What does Digital Humanities work look like at MSU?
Digital Humanities takes many forms and operates in various places around MSU’s campus. DH@MSU supports this work by providing funding for projects and professional development, offering consultations, and creating opportunities to share with the community. We take pride in the diversity and interdisciplinarity of the DH@MSU community and invite you to learn more about its work.
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Fall 2025 Research Showcase
Thursday, November 13th 12:00-2:00pm Main Library, Digital Scholarship Lab, Flex Space (2nd Floor, West) Join the MSU Digital Humanities Program for our third annual DH…
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Teaching Highlight: Casey Miles WRA 415: Digital Rhetoric
In WRA 415: Digital Rhetoric, the goal is to engage you in the observations of the social, political and ethical conversations and communities that occur…
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Undergraduate Student Profile: Olivia Forte
I found Digital Humanities while I was looking for study abroad opportunities that fit my interests, and I came across the Technology, Humanities, and the…
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THATCamp Fall 2025
Register to Attend What is THATCamp? THATCamp (which stands for “The Humanities and Technology Camp”) is a gathering where the agenda is set by attendees…
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Graduate Student Profile: Ashley Cerku
Personal website: https://sites.google.com/view/ashleycerku Memory Lane project website: http://walkdownmemorylane.org/ About Ashley Ashley Cerku is a Doctoral Candidate in the Anthropology Department at Michigan State University. She holds a B.A.…
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THATCamp Spring 2025 Virtual
THATCamp (which stands for “The Humanities and Technology Camp”) is a gathering where the agenda is set by attendees on the day of the event…
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What DH Means to Me: Max Evjen
What DH Means to Me: Max Evjen I learned about Digital Humanities when I was working as Performance and Digital Engagement Specialist at the MSU…
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What DH Means to Me: Matt Handelman
I am associate professor of German, core faculty in the Digital Humanities, Associate Chair for Graduate Studies in LiLaC, and Interim Chair of Digital Humanities.…
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Research Highlight: Matt Handelman-Below the Line
“Below the Line” (https://www.feuilletonproject.org/) provides open-access resources for those interested in learning more about the feuilleton—an arts and culture section of European newspapers popular before…
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Research Highlight: Marissa Knaak-Rebuilding Departments Stores in SketchUP.
This project is a 3D model, built in SketchUp, of the 1899 John Walsh department store in Sheffield, UK. Drawn from the architectural plans of…
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Teaching Highlight: DH285 Introduction to Digital Studies in the Arts and Humanities
Digital studies in the arts and humanities (DSAH) is the study of culture using digital methods and also the study of digital culture. The class…
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What DH Means to Me: Yuri Cantrell
My journey into digital humanities came from a love of technology, working with software and hardware, that eventually led me into the humanities and scholarship.…
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What DH Means to Me: Dani Willcutt
Digital Humanities (DH) has come to mean a lot to me. In 2018 – which is when my introduction to DH occurred – it was…
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Teaching Highlight: ISS 210 Course on Social Movements
This semester, Emily Joan Elliott’s ISS 210 course on social movements is partnering with Lab for Education in and Advancement of Digital Research (LEADR), run…
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Teaching Highlight: XA 310 Computational Thinking in the Humanities
Taught by Jeff Kurre, a professor in Writing, Rhetoric and Cultures, this class also incorporates aspects of Digital Humanities. The concepts that define “computational thinking”…
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Taking A Walk Down Memory Lane: Exploring Immersive Digital Approaches in Local Communities
Seed Grant Summer 2024 Report Ashley Cerku Background Downtown Main Street. A few images may come to mind, but that image is different for everyone…
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Research Highlight: Adventurers, Friends, and Witnesses by Crystal VanKooten
Inspired by the stories of her extended family in Anchorage, Alaska, Crystal VanKooten at Michigan State University, documented the lives of three Alaskan nurses; Jacqueline…
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Graduate Student Profile: Daniel Fandino
Daniel Fandino is a historian of the United States and Japan with a specialization in Digital History, and a PhD candidate at Michigan State University.…
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Mapping Reproductive Justice Law
Seed Grant Summer 2024 Report Taylor Elyse Mills and Gregory Rogel Background With the overturn of Roe v. Wade and current, continued reports of forced…
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Networking Letters of Revolution
Seed Grant Summer 2024 Report Gillian MacDonald and Morgan Fox Background Inspired by more recent developments in the field of network science and early modern…
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A Community-Engaged Approach to Mesoamerican Plant Knowledge: The Co-Creation of a Botanical Database
Seed Grant Summer 2024 Report Aubree Marshall Project Background Food plays a complex role in our daily lives. In addition to providing us with the…
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Research Highlight: Stratford Heritage Guide
Analysis of 19th-century guidebooks reveals how public understanding of Stratford’s monuments has evolved, demonstrating the subjective nature of the town’s relationship with Shakespeare.
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Project Highlight: The Travels of Lady Nijo: Pilgrimage, Travel, and Tourism in 13th and 14th Century Japan
The Confessions of Lady Nijo is a work written around 1307 by Lady Nijo, a Japanese noblewomen turned Buddhist monk.
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What DH Means to Me: Natalie Phillips
What I love most about DH is how its inclusivity and emphasis on community engagement has urged me to grow, expanding my work in cognitive…
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Research Highlight – Unlocking Squareland Mysteries: The Development of Squareland Digital Field Trips
With the DH Seed Grant, allowed the opportunity to think more creatively and expansively about how K-12 students engage with the landscapes, people and stories…
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Project Highlight: Archive of Malian Photography
Archive of Malian Photography provides access to preserved & digitized collections of five important photographers in Mali.
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Project Highlight: Marsh Time
Corey Marsh Ecological Research Center (CMERC) is a 400-acre parcel of land in Bath, Michigan, that is as noteworthy for its past as its future.…
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Teaching Highlight: LEADR Class
This semester LEADR Associate Director Gillian Macdonald and Graduate Assistant Aubree Marshall trialed the use of the digital tool KnightLab JS StoryMaps in a large…
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THATCamp – August 2024
Register to Attend What is THATCamp? THATCamp (which stands for “The Humanities and Technology Camp”) is a gathering where the agenda is set by attendees…
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Unlocking Squareland Mysteries: The Development of Squareland Digital Field Trips
Seed Grant Summer 2023 Report Kara Haas Project Description At the Kellogg Biological Station (KBS), MSU’s largest off-campus research and education complex, in-person field trips…
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Spring 2024 Local Spotlight Lecture: Dr. Stephanie Jordan
Coregulating with Water: Building Resilient Community with Toxic Watersheds Through Art-Science Dr. Jordan’s talk will be a hybrid event: in-person at the MSU Main Library,…
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Graduate Student Profile: Nick Sly
Nick Sly is a PhD candidate in the Department of History at Michigan State University who received a Graduate Certificate in Digital Humanities in Fall…
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Marsh Time: Humanistic Ways of Measuring and Experiencing Corey Marsh
Seed Grant Summer 2023 Report Garth Sabo and Matt Rossi Background and Context Corey Marsh Ecological Research Center (CMERC) is a 400-acre parcel of land…
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Mapping Michigan Menus
Seed Grant Summer 2023 Report Dani Willcutt I requested the seed grant to support preliminary research for finding a methodology for using bar and restaurant…
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Project Highlight: Mapping Michigan Menus
Mapping Michigan Menus began last summer with an exploration of available ways of “mapping” a food or drink menu, funded by a Digital Humanities Seed…
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Project Highlight: The Green Book
The Green Book was a travel guide published between 1936 and 1966 that listed hotels, restaurants, bars, gas stations, etc. that Black travelers would be welcomed.
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End of Semester Celebration Fall 2023
Join the DH@MSU Community for an afternoon of projects, updates, mingling, and some snacks! Thursday, 12/7/23 3PM-5PM, Green Room, MSU Main Library
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THATCamp – January 2024
Date: January 12th, 2024 Location: Online Register to attend by Wednesday, January 10th, 2024! THATCamp (which stands for “The Humanities and Technology Camp”) is a gathering…
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What DH Means To Me: Steve Rachman
I have been working with Digital Humanities for more than twenty-five years and it meanings have shifted over that time, but I think the constants…
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Teaching Highlight: Imari Tetu, Teaching with AI
Imari Tetu discusses teaching with AI in her course, 111: Intro to Accessibility for the Humanities.
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Undergraduate Student Profile: Margaux Smith
Undergraduate Student Margaux Smith gives insight into her undergraduate journey and how she found Digital Hummanties.
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What DH Means to Me: Kate Birdsall
DH Core Faculty, WRAC Dept, describes what Digital Hummanties means to her within her scholarship.
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Research Highlight: Stacey Camp & Ethan Watrall- Internment Archaeology Digital Archive
The Internment Archaeology Digital Archive (IADA) project is a digital platform and website dedicated to sharing the stories of Japanese Americans who were incarcerated and…
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Project: Citing Slavery
The legal profession must confront its role in slavery. Acknowledging and discussing the modern citation of slave cases is a first step.
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Fall 2023 Social Hours
Digital Humanities is holding social hours several times this semester for Faculty, Staff, and Students. Bring your lunch or just stop in to say hi!…
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Fall 2023 Research Showcase
Digital Humanities Research Showcase Thursday, October 19 12:00-2:00pm Main Library, Green Room (4th Floor West) Join the MSU Digital Humanities Program for our inaugural DH…
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Distinguished Lecture: Suzanne Churchill
Watch Dr. Churchill’s lecture here: Join us for the 2023 Distinguished Lecture by Dr. Suzanne Churchill in the Green Room of the MSU Main Library…
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THATCamp – August 2023
Register to Attend! Thursday, August 24, 2023Digital Scholarship Lab (Main Library) What is THATCamp? Why THATCamp MSU? Schedule Technology and Communication Additional Information Contact Us…
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Project Highlight: Humanities Commons
Humanities Commons is an open, not-for-profit social and professional network and knowledge exchange environment for scholars, researchers, and practitioners across the humanities and around the…
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Project Highlight: The Current
The Current is a unique publication that allows students to participate in every aspect of creating a printed magazine, from writing to editing and design.
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Distinguished Lecture: Jacqueline D. Wernimont
Headshot of Jacqueline D. Wernimont wearing a blak blazer, purple and pink shirt, and long straight red/orange hair and slightly horned-rim glasses. Looking slightly up…
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Teaching Highlight: Language and Cultures and LEADR
Students learned about the ethics of data collection, survey design basics, and how to analyze survey results. The hands-on workshops used two free tools, Google…
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What DH Means to Me: Amanda Tickner
Digital Humanities as a discipline often expands collaborative activity into humanities disciplines that traditionally have been focused on solo work, and I think this is…
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Project Highlight: What America Ate
This is an interactive website and online archive about food in the Great Depression, funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. What were Americans…
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Alumni Highlight Miranda Madro
The following piece was originally created for the DH@MSU Newsletter and was featured in the January 23, 2023 issue. Subscribe to the Newsletter here. Alumni Highlight: Miranda…
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Research Highlight: The Cube
The Cube, a space for diverse ranges of people, places, and communities to participate in communications of all kinds, from traditional book production to user…
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Text Analysis in Humanities and Social Science
Partners: Writing Rhetoric and American Cultures, Political Science, and the Social Science Data Analytics Theme: Text Analysis in Humanities and Social Science Date: 4/9/2015 Time: 3:00-5:00…
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Teaching Highlight: 3D Scanning in Learning and Experience in Museums
This semester, students in the the Arts, Cultural Management and Museum Studies course MUSM 487/887 “Museums, Arts, and Culture in the Digital Future” will be…
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What DH Means to Me: Kuhu Tanvir
DH as a discipline and as a program at MSU is as productive as it is because it is now comfortable with being in a…
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Undergraduate Student Profile: Taylor Hughes-Barrow
Taylor Hughes-Barrow details her experiences in Digital Studies and the opportunities she has gained from the minor.
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Project Highlight: Comics as Data
Comics as Data is an ongoing collaborative project that examines library catalog data to explore geographies of publishing and library collecting policies in North American…
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Research Highlight: Zach Kaiser
This new book (in full color!) by DH@MSU faculty member, Zach Kaiser, is an interdisciplinary artist-scholar monograph, which examines the role of UX design in…
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What DH Means to Me: Daniel Fandino
As a graduate student, Digital Humanities has meant new avenues for intellectual exploration, opportunities to develop as an instructor, and a sense of community that…
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Project Highlight: The American Religious Sounds Project
The American Religious Sounds Project (ARSP), is a collaborative research initiative co-directed by Amy DeRogatis (Michigan State University) and Isaac Weiner (Ohio State University), which…
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Undergraduate Student Profile: Oliviah Brown
Learn about Oliviah’s undergraduate experience and why she chose to minor in Digital Studies.
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Project Highlight: This is Indian Country
This is Indian Country is a digital cultural map of indigenous community issues worldwide. This project began as a collaborative project in Spring 2016 with Dr.…
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Teaching Highlight: Chicano/Latino Studies Oral Histories
Staff members of the Lab for Education in & Advancement of Digital Research (LEADR) work with History and Anthropology faculty to bring digital tools and…
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Spin Offs: The MI Diaries as a Starting Point
November 4th, 2021, 2PM-4PM, Virtual Registration for Locus: Spin Offs: The MI Diaries as a Starting Point is HERE. What are all the ways that…
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Spatial Analysis in Humanities and Social Science
Partners: German Studies & Anthropology Theme: Spatial Analysis in Humanities and Social Science Date: 2/25/2015 Time: 3:00-5:00 Location: Main Library, 3 West, REAL Classroom Register…
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Intersections of Digital Technology and Gender Studies
Seeking feedback on an idea for research or teaching? Developing research in progress that you’d like to share? Interested in presenting a poster? This Locus…
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Visualization, Gaming, & Digital Storytelling
What are new directions in research and teaching about serious gaming? What is the current and future social impact of immersive technologies? What are emerging…
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Narrative
November 29th, 20183:00-4:30pmDigital Scholarship Lab Flex Space, Main Library (2nd Floor West) Program Level 101: A Video Game About Video Games Justin Wigard Within the…
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Social Media and Social Media Analysis
Partners – Quello Center, WIDE Research CenterTheme – Social Media and Social Media Analysis Date – December 7th, 2017Time – 3:00-5:00pmLocation – Green Room, Main…
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Modeling
Partners – Art, Art History, & Design and Media & InformationTheme – Modeling Date – December 1st, 2016Time – 3:00-5:00Location – REAL Classroom, 3W, Main…
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Access in a Digital Environment
Partners: Experience Architecture Program and Museum Studies Program Theme: Access in a Digital Environment Date: 2/24/2016 Time: 3:00-5:00 Location: Libraries, REAL Classroom, 3 West While…
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Visualizing and Narrating Space
Partners: School of Journalism and Department of Geography Theme: Visualizing and Narrating Space Date: 11/18/2015 Time: 3:00-4:00 Location: Libraries, REAL Classroom, 3 West With the advent of…
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Pedagogy in a Digital Age
Partners: Department of History and Department of Counseling, Educational Psychology and Special Education Theme: Pedagogy in a Digital Age Date: 10/14/2015 Time: 3:00-5:00 Location: Libraries,…
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Graduate Student Profile: John Vsetecka
John Vsetecka is a PhD candidate in the Department of History at Michigan State University. He is a historian of eastern Europe, the Soviet Union,…
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Graduate Student Profile: Katherine I. Knowles
Katherine I. Knowles is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of English at Michigan State University. She is also pursuing her Graduate Certificate in Digital…
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Graduate Student Profile: Dani Willcutt
Dani Willcutt is a PhD Candidate in the History Department at Michigan State University where her current focus is U.S. Food and Labor History. Her…
