Category: Birthday

• Guest Post: Julian Chambliss, Nicole Huff, and Justin Wigard on Building Community: The Humanities Common and the Graphics Possibilities Website

  Julian Chambliss, Professor of English, Michigan State University Nicole Huff, Ph.D. Student, Michigan State University Justin Wigard, Ph.D. Candidate, Michigan State University The Department of English Graphic Possibilities Research Workshop (GPRW) began in 2019 with the goal of supporting critical inquiry linked to research and teaching comics. As the home to the world’s largest publicly…

• Humanities Commons for International Students and Scholars

  By June Oh, former Digital Humanities Research Assistant at Michigan State University (2019-2020) Happy Birthday Humanities Commons! I am a South Korean and learning the American academia has been a journey. Citation culture, writing rhetoric, and networking were just a few things that I had to unlearn and start afresh. One of the good surprises…

• Happy fifth birthday, Humanities Commons!

  Looking back in some old shared files recently, I came across some of the early descriptions of MLA Commons, the first network of what would become the multi-network Humanities Commons. From the beginning, the network was conceived of as a space for community, especially for extending conversations happening at the MLA’s annual convention throughout the…

• Guest Post: Comments and Testimonials from Humanities Commons Users

  Comments and Testimonials from Users Dr. Kendra Preston Leonard, Executive Director, Silent Film Sound & Music Archive: Humanities Commons is my coffee shop, my place to learn from other scholars and teachers, a place to have a virtual conference with people whose work I admire and those whose work is new to me. It’s the…

• Five Years by the Numbers

  As the Project Manager on Humanities Commons I am involved in the day-to-day operations of the platform as well as communicating with our members. For this fifth birthday I wanted to take a deep dive into what the community has created here. I’m hoping that in future we’ll continue to keep creating these kinds of…

• Guest Post: Lucy Barnes on The OABN and Humanities Commons: Finding Community

  By Lucy Barnes (Senior Editor and Outreach Coordinator at Open Book Publishers, and one of three coordinators of the OABN) In early 2020, a group of people interested in open access books were trying to foster a community. Geographically dispersed, they sometimes came together at conferences and other events where lively conversations ensued, but they…

• Guest Post: A.L. McMichael on Open Source Announcements

  Author: A.L. McMichael https://hcommons.org/members/amcmichael/ To celebrate five years of Humanities Commons, I’d like to highlight one of my favorite ways to use it: simplifying administrative outreach. You can use a group’s “Discussion” feature as an alternative to a listserv or newsletter (for a lab, a project, a class, or any other organization). As a lab…

• Guest Post: Martin Paul Eve on Humanities Commons’ Fifth Birthday

  What is the world coming to? In general terms, things don’t look good. Pandemics, climate change, ongoing global conflicts, the state of higher education as a whole. It can be a worrying time. The situation for humanities research doesn’t look much better, either. The open access movement is succeeding at scale in the sciences, where…

• The Commons at Five

  It’s been a bit of a whirlwind, having this 5th birthday celebration for the Commons come so soon on the heels of Thanksgiving and Giving Tuesday, but the coincidence of these events has had me thinking about the many many aspects of this project and its development for which I’m grateful, and the ways we’re…

• By the Numbers

  The steady increase in membership on Humanities Commons since launch was been very gratifying for the small staff developing and maintaining the network. We started with a strong base of nearly 6,000 MLA Commons members, but began registering members immediately and have seen a steady flow of new members since launch. [wpdatachart id=5]