Knowledge Commons

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Formerly Humanities Commons. Discover the latest open-access scholarship and teaching materials, make interdisciplinary connections, build a WordPress website, and increase the impact of your work by sharing it in KCWorks.

Parables of Care. Creative response to Dementia Care, As told by carers
Decorative graphic with text reading "The Roots Of This Tree Are Rotten" "Torie Quinonez & Carment Mitchell" "Works.hcommons.org"
Decorative graphic with text reading "Nessie and Noctilucent Clouds: A Meteorological Explanation for Some Loch Ness Monster Sightings" "Oliver D. Smith" "Works.hcommons.org"
A decorative graphic featuring a "hot dog" and text reading "Is A Hot Dog A Sandwich?" "Brian Pollo" "Works.hcommons.org"
Decorative graphic containing text that reads "The Psychgeist of Pop Culture: Stardew Valley" "Edited by Elizabeth D. Kilmer & Rachel Kowert" "works.hcommons.org"
A decorative graphic containing text that reads "KCWorks Spotlight: From the Knowledge Commons Team" and a link to works.hcommons.org.
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Green Poster with he caption: "On the Banks: Currents within APIDA/A Youth Experiences in Michigan by Anapaola Almaguer-Morales et al."
Green Poster with he caption: "Postmodern Chinoiserie in Gene Luen Yang's American Born Chinese by Philip Smith"
Green poster with the caption:Breaking the Boundary: Reading Lahiri's The Lowland as a Neo-cosmopolitan Fiction by Binod Paudyal
Green poster with "Knowledge Commons, Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, Works Deposit Spotlight"
Decorative graphic featuring text that reads "40,005 publicly visible records in KCWorks!" with a Knowledge Commons logo and a URL for works.hcommons.org
Green poster with text: Knowledge Commons Works Deposit Spotlight
Pink Poster with the caption "Anarchism and Feminism by Ruth Kinna & Nathan Jun"
Pink poster with the caption "Beyond Accommodation: Disability, Feminist Philosophy, and the Design of Everyday Academic Life by Aimi Hamraie"
Pink poster with the caption "Identities in Flux: An Interview with Jess Chanliau." Borrowers and Lenders: The Journal of Shakespeare and Appropriation 14.2 (2023) by Alexa Alice Joubin"
Green-themed graphic with the headline “Research Gets Lucky When It’s Shared,” featuring clover icons and a patterned border on the right. Below, the text reads: “When knowledge is open, more people can find it, use it, and build on it.” The Knowledge Commons logo appears at the bottom.
Pink poster with the caption "Ratchet Feminism on TikTok: Visual Culture Resistance to Oppression by M. Bryn Brody"
Meme featuring the surprised Pikachu character with the text: “When humanities research is openly shared and suddenly you're feeling pretty lucky.” The image humorously suggests that sharing humanities research openly can lead to greater visibility and unexpected positive outcomes.
Pink poster with the caption "So That I Might Be Saved by Ericka Evans"
Graphic titled “How Research Luck Happens” showing a timeline with four stages: Curiosity, Discovery, Connection, and New Ideas. Each stage is represented by clover icons along a horizontal line with an arrow pointing forward. The design uses green tones and includes the Knowledge Commons logo at the bottom.
Pink poster with the caption "Chit'lins and Champagne: Food, Class, and Sexuality in Ann Allen Shockley's Loving Her by Psyche Williams-Forson"
Poster with the caption "Knowledge Commons Works Deposit Spotlight"
Green Poster with lettering " The Woman of Colour and Black Atlantic Movement Brigitte Fielder"
Green poster with lettering titled "How Beale Street Talks and Whispers: The Political Soundscapes of James Baldwin's Novel by Florien Kijlstra"
Knowledge Commons Champions with URL about.hcommons.org/kc-champions/
Screenshot of the Knowledge Commons homepage
Green poster with lettering titled "Black Living Data Booklet By Fathe Day"
Green poster with lettering titled "The Power and Precariousness of Black Women's Digital Self-representation in Britain by Francesca Sobande"
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A decorative graphic illustrating "Ethics Week, Feb. 16-20, 2026" at Michigan State University
Green poster with lettering titled "The Black Press Research Collective Newspaper Project: Visualizing the History of the Black Press in the United States by Kim Gallon and Hollis Robbins"
A flyer advertising Ethics Week at Michigan State University. Text reads "Ethics Week strives to actively involve the MSU community in meaningful ethics conversations, encouraging a campus-wide engagement with contemporary moral challenges. Explore different aspects of ethics, focusing on issues that resonate with our current societal context through panel discussions, workshops, interactive sessions, and more."
Green poster with lettering titled "Black Game Studies by Lindsay Grace"
Graphic promoting Ethics Week at Michigan State University
Green poster with the caption" Introduction: Black Lives Matter by Sben Korsh Jonathan Massey Meredith TenHoor"
Screenshot of the new Knowledge Commons homepage
Blue textured background with text reading "Annual Report: Knowledge Commons, 2025"
Quote graphic with text: "We are committed to remaining open and free in perpetuity, and we are committed to building and supporting the communities that use our tools. With your help, we will continue our work toward a transformation in global knowledge ecosystems.”
Blue poster with the caption "The Role Of Digital Rights In Promoting Social Justice: Challenges And Opportunities by Maity Ritu"
Blue poster with the caption "Destabilizing Gender and Genre: Queering the Body in Libertarias and Land and Freedom by Kathryn Anne Everly"
Blue poster with the caption ""The Movement Never Came Here": Civil Rights Organizational Presence and Southern Racial Inequality by Dana Williams"
Blue poster with the caption "A Child Rights Framework for Addressing Trafficking of Children by Jonathan Todres"
Our coalition brings together individuals and institutions who want to preserve and protect the knowledge they create and the communities that rely on it at a moment when both are under threat. Those threats include corporate enclosure and governmental overreach, each of which works to restrict access to the knowledge necessary to a free and functioning society.
Screenshot of the MSU Commons stats dashboard in KCWorks
"Blue poster with the caption ""Human Rights Concerns In The Context Of Globalization In Sports by Dhiraj Abraham Philip, IJLLR IJLLR""
Screenshot of the KCWorks dashboard showing cumulative content totals for 2025
"Blue poster with the caption ""Between Martin Luther and Martin Luther King: James Pennington's Struggle for 'Sacred Human Rights' Against Slavery by Justin J. Latterell John Witte, Jr"""
Blue poster with the caption "Impact of Human Rights on development of National Legal System by Nyaay Shastra"