CORPUS Projects and Collections

Examples of the wide range of research supported by the CORPUS staff

Projects

At the University of Chicago

  • Capturing the Stars: Women’s Networks and the Advancement of Science at Yerkes Observatory, 1895–1940 (Richard Kron, Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics, University of Chicago)
  • CEDAR: Critical Editions for Digital Analysis and Research (Ellen MacKay, Department of English Language & Literature, University of Chicago; Jeffrey Stackert, Divinity School, University of Chicago)
  • Chapakhana: Mapping the Spread of Print in South Asia (Ulrike Stark, Department of South Asian Languages & Civilizations, University of Chicago)
  • The Chicago Demotic Dictionary (Janet Johnson and Brian Muhs, Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures and Department of Middle Eastern Studies, University of Chicago)
  • The Chicago Hittite Dictionary (Theo van den Hout and Petra Goedegebuure, Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures and Department of Middle Eastern Studies, University of Chicago)
  • Cinemetrics (Yuri Tsivian and Maria Belodubrovskaya, Department of Cinema & Media Studies, University of Chicago)
  • The Craft Chronical (Erica Warren, Department of Art History, University of Chicago)
  • Cushitic-Omotic Morphological Index (Gene Gragg, Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures and Department of Middle Eastern Studies and Department of Linguistics, University of Chicago)
  • Cyrillic Unicode font conversion (Meng Li, Department of East Asian Languages & Civilizations, University of Chicago)
  • DeepScribe: AI for Cuneiform Tablets (Sanjay Krishnan, Department of Computer Science, University of Chicago; Miller Prosser, Sandra Schloen, and Jeffrey Tharsen, Forum for Digital Culture, University of Chicago; Edward Williams, independent scholar; Susanne Paulus, Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures and Department of Middle Eastern Studies, University of Chicago)
  • Demotic Ostraca Online (Foy Scalf and Brian Muhs, Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures and Department of Middle Eastern Studies, University of Chicago)
  • Digital Etymological Dictionary of Old Chinese 古漢語詞源字典 (Jeffrey Tharsen, Forum for Digital Culture, University of Chicago)
  • Egypt, the Levant, and the Rise of the Alphabet (Anna-Latifa Mourad-Cizek, Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures and Department of Middle Eastern Studies, University of Chicago; Aren Wilson-Wright, Department of Middle Eastern Studies, University of Chicago) 
  • The Egyptian Book of the Dead (Foy Scalf and Brian Muhs, Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures and Department of Middle Eastern Studies, University of Chicago; Rita Lucarelli, University of California, Berkeley)
  • Excavations at Cerro del Villar, Spain (David Schloen, Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures and Department of Middle Eastern Studies, University of Chicago; Carolina López-Ruiz, Divinity School and Department of Classics, University of Chicago; José Suárez Padilla, University of Málaga)
  • Excavations at Corral Redondo, Peru (Maria Cecilia “Nené” Lozada, Department of Romance Languages & Literatures and Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago)
  • Excavations at Nineveh, Iraq (Timothy P. Harrison, Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures and Department of Middle Eastern Studies, University of Chicago; Khaled Abu Jayyab, University of Toronto)
  • Excavations at Nippur, Iraq (Augusta McMahon and McGuire Gibson, Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures and Department of Middle Eastern Studies, University of Chicago)
  • Excavations at Tell Keisan, Israel (David Schloen, Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures and Department of Middle Eastern Studies, University of Chicago; Gunnar Lehmann, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev; Bernd Schipper, Humboldt University of Berlin)
  • Excavations at Tell Tayinat, Turkey (Timothy P. Harrison, Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures and Department of Middle Eastern Studies, University of Chicago)
  • Excavations at Tel Yaqush, Israel (Yorke Rowan and David Schloen, Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures and Department of Middle Eastern Studies, University of Chicago)
  • Excavations at Tiwanaku, Bolivia (Alan Kolata, Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago)
  • Excavations at Zincirli, Turkey (David Schloen, Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures and Department of Middle Eastern Studies, University of Chicago; Virginia Herrmann, United States Department of State; Kathryn Morgan, Duke University)
  • FIORE: The “Florence Illuminated” Online Research Environment (Niall Atkinson, Department of Art History and Department of Romance Languages & Literatures, University of Chicago; Anne Leader, University of Virginia; George Bent, Washington and Lee University; Peter Sposato, Indiana University; Lorenzo Vigotti, University of Bologna)
