A publication ofCESTA cesta.stanford.edu // @cesta_stanford // [email protected] @cesta_stanford // cesta.stanford.edu // CA 94305-2055 STANFORD, // WAY STANFORD 450 JANE HALL(BLDG. 160) WALLENBERG FLOOR, FOURTH ANALYSIS ANDTEXTUAL CENTER FORSPATIAL 2019.10:1 CESTA is a pioneering research research isapioneering CESTA hub where we apply digital tools applydigitaltools we hub where knowledge in interdisciplinary ininterdisciplinary knowledge and methods to create new create to and methods humanistic inquiry. humanistic ALI YAYCIOGLU JESSE RODIN YOUNG FENIMORE LEE FYZA PARVIZ YOUNG FENIMORE LEE BRIAN GRENADIER KATIE MCDONOUGH ESTELLE FREEDMAN ROLAND HSU FATMA ONCEL CRAIG SAPP TIMOTHY KAROFF RACHEL MIDURA DEBORAH GORDON NICOLA WILSON AMIR ESCHEL TINA (RUNQI) ZHANG CATHY YANG PAULA FINDLEN THAWSITT NAING SHANA HADI KATHRYN STARKEY ROWAN DORIN SIERRA O KE AKUA BURGON CLAIRE BATTERSHILL NINA DU GORDON CHANG GIOVANNA CESERANI CODY LEFF HELEN SOUTHWORTH ERIK STEINER ALICE STAVELEY MICHELLE NG NATALIE MARINE-STREET PRESTON CARLSON PALMER MANES MICHAEL PENN ZUYI ZHAO ELIZABETH WILLSON GORDON ELAINE TREHARNE ANTONIS HADJIKYRIACOU MARK YORK ANTHOLOGY MAE LYONS PENNER CENTER FOR SPATIAL AND TEXTUAL ANALYSIS AND TEXTUAL CENTER FOR SPATIAL LEO BARLETA KRAIN (KEYU) CHEN CODY CHUN RYAN TAN BRIAN KERSEY RESEARCH KARUNYA BHRAMASANDRA SELMA KOROGLU ZEPHYR FRANK SUMMER JANINE FLEMING HADASSAH BETAPUDI J.D. PORTER GEORGE PHILIP LEBOURDAIS EVAN KIM CESTA EUNJI LEE 2019 CLARA ROMANI ARYAN SINGH ERICK ENRIQUEZ NELSON SCHUMACHER ELLIOT MILLER LAURA MCGRATH SHELLEY FISHER FISHKIN MARK ALGEE-HEWITT From the Center Manager at CESTA Summer is a unique season at CESTA. Our space in Wallenberg Hall is enlivened by a diverse cohort of undergraduate researchers, who spend the bulk of this “break” learning, experimenting, documenting, and ultimately, growing in community. At the outset, our interns discuss what they hope to get out of this experience and how to best synthesize their efforts and their learning. In lieu of research posters, students created condensed research stories for their projects, producing a narrative and visual lookbook of the CESTA summer program. This CESTA Summer Research Anthology is an artifact of this summer’s cohort while gesturing to our community’s past and future. Multi-year projects are nearing conclusion and others are just beginning. On behalf of Brian, Erik, and the entire CESTA community⁠—enjoy the stories in this collection and find more about these and other projects online at © 2019 CENTER FOR SPATIAL AND cesta.stanford.edu. TEXTUAL ANALYSIS (CESTA) LEAD EDITOR Brian Kersey LEAD DESIGNER CENTER MANAGER Erik Steiner Amanda Wilson Bergado Introduction ......................................................................................................................2 by Cathy Yang and Mark York GRAND TOUR PROJECT Exploring Early Modern Travelers through Digital Databases ....................................4 by Ryan Tan, Mark York, and Brian Grenadier with Giovanna Ceserani EARLY MODERN MOBILITY Roads and Routes: Transregional Mobility in the Early Modern Era.........................10 by Evan Kim and Elliot Miller with Rachel Midura, Leo Barleta, Katie McDonough, and Paula Findlen SPATIAL HISTORY PROJECT: URBAN DISCONTENTS Precarious Footholds: Housing Vulnerability and Urban Change in Global Perspective...............................14 by Hadassah Betapudi, Janine Fleming, Michelle Julia Ng, Sierra O Ke Akua Burgon, and Aryan Singh with Zephyr Frank, Erik Steiner, and Leo Barleta SPATIAL HISTORY PROJECT: LANDTALK LandTalk: Human Experiences of Landscape Change .................................................20 by Erick Enriquez with Erik Steiner, Deborah Gordon, and Cody Leff SPATIAL HISTORY PROJECT: IMAGINED SAN FRANCISCO Planned and Unplanned: Mapping Urban Power in San Francisco............................24 by Krain Chen with Ocean Howell, Erik Steiner, Brian Kersey, and Cody Leff EARLY CHRISTIANS UNDER ISLAMIC RULE Thomas of Marga’s Book of Governors..............................................................................30 by Palmer Manes and Zuyi Zhao with Michael Penn LITERARY LAB: THE HUGO AND NEBULA AWARDS Understanding Book Awards through Big Data...........................................................34 by Shana Hadi with Laura McGrath, J. D. Porter, and Mark Algee-Hewitt LITERARY LAB: TECHNE PROJECT “ Found in Translation: Building an “Atlas of World Literature..................................38 by Eunji Lee with Laura McGrath, J. D. Porter, and Mark Algee-Hewitt JOSQUIN RESEARCH PROJECT Understanding Renaissance Music Through Density and Dissonance.......................40 by Young Fenimore Lee with Jesse Rodin and Craig Sapp GLOBAL MEDIEVAL SOURCEBOOK The Global Medieval Sourcebook: