloguing and engaging communities across the country. We envision ourselves as an archive and a counter archive: one that attempts to disrupt some of the traditional ways in which archiving has been imagined, to the benefit of Canadian culture and the global hip hop...
Visualizing Variation
An open-source code library of prototype interface components for digital scholarly editing and visualization, focusing on Shakespeare.
Sex Work and the Queen City: Mapping Toronto’s Sex Trade History, 1865-1915
An examination of historical records to locate and map spaces associated with sex work in Toronto from brothels to courthouses.
Hidden Florence
An app enabling users to explore lives and stories from renaissance Florence through a 3D map.
Great Lakes Research Alliance (GRASAC)
Website: https://grasac.artsci.utoronto.ca/ Description: The Great Lakes Research Alliance for the Study of Aboriginal Arts & Cultures (GRASAC) is a vibrant, interdisciplinary research network comprising over 500 members. Since 2005, they have collaborated in the study of Anishinaabe, Haudenosaunee, and Huron-Wendat cultures in the Great Lakes region of Turtle Island. GRASAC serves as both a network of individuals who convene, collaborate, and exchange ideas to deepen their understanding...
Object Lives and Global Histories in Northern North America
Histories of North American objects addressing global flows of influence that arise from trade colonialism and migration.
Dragoman Renaissance Research Platform
A companion project to E. Natalie Rothman’s book “The Dragoman Renaissance,” this website explores the role of dragomans (diplomatic interpreter-translators) in mediating relations between the Ottoman Empire and its European neighbours, 1550 to 1730
Refugee States
Refugee States is a community-based project that builds capacity for the co-creation of a digital archive of refugee stories that challenges dominant narratives about forced migration.
Mazgaba Se’elet: Treasury of Ethiopian Images
A database of over 11 000 images related to Ethiopian art and architecture.
Color and Overtones: A Web-Based Visual Archive of Africans and their Descendants in Latin America
A project to create an online visual archive of representations of blackness throughout Latin American history.
DH Italian-Canadian Foodways
Using digital mapping and archives to consider the place of food production in Italian-Canadian Cultural identity throughout the last century.
Iter: Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance
Bibliographical databases of primary and secondary sources as well as digital community space for the study of the Middle Ages and Renaissance.
Kiinawin Kawindomowin Story Nations
A digital edition of a missionary’s diary, documenting Ojibwe responses to Christianity and the expansion of Treaty 3 territory.
Visualizing the Americas
A decolonial history of the banana from its first cultivation to today, drawing from archival sources.
Queer Italian-Canadian Artists: A Study on Ethnic Belonging and Cultural Production
Website: www.qic-artists.com Description: The Queer Italian-Canadian Artists Project documents, analyzes, and gives visibility to the lived experiences and creative production of Italian-Canadian artists who belong to the LGBTQ+ community. Heteronormative and traditional values have played an integral role in the preservation of Italian cultures in Canada and in the integration of Italian communities into the Canadian mainstream. These phenomena have caused the marginalization of...
Project for the Study of Dissidence and Samizdat
A database of Soviet Samizdat Periodicals and interviews with activists and timelines of dissident activity.
Human Stories
Free, open-access teaching and learning resources about different kinds of peoples, humans and non-humans who make up the world we live in today.
Struggle for Identity
The Struggle for Identity explores the history of the University of Toronto Scarborough from its beginning in 1964.
App Studies Initiative
A network of scholars studying apps through a range of theoretical and methodological lenses.
Baptisteria Sacra Index (BSI)
Iconographic index of Baptismal Fonts from early Christian period to the 17th CE.
Digital Research Ethics Collaboratory (DREC)
A collaborative working to reorient digital scholarship towards non-extractive research habits, protocols and relationships.
Margaret Cavendish’s Poems and Fancies: A Digital Critical Edition
A digital critical edition of Margaret Cavendish’s Poems and Fancies (1664/68).
Decima
A powerful GIS mapping tool allowing historians to uncover social networks, economic currents, and the sensory life of Florence.
Lexicons of Early Modern English (LEME)
Providing insights into Early Modern though about the English Language through a database of encyclopedic-lexical works, 1480-1755.
Documents of Early England Data Set (DEEDS)
A database of medieval charters and tools for textual analysis.
