Working the DH Angles

What does it mean to develop a DH praxis? This is a great question and part of my praxis at MSU has evolved to make a case for public humanities praxis. Perhaps I’m overstating the case, but one central element of my time has been building generative project that serve as baseline for both classroom and scholarly engagement. This is not new for me. My career prior to MSU was at a “teaching” institution and creating a scholarly agenda in that environment required align practice across the sphere of professorial assessment. I did a good job, but it was not a simple exercise. The stakes were lower and the pressure at Research 1 institution is very clearly on scholarly production as defined by publication. Even as scholars are increasingly pushed toward interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary practice, tenure and promotion guideline struggles to keep up.

Why am I waxing poetics about praxis? I’m in a self assessment mode (required by annual review paperwork) and this is clearly a way to understand a trend in my activities. So, check out my CURBED3 project as an example of supporting collaborative public humanities practice.