Hannah Alpert-Abrams
@halperta.bsky.social
Here for the humanities.
Grant maker, union organizer, former federal worker, digital humanist. Writing about labor, careers, higher education, and technology. Founder @sidracollaborative.
east tennessee based | tsalagi and tsoyaha lands
halperta.com
Grant maker, union organizer, former federal worker, digital humanist. Writing about labor, careers, higher education, and technology. Founder @sidracollaborative.
east tennessee based | tsalagi and tsoyaha lands
halperta.com
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Taking Action in Higher Ed
Taking Action for Higher Education is a workbook to assist university workers in assessing personal risk and making decisions about how and when to take action to resist fascism.
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I just posted a free workbook that aims to help university workers better understand when and how to take risks in the fight against fascism in higher ed.
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halperta.com/shalperta%20...
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I need everyone to go read this excerpt to your in-house poet. They need the encouragement
this article is incredible and was MADE for dh students with a complit background.
November 20, 2025 at 7:04 PM
I need everyone to go read this excerpt to your in-house poet. They need the encouragement
this article is incredible and was MADE for dh students with a complit background.
November 20, 2025 at 6:57 PM
this article is incredible and was MADE for dh students with a complit background.
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Who’s reading self help these days? Which books are you finding useful?
November 20, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Who’s reading self help these days? Which books are you finding useful?
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Reference question that I'm crowdsourcing:
Does anyone know of any guides or resources for someone who is trying to transition to a new name in professional settings? This is specifically in the LIS field.
Does anyone know of any guides or resources for someone who is trying to transition to a new name in professional settings? This is specifically in the LIS field.
November 20, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Reference question that I'm crowdsourcing:
Does anyone know of any guides or resources for someone who is trying to transition to a new name in professional settings? This is specifically in the LIS field.
Does anyone know of any guides or resources for someone who is trying to transition to a new name in professional settings? This is specifically in the LIS field.
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Happy publication day to possibly my favorite book chapter I've ever written, "Stop Lying to Yourself: Collective Delusion and Digital Humanities Grant Funding"!
Ever notice how once you get one grant, you end up looking for another & do things you never actually wanted? Yeah. It's about that. 🪰🕷️🐴
Ever notice how once you get one grant, you end up looking for another & do things you never actually wanted? Yeah. It's about that. 🪰🕷️🐴
November 20, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Happy publication day to possibly my favorite book chapter I've ever written, "Stop Lying to Yourself: Collective Delusion and Digital Humanities Grant Funding"!
Ever notice how once you get one grant, you end up looking for another & do things you never actually wanted? Yeah. It's about that. 🪰🕷️🐴
Ever notice how once you get one grant, you end up looking for another & do things you never actually wanted? Yeah. It's about that. 🪰🕷️🐴
Since the decimation of the federal workforce last spring, an incredibly generous group of colleagues have been offering free career advising for former feds.
I just had a session this week and I can't recommend it highly enough.
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
I just had a session this week and I can't recommend it highly enough.
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Career Support Request
Use this form to request career support for people impacted by U.S. federal firings, funding cuts, and/or hiring freezes.
Support is coordinated by Derek Attig and provided by professionals in the G...
docs.google.com
November 20, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Since the decimation of the federal workforce last spring, an incredibly generous group of colleagues have been offering free career advising for former feds.
I just had a session this week and I can't recommend it highly enough.
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
I just had a session this week and I can't recommend it highly enough.
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Who’s reading self help these days? Which books are you finding useful?
November 20, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Who’s reading self help these days? Which books are you finding useful?
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A recent episode of NPR’s CodeSwitch mentioned an NEH award to Nueta Hidatsa Sahnish College and the University of North Dakota which preserved archival material and oral histories related to the history of North Dakota’s Indigenous population.
www.npr.org/2025/11/12/n...
www.npr.org/2025/11/12/n...
Tribal colleges are a unique resource — and they're under threat : Code Switch
Nueta Hidatsa Sahnish College has classes on everything from Native American studies to gardening to equine sciences to the Hidatsa language. Like other tribal colleges and universities (aka TCUs), it...
www.npr.org
November 19, 2025 at 6:01 PM
A recent episode of NPR’s CodeSwitch mentioned an NEH award to Nueta Hidatsa Sahnish College and the University of North Dakota which preserved archival material and oral histories related to the history of North Dakota’s Indigenous population.
www.npr.org/2025/11/12/n...
www.npr.org/2025/11/12/n...
