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.]
The Bais Yaakov Project
An archive of digitized material tracing the Bais Yaakov movement from modern scholarship to its origins in 1917 Krakow
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.
Baptisteria Sacra Index (BSI)
Iconographic index of Baptismal Fonts from early Christian period to the 17th CE.
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.
Project for the Study of Dissidence and Samizdat
A database of Soviet Samizdat Periodicals and interviews with activists and timelines of dissident activity.
Digital Research Ethics Collaboratory (DREC)
A collaborative working to reorient digital scholarship towards non-extractive research habits, protocols and relationships.
Mazgaba Se’elet: Treasury of Ethiopian Images
A database of over 11 000 images related to Ethiopian art and architecture.
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.
Struggle for Identity
The Struggle for Identity explores the history of the University of Toronto Scarborough from its beginning in 1964.
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.
Cabaret Commons
A work-in-progress gathering place for trans- feminist and queer artists, activists, audiences and researchers.
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 the Americas
A decolonial history of the banana from its first cultivation to today, drawing from archival sources.
Visualizing Variation
An open-source code library of prototype interface components for digital scholarly editing and visualization, focusing on Shakespeare.
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):...
Indigenous-Italian-Canadian Connections
A digital platform fostering discussions between scholars and community leaders on relationships between Indigenous Nations and Italian-Canadians.
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...
Hidden Florence
An app enabling users to explore lives and stories from renaissance Florence through a 3D map.
Decima
A powerful GIS mapping tool allowing historians to uncover social networks, economic currents, and the sensory life of Florence.
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
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.
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.
Electronic Library of Ukrainian Literature
Providing free access to electronic texts of Ukrainian literature to all readers, especially students outside Ukraine.
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.
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...
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.
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.
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.
Lexicon of Science in Asia
A fully searchable, multilingual database of scientific terms in Asian languages.
Margaret Cavendish’s Poems and Fancies: A Digital Critical Edition
A digital critical edition of Margaret Cavendish’s Poems and Fancies (1664/68).
Kiinawin Kawindomowin Story Nations
A digital edition of a missionary’s diary, documenting Ojibwe responses to Christianity and the expansion of Treaty 3 territory.
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.
Records of Early English Drama (REED)
A database of Medieval historical documents focusing on drama, secular music, and other communal entertainment and ceremony.
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.
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.
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.
Canada Declassified
A digital repository of government records from the Cold War period declassified under the Canadian Access to Information Act.
Under Layered Suspicion
Identifies whole-of-government policies and patterns of audit practices that demonstrate potential biases in CRA audits of Muslim-led charities.
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.
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.
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.
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...
Lexicon of Science in Asia
A fully searchable, multilingual database of scientific terms in Asian languages.
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
App Studies Initiative
A network of scholars studying apps through a range of theoretical and methodological lenses.
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.
The Book and the Silk Roads
Analyzing premodern book history from a global perspective, transforming the story of human communication.
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).
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.
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.
Digital Dostoevsky
Creating an open-access database of Dostoevsky’s works and analyzing them with digital text analysis methods.
Project for the Study of Dissidence and Samizdat
A database of Soviet Samizdat Periodicals and interviews with activists and timelines of dissident activity.
Canada Declassified
A digital repository of government records from the Cold War period declassified under the Canadian Access to Information Act.
Mazgaba Se’elet: Treasury of Ethiopian Images
A database of over 11 000 images related to Ethiopian art and architecture.
Decima
A powerful GIS mapping tool allowing historians to uncover social networks, economic currents, and the sensory life of Florence.
Indigenous-Italian-Canadian Connections
A digital platform fostering discussions between scholars and community leaders on relationships between Indigenous Nations and Italian-Canadians.
Cabaret Commons
A work-in-progress gathering place for trans- feminist and queer artists, activists, audiences and researchers.
Hidden Florence
An app enabling users to explore lives and stories from renaissance Florence through a 3D map.
Struggle for Identity
The Struggle for Identity explores the history of the University of Toronto Scarborough from its beginning in 1964.
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.
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.
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...
Computational Research on the Ancient Near East (CRANE)
Using modeling, visualization, and the OCHRE software to understand the archaeology of the Near East.
