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<p>CESTA labs pursue research which utilize data and information visualization that span a variety of methodologies, disciplines, and departments, often collaborating with diverse team members from within the Stanford community, but also externally through national and international collaborations. Please see the individual lab links on the main CESTA page to find more information and details about each lab’s members and projects.</p>

<p>CESTA is located on the fourth floor of Wallenberg Hall (Building 160), on the Stanford Campus.</p>

<p>Some of the key CESTA core members include:</p>

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<li>Zephyr Frank, CESTA Director</li>
<li>Matt Bryant, CESTA Administrator</li>
<li>Erik Steiner, Creative Director, Spatial History Project</li>
<li>Richard White, Investigator, Spatial History Project</li>
<li>Nicole Coleman, Co-investigator, Humanities + Design</li>
<li>Dan Edelstein, Investigator, Humanities + Design</li>
<li>Ryan Heuser, Co-investigator, Literary Lab</li>
<li>Franco Moretti, Investigator, Literary Lab</li>
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        <a href="/projects/post.html"><h4>Geography of the Post</h4>
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        <p>From the end of the Civil War until the close of the nineteenth century, the United States Postal System grew into a vast communications network. The Post was one of the century's largest spatial systems, with more than 75,000 offices connecting communities scattered across the continent. Geography of the Post maps this behemoth network on its western periphery: where it spread, how it operated, and its role in shaping the space and place of the region.</p>
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        <a href="/projects/prussia.html"><h4>Chinese Railroad Workers</h4>
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        <p>Between 1865 and 1869, thousands of Chinese migrants toiled at a grueling pace and in perilous working conditions to help construct America’s First Transcontinental Railroad.  The Chinese Railroad Workers in North America Project seeks to give a voice to the Chinese migrants whose labor on the Transcontinental Railroad helped to shape the physical and social landscape of the American West. The Project coordinates research in the United States and Asia in order to create an on-line digital archive available to all. </p>
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        <a href="/projects/spatialhistory.html"><h4>Spatial History Project</h4>
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        <p>The Spatial History Project at Stanford University is a place for a collaborative community of scholars to engage in creative visual analysis to further research in the field of history.</p>
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