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Adjuncts, indie scholars, publishers, journal eds: please spread the word about this and help me do recon! It's so hard w/ social media being so fragmented to learn about all the great lit studies articles and books pub'd this year by contingent/indie folx. I know there's lots! Deadline: end of Nov.
It’s that time of year friends! Thanks to @erinbartram.bsky.social and our friends at @contingent-mag.bsky.social, Laura and I are putting together a list of 2025 articles & books by contingent & indie lit critters. DM, reply, email me @ suny press. And spread the word!!
We are at it again! Myself & the wonderful @rcolesworthy.bsky.social😍
Seeking pubs -- articles, book chapters, monographs -- by contingent lit scholars for the 2025 list 👇👇 please spread the word!!!
contingentmagazine.org/2024/12/08/2...
Seeking pubs -- articles, book chapters, monographs -- by contingent lit scholars for the 2025 list 👇👇 please spread the word!!!
contingentmagazine.org/2024/12/08/2...
November 19, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Adjuncts, indie scholars, publishers, journal eds: please spread the word about this and help me do recon! It's so hard w/ social media being so fragmented to learn about all the great lit studies articles and books pub'd this year by contingent/indie folx. I know there's lots! Deadline: end of Nov.
I disagree with something on the internet but I am going to hold my tongue, thank you for your support in this moment.
November 19, 2025 at 1:22 PM
I disagree with something on the internet but I am going to hold my tongue, thank you for your support in this moment.
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This is the criticism we need
(It’s about the exhaustion/danger of
the heterosexual project via genre)
(It’s about the exhaustion/danger of
the heterosexual project via genre)
November 18, 2025 at 3:42 PM
This is the criticism we need
(It’s about the exhaustion/danger of
the heterosexual project via genre)
(It’s about the exhaustion/danger of
the heterosexual project via genre)
Boy, do I have specific opinions about the use of the term advocacy here.
NEH, where I worked for several years, was prohibited by institutional policy from funding projects of political or social advocacy. Staff saw first-hand how this policy plays out when wielded by political actors.
NEH, where I worked for several years, was prohibited by institutional policy from funding projects of political or social advocacy. Staff saw first-hand how this policy plays out when wielded by political actors.
'Courses that “advocate race or gender ideology, sexual orientation, or gender identity” now require presidential approval at Texas A&M system campuses, the system Board of Regents decided Thursday.'
Much will rest on interpretations of 'advocate' and 'ideology'. Or will it? 1/4
Much will rest on interpretations of 'advocate' and 'ideology'. Or will it? 1/4
Texas A&M Requires Approval for Courses That “Advocate” Certain Ideologies
Many faculty members decried the new restrictions on race- and gender-related courses as an assault on academic freedom. Meanwhile, the board also discussed a once-per-semester systemwide course revie...
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November 18, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Boy, do I have specific opinions about the use of the term advocacy here.
NEH, where I worked for several years, was prohibited by institutional policy from funding projects of political or social advocacy. Staff saw first-hand how this policy plays out when wielded by political actors.
NEH, where I worked for several years, was prohibited by institutional policy from funding projects of political or social advocacy. Staff saw first-hand how this policy plays out when wielded by political actors.
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All of us from the post-2008 era (and before, no doubt) have traumatic memories of the academic job market, but I don't think the real problem was the hotel rooms (or the ballroom!), & I think it should be noticed that the real problem (no jobs, ridiculous power disparities) is now worse
November 16, 2025 at 9:11 PM
All of us from the post-2008 era (and before, no doubt) have traumatic memories of the academic job market, but I don't think the real problem was the hotel rooms (or the ballroom!), & I think it should be noticed that the real problem (no jobs, ridiculous power disparities) is now worse
made myself an elle woods resume like the millennial I am. It's like a regular resume but it's pink and it has cats.
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halperta.com/pdf/halperta...
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November 16, 2025 at 6:47 PM
made myself an elle woods resume like the millennial I am. It's like a regular resume but it's pink and it has cats.
halperta.com/pdf/halperta...
halperta.com/pdf/halperta...
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One way I have found to mourn someone is to set up a monthly sustaining donation to a mutual aid effort they cared about. If you can join me in honoring Alice Wong, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social with a sustaining donation today, please do. Thank you Alice, and I will not let the bastards grind me down.
