Evan Ditter

Graduate Assistant - Princeton Center for the Digital Humanities (July 2024- January 2025)

Participated in digital humanities consultations with faculty and researchers; providing support for a variety of CDH projects and initiatives; and helping organize events to build DH community.
Managed the submission of a scholarly dataset to Princeton’s data repository and collaborating with faculty to produce related documentation such as Readme files and data dictionaries.

Digital Projects Intern - University of Pennsylvania Libraries (January 2024-August 2024)

Collaborated with librarians, developers, and other stakeholders to design efficient workflows and infrastructure for leveraging open-source HTR technology (Kraken, Escriptorium) to transcribe library collections at scale, and published a public-facing post about the project.
Employed a variety of tools (Open Refine, Google Sheets, Excel) to enrich and harmonize metadata in multiple formats for thousands of archival objects; prepared digitized manuscripts for ingestion into repositories using command line tools; and performed quality control of ingested materials.

French Language Instructor and PhD Candidate - Princeton University (September 2020- January 2025)

Taught four semester-long French language courses ranging from beginner to advanced levels for undergraduates, as well as a course at East Jersey State Prison with Princeton’s Prison Teaching Initiative.
Conducted humanities research on early modern France and the Americas for a dissertation project, a scholarly article, and presentations at conferences such as the Modern Language Association and the Renaissance Society of America.

Digital Humanities Fellow - Princeton Center for the Digital Humanities (Sept.-Dec. 2023)

Designed and implemented a project to make a 16th-century manuscript held in Princeton’s Special Collections more accessible to researchers using AI-powered handwriting recognition.
Utilized the application Transkribus to develop a handwriting recognition model and employed textual encoding to enrich and insert tags into an excerpted transcription of the manuscript.

Treasurer, Graduate College House Committee - Princeton University (March 2022-January 2024)

Managed a $100K budget, distributed funds, recommended infrastructure investments for student residence halls, filed taxes as a non-profit entity, and closely monitored the operating expenses of a large team.

Research Assistant/Administrative Fellow - Princeton University Library (Sept-Dec 2022, Jun-Aug 2023)

Coordinated with partner libraries in the Philippines and the UK to create a public-facing exhibit for an NEH-funded archive project, using a variety of digital storytelling tools such as maps and timelines.
Configured metadata for archival objects, importing existing MARC records and creating new records.
Utilized Python libraries for text extraction to make historical dictionaries at PUL more accessible for Indigenous language revitalization projects, collaborated on digital exhibits showcasing these materials, and helped select materials for a physical Indigenous Studies browsing shelf.
Partnered with another librarian to create an Advanced Searching Techniques LibGuide.

Ph.D. in French Studies, 2025; M.A. in French Studies, 2020 - Princeton University

M.A. in French Studies, 2018 - University of Lyon II (France)

B.A. in French & Anthropology, 2015 - University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee