Digital Humanities

About

DH@MSU empowers digitally-engaged research and teaching in the arts and humanities at MSU.

The goal of DH@MSU is to lead at MSU and on the international stage in enhancing arts and humanities research and teaching through digital methods and in engaging with digital technologies in critical and ethical ways, especially in the context of a globally connected, public, R1 university.

Digital Humanities at Michigan State University (DH@MSU) is at the leading edge of advanced, innovative research and scholarship at a national and international level. We are a group of faculty, librarians, staff, and students who collaborate across departments and colleges to build an engaged digital humanities community.

DH@MSU collaboratively puts on community building and skill sharing events each semester. We hold an annual Research Showcase in the Fall which serves to bring students and scholars from units across campus together to show projects in process. We put on the Global Digital Humanities Symposium each spring, which brings together scholars from around the world to discuss and critique the relationship of DH to/with the global.

We build on the work done in labs and centers around campus, as well as within curricular initiatives and efforts across a number of departments at MSU. In particular, MSU offers an undergraduate minor in Digital Studies in the Arts and Humanities, a graduate certificate in Digital Humanities, and a fellowship program for graduate students in Cultural Heritage Informatics. Our curricular offerings, which focus on experiential learning, including the only DH study abroad program in the world (Digital Culture in London and Scotland).

We invite you to explore this site to discover people involved in this community, to find out about places where DH happens, to explore the range of events happening around campus of interest to DH, and to become a part of the conversation yourself (sign up for our newsletters, email list, and events calendar). If you have any questions, contact dh[at]msu[dot]edu or message us on Mastodon (@dhatmsu@h-net.social) and Bluesky (@dhmsu.bsky.social).

Community Agreements

DH@MSU is a people-oriented community. In addition to abiding by the University agreements for behavior (MSU Anti-Discrimination Policy and RVSM Policy), the DH@MSU community sets a tone of encouragement for mutual respect and growth. In this spirit, participation in the DH@MSU community is grounded in the following Community Agreements:

  • We encourage discussions that focus on the work, not the person.
  • We practice active listening and engagement.
  • We assume good intentions, but take responsibility for negative effects.
  • We give credit where credit is due.
  • We value transparency.
  • We support one another’s work and welcome support for our own.
  • We value fair and transparent labor relationships, and we work actively to counter exploitation.
  • We encourage creativity and experimentation within the digital humanities.

These community agreements were voted into use by the DH@MSU Core Faculty in April 2020 and updated in December 2022.