November 15, 2025 at 12:34 PM
One way I have found to mourn someone is to set up a monthly sustaining donation to a mutual aid effort they cared about. If you can join me in honoring Alice Wong, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social with a sustaining donation today, please do. Thank you Alice, and I will not let the bastards grind me down.
If I were to do my doctorate over, I would either study the things I care about politically, or the things that bring me joy. Sometimes I wonder why I chose a special third thing, "things the person I wish I was would want to study."
November 14, 2025 at 8:24 PM
If I were to do my doctorate over, I would either study the things I care about politically, or the things that bring me joy. Sometimes I wonder why I chose a special third thing, "things the person I wish I was would want to study."
Congratulations to my amazing friend Amelia Acker for her new book. This book is going to be such an important contribution. Cannot wait to read it!
mitpress.mit.edu/978026255324...
mitpress.mit.edu/978026255324...
Archiving Machines
Archiving Machines advances our understanding of memory, information, and data by charting the struggle between the computing technologies that archive data ...
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November 11, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Congratulations to my amazing friend Amelia Acker for her new book. This book is going to be such an important contribution. Cannot wait to read it!
mitpress.mit.edu/978026255324...
mitpress.mit.edu/978026255324...
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Literary hivemind! Has anyone read any fiction recently that engages or evokes digital archives - or, even better, the concept of the 'digital dark age'?
November 11, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Literary hivemind! Has anyone read any fiction recently that engages or evokes digital archives - or, even better, the concept of the 'digital dark age'?
Looks like a great day to find a way to free up $300/month in my budget
November 10, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Looks like a great day to find a way to free up $300/month in my budget
Apropos of .... nothing at all.....
The postdoctoral laborers bill of rights is a project I collaborated on way back in 2019. It aims to clarify some of the purposes of postdoctoral positions and offers guidelines for designing successful positions.
works.hcommons.org/records/9twr...
The postdoctoral laborers bill of rights is a project I collaborated on way back in 2019. It aims to clarify some of the purposes of postdoctoral positions and offers guidelines for designing successful positions.
works.hcommons.org/records/9twr...
Postdoctoral Laborers Bill of Rights
The Postdoctoral Laborers Bill of Rights offers guidelines for those developing or applying for postdoctoral positions in the humanities. This document is designed for those who are creating postdocto...
works.hcommons.org
November 7, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Apropos of .... nothing at all.....
The postdoctoral laborers bill of rights is a project I collaborated on way back in 2019. It aims to clarify some of the purposes of postdoctoral positions and offers guidelines for designing successful positions.
works.hcommons.org/records/9twr...
The postdoctoral laborers bill of rights is a project I collaborated on way back in 2019. It aims to clarify some of the purposes of postdoctoral positions and offers guidelines for designing successful positions.
works.hcommons.org/records/9twr...
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One thing about being on a search committee is it reminds me that there are so many random ways to be stopped as a candidate. We have this "evaluate" function in our HR system (it's terrible) and there are evaluative criteria we're mandated to rate that aren't listed in the job descriptions.
November 6, 2025 at 8:19 PM
One thing about being on a search committee is it reminds me that there are so many random ways to be stopped as a candidate. We have this "evaluate" function in our HR system (it's terrible) and there are evaluative criteria we're mandated to rate that aren't listed in the job descriptions.
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Happy pub day to my beautiful daughter!!!!!! she is so smart and funny and weird and thoughtful and I am so excited for you to meet her!!!!
November 6, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Happy pub day to my beautiful daughter!!!!!! she is so smart and funny and weird and thoughtful and I am so excited for you to meet her!!!!
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Got an email sent to all faculty and staff telling us our campus food pantry was nearly empty. The number of students using it has doubled this year. Take that in. They asked us to donate, and I did. Easily the saddest email I've received at work. How is your campus food pantry doing? #AcademicSky
November 1, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Got an email sent to all faculty and staff telling us our campus food pantry was nearly empty. The number of students using it has doubled this year. Take that in. They asked us to donate, and I did. Easily the saddest email I've received at work. How is your campus food pantry doing? #AcademicSky
Another day, another reminder that it's absurd that we have no standard adjective for specifying that a person is from the United States.
November 1, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Another day, another reminder that it's absurd that we have no standard adjective for specifying that a person is from the United States.
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JD Vance claims that diversity weakens unions, as people end up distrusting each other and not organizing.
Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵
Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵
October 30, 2025 at 8:07 AM
JD Vance claims that diversity weakens unions, as people end up distrusting each other and not organizing.
Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵
Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