Knowledge Commons | Kathleen Fitzpatrick | Activity https://hcommons.org/members/kfitz/activity/ Activity feed for Kathleen Fitzpatrick. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 22:23:41 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 d656aa695ee07800435b43a5f6021ef0 Kathleen Fitzpatrick wrote a new post, Digital Scholar Donates $20,000 to Knowledge Commons (and Why that Gift Matters), on the site About Knowledge Commons https://about.hcommons.org/?p=1816 Tue, 03 Feb 2026 18:35:49 -0500 with Martin Paul Eve

We are pleased to announce that Knowledge Commons has recently received a $20,000 donation from Digital Scholar to support our platform! Digital Scholar has been an incredibly generous […]

]]> c0d16af1b8a8bd6b6a6fff2b0de02f22 Kathleen Fitzpatrick wrote a new post, Sustainability through Community, on the site About Knowledge Commons https://about.hcommons.org/?p=1813 Fri, 30 Jan 2026 16:51:28 -0500 Our friends at Invest in Open Infrastructure have posted a fantastic case study exploring the ways that Knowledge Commons has worked toward sustainability in recent years, as well as the challenges that we've […]

]]> dd723ad468b9465bd67fa6caa2d54cd7 Kathleen Fitzpatrick commented on the post, Become a KC Champion, on the site About Knowledge Commons https://about.hcommons.org/2026/01/26/become-a-kc-champion/#comment-93 Tue, 27 Jan 2026 22:44:36 -0500 Yes! Send me the info via email: kfitz at kcommons dot org.

]]> 631b10b61a5139234fb5ca1536daff37 Kathleen Fitzpatrick wrote a new post, Become a KC Champion, on the site About Knowledge Commons https://about.hcommons.org/?p=1801 Mon, 26 Jan 2026 18:30:23 -0500 tl;dr: Today we're announcing a new individual membership program, KC Champions, available through our storefront.

As we have developed our vision for Knowledge Commons over the years, we have kept one […]

]]> fec89d3d9dc9e940e7a1b42263b8c4c9 Kathleen Fitzpatrick changed their profile picture https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1941458/ Mon, 19 Jan 2026 14:49:19 -0500 0 1b7335f37d2a20367e61b51b0323c497 Kathleen Fitzpatrick wrote a new post, Join the KC Coalition, on the site About Knowledge Commons https://about.hcommons.org/?p=1728 Thu, 18 Dec 2025 14:51:47 -0500 Knowledge Commons is not just a platform -- we're a coalition. And that coalition needs you. 

The tl;dr: We need to raise a significant amount of money in order to keep the project moving forward. If you, th […]

]]> bff3209b5d9320701460bd7612810b62 Scott Schopieray wrote a new post, Trust in Science: Accessibility, Persistence, and the Public Good, on the site Mesh Research https://meshresearch.commons.msu.edu/?p=1111 Mon, 03 Nov 2025 13:49:27 -0500 I had the privilege last week of speaking at the International Association of Universities conference, held at the University of Rwanda. It was a long and at moments difficult journey, but well worth it for the […]

]]> adfcc229d8ab220f4e47eaafcb296c12 Kathleen Fitzpatrick wrote a new post, Trust in Science: Accessibility, Persistence, and the Public Good, on the site Knowledge Commons https://about.hcommons.org/?p=1598 Mon, 27 Oct 2025 13:07:22 -0400 I had the privilege last week of speaking at the International Association of Universities conference, held at the University of Rwanda. It was a long and at moments difficult journey, but well worth it […]

]]> 23206ef701461fc7e583f762649169e3 Kathleen Fitzpatrick wrote a new post, Announcing KCWorks for Institutions: a hosted repository that works for you, on the site Knowledge Commons https://about.hcommons.org/?p=1571 Fri, 18 Jul 2025 13:46:45 -0400 It is our great pleasure today to announce the launch of KCWorks for Institutions: a fully hosted best-in-class repository service for your institution. The Knowledge Commons team knows that there are many […]

]]> 6a1de6130762b1edbf77aa012f671e6c Kathleen Fitzpatrick changed their profile picture https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1920978/ Thu, 26 Jun 2025 12:52:09 -0400 0 7a04cefd1ffc1a4ba75d75849405b1d9 Kathleen Fitzpatrick's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1920847/ Tue, 24 Jun 2025 22:22:54 -0400 0 390e0fed4b3a7db33dc3a345f5bd2b16 Kathleen Fitzpatrick wrote a new post, Standing by our Principles, on the site Mesh Research https://meshresearch.commons.msu.edu/?p=1008 Tue, 06 May 2025 13:24:54 -0400 Last week, my colleague Bonnie posted about our work to take stock of our progress toward accessibility and to hold ourselves accountable for doing more through an honest reckoning with the VPAT. We’re also w […]

