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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
Mahootian, Farzad, Sarah A. Lang, and Guillermo Restrepo (2026). “Introduction: Computational Approaches to the Histories of Alchemy and Chemistry.” Ambix, August 12, 2026. https://doi.org/10.1080/00026980.2026.2709974.
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Lang, Sarah A. (2026). “A Computational Turn? Reflections on Digital and Computational History of Science, Knowledge and Technology.” Ambix, August 7, 2026. https://doi.org/10.1080/00026980.2026.2709686.
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Lang, Sarah A., Farzad Mahootian, and Hazem Lashen (2026). “Mediating Alchemical Language across Terminologies and Cultures in Ruland’s Lexicon Alchemiae: A Data-driven Study of Arabic Terms.” Ambix, July 29, 2026. https://doi.org/10.1080/00026980…
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Lang, Sarah A. (2026). “Ways of Making Digital Editions of Historical Recipes and Experimental Texts. Review of: Smith, Pamela H., Naomi Rosenkranz, Tianna Helena Uchaz et al.: The Making and Knowing Project. Intersections of Craft Making and…
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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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