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I think being able to take research and data and then make it unique for an audience through digital storytelling is an extremely valuable skill that has helped make all of my projects better, whether it’s for research, for a class, or for myself!
– Olivia Forte, Computer Science Major, Digital Studies Minor
While I have used DH in my work and projects, DH has also just been fun. Playing with new tools like the MSU DSL 360 visualization room, working with others to figure out problems, and seeing what could be done with new technologies has been a collaborative exploration of ideas and processes.
– Daniel Fandino, PhD in History, Digital Humanities Certificate 2025
DH championed the things most important to me: interdisciplinary scholarship across science and the arts, a radical inclusivity of student research and community engagement, and a dedication to team-based work that pushes back on traditional hierarchical structures of academic knowledge and creation.
– Natalie Phillips, Associate Professor, English
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Cinematic Counter-Cartographies: Mapping Checkpoints in Palestinian Women’s Cinema
Seed Grant Summer 2026 Report Ayaat “Yoyo” Ismail Background This past year, I have worked on a digital humanities project with the Cultural Heritage Informatics (CHI) Fellowship. I also received a 2026 DH Summer Seed Grant that allowed me to continue my work on Cinematic Counter-Cartographies, an interactive, multi-page digital humanities site that maps checkpoints…
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People’s Letters: A Digital Archive
Seed Grant Summer 2026 Report Zou Yun Background People’s Letters is a digital archive dedicated to preserving and contextualizing the writings of ordinary Chinese people during the Mao era (1949-1976), particularly their correspondence with state institutions. Through petitions, complaints, requests, appeals, and private letters, the archive reveals how everyday citizens understood their world, navigated political…
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Badman Digital Archive
Seed Grant Summer 2026 Report Harry Foster Background The Badman Digital Archive catalogs Black badman figures, real and fictional, as they appear across a city’s cultural production, and maps the connections among them. The Detroit module launched publicly at detroit.badmandigitalarchive.com during my 2025–26 Cultural Heritage Informatics Graduate Fellowship, now the Computational Cultural Heritage Graduate Fellowship.…