Hannah Jacobs, Analyst, IT

Hannah is the Digital Humanities Specialist for the Wired! Lab for digital art history & visual culture. She provides instruction and conducts research in digital concepts and tools for Wired! courses and projects. She leads tutorials and workshops, collaborates with faculty to develop and implement digital humanities projects in the classroom, consults on faculty research, offers advising on digital tools for undergraduate and Master’s student theses, provides technical support for lab projects, and liaises with other digital humanities staff at Duke.

Hannah holds an MA in Digital Humanities from King’s College London (2013) and a BA in English/Theatre from Warren Wilson College (2011). She is currently pursuing an MS in Information Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (2018-present). She is interested in challenges of conducting and representing historical research via data and visualization; project management in digital humanities; applications of digital technologies in humanities pedagogies; and potentials of visual interactive storytelling for scholarly communications, public outreach, and education.

Image Credit: Kaley Deal

Contact Info:

Office Location:	114 S. Buchanan Blvd., Smith Warehouse Bay 11, 2nd Floor, Durham, NC 27701
Office Phone:	+1 919 660 6563
Email Address:
Web Pages:	http://hannahlangstonjacobs.com/ http://www.dukewired.org/person/hannah-jacobs/

Teaching (Fall 2024):

• ISS 310S.01, ARCHIVES AS DATA Synopsis

  Smith Wrhs A233, MW 01:25 PM-02:40 PM

  (also cross-listed as CMAC 310S.01, VMS 310S.01)

Keywords:

Digital Art History • Digital humanities • Digital media • Digital Scholarship • Humanities • Information Science • Project management • Scholarship of Teaching and Learning

Recent Publications

1. Henley, A; Bruckner, L; Jacobs, H; Jansen, M; Nunez, B; Rodriguez, R; Wilson, M, On the Books: Jim Crow and Algorithms of Resistance, a Collections as Data Case Study, Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage, vol. 16 no. 4 (December, 2023), pp. 1-20, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) [doi]  [abs]
2. Fischer, B; Jacobs, HL, A Repository of Shared Pedagogical Practices: Assignments in Visualizing Objects, Places, and Spaces: A Digital Project Handbook, IDEAH (June, 2023), PubPub [doi]
3. Jaskot, P; Jacobs, H; Szabo, V; Olson, M; Triplett, E, Shaping the Discipline of Digital Art History: A recap of an advanced summer institute on 3-D and (geo)spatial networks (December, 2018), The Iris: Behind the Scenes at the Getty