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Local Distinguished Lecture: Sharon Leon
“From Scholar to System to Scale: Generating Meso-level Historical Data to Recover the Lived Experiences of Enslaved People” Thursday, February 24, 2022, 4:00-5:30pm Please join…
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AREPR and Omeka S: Developing Tools for the DH Community
Seed Grant Summer 2022 Report Christina Boyles The Archivo de Respuestas Emergencias de Puerto Rico (AREPR), or the Emergency Response Archive of Puerto Rico, is…
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Movements through Time and Space: Visualizing a Literary Journey by Ethnic Koreans in China
Seed Grant Summer 2022 Report Catherine Ryu and Olivia Hale Project Description Our project’s main goal in the summer of 2022 was to pilot a…
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THATCamp – January 2023
Date: January 6th, 2023 Location: Online Register to attend! THATCamp (which stands for “The Humanities and Technology Camp”) is a gathering where the agenda is…
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Research Highlights 2022
DH Summer Funding Recipient Presentations: Tuesday, September 13th, 12:00PM-1:00PM (Eastern) Virtual Event REGISTER HERE Dr. Christina Boyles “AREPR and Omeka S: Developing Tools for the…
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Comics, Data, and Community
Thursday, November 3rd, 2022, 12:00PM-1:30PM MSU Libraries, Digital Scholarship Lab, Flex Space, 2nd Floor West How does graphic narrative shape contemporary debates about identity and…
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DH Faculty Meeting and Celebration
Thursday, December 1st, 4:00PM-5:30PM MSU Libraries, Green Room, 4th Floor West Please join us as the Digital Humanities at MSU community comes together toward the…
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Distinguished Lecture: Kimberly Christen
“Always Coming Home: Relations of Repair in the Digital Humanities“ Monday, October 3rd, 2022, 4:00PM-5:30PM MSU Libraries, Green Room, 4th Floor West Digital Humanities, like…
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THATCamp- August 2022
Register to Attend! Friday, August 26, 2022Digital Scholarship Lab (Main Library) What is THATCamp? Why THATCamp MSU? Schedule Technology and Communication Additional Information Register to…
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THATCamp- January 2022
Friday, January 28, 2022 Location: Online Register to attend! THATCamp (which stands for “The Humanities and Technology Camp”) is a gathering where the agenda is…
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Materializing Multiple Futures: Printing Jatayu’s Wing
Summer 2021 Seed Grant Funding Submitted by Jessica Stokes The project Wingin’ It: A Material Re-Storying the Ramayana is an attempt to make material and…
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Superheroes Die in the Summer
Seed Grant Summer 2021 Report Submitted by Kate Birdsall The Cube The Cube, in its role as the only publishing nexus of its kind at…
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Archivo de Respuestas Emergencias de Puerto Rico (AREPR)
Summer 2021 Seed Grant Funding Submitted by Christina Boyles Summer 2021 Highlights: Hosting 2 workshops to train students and community partners on best practices for…
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THATCamp- August 2021
Thursday, August 26, 2021 Location: Online, plus an optional in-person social at the end of the day Register to attend! (Register by Sunday, August 22,…
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Graduate Student Profile: Justin Wigard
Justin Wigard received the Graduate Certificate in Fall 2020. While at MSU, he has worked on DH projects related to comics, games, and literature. Two…
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THATCamp – January 2021
UPDATED Monday, January 18, 2021Location: Online! Register to attend! (Register by Sunday, January 17, 2021) In light of recent changes to the MSU Spring Semester…
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CURBED3: Using DH Visualization to Understand Location, Cultural Identity, and the Public Imaginary
Summer 2020 Seed Grant Funding Report Submitted by Divya Victor, Julian Chambliss, and Natalie Phillips Overview & Project Goals Inspired by Professor Divya Victor’s forthcoming…
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Archivo de Respuestas Emergencias de Puerto Rico
Summer 2020 Seed Grant Funding Report Submitted by Christina Boyles Puerto Rico’s recent spate of natural and man-made disasters has led to greater public attention…
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Transferring the website “Legacies of Enlightenment” to Humanities Commons
Summer 2020 Seed Grant Funding Report Submitted by Valentina Denzel, Tracy Rustler, and Michael Stokes The DH@MSU summer seed grant allocated during the summer of…
