April 2018 CATHY N. DAVIDSON Distinguished Professor, Ph.D. Program in English Founder and Director, The Futures Initiative The Graduate Center, CUNY 365 Fifth Avenue, Room 3314 New York, NY 10016-4309 212-817-7247 [email protected] Ruth F. DeVarney Professor Emerita Duke University Co-Founder and Co-Director, HASTAC (hastac.org) http://www.cathydavidson.com EDUCATION Postdoctoral study, The University of Chicago, 1975-1976; in linguistics and literary theory Ph.D., State University of New York at Binghamton, 1974; in English M.A., State University of New York at Binghamton, 1973; in English B.A., Elmhurst College, 1970; in philosophy (logic) and English EMPLOYMENT The Graduate Center, CUNY July 2014- Distinguished Professor and Director, Futures Initiative Duke University July 2014-2017 Ruth F. DeVarney Professor Emerita of Interdisciplinary Studies and Distinguished Visiting Professor 2012-2014 Co-Director, Ph.D. Lab in Digital Knowledge 2006-2014 John Hope Humanities Institute Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies 1998-2006 Vice Provost for Interdisciplinary Studies 1999-2003 Co-Founder and Co-Director, John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute 1996-2014 Distinguished Professor Ruth F. DeVarney Professor of English 1989-present Professor of English 1989-1999 Editor, American Literature Autonomous University 1991 Visiting Professor (Barcelona, Spain) Princeton University 1988-1989 Visiting Professor of English Michigan State University 1976-1989 Assistant, Associate (1981), and Full (1986) Professor of English Kobe Jogakuin Daigaku 1987-1988 Visiting Professor of English (Kobe Women’s College, Japan) 1980-1981 Exchange Professor of English Bedford College 1982 Michigan State University/London (University of London) Exchange Program St. Bonaventure University 1974-1975 Visiting Instructor AWARDS, HONORS, RECOGNITION 2018 Consultant, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation 2012-2018 Board of Directors, Mozilla, First educator to be invited to join the five-member Board of the nonprofit Mozilla Foundation that supports the open-source Mozilla project and owns the $123.2 million taxable subsidiary, Mozilla Corporation 2011-2017 Member, National Council on the Humanities. Nominated by President Barack Obama, December 2010, confirmed by the U.S. Senate, June 2011. 2016 Ernest L. Boyer Award for Significant Contributions to Higher Education, New American Colleges and Universities, (2016) 2015 Bogliasco Fellow, Liguria Study Center for the Arts and Humanities 2012 Educator of the Year Award, with HASTAC cofounder David Theo Goldberg, “For Visionary Contribution to Science and Technology in Education,” World Technology Network, October 24, 2012. 2008 Bogliasco Fellow, Liguria Study Center for the Arts and Humanities 2005 Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters, Northwestern University 2005 Lifetime Achievement Award, Distinguished Contribution to Early American Studies, Society of Early Americanists 1999 Distinguished Retiring Editor Award, Council of Editors of Learned Journals 1998 Mayflower Cup Award for Nonfiction, Closing: The Life and Death of an American Factory (with photographer Bill Bamberger 1998 Finalist, Robert F. Kennedy Book Award, Closing: The Life and Death of an American Factory (with photographer Bill Bamberger 1995 American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship 1995 National Humanities Center Fellowship 1995 Times Mirror Foundation Visiting Chair in American Studies, Huntington Library (declined). 1995 Outstanding Book of the Year, Library Journal, Oxford Companion to Women’s Writing in the United State (with co-editor Linda Wagner-Martin) 1994 Fulbright Senior Visiting Lecturer in American Studies, Australia 2 1993 New York Times Notable Book, Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji: On Finding Myself in Japan 1993 Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Study Center (Italy), Residence Fellowship 1989 Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters, Elmhurst College 1989 Writer-in-Residence Fellowship, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts 1988 Centennial Review Annual Invitational Lectureship 1988 Writer-in-Residence Fellowship, Ragdale Foundation 1987 Michigan State University Distinguished Faculty Award 1987 Outstanding Book, Choice, Revolution and the Word: The Rise of the Novel in America 1987 Member, American Antiquarian Society 1986 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship 1986 American Council of Learned Societies Grant Award 1986 American Philosophical Society Fellowship (Declined). 