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Alumni Highlight: Kendyl Lemahieu
When Kendyl looks back on her career path, one thing particularly stands out: her work has always been about connecting with people. Now, as an E-Commerce Marketing Manager at Baker Publishing Group, she gets to do that every day by helping readers discover and engage with Baker Book House online. Whether she’s launching something new like TikTok Shop, building product visibility on Pinterest, or refining social ad strategies, she’s constantly testing, learning, and adjusting. At the end of the day, her goal is simple: grow the brand while creating real, meaningful connections with her audience. That focus on people really…
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What DH Means to Me: Kathleen Fitzpatrick
Honestly, perhaps the most-cited thing I’ve ever published is a chapter in Debates in the Digital Humanities, in which I quoted an old ProfHacker blog post, in which I offered a provisional definition of DH. The blog post is now 16 years old — old enough to drive! — but it’s a definition I’d mostly stand by today: “a nexus of fields within which scholars use computing technologies to investigate the kinds of questions that are traditional to the humanities, or, as is more true of my own work, who ask traditional kinds of humanities-oriented questions about computing technologies.” The…
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Margaux Malek Smith Alumni Highlight
Margaux Malek Smith currently works as a Teaching Assistant in Normandy, France, participating in the TAPIF program. Her path to this role was shaped by her experiences in Digital Humanities (DH) at MSU, which connected to her discipline in unexpected ways. Initially, she considered studying abroad with a friend who had joined a program, but when her friend dropped out, Margaux decided to go alone, and the rest is history. Some of her standout experiences at MSU include working at the Digital Scholarship Lab and studying abroad in London and Edinburgh, where she explored how technology shapes culture and creative…
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Alumni Highlight: Taylor Hughes-Barrow
From MSU to Northwestern: A Journey Shaped by Digital Humanities When Taylor Hughes-Barrow arrived at MSU, she never expected all the opportunities that would come her way. Taylor has always been passionate about education reform, but she was not sure which direction she wanted to take towards that path. She switched her course of study from Political Science to Human Development and Family Studies, and had a minor in law. Taylor strived to combine all of her interests from education, development, law/policy to media/technology, but wasn’t sure how to bring these interests all together. She longed for a creative element…