The Bais Yaakov Project
An archive of digitized material tracing the Bais Yaakov movement from modern scholarship to its origins in 1917 Krakow
Records of Early English Drama (REED)
A database of Medieval historical documents focusing on drama, secular music, and other communal entertainment and ceremony.
Canada Declassified
A digital repository of government records from the Cold War period declassified under the Canadian Access to Information Act.
Cabaret Commons
A work-in-progress gathering place for trans- feminist and queer artists, activists, audiences and researchers.
LGBTQ Oral History Digital Collaboratory
Connecting scholars, activists, and archives across Canada and the U.S. to produce a collaborative, digital history hub for gay, lesbian, queer, and trans* oral histories.
Under Layered Suspicion
Identifies whole-of-government policies and patterns of audit practices that demonstrate potential biases in CRA audits of Muslim-led charities.
Indigenous-Italian-Canadian Connections
A digital platform fostering discussions between scholars and community leaders on relationships between Indigenous Nations and Italian-Canadians.
The Book and the Silk Roads
Analyzing premodern book history from a global perspective, transforming the story of human communication.
The Veil of Code
Adapting the theories, vocabulary, and techniques of bibliographical inquiry to develop new methods for born-digital textual scholarship.
Electronic Library of Ukrainian Literature
Providing free access to electronic texts of Ukrainian literature to all readers, especially students outside Ukraine.
Modernist Archives Publishing Project (MAPP)
The goal of this site is to display, curate, and describe the documents that go into the making of a book.
Dictionary of Old English (DOE)
A dictionary of English vocabulary C.E.600-1150, based on a computerized corpus comprising at least one copy of each text surviving in Old English.
Computational Research on the Ancient Near East (CRANE)
Using modeling, visualization, and the OCHRE software to understand the archaeology of the Near East.
It’s About time: Dancing Black in Canada, 1900–1970
An online exhibition that highlights the dance histories of Canada’s Black population from 1900–1970.
Lexicon of Science in Asia
A fully searchable, multilingual database of scientific terms in Asian languages.
The Bais Yaakov Project
An archive of digitized material tracing the Bais Yaakov movement from modern scholarship to its origins in 1917 Krakow
Lexicons of Early Modern English (LEME)
Providing insights into Early Modern though about the English Language through a database of encyclopedic-lexical works, 1480-1755.
Cabaret Commons
A work-in-progress gathering place for trans- feminist and queer artists, activists, audiences and researchers.
Under Layered Suspicion
Identifies whole-of-government policies and patterns of audit practices that demonstrate potential biases in CRA audits of Muslim-led charities.
Queer Italian-Canadian Artists: A Study on Ethnic Belonging and Cultural Production
Website: www.qic-artists.com Description: The Queer Italian-Canadian Artists Project documents, analyzes, and gives visibility to the lived experiences and creative production of Italian-Canadian artists who belong to the LGBTQ+ community. Heteronormative and traditional values have played an integral role in the preservation of Italian cultures in Canada and in the integration of Italian communities into the Canadian mainstream. These phenomena have caused the marginalization of...
Sex Work and the Queen City: Mapping Toronto’s Sex Trade History, 1865-1915
An examination of historical records to locate and map spaces associated with sex work in Toronto from brothels to courthouses.
It’s About time: Dancing Black in Canada, 1900–1970
An online exhibition that highlights the dance histories of Canada’s Black population from 1900–1970.
Great Lakes Research Alliance (GRASAC)
Website: https://grasac.artsci.utoronto.ca/ Description: The Great Lakes Research Alliance for the Study of Aboriginal Arts & Cultures (GRASAC) is a vibrant, interdisciplinary research network comprising over 500 members. Since 2005, they have collaborated in the study of Anishinaabe, Haudenosaunee, and Huron-Wendat cultures in the Great Lakes region of Turtle Island. GRASAC serves as both a network of individuals who convene, collaborate, and exchange ideas to deepen their understanding...
Decima
A powerful GIS mapping tool allowing historians to uncover social networks, economic currents, and the sensory life of Florence.
Visualizing the Americas
A decolonial history of the banana from its first cultivation to today, drawing from archival sources.
Hidden Florence
An app enabling users to explore lives and stories from renaissance Florence through a 3D map.
