An examination of historical records to locate and map spaces associated with sex work in Toronto from brothels to courthouses.
All projects with the following field and/or DH method:
Early Modern/Modern
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
Hidden Florence
An app enabling users to explore lives and stories from renaissance Florence through a 3D map.
The Bais Yaakov Project
An archive of digitized material tracing the Bais Yaakov movement from modern scholarship to its origins in 1917 Krakow
Visualizing the Americas
A decolonial history of the banana from its first cultivation to today, drawing from archival sources.
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).
Indigenous-Italian-Canadian Connections
A digital platform fostering discussions between scholars and community leaders on relationships between Indigenous Nations and Italian-Canadians.
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.
Mazgaba Se’elet: Treasury of Ethiopian Images
A database of over 11 000 images related to Ethiopian art and architecture.
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.
Decima
A powerful GIS mapping tool allowing historians to uncover social networks, economic currents, and the sensory life of Florence.