  • Gathering and Researching Images from Orlando Furioso (Federica Caneparo, Department of Romance Languages & Literatures, University of Chicago)
  • Gender and Politics in Early Modern European Republics: Venice and Genoa, 15th to 18th centuries (Maria Adank, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of History, University of Chicago)
  • Genomes, Migrations, and Culture in the Early Civilizations of the Middle East (John Novembre and Maanasa Raghavan, Department of Human Genetics, University of Chicago; James Osborne and David Schloen, Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures and Department of Middle Eastern Studies, University of Chicago)
  • An Index to the Chant of the Mozarabic Rite (Don Randel, Department of Music, University of Chicago)
  • Intertextuality: Zhuangzi versus the Taoishō (Haun Saussy, Department of East Asian Languages & Civilizations and Committee on Social Thought, University of Chicago)
  • Investigation of Greek Coin Hoards (Alain Bresson, Department of Classics, University of Chicago)
  • Mapping Energy History (Elisabeth Moyer, Department of the Geophysical Sciences, University of Chicago; Robert Suits, University College London; Nathan Matteson, DePaul University)
  • Marathi Online (Philip Engblom†, Department of South Asian Languages & Civilizations, University of Chicago)
  • Megiddo 3: Final Report on the Stratum VI Excavations (Timothy P. Harrison, Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures and Department of Middle Eastern Studies, University of Chicago)
  • Messkataloge Digital Database (David Kretz, Ph.D. student, Department of Germanic Studies, University of Chicago)
  • METEOR: Middle Egyptian Text Editions for Online Research (Janet Johnson, Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures and Department of Middle Eastern Studies, University of Chicago)
  • Modern Philology Metadata (Timothy Campbell, Timothy M. Harrison, and Josephine McDonagh, Department of English Language & Literature, University of Chicago)
  • A National Repository of Policing Data for Ethical Research (Christopher Graziul, Department of Comparative Human Development, University of Chicago; Brooke Luetgert, Forum for Digital Culture, University of Chicago)
  • An Organon for the Information Age (David Schloen, Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures and Department of Middle Eastern Studies, University of Chicago; Samuel Volchenboum, Department of Pediatrics, University of Chicago; Malte Willer, Department of Philosophy, University of Chicago)
  • Ottoman Inscriptions Project (Hakan Karateke, Department of Middle Eastern Studies, University of Chicago)
  • Pathology Logbook Project (Melissa Tjota, Department of Pathology, University of Chicago)
  • Patterning Textile History (Molly Laumakis, Forum for Digital Culture, University of Chicago)
  • People of the Green Sahara: Excavations at Gobero, Niger (Paul Sereno, Department of Organismal Biology & Anatomy, University of Chicago)
  • Persepolis Fortification Archive (Matthew Stolper, Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures and Department of Middle Eastern Studies, University of Chicago; Wouter Henkelman, École Pratique des Hautes Études; Annalisa Azzoni, Vanderbilt University; Mark Garrison, Trinity University, San Antonio)
  • Ras Shamra Tablet Inventory (Miller Prosser, Forum for Digital Culture, University of Chicago; Dennis Pardee, Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures and Department of Middle Eastern Studies, University of Chicago)
  • Sereno Fossil Lab (Paul Sereno, Department of Organismal Biology & Anatomy, University of Chicago)
  • Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew and Early Modern Domestic Culture (Ellen MacKay, Department of English Language & Literature, University of Chicago)
  • Shang Clan Signs Project (Yung-ti Li, Department of East Asian Languages & Civilizations, University of Chicago)
  • Sign and Gesture Archive (Diane Brentari, Department of Linguistics, University of Chicago; Susan Goldin-Meadow, Department of Psychology, University of Chicago)
  • Slavic Graduate Student Resource List (Anne Eakin Moss, Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures, University of Chicago)
  • Smart to the Core: Wise to Power Exhibit (Jennifer Spruill, The College, University of Chicago)
  • South Side Home Movie Project (Jacqueline Stewart, Department of Cinema & Media Studies, University of Chicago)
  • Spoken Yucatec Maya (John Lucy, Department of Comparative Human Development, University of Chicago)
  • Translational Networks and the Stakes of Comparison: Convergences and Crossings Between Arabic and Hebrew (Na‘ama Rokem, Department of Middle Eastern Studies and Department of Comparative Literature, University of Chicago; Dima Ayoub, Middlebury College) 
  • Village Harmony: South African Choral Music (Mollie Stone, Department of Music, University of Chicago)

