Her primary research interests include political economy and the criminal legal system, algorithms and surveillance, urban space and place, and social movements. Her dissertation looks at policing and real estate development in New York City, how power gets regulated and contested in urban development, and how carceral technologies alter these dynamics. She uses a mixture of quantitative, computational, and qualitative techniques.

In addition to being a researcher with the Movements Against Mass Incarceration, Hannah is also Project Director on the Criminal Legal Algorithms, Technology, and Expertise (CLATE) project at Incite Institute's Trust Collaboratory and a researcher with Incite Institute's Data and Racial Inequality Project. She has also worked on the Pennsylvania Solitary Project at the Columbia Justice Lab and has volunteered with Data for Black Lives, the ACLU of Massachusetts, and local government offices.

Hannah's interests include the political economy of incarcerated labor, movement and organizing networks, incarcerated public opinion, and political action.