About

Bonnie Russell (MLIS, Wayne State University) is the Product Manager for Humanities Commons, Project Manager for MESH Research, and Digital Specialist for HuMetricsHSS. She has extensive experience in technical project management, UX design, QA testing, technical documentation and training, and metadata management.

Ms. Russell has been active working with digital humanities scholars since 2012, helping scholars shape projects and identify technology needs. She served as the 2019-2020 chair of the Digital Publishing Committee for the Association of University Presses, primarily focused on the evaluation of digital publishing platforms and repositories. She’s currently taking part in the Digital Library Foundation’s Digital Accessibility Group Policies and Workflows Committee, serving a 3-year term on the Michigan State University Academic Specialist Advisory Committee (2022-2025), and is an affiliated faculty member in Digital Humanities at MSU (DH@MSU). She loves cats, bats, dinosaurs, and Godzilla.

The School of Information Science at Wayne State University recently interviewed me for their alumni spotlight feature. I’m thrilled to be included. The College of Arts & Letters at Michigan State University covered the release of our OER, Publishing Values-based Scholarly Communication in February 2023.

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