Present Appointment
Peter Stokes is Directeur d'études en humanités numériques et computationnelles appliquées à l’étude de l’écrit ancien (approximately 'research professor in digital and computational humanities applied to historical writing') and Chargé de mission for Digital Humanities at the École Pratique des Hautes Études – PSL, Section des Sciences Historiques et Philologiques at the Sorbonne, in Laboratoire Archéologie et Philologie d'Orient et d'Occident (AOrOc, UMR 8546).
Principal activities include:
- Chargé de mission for Digital Humanities at the EPHE.
- Developing new visual, verbal and computational methods for the exploration and presentation of handwriting, manuscripts and documents.
- Designing and developing web resources to allow the exploration and citation of historical script in the context of the manuscripts and charters that preserve it.
- Studying the palaeography and book- and charter- production of late Anglo-Saxon England and the 'long' eleventh century.
- Teaching and supervising MA and PhD students in related fields, particularly Digital Humanities applied to historical handwriting, manuscripts and documents.
- Member of numerous project boards and committees across Europe.