Project Updates
Rachel Midura, PhD candidate in early modern European history at Stanford, joins the Grand Tour Project. She was the webmaster for the first project’s webpage, and she has been long experimenting with the project’s data visualizations: she has…
Cody Leff, Stanford class of 2015, started working on the Grand Tour Project during his last days as 2015 Summer Cesta RA. We asked him to figure out how to develop the project's vision for a dynamic minimap showing travelers' itineraries. He was…
The Grand Tour Project begins benefitting from the expertise and insight of Erik Steiner, co-director of Spatial History Project. Erik facilitated the growth of the project, consulting regularly about best practices to work with uundergraduate…
Gabrielle, a Classics major of the class of 2017, joined as a summer Cesta RA in 2015, and continued working on the project in Winter and Spring 2016. In particular, she focused on identifying outside-of-Italy locations visited by travelers…
Thea De Armond joins the Grand Tour Project, starting by contributing to the curation of the architects’ case study dataset. Since, she has collaborated to refine and clean other sets of data, especially to resolve ambiguities concerning aliases…
Maggie Medlin joins to assist in the checking and curating of the Grand Tour architects' dataset.
Glauco Mantegari, while a post-doctoral researcher at Cesta, worked with us on Phase I data to explore which of our travellers appeared in the records of the Virtual International Authority File (VIAF)—the first exploration into linked data for…
Chris Rovee has been the scholarly consultant for the Grand Tour Project since May 2013. He lends the project his knowedge and expertise in eighteenth-century culture and history, regularly joining conversations about the language and categories…
Eliza, class of 2013, a major in mathematics and computer science, came to the GT Project interested in exploring what her data-science skills and knowledge could do for humanities research. She started by doing data cleaning for the Phase I…
Giorgio Caviglia first visits Stanford and starts working with Mapping the Republic of Lettersmaking it into one of the case studies for his PhD Thesis Communication Designers as Reflective Practitioners of the Digital Humanities (completed in…
The Grand Tour team brought the Project to the classroom: the seminar Modern Journeys in Ancient Lands: Building a Spatial History of the Grand Tour was taught by professor Ceserani with a assistance from Sarah Murray and Nicole Coleman.…
We sought Jesse Kris’ data visualization expertise to experiment with our first batch of data about trips and occupations of travellers, which we had manually drawn from Ingamells’ Dictionary. There ensued a rich conversation which was…
Elijah Meeks starts assisting the Grand Tour Project as digital specialist sponsored by the School of Humanities Deans' Office. He joined our group in thinking through the database structure, he experimented with visualizations of travel data,…
Sarah Murray, now assistant professor of Greek History and material culture at U of Toronto, joined the Grand Tour Project. Over the next four years, while completing her PhD in Classical Archaeology at Stanford, she was crucial to a number of…
Molly Taylor-Poleskey, now Assistant Professor of Digital History at Middle Tennesse State University, was the first researcher to join Giovanna Ceserani in the Grand Tour Project. Over the next three years, while completing her PhD in early…