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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 Museum (2015-2019), and increasingly I’ve seen how Digital Humanities happens in the museum context while I’ve been involved by presenting at Museum Computer Network Conferences and volunteering for that organization. […]
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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. This might sound like a strange combination of interests, but it goes to the heart of what DH means to me. I started my undergraduate majors in mathematics and German literature with little sense that the two subjects had anything in common. However, as my studies in both continued (and as I encountered more mathematical theories named after Gauss, Riemann, Hausdorff, Weierstraß, etc.), I became more and more convinced of the overlaps between German culture…
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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. I began working on immersive projects, serious games for training and VR simulations, and soon transitioned into higher education from studio work. The environment provided a wide range of uses for digital tools, and I discovered the various ways faculty were leveraging technology to enrich their research and instruction.
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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 a graduate certificate that I thought would make an interesting addition to my curriculum vitae. When I made the decision to join the Digital Humanities Graduate Certificate at MSU, I had no idea that it was going to completely change my career trajectory. I had never even considered myself a technical person (heck, I still use a paper planner). By the time I was halfway through my first year as a Cultural Heritage Informatics (CHI)…
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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 studies of literature and eighteenth-century history of mind into art exhibits on Creativity in the Time of Covid-19 that champion disability justice and accessibility.
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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 of KBS.
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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. The plot is the only remaining portion of the original MSU land grant that is non-contiguous with the East Lansing campus.