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...
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.
Kiinawin Kawindomowin Story Nations
A digital edition of a missionary’s diary, documenting Ojibwe responses to Christianity and the expansion of Treaty 3 territory.
Digital Research Ethics Collaboratory (DREC)
A collaborative working to reorient digital scholarship towards non-extractive research habits, protocols and relationships.
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):...
Records of Early English Drama (REED)
A database of Medieval historical documents focusing on drama, secular music, and other communal entertainment and ceremony.
The Bais Yaakov Project
An archive of digitized material tracing the Bais Yaakov movement from modern scholarship to its origins in 1917 Krakow
Visualizing Variation
An open-source code library of prototype interface components for digital scholarly editing and visualization, focusing on Shakespeare.
Margaret Cavendish’s Poems and Fancies: A Digital Critical Edition
A digital critical edition of Margaret Cavendish’s Poems and Fancies (1664/68).
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.
Electronic Library of Ukrainian Literature
Providing free access to electronic texts of Ukrainian literature to all readers, especially students outside Ukraine.
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.
Documents of Early England Data Set (DEEDS)
A database of medieval charters and tools for textual analysis.
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.
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.
Visualizing the Americas
A decolonial history of the banana from its first cultivation to today, drawing from archival sources.
Baptisteria Sacra Index (BSI)
Iconographic index of Baptismal Fonts from early Christian period to the 17th CE.
The Veil of Code
Adapting the theories, vocabulary, and techniques of bibliographical inquiry to develop new methods for born-digital textual scholarship.
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.
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.
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.
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).
App Studies Initiative
A network of scholars studying apps through a range of theoretical and methodological lenses.
The Veil of Code
Adapting the theories, vocabulary, and techniques of bibliographical inquiry to develop new methods for born-digital textual scholarship.
Computational Research on the Ancient Near East (CRANE)
Using modeling, visualization, and the OCHRE software to understand the archaeology of the Near East.
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...
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.
Electronic Library of Ukrainian Literature
Providing free access to electronic texts of Ukrainian literature to all readers, especially students outside Ukraine.
Canada Declassified
A digital repository of government records from the Cold War period declassified under the Canadian Access to Information Act.
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.
Digital Dostoevsky
Creating an open-access database of Dostoevsky’s works and analyzing them with digital text analysis methods.
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.
Mazgaba Se’elet: Treasury of Ethiopian Images
A database of over 11 000 images related to Ethiopian art and architecture.
Digital Research Ethics Collaboratory (DREC)
A collaborative working to reorient digital scholarship towards non-extractive research habits, protocols and relationships.
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
Kiinawin Kawindomowin Story Nations
A digital edition of a missionary’s diary, documenting Ojibwe responses to Christianity and the expansion of Treaty 3 territory.
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.
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.
Visualizing Variation
An open-source code library of prototype interface components for digital scholarly editing and visualization, focusing on Shakespeare.
The Bais Yaakov Project
An archive of digitized material tracing the Bais Yaakov movement from modern scholarship to its origins in 1917 Krakow
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.
Indigenous-Italian-Canadian Connections
A digital platform fostering discussions between scholars and community leaders on relationships between Indigenous Nations and Italian-Canadians.
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.
Baptisteria Sacra Index (BSI)
Iconographic index of Baptismal Fonts from early Christian period to the 17th CE.
The Book and the Silk Roads
Analyzing premodern book history from a global perspective, transforming the story of human communication.
Struggle for Identity
The Struggle for Identity explores the history of the University of Toronto Scarborough from its beginning in 1964.
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.
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.
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.
Visualizing the Americas
A decolonial history of the banana from its first cultivation to today, drawing from archival sources.
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.
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):...
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.
Hidden Florence
An app enabling users to explore lives and stories from renaissance Florence through a 3D map.
Under Layered Suspicion
Identifies whole-of-government policies and patterns of audit practices that demonstrate potential biases in CRA audits of Muslim-led charities.
Cabaret Commons
A work-in-progress gathering place for trans- feminist and queer artists, activists, audiences and researchers.
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...
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.
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.
Lexicon of Science in Asia
A fully searchable, multilingual database of scientific terms in Asian languages.
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...