Digital Humanities

Digital Humanities & Colonial Latin American Studies

Hannah Alpert-Abrams and Clayton McCarl. “Digital Humanities & Colonial Latin American Studies.” Digital Humanities Quarterly 14.4. 2020.

Caregivers Survey

The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed our inability to support those who support others.

What the humanities do in a crisis

Your humanities are not my humanities.

Teaching with Digital Primary Sources

Brianna Gormly, Maura Seale, Hannah Alpert-Abrams, Andi Gustavson, Angie Kemp, Thea Lindquist, and Alexis Logsdon. “Teaching with Digital Primary Sources: Literacies, Finding and Evaluating, Citing, Ethics, and Existing Models.” DLF, 2019.

Talk for the ‘Data Recovery’ roundtable at SHARP2019

“Talk for the ‘Data Recovery’ roundtable.” Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing, July 2019.

Facsimile Return: On the Replicative Exchange of Colonial Documents

“Facsimile Return: On the Replicative Exchange of Colonial Documents.” Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing, July 2019.

Diversify your Book History Syllabus

A crowdsourced list of readings in book history.

Irreversible: The Role of Digitization to Repurpose State Records of Repression

Tamy Guberek, Velia Muralles, and Hannah Alpert-Abrams. “TIrreversible: The Role of Digitization to Repurpose State Records of Repression.” International Journal of Transitional Justice. 25 Jan 2019.

Post-Custodial Archiving for the Collective Good

Hannah Alpert-Abrams, David Bliss, and Itza Carbajal. “Post-Custodial Archiving for the Collective Good.” Journal of Critical Library and Information Science. 2019.

Colonial Copying in an Imperial Age

“Colonial Copying in an Imperial Age.” Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience. October 2018.

Course: Critical Digital Archives

“The History of the Book in the Americas and Beyond.” Co-taught with Neil Safier and Stijn van Rossem. John Carter Brown Library, Brown University. Spring 2019. Undergraduate seminar.

21 Years of Peace, 21 Million Documents

“21 Years of Peace, 21 Million Documents: Revisting the Digital Portal to the Archivo Histórico de la Policía Nacional .” Tex Libris. January 25, 2018.

Partnering on Digital Archives and Human Rights in Guatemala

Hannah Alpert-Abrams and Alex Galarza. “Partnering on Digital Archives and Human Rights in Guatemala.” Re:Thinking. January 23, 2018.

Dissertation: Unreadable Books: Early Colonial Mexican Documents in Circulation

“Unreadable Books: Early Colonial Mexican Documents in Circulation.” Dissertation for a PhD in Comparative Literature. 2017.

Automatic Compositor Attribution in the First Folio of Shakespeare

Maria Ryskina, Hannah Alpert-Abrams, Dan Garrette, and Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick. “Automatic Compositor Attribution in the First Folio of Shakespeare.” Proceedings of ACL 2017.

Machine Reading the Primeros Libros

“Machine Reading the Primeros Libros.” Digital Humanities Quarterly. November 2016.

Book Review: Sandro Jung and Stephen Colclough, eds. The History of the Book

Hannah Alpert-Abrams and Matt Cohen. “Sandro Jung and Stephen Colclough, eds. The History of the Book.” SHARP News. August 21, 2016.

An Unsupervised Model of Orthographic Variation for Historical Document Transcription

Dan Garrette and Hannah Alpert-Abrams. “ An Unsupervised Model of Orthographic Variation for Historical Document Transcription.” Proceedings of NAACL 2016.

Representing the Social History of Early Modern Printed Objects

“Representing the Social History of Early Modern Printed Objects.” Scholarly Editing. May 2016.

Reading the First Books: Multilingual, Early-Modern OCR for Primeros Libros

Abstract

Reading the First Books: Multilingual, Early-Modern OCR for Primeros Libros is a two-year, multi-university effort to develop tools for the automatic transcription of early modern printed books. It is a collaboration between students, faculty, and staff at the University of Texas at Austin and Texas A&M University.

Unsupervised Code-Switching for Multilingual Historical Document Transcription

Dan Garrette, Hannah Alpert-Abrams, Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick, and Dan Klein. “Unsupervised Code-Switching for Multilingual Historical Document Transcription.” Proceedings of NAACL 2015.

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Higher Education

(Interview) Finding Your Purpose in HE

Finding Your Purpose in HE: an interview on the SEDA blog. November 23, 2022.

Where the Money Resides

“Where the Money Resides: Demystifying Academic Job Negotiations.” Hannah Alpert-Abrams, Ashley Farmer, and Ashanté Reese. November 5, 2022.

Finding Your Purpose

Higher Calling is a project for everyone who decided to become a scholar because they believed in the mission of higher education. “Finding Your Purpose” is a workbook to help all of us navigate the contradictions between the work we are driven to do and the conditions we face in our working lives.

