Hannah Busch

CV

Hannah Busch studied German-Italian Studies (BA) at the Universities of Bonn and Florence and Textual Scholarship (MA) at the Free University of Berlin. She then worked as a research associate at the Trier Center for Digital Humanities from 2013 to 2018. From 2018 to 2022, Hannah was a PhD candidate within the project “Digital Forensics for Historical Documents” at the Huygens Instituut (KNAW) in Amsterdam and at Leiden University. In her doctoral thesis, she is working on the application of deep machine learning methods for the dating and localization of medieval Latin manuscripts. Her research interests also lie in various areas of digital medieval studies, in particular the (mass) digitization of medieval written documents and experimentation with computer-aided methods for manuscript research. Since June 2023, Hannah has been a research assistant at the CCeH in the academy project Formation of Europe.

In addition to her work at the CCeH, Hannah is a member of the DFG Network Open Middle Ages and the editorial team of the academic blog Mittelalter – Interdisziplinäre Forschung und Rezeptionsgeschichte. She was a founding member of the Digital Medievalist Postgraduate Committee from 2019 – 2024 and co-editor of the podcast Coding Codices.

Since October 2023, Hannah is representing the Mittelalterblog as a member of the Manuscript Portal’s academic advisory board. Since January 2025, she is a member of the Scientific Coordination Committee of Text+ (https://text-plus.org/ueber-uns/governance/#coordination-committees).

publications (selection)

„Einleitung. Schnittstelle Mediävistik. Kollaborationen in der Mittelalterforschung im digitalen Zeitalter“. Das Mittelalter 30, Nr. 1 (2025): 1–17. https://doi.org/doi.org/10.17885/heiup.mial2025.1.25117. [together with Luise Borek, Karoline Döring, Nora Ketschik and Katharina Zeppezauer-Wachauer]

“Aktuelle Situation der RSEs: Karriere – welche Karriere?” Research Software Engineering in den Digital Humanities (DH-RSE). 2018. https://dh-rse.github.io/workshop/dhd2018/karriere/anerkennung/arbeitsbedingungen/2018/08/20/aktuelle-situation-der-rses-karriere-welche-karriere.html. [together with Klaus Rettinghaus, Torsten Schrade and Stefan Schulte]

„Automatic layout analysis and storage of digitized medieval books.“ Digital Philology 6.2 (2017), 196–212. [together with Philipp Hegel]

Kodikologie und Paläographie im digitalen Zeitalter 4 / Codicology and Palaeography in the Digital Age 4. (Schriften des Instituts für Dokumentologie und Editorik 11.) Norderstedt: Books on Demand, 2017. http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/7774/. [together with Franz Fischer and Patrick Sahle (ed.), with the collaboration of Bernhard Aßmann, Philipp Hegel and Celia Krause]

Presentations (selection)

„Matching medieval manuscripts with machine learning“. Presented in the ATNU Virtual Speaker Series, Newcastle University, online, 19 February 2025. https://research.ncl.ac.uk/atnu/news/atnuvirtualspeakerseries-hannahbusch-2025-02-19.html

„A Thing Begun: Towards a research platform on Pope Alexander III and the formation of post-schism Europe“. Conference section at the International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds, Leeds, 2 July 2024. [together with Isabel Blumenroth, Sebastian Gensicke and Jakob Mandel]

„Interakademische DH-Kooperation am Beispiel des CCeH-Projekts ‚Formierung Europas‘“. Presented at the workshop Neue Ansätze der digitalen Quellenerschließung, University of Kassel, Kassel, 7 May 2024.

„The cat killed the counter-pope. Warum wir keine Angst vor generativer KI in der mediävistischen Grundlagenforschung haben sollten“. ChatGPT und generative KI in der mediävistischen Grundlagenforschung, Saarbrücken, 19 September 2024. [together with Sebastian Gensicke]

„AI and Medieval Studies. Just another computational turn?“ Presentation and panel discussion at the expert meeting Virtual Middle Ages, SFB 1567 Ruhr University Bochum, Bochum, 24 Oktober 2023. https://youtu.be/2ClhLHpYHiM?feature=shared.