The Book and the Silk Roads
Analyzing premodern book history from a global perspective, transforming the story of human communication.
Visualizing Variation
An open-source code library of prototype interface components for digital scholarly editing and visualization, focusing on Shakespeare.
Baptisteria Sacra Index (BSI)
Iconographic index of Baptismal Fonts from early Christian period to the 17th CE.
Iter: Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance
Bibliographical databases of primary and secondary sources as well as digital community space for the study of the Middle Ages and Renaissance.
Digital Research Ethics Collaboratory (DREC)
A collaborative working to reorient digital scholarship towards non-extractive research habits, protocols and relationships.
Jackson Bibliography of Romantic Poetry
A searchable catalogue of all extant editions of all verse in English published between 1770 and 1835 including metadata from first-hand observations.
Electronic Library of Ukrainian Literature
Providing free access to electronic texts of Ukrainian literature to all readers, especially students outside Ukraine.
Computational Research on the Ancient Near East (CRANE)
Using modeling, visualization, and the OCHRE software to understand the archaeology of the Near East.
LGBTQ Oral History Digital Collaboratory
Connecting scholars, activists, and archives across Canada and the U.S. to produce a collaborative, digital history hub for gay, lesbian, queer, and trans* oral histories.
Object Lives and Global Histories in Northern North America
Histories of North American objects addressing global flows of influence that arise from trade colonialism and migration.
Color and Overtones: A Web-Based Visual Archive of Africans and their Descendants in Latin America
A project to create an online visual archive of representations of blackness throughout Latin American history.
Dragoman Renaissance Research Platform
A companion project to E. Natalie Rothman’s book “The Dragoman Renaissance,” this website explores the role of dragomans (diplomatic interpreter-translators) in mediating relations between the Ottoman Empire and its European neighbours, 1550 to 1730
Dictionary of Old English (DOE)
A dictionary of English vocabulary C.E.600-1150, based on a computerized corpus comprising at least one copy of each text surviving in Old English.
Indigenous-Italian-Canadian Connections
A digital platform fostering discussions between scholars and community leaders on relationships between Indigenous Nations and Italian-Canadians.
Human Stories
Free, open-access teaching and learning resources about different kinds of peoples, humans and non-humans who make up the world we live in today.
Records of Early English Drama (REED)
A database of Medieval historical documents focusing on drama, secular music, and other communal entertainment and ceremony.
Afrosonic Innovation Lab
Website: https://afrosonicinnovationlab.com/ Description: The Afrosonic Innovation Lab is a team of artists, creatives, and scholars actively engaged in the making of music, sound experimentation, and musicological analysis. We actively seek and cultivate projects globally which involve research creation, performance, publication, field research, and curation. While based in Toronto, we work across a number of sites in Canada and internationally. Instagram: afrosonicinnovationlab X (Twitter):...
App Studies Initiative
A network of scholars studying apps through a range of theoretical and methodological lenses.
Documents of Early England Data Set (DEEDS)
A database of medieval charters and tools for textual analysis.
Modernist Archives Publishing Project (MAPP)
The goal of this site is to display, curate, and describe the documents that go into the making of a book.
Mazgaba Se’elet: Treasury of Ethiopian Images
A database of over 11 000 images related to Ethiopian art and architecture.
Age of Vedanta Project with the Prosopographical Database of Indic Texts (PANDiT)
The “Age of Vedanta” Project transcribes descriptive catalogues of Vedānta manuscripts to the Prosopographical Database of Indic Texts (PANDiT).
The Veil of Code
Adapting the theories, vocabulary, and techniques of bibliographical inquiry to develop new methods for born-digital textual scholarship.
Struggle for Identity
The Struggle for Identity explores the history of the University of Toronto Scarborough from its beginning in 1964.
Project for the Study of Dissidence and Samizdat
A database of Soviet Samizdat Periodicals and interviews with activists and timelines of dissident activity.
Margaret Cavendish’s Poems and Fancies: A Digital Critical Edition
A digital critical edition of Margaret Cavendish’s Poems and Fancies (1664/68).
Refugee States
Refugee States is a community-based project that builds capacity for the co-creation of a digital archive of refugee stories that challenges dominant narratives about forced migration.