1984 Kate B. and Hall James Peterson Fellowship, American Antiquarian Society 1984 Canadian Studies Faculty Enrichment Fellowship 1980 National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend 1979 Michigan State University Teacher-Scholar Award 1976 Newberry Library Scholar-in-Residence Fellowship 1973 Irving J. Lee Memorial Dissertation Award, International Society of General Semantics 1972-73 Woodrow Wilson Dissertation Fellowship 1970 Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship PROFESSIONAL/ADMINISTRATIVE RESPONSIBILITIES Graduate Center, City University of New York, 2014-Present Founding Director, The Futures Initiative (“Advancing Equity and Innovation in Higher Education”), http://futures.gc.cuny.edu/, Fall 2014-present Co-Director Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Grant “The CUNY Humanities Alliance Alliance,” $3.1 million grant. Training doctoral students to teach in community colleges, in partnership with LaGuardia Community College. September 2016-present. Co-Director, Teagle Foundation Grant, “Liberal Arts for the New Majority.” Focus: Undergraduate Peer Leadership and Mentoring, throughout CUNY (currently on thirteen CUNY two- and four-year campuses), September 2016-present. Co-Director, Louise Lennihan Interdisciplinary Research and Travel Grant Competition, October 2016-present Duke University, 2012-2014 Co-Founder and Co-Director, PhD Lab in Digital Knowledge, John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute http://sites.fhi.duke.edu/phdlab/ 3 Director, Duke STEAM Challenge (STEM + Arts, Humanities, Social Science for the Greater Good), supported by the Vice Provost for Academic Affairs http://dukesteamchallenge.org/ Director, “Making Data Matter” teaching and research track, and Steering Committee, BASS supported by the Vice Provost for Interdisciplinary Studies and the Dean of Arts and Sciences http://sites.duke.edu/bassisc/making-data-matter/ Steering Committee, Information Futures, supported by the Dean of the Natural Sciences and the Dean of Arts and Sciences Steering Committee, Ph.D. Program in Visual and Media Studies, supported by the Graduate School and the Dean of Arts and Sciences Steering Committee, Scholars and Publics, supported by the Dean of Arts and Science HASTAC, Co-Founder and Director, 2002-2017 Co-Director, July 2017-present https://www.hastac.org/ Founded in 2002 by Cathy N. Davidson and David Theo Goldberg with a team of a dozen renowned leaders in the human, social, and computational sciences and media arts, HASTAC (“Haystack”), the Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Alliance and Collaboratory, is the world’s first and oldest academic social network. It includes more than 16,000 registered network members and operates as one of the most complex and well-trafficked Drupal open source sites on the World Wide Web. HASTAC has two mottos: “Changing the Way We Teach and Learn” and “Difference is our operating system.” With equal emphasis on innovation and equity, HASTAC is a free, open-access network to which anyone can contribute, on which anyone can create Groups in which projects, programs, and classes can be given a public (as well as a private) setting. The student-led HASTAC Scholars Program has sponsored over 1300 graduate and undergraduates from 100+ institutions. In March 2018, in response to the Facebook scandals, Inside Higher Ed profiled HASTAC as “The Ethical Social Network.” Started before Facebook or MySpace, HASTAC has been developed on and champions principles of privacy, security, access, and equitable collaboration. Currently HASTAC is supported and administered by teams at the Graduate Center CUNY and Arizona State University. Digital Media and Learning Competition, Co-Director, 2006-2017 http://www.hastac.org/competitions Administered by HASTAC and supported by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation The Digital Media and Learning Competition, codirected with David Theo Goldberg, awarded over $13 million to more than 100 “connected learning” projects in some twenty countries. Grantees were mentored for one-year by the DML team, through workshops, webinars, individual consultation, and an online peer-mentoring community. The program was committed 4 to diversity, to under-served communities, and to working across issues of digital divide and unequal access, coordinating its work with other aspects of the MacArthur Foundation’s overarching $200 million Initiative on Digital Media and Learning. Partners included the Office of the President of the United States, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Google, NASA, Intel, Disney, Voto Latino as well as celebrities such as Lady Gaga, Rosario Dawson, Pharrel Williams, and others: http://digitallearning.macfound.org and http://www.dmlcompetition.net/. See also, “Inspiring Learning With and About Ethical Technologies,” March 6, 2018. ACADEMIC ADMINISTRATON: 1998-2006 Duke University Vice Provost for Interdisciplinary Studies, 1998-2006. Overview: The position of Vice Provost for Interdisciplinary Studies was created in 1998 (the first at Duke or any university) to work with faculty members and administrators from Duke's nine schools to initiate