Developing The Ancient Graffiti Project (Sara Sprenkle)

Hybrid: this project is scheduled to begin on 6/8/2026 and run for 10 weeks, finishing on 8/14/2026.

Project Description

The Ancient Graffiti Project (AGP) is a major scholarly resource for studying inscriptions written by ancient Romans that has been in development for over a decade. We (Professors Sprenkle and Benefiel) are looking for students to develop new tools and features to continue improving AGP. These new features include being able to search for poetic and religious graffiti, adding an index to link terms to the inscriptions that contain those terms, improving the Pompeii map, offering the site in Spanish and other languages, and an improved pipeline for filtering and searching results.

Prerequisites

Students should have completed CSCI 209: Software Development.

Special Comments

Project Information (subject to change)

Estimated Start Date: 6/8/2026

Estimated End Date: 8/14/2026

Estimated Project Duration: 10 weeks

Maximum Number of Students Sought: 2

Research Location: Hybrid

Travel Required? No (If “yes”: )

Contact Information: Sara Sprenkle (email: sprenkles@wlu.edu)