Cathy Davidson

John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute at Duke University (www. jhfc.duke.edu/fhi) and HASTAC ("haystack": Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Advanced Collaboratory: http://www.hastac.org)

Three Expertise Keywords:
higher education, interdisciplinarity, virtual institutions

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I keep a blog on the HASTAC website: http://www.hastac.org

Why Digital Media and Learning?

I am dedicated to helping to envision new kinds of institutions--educational, civic, technological--that can work together in creative ways to think about the social and educational implications of next-generation technologies.

Recent Posts:

1. [Regblogged] Cathy Davidson: When ‘No’ Means ‘Try Again’ (February 28, 2008)
2. Inaugural Digital Media and Learning Competition Selects Winning Projects (February 21, 2008)
3. Competition Closes with Over 1000 Entries (October 18, 2007)
4. Cathy Davidson: Digital Learning Is Not I.T. (September 7, 2007)
5. Early Days of Competition Draw Crowd (August 27, 2007)
6. The Future of Learning Institutions (June 4, 2007)
7. Davidson & Goldberg: The Future of Learning Institutions (December 23, 2006)
8. Cathy Davidson on “Performing Civic Engagement” (December 6, 2006)
9. Cathy Davidson: Relearning How to Learn (October 29, 2006)
10. Cathy Davidson: The Future of Institutions: Skunkworks! (October 22, 2006)
11. Cathy Davidson: Reflections on the Launch: Disciplines and the Futures of Thinking (October 20, 2006)
12. Cathy N. Davidson: Who is really preying on our children? (October 15, 2006)

Description of Current Work:

I am currently writing a social and scientific history of the categories “learning disabled” and “gifted.”

Selected Publications/Projects/Articles/Press:

Davidson, Cathy N., “Envisioning the Humanities in a Digital Age,” Nepantla: Views from South, 4.1 (2003): 51-65.

Davidson, Cathy N., “Teaching the Promise:  The Research University in the Information Age.” A Digital Gift to the Nation: Fulfilling the Promise of the Digital and Internet Age. Ed.  Lawrence K. Grossman and Newton N. Minow. New York: The Century Foundation Press, 2001.

Davidson, Cathy N., Revolution and the Word:  The Rise of the Novel in America (Oxford Univ Press.  Expanded Edition, 2004).

Davidson, Cathy N., “What if Scholars in the Humanities Worked Together in a Lab?” Chronicle of Higher Education, 28 May 1999.

Davidson, Cathy N. and David Theo Goldberg, “Engaging the Humanities,” Profession, 2004.

Davidson, Cathy N. and David Theo Goldberg, “Managing from the Middle,” Chronicle of Higher Education, 5 May 2005.

Davidson, Cathy N. and David Theo Goldberg, “Why We Need the Humanities Now: A Manifesto for the Humanities in a Technological Age,” Chronicle of Higher Education 13 February 2004.