Publications

Peer-Reviewed Publications

Pullen-Blasnik, Hannah, Gil Eyal, and Amy Weissenbach. 2024. “‘Is Your Accuser Me, or Is It the Software?’: Ambiguity and Contested Expertise in Probabilistic DNA Profiling.” Social Studies of Science.
– Finalist, American Sociological Association Hacker-Mullins Graduate Student Paper Award (2023)

Pullen-Blasnik, Hannah, Jessica T. Simes and Bruce Western. 2021. “The Population Prevalence of Solitary Confinement.” Science Advances.
– Press coverage in New Scientist, Daily Mail, & The Appeal. Cited in supreme court case Hope v Harris (2022). 25 academic citations in first 2 years. 

Under Review

Habr, Katy* and Hannah Pullen-Blasnik*. Under Review. “A Convergence of Crises: Sudden Employment Loss and Black Lives Matter Protest Attendance During the Covid-19 Pandemic.”
– Winner, American Sociological Association Mayer N. Zald Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Student Paper Award (2023)

Pullen-Blasnik, Hannah. Under Review. “To Protect and Serve Capital: Policing, Real Estate Development, and the Regulation of Wealthy Spaces in New York City.”

Rollins, Oliver, Julien Larregue, and Hannah Pullen-Blasnik. “Technologies of Criminalization.” Annual Review of Law and Social Science.

Work in Progress

“Development Permitting, Regulation, and Landlord Power in NYC.”

“Expertise and Legal Contestation in Carceral Technologies: Comparisons in Probabilistic DNA Profiling and Facial Recognition Technology.”

"Access vs. Use: Urban Spatial Inequality in Financial Institutions." With Taylor Alarcon and Mario Small. 

“Predictive Accuracy or Causal Impact? Carceral Risk Score Assignment, Impacts on Reentry, and Tools for Resistance.”

Reports and Preprints

Pruss, Dasha, Hannah Pullen-Blasnik, Shakeer Rahman, et al. forth. “Prediction and Punishment: Critical Report on Carceral AI.” Berkman Klein Center.

Astoria Public Safety Research Team (including Hannah Pullen-Blasnik*). forth. "Small Businesses and Relationships to Policing and Public Safety.” Offices of Assemblymember Zohran Mamdani and Councilmember Tiffany Cabán.

Hall, Rahsaan and Nasser Eledroos. 2019. "Facts Over Fear: The benefits of declining to prosecute misdemeanor and low-level felony offenses." ACLU of Massachusetts. (Data Peer Reviewer: Hannah Pullen-Blasnik). 

Pullen-Blasnik, Hannah. 2016. “Policing Gentrification: An Exploratory Analysis of Stop and Frisk and Income Disparity in Brooklyn, NYC.” Sociology Theses and Dissertations, Brown Digital Repository. (Preprint)
– Winner, Alumni Award for Outstanding Sociology Undergraduate Thesis (2016)

Journalism and Media Credits

"Who Are the Top EHR Vendors in Your State?" 2014. searchHealthIT.

"Don’t Let Data Visualization Projects Get Lost in Complexity." 2014. searchBusinessAnalytics.

"Data Modeling Techniques Explained: How to Get the Most from Your Data." 2014. searchDataManagement.

"Self-Service BI Tools Can Aid CRM Efforts, with Some Effort." 2014. searchBusinessAnalytics.

"BI Data Storytelling Pegged as Key to Driving Executive Action." 2014. searchBusinessAnalytics.

"Linthicum: Cloud Analytics Apps Need Solid Data Architecture." 2014. searchBusinessAnalytics.

"Protests in Thailand." with Ruba Al-Eryani and Katrina Van Laan. 2014. Brown Political Review.

"Perspectives On Syria From Christian Syrians In Providence." with Alif Ibrahim, Benjamin Sadkowski, and Shoshana Salzberg. 2013. Brown Political Review.

"Austerity Measures in Portugal." with Alif Ibrahim. 2013. Brown Political Review.

"Obamacare and Healthcare.gov." with Alif Ibrahim. 2013. Brown Political Review.

"International Spying and the NSA." with Alif Ibrahim. 2013. Brown Political Review.

"New Jersey Legalizes Same Sex Marriage." with Alif Ibrahim. 2013. Brown Political Review.

"U.S. Loses UNESCO Voting Rights." with Alif Ibrahim. 2013. Brown Political Review. 

"Colombian Village's Story Inspires Dreams of Sustainable Communities." 2013. GreeningRozzie.