Canada Declassified
A digital repository of government records from the Cold War period declassified under the Canadian Access to Information Act.
DH Italian-Canadian Foodways
Using digital mapping and archives to consider the place of food production in Italian-Canadian Cultural identity throughout the last century.
Lexicon of Science in Asia
A fully searchable, multilingual database of scientific terms in Asian languages.
Kiinawin Kawindomowin Story Nations
A digital edition of a missionary’s diary, documenting Ojibwe responses to Christianity and the expansion of Treaty 3 territory.
Northside Hip Hop Archive
Website: https://www.nshharchive.ca/ Description: Northside Hip Hop Archive is a digital collection of Canadian hip-hop history and culture. This site is a living archive, which means we are always in the process of digitizing, cataloguing and engaging communities across the country. We envision ourselves as an archive and a counter archive: one that attempts to disrupt some of the traditional ways in which archiving has been imagined, to the benefit of Canadian culture and the global hip hop...
Digital Dostoevsky
Creating an open-access database of Dostoevsky’s works and analyzing them with digital text analysis methods.
Iter: Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance
Bibliographical databases of primary and secondary sources as well as digital community space for the study of the Middle Ages and Renaissance.
Jackson Bibliography of Romantic Poetry
A searchable catalogue of all extant editions of all verse in English published between 1770 and 1835 including metadata from first-hand observations.
LGBTQ Oral History Digital Collaboratory
Connecting scholars, activists, and archives across Canada and the U.S. to produce a collaborative, digital history hub for gay, lesbian, queer, and trans* oral histories.
Refugee States
Refugee States is a community-based project that builds capacity for the co-creation of a digital archive of refugee stories that challenges dominant narratives about forced migration.
Lexicons of Early Modern English (LEME)
Providing insights into Early Modern though about the English Language through a database of encyclopedic-lexical works, 1480-1755.
Electronic Library of Ukrainian Literature
Providing free access to electronic texts of Ukrainian literature to all readers, especially students outside Ukraine.
Kiinawin Kawindomowin Story Nations
A digital edition of a missionary’s diary, documenting Ojibwe responses to Christianity and the expansion of Treaty 3 territory.
Canada Declassified
A digital repository of government records from the Cold War period declassified under the Canadian Access to Information Act.
App Studies Initiative
A network of scholars studying apps through a range of theoretical and methodological lenses.
Great Lakes Research Alliance (GRASAC)
Website: https://grasac.artsci.utoronto.ca/ Description: The Great Lakes Research Alliance for the Study of Aboriginal Arts & Cultures (GRASAC) is a vibrant, interdisciplinary research network comprising over 500 members. Since 2005, they have collaborated in the study of Anishinaabe, Haudenosaunee, and Huron-Wendat cultures in the Great Lakes region of Turtle Island. GRASAC serves as both a network of individuals who convene, collaborate, and exchange ideas to deepen their understanding...
Margaret Cavendish’s Poems and Fancies: A Digital Critical Edition
A digital critical edition of Margaret Cavendish’s Poems and Fancies (1664/68).
Afrosonic Innovation Lab
Website: https://afrosonicinnovationlab.com/ Description: The Afrosonic Innovation Lab is a team of artists, creatives, and scholars actively engaged in the making of music, sound experimentation, and musicological analysis. We actively seek and cultivate projects globally which involve research creation, performance, publication, field research, and curation. While based in Toronto, we work across a number of sites in Canada and internationally. Instagram: afrosonicinnovationlab X (Twitter):...
Struggle for Identity
The Struggle for Identity explores the history of the University of Toronto Scarborough from its beginning in 1964.
Visualizing Variation
An open-source code library of prototype interface components for digital scholarly editing and visualization, focusing on Shakespeare.
Dictionary of Old English (DOE)
A dictionary of English vocabulary C.E.600-1150, based on a computerized corpus comprising at least one copy of each text surviving in Old English.
Color and Overtones: A Web-Based Visual Archive of Africans and their Descendants in Latin America
A project to create an online visual archive of representations of blackness throughout Latin American history.
Age of Vedanta Project with the Prosopographical Database of Indic Texts (PANDiT)
The “Age of Vedanta” Project transcribes descriptive catalogues of Vedānta manuscripts to the Prosopographical Database of Indic Texts (PANDiT).
