Digital Humanities at MSU is a community of people who connect, engage, and work together in whatever ways they are able. The DH@MSU Team is charged with sustaining that community and driving forward DH work on campus.
Kristen Mapes
Interim Director of Digital Humanities
Kristen Mapes is the Interim Director of Digital Humanities at Michigan State University where she brings together DH scholars and students from across units, creates pathways to doing DH, and amplifies digital work to range of publics. She regularly teaches the introductory Digital Humanities graduate and undergraduate courses and leads the Digital Culture in London and Scotland abroad program. Kristen co-Chairs the Global Digital Humanities Symposium and is Chair of the Executive Board of the Association of Digital Humanities Associations (ADHO). Her work can be found in, for example, the Social Justice in the Digital Humanities #dariahTeach course, Reviews in Digital Humanities, and the Routledge Handbook of Digital Humanities Methods. She holds graduate degrees in Library and Information Science from Rutgers University and Medieval Studies from Fordham University. Find out more about Kristen, including writing, presentations, course syllabi, and technology tutorials, at kristenmapes.com
Max Evjen
Assistant Director of Engagement and Communication
Max Evjen is an Academic Specialist in the Department of Theatre teaching in the Arts and Cultural Management and Museum Studies program, and as Assistant Director of Engagement and Communication for DH@MSU. He was previously Performance and Digital Engagement Specialist at the MSU Museum. He has over 15 years of experience in arts and cultural management as well as informal science learning. He was the Artistic and Executive Director of Redshift Productions, an organization that facilitated collaboration among scientists and artists to create performances in New York City and Ithaca, NY. He continued informal science education work as the Director of Learning Programs at the John G. Shedd Aquarium in Chicago, where he was responsible for the success of 25 different onsite, offsite, and online learning experiences, and with the Center for Science and the Imagination at Arizona State University where he designed activity stations and the evaluation plan for the Phoenix Art Museum’s Leonardo Da Vinci’s Codex Leicester and the Power of Observation exhibition. Max also worked with Cornell University’s Interaction Design Lab on the development and implementation of mobile device applications Sundial and Moboogie. In addition to those roles, Max worked as an actor and freelance theatrical technician in New York City, and worked as a teaching artist for Stages of Learning, teaching New York City public middle school children curriculum through acting skills, while conducting professional development with public school teachers. Max earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Cum Laude) in Performing Arts: Acting with Honors in Liberal Studies from Adelphi University (1998), a Master of Business Administration from Ithaca College (2008), and a Master of Arts in Museum Studies from Johns Hopkins University (2012).
Tianyi Kou-Herrema
Digital Humanities Research Coordinator
Tianyi (Titi) Kou-Herrema is the Digital Humanities Research Coordinator in the College of Arts & Letters. She earned her Ph.D. in German Studies from MSU in 2024 and specializes in making computational tools more accessible for digital humanities projects. Titi provides consultation for faculty, graduate students, and undergraduates who seek to integrate digital methods into their research, with a particular emphasis on text analysis. She also serves on the steering committee for the Research Facilitation Network (RFN) at MSU and organizes events that connect campus research service providers, helping streamline process within MSU’s expansive research ecosystem.