Finding Your Purpose with the High Theory Podcast

Listen to a recording of the “Finding Your Purpose” book launch, hosted by the High Theory podcast: http://hightheory.net/2022/09/13/finding-your-purpose-2/

What’s Hope Got to Do With It?

Hannah Alpert-Abrams and Saronik Bosu. “What’s Hope Got to Do With It?” Post45 Contemporaries: Dark Academia. March 15, 2022.

Postcards of Rage and Renewal

As we surpass one million lives lost to COVID in the US alone, we find ourselves grasping for ways to find meaning and grieve while continuing to live and work and care.

Transparency, Vulnerability, and Collective Action

“Transparency, Vulnerability, and Collective Action.” Northeast MLA, March 2021.

Caregivers Survey

The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed our inability to support those who support others.

Academic Tarot

Academic Tarot is a satirical response to the coronavirus pandemic and a Major Arcana deck designed to help scholars navigate challenges and imagine better futures. Academic Tarot is a project of the Visionary Futures Collective.

Open letter to my friend, who I love, who wants to get a PhD in literature

First published on Medium, July 19, 2020. View on Medium

Visionary Futures Collective

The Visionary Futures Collective is a community of humanists working in and around higher education. Our goals include increasing transparency, sharing vulnerability, and working collectively to imagine and create a better future for higher education.

In and Beyond the Digital: Career Pathways for Humanists

Virtual Presentation for the Medieval Academy of America. Posted on YouTube May 14, 2020.

Alt-Ac’s Shining Moment

First published on Medium, May 8, 2020. View on Medium

What the humanities do in a crisis

Your humanities are not my humanities.

Keynote: In Parentheses

“In Parentheses.” Keynote presentation for Culture Mapping 2020: Futures.

Academic Job Market Support Network

The Academic Job Market Support Network is a collection of resources for humanists navigating their careers.

Postdoctoral Laborers Bill of Rights

Hannah Alpert-Abrams, Heather Froehlich, Amanda Henrichs, Jim McGrath, Kim Martin. “Postdoctoral Laborers Bill of Rights.” 2019.

#GenerousThinking

#GenerousThinking was a Twitter hashtag project inspired by Kathleen Fitzpatrick’s book “Generous Thinking: A Radical Approach to Saving the University.” Throughout January of 2020, participants used the hashtag a part of a daily practice of generosity, asking what it looks like to build compassion into the work of higher ed.

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Advocacy

(Interview) Finding Your Purpose in HE

Finding Your Purpose in HE: an interview on the SEDA blog. November 23, 2022.

Where the Money Resides

“Where the Money Resides: Demystifying Academic Job Negotiations.” Hannah Alpert-Abrams, Ashley Farmer, and Ashanté Reese. November 5, 2022.

Finding Your Purpose

Higher Calling is a project for everyone who decided to become a scholar because they believed in the mission of higher education. “Finding Your Purpose” is a workbook to help all of us navigate the contradictions between the work we are driven to do and the conditions we face in our working lives.

Finding Your Purpose with the High Theory Podcast

Listen to a recording of the “Finding Your Purpose” book launch, hosted by the High Theory podcast: http://hightheory.net/2022/09/13/finding-your-purpose-2/

What’s Hope Got to Do With It?

Hannah Alpert-Abrams and Saronik Bosu. “What’s Hope Got to Do With It?” Post45 Contemporaries: Dark Academia. March 15, 2022.

Postcards of Rage and Renewal

As we surpass one million lives lost to COVID in the US alone, we find ourselves grasping for ways to find meaning and grieve while continuing to live and work and care.

Caregivers Survey

The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed our inability to support those who support others.

Academic Tarot

Academic Tarot is a satirical response to the coronavirus pandemic and a Major Arcana deck designed to help scholars navigate challenges and imagine better futures. Academic Tarot is a project of the Visionary Futures Collective.

Visionary Futures Collective

The Visionary Futures Collective is a community of humanists working in and around higher education. Our goals include increasing transparency, sharing vulnerability, and working collectively to imagine and create a better future for higher education.

Academic Job Market Support Network

The Academic Job Market Support Network is a collection of resources for humanists navigating their careers.

Postdoctoral Laborers Bill of Rights

Hannah Alpert-Abrams, Heather Froehlich, Amanda Henrichs, Jim McGrath, Kim Martin. “Postdoctoral Laborers Bill of Rights.” 2019.

#GenerousThinking

#GenerousThinking was a Twitter hashtag project inspired by Kathleen Fitzpatrick’s book “Generous Thinking: A Radical Approach to Saving the University.” Throughout January of 2020, participants used the hashtag a part of a daily practice of generosity, asking what it looks like to build compassion into the work of higher ed.