At other institutions

  • Amache Research Project (Bonnie Clark, University of Denver; April Kamp-Whittaker, University of New Mexico)
  • The American Expedition to Idalion, Cyprus (Pamela Gaber, Lycoming College; Andrew Wright, University of Chicago)
  • CLEMENT: Commerce and Law in Early Modern England, Transcribed (Emily Kadens, Northwestern University)
  • The Conrad Akko Excavation Publication Project (Martin Peilstöcker and Wolfgang Zwickel, University of Mainz) 

  • Corinth Excavations, Roman Pottery from East of the Theater, 1981–1990 (Kathleen Warner Slane, University of Missouri, Columbia)
  • CRANE: Computational Research on the Ancient Near East (Timothy P. Harrison, University of Chicago [formerly University of Toronto]; Lisa Cooper, University of British Columbia; Michel Fortin, Laval University; Sturt Manning, Cornell University; Graham Philip, Durham University; David Schloen, University of Chicago)
  • Database of Afro-Asiatic Basic Lexicon (Brendan Hainline, Metropolitan Museum of Art)
  • Database of Roman to Early Islamic Bathhouses of Iudaea/Syria-Palaestina and Provincia Arabia (Arleta Kowalewska, University of Haifa)
  • Embodied Faith (Noria Litaker, University of Nevada, Las Vegas)
  • The Excavation of Antioch-on-the-Orontes 1932—1939 (Alan Stahl and Julia Gearhart, Princeton University; Andrea De Giorgi, Florida State University; Asa Eger, University of North Carolina, Greensboro)
  • Excavations at Ashkelon, Israel (Lawrence Stager†, Harvard University; Daniel Master, Wheaton College; David Schloen, University of Chicago)
  • Excavations at Hippos (Sussita), Israel (Michael Eisenberg and Arleta Kowalewska, University of Haifa)
  • Excavations at Shengavit, Armenia (Mitchell Rothman, Widener University and University of Pennsylvania)
  • Excavations at Tel Gezer, Israel (Steven Ortiz, Lipscomb University; Samuel Wolff, Israel Antiquities Authority)
  • Excavations at Tell el-Judaidah, Turkey — Publication Project (Lynn Swartz Dodd, University of Southern California)
  • Excavations at Tell Qarqur, Syria (Rudolph Dornemann, Milwaukee Public Museum; Jesse Casana, Dartmouth College)
  • Excavations at Tel Shimron, Israel (Daniel Master, Wheaton College; Mario Martin, University of Innsbruck)
  • Excavations at Tell Zeitah, Israel (Ron Tappy, Pittsburgh Theological Seminary)
  • Gadachrili Gora Regional Archaeology Project, Republic of Georgia (Stephen Batiuk and Khaled Abu Jayyab, University of Toronto; Mindia Jalabadze, Georgian National Museum, Tbilisi)
  • Historical Architecture in Disaster Zones: Digital Documentation, Archiving, and Preservation (Patricia Blessing, Stanford University)

  • Jaffa Cultural Heritage Project (Aaron Burke, University of California, Los Angeles; Martin Peilstöcker, University of Mainz)

  • Melville Electronic Library (John Bryant, Hofstra University; Christopher Ohge, University of London; Wyn Kelley, Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
  • The Peripheral Manuscripts Project: Digitizing Medieval Manuscript Collections in the Midwest (Elizabeth Hebbard and Michelle Dalmau, Indiana University, Bloomington; Ian Cornelius, Loyola University Chicago; Sarah Noonan, St. Mary’s College) 
  • Piers Plowman and Late Medieval England (Ian Cornelius, Loyola University Chicago; Timothy Stinson, North Carolina State University)
  • Reimagining Royal Space: The Qilij Arslan II Kiosk in Konya, Turkey (Patricia Blessing, Stanford University; Richard McClary, University of York)
  • Washo Documentation Project (Alan Yu, University of California, Berkeley) 

Library Collections

CORPUS assists the University of Chicago Library in managing the following digital collections:

Peer-Reviewed Publications

The following peer-reviewed CORPUS publications are in progress:

  • The Chicago Digital Bible (Jeffrey Stackert and Sarah Yardney, University of Chicago; Doren Snoek, St. Andrews University; Ronald Hendel, University of California, Berkeley)
  • Landscapes of Ancient Persia through Cold War Surveillance Eyes (Mehrnoush Soroush, Dominik Lukas, and Ruijie Yao, University of Chicago)
  • Spiritual Atlas of the Global East (Fenggang Yang, Purdue University; Charles Chang, Duke Kunshan University)
  • Thinking Music: Global Sources for the History of Music Theory (Thomas Christensen, University of Chicago; Carmel Raz, Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics; Lester Hu, University of California, Berkeley)
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