CORPUS Projects and Collections
Examples of the wide range of research supported by the CORPUS staffProjects
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)
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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)
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Historical Architecture in Disaster Zones: Digital Documentation, Archiving, and Preservation (Patricia Blessing, Stanford University)
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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:
- Gregorian Chant Manuscript Collection
- Guerrilla Television Network
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Hanna Papanek Photograph Collection
- Mapping Chicagoland Collection
- Middle East Photograph Archive
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Modern Bengali Song Archive
- Online Language Archive
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)