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Book History

Digital Humanities & Colonial Latin American Studies

Hannah Alpert-Abrams and Clayton McCarl. “Digital Humanities & Colonial Latin American Studies.” Digital Humanities Quarterly 14.4. 2020.

Diversify your Book History Syllabus

A crowdsourced list of readings in book history.

Course: The History of the Book in the Americas and Beyond

“The History of the Book in the Americas and Beyond.” Co-taught with Neil Safier and Stijn van Rossem. John Carter Brown Library, Brown University. Spring 2019. Undergraduate seminar.

Colonial Copying in an Imperial Age

“Colonial Copying in an Imperial Age.” Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience. October 2018.

Dissertation: Unreadable Books: Early Colonial Mexican Documents in Circulation

“Unreadable Books: Early Colonial Mexican Documents in Circulation.” Dissertation for a PhD in Comparative Literature. 2017.

Automatic Compositor Attribution in the First Folio of Shakespeare

Maria Ryskina, Hannah Alpert-Abrams, Dan Garrette, and Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick. “Automatic Compositor Attribution in the First Folio of Shakespeare.” Proceedings of ACL 2017.

Machine Reading the Primeros Libros

“Machine Reading the Primeros Libros.” Digital Humanities Quarterly. November 2016.

Book Review: Sandro Jung and Stephen Colclough, eds. The History of the Book

Hannah Alpert-Abrams and Matt Cohen. “Sandro Jung and Stephen Colclough, eds. The History of the Book.” SHARP News. August 21, 2016.

An Unsupervised Model of Orthographic Variation for Historical Document Transcription

Dan Garrette and Hannah Alpert-Abrams. “ An Unsupervised Model of Orthographic Variation for Historical Document Transcription.” Proceedings of NAACL 2016.

Representing the Social History of Early Modern Printed Objects

“Representing the Social History of Early Modern Printed Objects.” Scholarly Editing. May 2016.

Reading the First Books: Multilingual, Early-Modern OCR for Primeros Libros

Abstract

Reading the First Books: Multilingual, Early-Modern OCR for Primeros Libros is a two-year, multi-university effort to develop tools for the automatic transcription of early modern printed books. It is a collaboration between students, faculty, and staff at the University of Texas at Austin and Texas A&M University.

Unsupervised Code-Switching for Multilingual Historical Document Transcription

Dan Garrette, Hannah Alpert-Abrams, Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick, and Dan Klein. “Unsupervised Code-Switching for Multilingual Historical Document Transcription.” Proceedings of NAACL 2015.

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Latin American Studies

Digital Humanities & Colonial Latin American Studies

Hannah Alpert-Abrams and Clayton McCarl. “Digital Humanities & Colonial Latin American Studies.” Digital Humanities Quarterly 14.4. 2020.

Irreversible: The Role of Digitization to Repurpose State Records of Repression

Tamy Guberek, Velia Muralles, and Hannah Alpert-Abrams. “TIrreversible: The Role of Digitization to Repurpose State Records of Repression.” International Journal of Transitional Justice. 25 Jan 2019.

Post-Custodial Archiving for the Collective Good

Hannah Alpert-Abrams, David Bliss, and Itza Carbajal. “Post-Custodial Archiving for the Collective Good.” Journal of Critical Library and Information Science. 2019.

Colonial Copying in an Imperial Age

“Colonial Copying in an Imperial Age.” Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience. October 2018.

21 Years of Peace, 21 Million Documents

“21 Years of Peace, 21 Million Documents: Revisting the Digital Portal to the Archivo Histórico de la Policía Nacional .” Tex Libris. January 25, 2018.

Partnering on Digital Archives and Human Rights in Guatemala

Hannah Alpert-Abrams and Alex Galarza. “Partnering on Digital Archives and Human Rights in Guatemala.” Re:Thinking. January 23, 2018.

Dissertation: Unreadable Books: Early Colonial Mexican Documents in Circulation

“Unreadable Books: Early Colonial Mexican Documents in Circulation.” Dissertation for a PhD in Comparative Literature. 2017.

Machine Reading the Primeros Libros

“Machine Reading the Primeros Libros.” Digital Humanities Quarterly. November 2016.

An Unsupervised Model of Orthographic Variation for Historical Document Transcription

Dan Garrette and Hannah Alpert-Abrams. “ An Unsupervised Model of Orthographic Variation for Historical Document Transcription.” Proceedings of NAACL 2016.

Representing the Social History of Early Modern Printed Objects

“Representing the Social History of Early Modern Printed Objects.” Scholarly Editing. May 2016.

Unsupervised Code-Switching for Multilingual Historical Document Transcription

Dan Garrette, Hannah Alpert-Abrams, Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick, and Dan Klein. “Unsupervised Code-Switching for Multilingual Historical Document Transcription.” Proceedings of NAACL 2015.

