Room B22/137
Sarah Lang is Head of Digital Humanities at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science. Previously, she was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centre for Information Modelling at the University of Graz. Trained in History and Classics in Graz and Montpellier, she completed a PhD on early modern alchemical literature in 2021, combining Digital and Computational Humanities and the history of science, for which she received the Bader Prize of the Austrian Academy of Sciences.
As convenor of the Empowerment Working Group of the German Digital Humanities Association (DHd), where she is also on the board of directors, Sarah Lang is interested in issues like (gender) data gaps, data feminism, diversity in DH, decolonizing data, data ethics and related topics.
Selected Publications
Lang, Sarah A. (2026). “(Doing) Computational History: The Role of Data Work in Computational Approaches .” Histories 6 (2). https://doi.org/10.3390/histories6020026.
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Arnold, Matthias, Alíz Horváth, Sarah A. Lang, Jonas Müller-Laackmann, and Torsten Roeder (2026). “The Dark Sides of DH Revisited: From Utopia to Reality.”. In DHd 2026 Nicht nur Text, nicht nur Daten : Book of Abstracts, ed. S. Schwandt, G…
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Lang, Sarah A. and Elena Suárez Cronauer (2026). “Beyond Data Feminism. Towards Ethical Data Work in the (Digital) Humanities.” Zeitschrift für digitale Geisteswissenschaften / Working Papers 4. https://doi.org/10.17175/wp_2026.
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Lang, Sarah A. (2026). “Critical Concerns for Using LLMs in the (Computational) Humanities and Beyond.”. In Understanding Science with Large Language Models? Potentials for the History, Philosophy, and Sociology of Science, ed. A. Simons, A…
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Past Events
Digital Humanities Brown Bag Lunch
No experiments!? The Stabi Lab as an incubator for innovative data culture
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