Elaine Treharne, Principal Investigator

Elaine Treharne

Elaine Treharne is Roberta Bowman Denning Professor of Humanities at Stanford. In addition to serving as director of CESTA, she directs Stanford Text Technologies, an interdisciplinary program that draws upon both History of the Book and Digital Humanities to investigate the long history of ‘text.’ She is Principal Investigator of Stanford’s contribution to the NEH-funded, multi-institutional project ‘Global Currents: Cultures of Literary Networks, 1050-1900’. Professor Treharne is a keen advocate and critic of the use of digital technologies in the classroom; in addition to a seminar on the history of text technologies, she offers an online course, ‘Digging Deeper,’ that explores the creation and interpretation of manuscripts. Since 2015, she has served as co-director of the undergraduate Digital Humanities Minor.

Faculty Profile


Mateusz Fafinski

Mateusz Fafinski

Mateusz Fafinski is Stanford Text Technologies Fellow. He has studied History, Classics and British Literature and wrote his PhD at Freie Universität in Berlin. Apart from his work in CESTA he is especially interested in Early Medieval charters, history of the book and digital humanities and the role of translation in modern academia.

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Former Researchers

Celena Allen

Celena Allen

Celena Allen, with a background in Geography and Cultural Anthropology, initially came to CESTA as a GIS Specialist and Project Coordinator for the Spatial History Project. In that role she provided technical and project management support for various research projects within the Spatial History Lab.


Jessica Beckman

Jessica Beckman





Dylan Bedford

Dylan Bedford





Liz Fischer

Liz Fischer





HB Klein

HB Klein





Kim Ngo

Kim Ngo





Clare Tandy

Clare Tandy