Lexicon of Science in Asia
A fully searchable, multilingual database of scientific terms in Asian languages.
Project for the Study of Dissidence and Samizdat
A database of Soviet Samizdat Periodicals and interviews with activists and timelines of dissident activity.
Documents of Early England Data Set (DEEDS)
A database of medieval charters and tools for textual analysis.
Under Layered Suspicion
Identifies whole-of-government policies and patterns of audit practices that demonstrate potential biases in CRA audits of Muslim-led charities.
Modernist Archives Publishing Project (MAPP)
The goal of this site is to display, curate, and describe the documents that go into the making of a book.
Digital Research Ethics Collaboratory (DREC)
A collaborative working to reorient digital scholarship towards non-extractive research habits, protocols and relationships.
Indigenous-Italian-Canadian Connections
A digital platform fostering discussions between scholars and community leaders on relationships between Indigenous Nations and Italian-Canadians.
Records of Early English Drama (REED)
A database of Medieval historical documents focusing on drama, secular music, and other communal entertainment and ceremony.
Computational Research on the Ancient Near East (CRANE)
Using modeling, visualization, and the OCHRE software to understand the archaeology of the Near East.
DH Italian-Canadian Foodways
Using digital mapping and archives to consider the place of food production in Italian-Canadian Cultural identity throughout the last century.
Object Lives and Global Histories in Northern North America
Histories of North American objects addressing global flows of influence that arise from trade colonialism and migration.
Decima
A powerful GIS mapping tool allowing historians to uncover social networks, economic currents, and the sensory life of Florence.
Sex Work and the Queen City: Mapping Toronto’s Sex Trade History, 1865-1915
An examination of historical records to locate and map spaces associated with sex work in Toronto from brothels to courthouses.
Baptisteria Sacra Index (BSI)
Iconographic index of Baptismal Fonts from early Christian period to the 17th CE.
Queer Italian-Canadian Artists: A Study on Ethnic Belonging and Cultural Production
Website: www.qic-artists.com Description: The Queer Italian-Canadian Artists Project documents, analyzes, and gives visibility to the lived experiences and creative production of Italian-Canadian artists who belong to the LGBTQ+ community. Heteronormative and traditional values have played an integral role in the preservation of Italian cultures in Canada and in the integration of Italian communities into the Canadian mainstream. These phenomena have caused the marginalization of...
Cabaret Commons
A work-in-progress gathering place for trans- feminist and queer artists, activists, audiences and researchers.
Digital Dostoevsky
Creating an open-access database of Dostoevsky’s works and analyzing them with digital text analysis methods.
The Book and the Silk Roads
Analyzing premodern book history from a global perspective, transforming the story of human communication.
The Bais Yaakov Project
An archive of digitized material tracing the Bais Yaakov movement from modern scholarship to its origins in 1917 Krakow
Hidden Florence
An app enabling users to explore lives and stories from renaissance Florence through a 3D map.
Visualizing the Americas
A decolonial history of the banana from its first cultivation to today, drawing from archival sources.
The Veil of Code
Adapting the theories, vocabulary, and techniques of bibliographical inquiry to develop new methods for born-digital textual scholarship.
Mazgaba Se’elet: Treasury of Ethiopian Images
A database of over 11 000 images related to Ethiopian art and architecture.
It’s About time: Dancing Black in Canada, 1900–1970
An online exhibition that highlights the dance histories of Canada’s Black population from 1900–1970.
Northside Hip Hop Archive
Website: https://www.nshharchive.ca/ Description: Northside Hip Hop Archive is a digital collection of Canadian hip-hop history and culture. This site is a living archive, which means we are always in the process of digitizing, cataloguing and engaging communities across the country. We envision ourselves as an archive and a counter archive: one that attempts to disrupt some of the traditional ways in which archiving has been imagined, to the benefit of Canadian culture and the global hip hop...
Dragoman Renaissance Research Platform
A companion project to E. Natalie Rothman’s book “The Dragoman Renaissance,” this website explores the role of dragomans (diplomatic interpreter-translators) in mediating relations between the Ottoman Empire and its European neighbours, 1550 to 1730
Human Stories
Free, open-access teaching and learning resources about different kinds of peoples, humans and non-humans who make up the world we live in today.