]]> a2b5aa134c8435d8c2734dd0588b5da8 Kathleen Fitzpatrick wrote a new post, Standing by our Principles, on the site Knowledge Commons https://about.hcommons.org/?p=1518 Tue, 06 May 2025 12:30:31 -0400 Last week, my colleague Bonnie posted about our work to take stock of our progress toward accessibility and to hold ourselves accountable for doing more through an honest reckoning with the VPAT. We’re also w […]

]]> 6dcae839a10277ddda4f47e6536e98e3 Kathleen Fitzpatrick wrote a new post, On the NEH and Our Path Forward, on the site Knowledge Commons https://about.hcommons.org/?p=1503 Thu, 17 Apr 2025 13:06:13 -0400 Over the last several weeks, we've seen colleagues of ours across the country posting about the direct impacts they're experiencing of the current attacks on the National Endowment for the Humanities, including […]

]]> 55a8133cfebeb6067aaf712d93775ffd Kathleen Fitzpatrick wrote a new post, On the NEH and Our Path Forward, on the site Mesh Research https://meshresearch.commons.msu.edu/?p=995 Thu, 27 Mar 2025 13:11:57 -0400 Over the last several weeks, we’ve seen colleagues of ours across the country posting about the direct impacts they’re experiencing of the current attacks on the National Endowment for the Humanities, inc […]

]]> ae2d6ecc7bca888ffd843997aa75bb04 Kathleen Fitzpatrick wrote a new post, Digital Preservation in a Time of Disorder, on the site Knowledge Commons https://about.hcommons.org/?p=1494 Wed, 19 Mar 2025 16:43:28 -0400 by Kathleen Fitzpatrick and Martin Paul Eve

Institutions of higher education in the United States have long served as independent producers and disseminators of knowledge for the public good. This role has […]

]]> ff402fc20e6dd347937f68204d8e3016 Kathleen Fitzpatrick's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1910634/ Tue, 04 Feb 2025 12:15:19 -0500 0 aee39e373679f94fe0a4f08378e7b17f Kathleen Fitzpatrick wrote a new post, KCWorks Named Designated Public-Access Repository of the National Endowment for the Humanities, on the site Knowledge Commons https://about.hcommons.org/?p=1391 Tue, 10 Dec 2024 16:29:42 -0500 Knowledge Commons (KC) is delighted to announce that our repository, KCWorks has been selected as the designated public-access repository of the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). The partnership […]

]]> e09b64c5a25550f6d20154df5bb7af9b Kathleen Fitzpatrick started the topic DH2024 panel, "Humanities Infrastructures for Teaching, Researching..." in the forum Digital Humanists https://hcommons.org/groups/digital-humanists/forum/topic/dh2024-panel-humanities-infrastructures-for-teaching-researching/ Fri, 09 Aug 2024 17:25:56 -0400 Hello, colleagues! At the end of the DH2024 session, "Humanities Infrastructures for Teaching, Researching, Publishing, and Building Community," we raised the possibility of continuing our discussion on the Commons. I am starting this discussion thread in order to kick us off, but please feel free to start new threads of conversation as well!

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]]> eb49d08ac0ddb2b42ea13942bedd696d Kathleen Fitzpatrick's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1889877/ Sat, 22 Jun 2024 14:00:34 -0400 0 95e0123ad81de4c083289c641ddcc5ea Kathleen Fitzpatrick's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1878728/ Wed, 06 Mar 2024 16:13:11 -0500 0 fb5eb635c6c02aaaa431690fa1eea88a Kathleen Fitzpatrick's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1877455/ Thu, 22 Feb 2024 13:31:46 -0500 0 c79400e6137f764a6b47ba4c16c3fb14 Kathleen Fitzpatrick wrote a new post, Open Infrastructures and the Future of Knowledge Production, part 2, on the site Platypus https://team.hcommons.org/?p=985 Mon, 08 Jan 2024 15:41:38 -0500 In my last post, I unpacked some of the reasons why open infrastructures matter for the future of knowledge production, and I talked a bit about how Humanities Commons and hcommons.social strive to live out their […]

]]> 282a1c44fedc3199c1aba1080875a017 Kathleen Fitzpatrick wrote a new post, Open Infrastructures and the Future of Knowledge Production, part 1, on the site Platypus https://team.hcommons.org/?p=980 Fri, 05 Jan 2024 13:56:26 -0500 I’ve been thinking a good bit lately about the ways that the future of knowledge production depends upon the openness of the infrastructures that support our work. For a lot of people, the word “ […]

