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Hannah Jacobs

Prof Library Staff
Duke University Libraries
90175, 411 Chapel Drive, Durham, NC 27708
411 Chapel Drive, Box 90175, Durham, NC 27701

Overview


I consult and collaborate with staff, students, and faculty on digital humanities topics broadly. I also connect humanities researchers with and advocate for technological resources on campus. Contact me

  • if you have questions about integrating technology into your humanities research and teaching; 
  • if you're looking for guidance on project management;
  • if you're looking for dh resources;
  • or if you just want to know more about getting started in dh.

Much of my expertise comes from my decade as Digital Humanities Specialist with Duke's Digital Art History & Visual Culture Research Lab as well as from years of professional development and service with multiple regional and international dh organizations. I hold an MS in Information Science from UNC Chapel Hill, an MA in Digital Humanities from King's College London, and a BA in English and Theatre from Warren Wilson College. Learn more about my projects & research, teaching, writing & presentations, and professional service.

Current Duke Appointments & Affiliations


Recent News Items


Published November 20, 2025
The Stories Behind Ghost Forests in North Carolina

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Recent Scholarly Works


Transkribus

Journal article ARLIS/NA Multimedia & Technology Reviews · October 2025 Transkribus is a web-based platform supporting transcription of historical documents for researchers, students, and communities. The platform is part of a suite of tools developed by read-coop to support the digitization workflow from scanning through to t ... Full text Open Access Link to item Cite

“Who Shall Dare Compute in Dollars and Cents the Worth of One Mind!”: Mental Health, Disability, Addiction, and Jim Crow Laws in North Carolina, 1866–1967

Journal article Journal of Open Humanities Data · January 1, 2025 What do laws concerning Jim Crow racial oppression and mental health, disability, and addiction care have in common? How might an existing dataset of historical North Carolina General Assembly laws reveal legal intersections between racial oppression and m ... Full text Open Access Cite
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Recent Grants


Bearing Witness to Enslaved Women and Their Future Issue and Increase in the Massie Family's 18th- and 19th-Century Reproductive Labor Systems

ResearchSupervisor · Awarded by Council on Library and Information Resources · 2026 - 2028

Virtual and Augmented Reality for Digital Humanities Institute (VARDHI)

ConferenceAnalyst · Awarded by National Endowment for the Humanities · 2017 - 2020

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