Translating an Unreadable Novel: The Lost Steps in the United States

“Translating an Unreadable Novel: The Lost Steps in the United States.” Pterodáctilo 11. Fall 2012.

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COVID19

Finding Your Purpose

Higher Calling is a project for everyone who decided to become a scholar because they believed in the mission of higher education. “Finding Your Purpose” is a workbook to help all of us navigate the contradictions between the work we are driven to do and the conditions we face in our working lives.

Finding Your Purpose with the High Theory Podcast

Listen to a recording of the “Finding Your Purpose” book launch, hosted by the High Theory podcast: http://hightheory.net/2022/09/13/finding-your-purpose-2/

What’s Hope Got to Do With It?

Hannah Alpert-Abrams and Saronik Bosu. “What’s Hope Got to Do With It?” Post45 Contemporaries: Dark Academia. March 15, 2022.

Postcards of Rage and Renewal

As we surpass one million lives lost to COVID in the US alone, we find ourselves grasping for ways to find meaning and grieve while continuing to live and work and care.

Transparency, Vulnerability, and Collective Action

“Transparency, Vulnerability, and Collective Action.” Northeast MLA, March 2021.

Caregivers Survey

The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed our inability to support those who support others.

Academic Tarot

Academic Tarot is a satirical response to the coronavirus pandemic and a Major Arcana deck designed to help scholars navigate challenges and imagine better futures. Academic Tarot is a project of the Visionary Futures Collective.

Visionary Futures Collective

The Visionary Futures Collective is a community of humanists working in and around higher education. Our goals include increasing transparency, sharing vulnerability, and working collectively to imagine and create a better future for higher education.

What the humanities do in a crisis

Your humanities are not my humanities.

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Literature

Automatic Compositor Attribution in the First Folio of Shakespeare

Maria Ryskina, Hannah Alpert-Abrams, Dan Garrette, and Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick. “Automatic Compositor Attribution in the First Folio of Shakespeare.” Proceedings of ACL 2017.

Translating an Unreadable Novel: The Lost Steps in the United States

“Translating an Unreadable Novel: The Lost Steps in the United States.” Pterodáctilo 11. Fall 2012.

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Graduate School

Open letter to my friend, who I love, who wants to get a PhD in literature

First published on Medium, July 19, 2020. View on Medium

In and Beyond the Digital: Career Pathways for Humanists

Virtual Presentation for the Medieval Academy of America. Posted on YouTube May 14, 2020.

Alt-Ac’s Shining Moment

First published on Medium, May 8, 2020. View on Medium

#GenerousThinking

#GenerousThinking was a Twitter hashtag project inspired by Kathleen Fitzpatrick’s book “Generous Thinking: A Radical Approach to Saving the University.” Throughout January of 2020, participants used the hashtag a part of a daily practice of generosity, asking what it looks like to build compassion into the work of higher ed.

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Careers

(Interview) Finding Your Purpose in HE

Finding Your Purpose in HE: an interview on the SEDA blog. November 23, 2022.

Where the Money Resides

“Where the Money Resides: Demystifying Academic Job Negotiations.” Hannah Alpert-Abrams, Ashley Farmer, and Ashanté Reese. November 5, 2022.

In and Beyond the Digital: Career Pathways for Humanists

Virtual Presentation for the Medieval Academy of America. Posted on YouTube May 14, 2020.

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Teaching

Teaching with Digital Primary Sources

Brianna Gormly, Maura Seale, Hannah Alpert-Abrams, Andi Gustavson, Angie Kemp, Thea Lindquist, and Alexis Logsdon. “Teaching with Digital Primary Sources: Literacies, Finding and Evaluating, Citing, Ethics, and Existing Models.” DLF, 2019.

Diversify your Book History Syllabus

A crowdsourced list of readings in book history.

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Covid19

Keynote: In Parentheses

“In Parentheses.” Keynote presentation for Culture Mapping 2020: Futures.

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Graduate Students

Keynote: In Parentheses

“In Parentheses.” Keynote presentation for Culture Mapping 2020: Futures.

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Labor

Postdoctoral Laborers Bill of Rights

Hannah Alpert-Abrams, Heather Froehlich, Amanda Henrichs, Jim McGrath, Kim Martin. “Postdoctoral Laborers Bill of Rights.” 2019.

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Scholarship

Teaching with Digital Primary Sources

Brianna Gormly, Maura Seale, Hannah Alpert-Abrams, Andi Gustavson, Angie Kemp, Thea Lindquist, and Alexis Logsdon. “Teaching with Digital Primary Sources: Literacies, Finding and Evaluating, Citing, Ethics, and Existing Models.” DLF, 2019.

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