]]> 7e4ccf1cce16b9aaff4f6f3c1829bd9a Kathleen Fitzpatrick deposited Network: The Other Cold War https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1863571/ Sat, 04 Nov 2023 00:27:17 -0400 One important but under-considered aspect of the connection between television's rise and the Cold War is the anxiety that the rapid growth in the cultural influence of television produced in its wake, most notably a concern about the older, traditional American culture ostensibly being left behind. Included within this "traditional" culture was…[Read more]

]]> 0 058e48b2dad1435ca64009870632bb72 Kathleen Fitzpatrick's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1852758/ Tue, 25 Jul 2023 14:25:55 -0400 0 ee6b2cbec59f6bf39d9e2bbc52cf6ddc Kathleen Fitzpatrick deposited Into the Fediverse: An Opportunity for Academics to Reclaim the Public Sphere in the group Global Digital Humanities Symposium https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1841447/ Fri, 14 Apr 2023 02:23:44 -0400 With the brazen privatization, if not pending chaotic collapse of Twitter, millions of people are looking for alternative spaces to share their work, thoughts, and ill-conceived memes. Among the many digital migrants are a significant number of academics who looking for guidance, and familiar faces, as they try to make sense of the many new…[Read more]

]]> 0 a50eae873557f6a500be4e7a0fe28bb8 Kathleen Fitzpatrick deposited Into the Fediverse: An Opportunity for Academics to Reclaim the Public Sphere https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1841333/ Thu, 13 Apr 2023 14:34:29 -0400 With the brazen privatization, if not pending chaotic collapse of Twitter, millions of people are looking for alternative spaces to share their work, thoughts, and ill-conceived memes. Among the many digital migrants are a significant number of academics who looking for guidance, and familiar faces, as they try to make sense of the many new…[Read more]

]]> 0 50d3f13ab30807817475b27e8cd72506 Kathleen Fitzpatrick's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1837906/ Sun, 19 Mar 2023 16:49:15 -0400 0 22f3dd98add7bd2312f9fb6b7cfffcc9 Kathleen Fitzpatrick's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1824335/ Tue, 29 Nov 2022 22:17:11 -0500 0 66a879e934c92452f9b41c2228fe7013 Kathleen Fitzpatrick's profile was updated https://commons.msu.edu/activity/p/1822725/ Thu, 17 Nov 2022 15:12:25 -0500 0 c2a9a68405299038f2f4ad0c1d613d69 Kathleen Fitzpatrick's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1822617/ Wed, 16 Nov 2022 20:52:37 -0500 0 06afd7cd5eb5bfe3ed69165ccede7be9 Kathleen Fitzpatrick's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1820744/ Tue, 08 Nov 2022 13:44:39 -0500 0 0c4e546d5a3d2bf387f148461e5a4906 Kathleen Fitzpatrick deposited DBER+ Commons: A FAIR/CARE/OS RCN https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1818367/ Fri, 21 Oct 2022 17:11:41 -0400 A presentation of the DBER+ Commons research project, presented to the NSF FAIROS RCN inaugural cohort.

]]> 0 6defc105cc816a9102581cd297eb15a2 Kathleen Fitzpatrick's profile was updated https://commons.msu.edu/activity/p/1818206/ Wed, 19 Oct 2022 19:49:38 -0400 0 73f9ea2c8e2e11f9f3d8a89c51b17cd7 Kathleen Fitzpatrick changed their profile picture https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1815571/ Tue, 27 Sep 2022 15:37:26 -0400 0 c716e773178c650b3fe7e610d18b0b5a Kathleen Fitzpatrick's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1815570/ Tue, 27 Sep 2022 15:34:09 -0400 0 aaaada43fa94c76453ae686694a4f06e Kathleen Fitzpatrick's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1793051/ Tue, 06 Sep 2022 21:15:02 -0400 0 b40c424cfa7b44fbec54b8169042e652 Kathleen Fitzpatrick wrote a new post, NSF Grant for New STEM-focused Commons, on the site Platypus https://team.hcommons.org/?p=691 Tue, 16 Aug 2022 13:53:48 -0400 The Commons team is delighted to have been awarded one of the inaugural FAIROS RCN grants from the NSF, in order to establish DBER+ Commons. That's a big pile of acronyms, so here's a breakdown: the NSF is of […]

]]> 5901b037412d67d366859f9ffd64a766 Kathleen Fitzpatrick wrote a new post, On Prior Publication, on the site Platypus https://team.hcommons.org/?p=688 Tue, 05 Jul 2022 16:17:05 -0400 Last week, we received two takedown notices for items deposited to CORE. They arrived at nearly the same time, and so we found ourselves thinking about them in connected ways, though their cases are very, very […]