An Online Portal to the Middle Ages...................44 by Nina Du and Tina Zhang with Kathryn Starkey and Mae Lyons-Penner TEXT TECHNOLOGIES: SOPES Ordinary People, Extraordinary Stories........................................................................48 by Karunya Bhramasandra with Elaine Treharne TEXT TECHNOLOGIES: MAPPING MANUSCRIPTS PROJECT Digitally Tracing the Distribution of Medieval Manuscripts......................................52 by Timothy Karoff with Mateusz Fafinkski and Elaine Treharne Updates from other ongoing CESTA projects...............................................................56 Special Collections and toured the Quinn Dombrowski, Claudia Engel, Cantor Arts Center. These insights Stace Maples, David Medeiros, Rachel have enriched our intern experience, Midura, and Vincent Nicandro for and trained us as digital humanities their continued support of humanities researchers. students and scholarship. We are proud of what we, as a community, We would like to thank all the have done over the summer, and we CESTA staff—Amanda Wilson are excited to share it with you here. Bergado, Brian Kersey, GP To learn more about student interns phenomenon through space and LeBourdais, and Erik Steiner—for all and their projects as well as Introduction time. Over ten weeks, we explored their help and support in facilitating publications, events, and academic by Cathy Yang and Mark York big ideas by bringing diverse student research and making this programs at CESTA, explore our ndergraduate Research disciplines and methods together anthology possible. We would also website at cesta.stanford.edu. Interns are the heart of from the humanities and sciences. like to thank the faculty members CESTA’sU community, working From mapping massive urban areas and graduate students for their With gratitude, closely with faculty and staff, and and translating ancient poetry, to scholarly work and collaboration, as Your Communications Team contributing directly to innovative visualizing the migration of people well as Leo Barleta, Scott Bailey, Cathy & Mark research at the intersection of and ideas, we worked with each technology and the humanities. This other to cultivate invaluable summer, we’ve had a wonderful academic and professional skills. We cohort of students from majors have developed skills in critical across campus including Religious thinking, creative problem solving, Studies, Symbolic Systems, Civil hypothesizing, collaboration, and Engineering, English, History, and ethical decision making. Computer Science. As student researchers, our cohort has worked This has been an eventful summer on a variety of projects in of research and learning here at collaboration with faculty leads from CESTA. We participated in a wide across and beyond Stanford variety of workshops on tools and University. This anthology techniques at the forefront of the showcases the contributions of digital humanities. We learned how students working on faculty-led to use spreadsheets to organize our research projects that combine metadata, to engage in social technology and the humanities to network analysis, to craft a foster scholarly discussions across professional website and portfolio, different disciplines. to create powerful maps and visualizations through GIS and With mentorship from our project Tableau, and were introduced to leads, we used digital tools and coding in Python and R. We also methods to investigate cultural explored historical documents records, objects, and historical firsthand at Stanford Library’s 2 | Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis (CESTA) at Stanford University CESTA SUMMER RESEARCH ANTHOLOGY Special Collections and toured the Quinn Dombrowski, Claudia Engel, Cantor Arts Center. These insights Stace Maples, David Medeiros, Rachel have enriched our intern experience, Midura, and Vincent Nicandro for and trained us as digital humanities their continued support of humanities researchers. students and scholarship. We are proud of what we, as a community, We would like to thank all the have done over the summer, and we CESTA staff—Amanda Wilson are excited to share it with you here. Bergado, Brian Kersey, GP To learn more about student interns phenomenon through space and LeBourdais, and Erik Steiner—for all and their projects as well as time. Over ten weeks, we explored their help and support in facilitating publications, events, and academic big ideas by bringing diverse student research and making this programs at CESTA, explore our ndergraduate Research disciplines and methods together anthology possible. We would also website at cesta.stanford.edu. C Interns are the heart of from the humanities and sciences. like to thank the faculty members CESTA’s community, working From mapping