Humanities Commons

Humanities Commons is an open-source, open-access network serving scholars and practitioners across humanities disciplines and around the world. We cultivate open spaces for diverse communities to connect, create, share, and experiment. Together we work to transform global knowledge systems.

Our users are faculty members, graduate students, librarians, teachers, writers, researchers, independent scholars, and more. Humanities Commons gives all of them the means to help their work change the world. The network is open to anyone, regardless of field, language, institutional affiliation, or form of employment. Full-featured accounts are and will always remain free for individual users.

MSU Commons is part of the Humanities Commons network. MSU Commons provides a collaborative space for MSU faculty, students, staff, and retirees to engage in scholarship, publish their work, and create personal and project websites.

Your Support Will Make a Big Difference

Contributions to this campaign will help Humanities Commons reach more thinkers, creators and researchers around the world, strengthening their collaborations and enabling them to make more of their work public. Expanding the network will also make it possible for teachers and students everywhere to find and use cutting-edge research in the humanities.

Project Budget

Your contribution will help us demonstrate the community’s support for making research and teaching across the humanities more open and publicly accessible.

In 2020, Humanities Commons received a challenge grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), asking MSU Commons to raise $1.5 million in order to release $500,000 from the NEH. The combined funding will allow us to support the network and our team as we grow over the next five years. The great news is that we’re almost there!

We’ve raised nearly $1.2 million so far, and we have begun implementing our expansion plans. But we’re not done yet -- we still have $300,000 to go. In order to meet that goal, we hope to raise $5,000 in 2023/2024 from members of the Commons community and supporters of MSU. 

Who We Are

Larissa Babak, User Engagement Specialist

Brian Boggan, Identity Management Engineer

Kathleen Fitzpatrick, Project Director

Bonnie Russell, Product Manager

Ian Scott, Python Developer, UX Designer

Mike Thicke, Technical Lead

Dimitrios Tzouris, Infrastructure Developer

Stephanie Vasko, Senior UX Researcher

Zoe Wake Hyde, Community Development Manager

Make a Gift by Mail:

University Advancement
Spartan Way
535 Chestnut Road, Room 300
East Lansing, MI 48824

*Make check payable to Michigan State University and write “Appeal 24OOPCF1GTHMCM” in the note section.

Connect with Us

• website - https://sustaining.hcommons.org/
• website - https://hcommons.social/@hello
• twitter - http://www.twitter.com/humcommons
• facebook - https://www.facebook.com/humanitiescommons/

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