]]> 535c21595f601b7f0fed866d1b1eb3ce Kathleen Fitzpatrick deposited Dissertating in Public in the group TC Digital Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1775194/ Sun, 20 Mar 2022 02:25:01 -0400 Kathleen Fitzpatrick analyses the sudden isolation graduate students find themselves in during the dissertation process. In the humanities, she observes, graduate students are regularly habituated into an anxiety of intellectual independence whereby sharing ideas, collaboration and publishing work in progress is to be considered suspect and…[Read more]

]]> 0 1c511ebb40fe63356848df3d65ed71d3 Kathleen Fitzpatrick deposited Dissertating in Public in the group Open Access Books Network https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1775193/ Sun, 20 Mar 2022 02:24:45 -0400 Kathleen Fitzpatrick analyses the sudden isolation graduate students find themselves in during the dissertation process. In the humanities, she observes, graduate students are regularly habituated into an anxiety of intellectual independence whereby sharing ideas, collaboration and publishing work in progress is to be considered suspect and…[Read more]

]]> 0 3e8bac7db66c93e1f3574d344fd9fb7d Kathleen Fitzpatrick deposited Dissertating in Public in the group Digital Humanists https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1775192/ Sun, 20 Mar 2022 02:24:03 -0400 Kathleen Fitzpatrick analyses the sudden isolation graduate students find themselves in during the dissertation process. In the humanities, she observes, graduate students are regularly habituated into an anxiety of intellectual independence whereby sharing ideas, collaboration and publishing work in progress is to be considered suspect and…[Read more]

]]> 0 6926d07025d8d3e8633e589d78aa4d43 Kathleen Fitzpatrick deposited Dissertating in Public in the group Digital Books https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1775191/ Sun, 20 Mar 2022 02:23:40 -0400 Kathleen Fitzpatrick analyses the sudden isolation graduate students find themselves in during the dissertation process. In the humanities, she observes, graduate students are regularly habituated into an anxiety of intellectual independence whereby sharing ideas, collaboration and publishing work in progress is to be considered suspect and…[Read more]

]]> 0 70a22d3a61afae31e73d6e1e87452124 Kathleen Fitzpatrick deposited Dissertating in Public https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1775173/ Sat, 19 Mar 2022 19:45:41 -0400 Kathleen Fitzpatrick analyses the sudden isolation graduate students find themselves in during the dissertation process. In the humanities, she observes, graduate students are regularly habituated into an anxiety of intellectual independence whereby sharing ideas, collaboration and publishing work in progress is to be considered suspect and…[Read more]

]]> 0 e5e0970c980933ec7a8c101f44152c60 Kathleen Fitzpatrick posted a new activity comment https://commons.msu.edu/activity/p/1774638/#acomment-1774743 Tue, 15 Mar 2022 15:45:27 -0400 I really like this! The work of defining an interdisciplinary space is really difficult, and I'm glad that you're taking advantage of this space for that process. I'll look forward to seeing how this evolves.

In reply to - Nicole Huff wrote a new post, Working Comprehensive Exam Proposal, on the site Nicole A. Huff Based on this week’s readings, I decided to take a stab at beginning to write my proposal for my comprehensive exam. B […] ]]> 2497b5cdf5c09f4366acec4b165e6901 Kathleen Fitzpatrick's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1773889/ Fri, 04 Mar 2022 20:54:21 -0500 0 61e0e2dfe66f29f6b20d2634c9a47b6c Kathleen Fitzpatrick posted a new activity comment https://commons.msu.edu/activity/p/1772976/#acomment-1773516 Tue, 01 Mar 2022 13:42:24 -0500 I love this. And yes, that is a highly suspicious chair. I'll look forward to hearing how the search for a new chair, and new resolve, goes.

In reply to - Gabrielle Lockwood wrote a new post, The Importance of a Chair, on the site My Writing Space Recently, I have had to ramp up the writing process for my thesis work. This is a hard enough task as it is because I […] ]]> 34aec61de011c047aafb25eb05f32183 Kathleen Fitzpatrick posted a new activity comment https://commons.msu.edu/activity/p/1772461/#acomment-1772708 Tue, 22 Feb 2022 15:26:33 -0500 This is fab. One suggestion: you might lead with the questions you're now exploring, and then back up to show how you arrived at those questions and then how you plan to work toward some answers...

In reply to - Nicole Huff wrote a new post, Drafting a Research Statement, on the site Nicole A. Huff In the last year or so, I’ve received many requests for a research statement from letter of recommendation writers as well a […] ]]> c1d44ae103e0fe454a15b8fb7c99cc85 Kathleen Fitzpatrick deposited Syllabus: Peculiar Genres of Academic Writing https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1770195/ Wed, 02 Feb 2022 20:30:42 -0500 This is a syllabus for ENG 818, a graduate course at Michigan State University in Spring 2022.

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