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	In 2003, Davidson initiated a program at Duke, in conjunction with Apple, to give free iPods to each member of the incoming class with no other requirements. This sparked harsh criticism and ridicule from the academic community and news media.{{Citation needed\|date=July 2013}} The program was viewed as a success by Duke since it led to new applications for the iPod in an educational environment and inspired a new initiative among Duke students to innovate and collaborate.<ref>Duke University iPod First Year Experience Final Evaluations Report, June 2005, accessed July 2013, http://cit.duke.edu/pdf/reports/ipod_initiative_04_05.pdf</ref><ref>{{cite web\|url=https://chronicle.com/article/Collaborative-Learning-for-the/128789/ \|title=Collaborative Learning for the Digital Age \|date=August 26, 2011 \| publisher=The Chronicle of Higher Education \|accessdate=September 18, 2012}}</ref><ref>Now You See It</ref>		In 2003, Davidson initiated a program at Duke, in conjunction with Apple, to give free iPods to each member of the incoming class with no other requirements. This sparked harsh criticism and ridicule from the academic community and news media.{{Citation needed\|date=July 2013}} The program was viewed as a success by Duke since it led to new applications for the iPod in an educational environment and inspired a new initiative among Duke students to innovate and collaborate.<ref>Duke University iPod First Year Experience Final Evaluations Report, June 2005, accessed July 2013, http://cit.duke.edu/pdf/reports/ipod_initiative_04_05.pdf</ref><ref>{{cite web\|url=https://chronicle.com/article/Collaborative-Learning-for-the/128789/ \|title=Collaborative Learning for the Digital Age \|date=August 26, 2011 \| publisher=The Chronicle of Higher Education \|accessdate=September 18, 2012}}</ref><ref>Now You See It</ref>

	During the ], Davidson and 87 other Duke faculty members, sometimes referred to as the ], published an open letter calling for Duke to dismiss the team and its players. The open letter gained additional prominence when the defense attorney for the lacrosse players requested a change of venue while citing the advertisement as evidence of Duke faculty bias against the players.<ref>http://diverseeducation.com/article/6902/ Duke Professors Reject Calls to Apologize to Lacrosse Players Retrieved 15 May 2014</ref> In response to criticism of the ad, Davidson published a piece in the ] in January 2007. She stated that the ad was a response “to the anguish of students who felt demeaned by racist and sexist remarks swirling around in the media and on the campus quad in the aftermath of what happened on March 13 in the lacrosse house.”<ref name="Davidson response">Cathy Davidson, “In the Aftermath of a Social Disaster,” Raleigh News & Observer, Jan 5, 2007, A18. Quoted in the book Institutional Failures~~</ref> The only well documented racist statements had been by fellow Group of 88 members denouncing whiteness.<ref>KC Johnson, ''Until Proven Innocent''~~</ref>		During the ], Davidson and 87 other Duke faculty members, sometimes referred to as the ], published an open letter calling for Duke to dismiss the team and its players. The open letter gained additional prominence when the defense attorney for the lacrosse players requested a change of venue while citing the advertisement as evidence of Duke faculty bias against the players.<ref>http://diverseeducation.com/article/6902/ Duke Professors Reject Calls to Apologize to Lacrosse Players Retrieved 15 May 2014</ref> In response to criticism of the ad, Davidson published a piece in the ] in January 2007. She stated that the ad was a response “to the anguish of students who felt demeaned by racist and sexist remarks swirling around in the media and on the campus quad in the aftermath of what happened on March 13 in the lacrosse house.”<ref name="Davidson response">Cathy Davidson, “In the Aftermath of a Social Disaster,” Raleigh News & Observer, Jan 5, 2007, A18. Quoted in the book Institutional Failures</ref>

	In 2010, President Obama nominated her to a six-year term on the ], a position confirmed by the Senate in July 2011.<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://today.duke.edu/2010/12/Davidson_NCH.html \|title=Cathy Davidson Confirmed for the National Council on the Humanities (Updated) \|date=June 2, 2011 \| publisher=Duke Today \|accessdate=September 18, 2012}}</ref> Davidson serves on the Board of Advisors to the ] "Digital Media and Learning" book series. She is a former President of the ] and former editor of the journal ''American Literature''.<ref name = english></ref> She lectures and consults on interdisciplinary, collaboration, digital literacy, virtual communities, and innovative learning-applications of new technologies.		In 2010, President Obama nominated her to a six-year term on the ], a position confirmed by the Senate in July 2011.<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://today.duke.edu/2010/12/Davidson_NCH.html \|title=Cathy Davidson Confirmed for the National Council on the Humanities (Updated) \|date=June 2, 2011 \| publisher=Duke Today \|accessdate=September 18, 2012}}</ref> Davidson serves on the Board of Advisors to the ] "Digital Media and Learning" book series. She is a former President of the ] and former editor of the journal ''American Literature''.<ref name = english></ref> She lectures and consults on interdisciplinary, collaboration, digital literacy, virtual communities, and innovative learning-applications of new technologies.

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Cathy Davidson

Cathy Davidson, portrait by Artie Dixon

Cathy N. Davidson is an American scholar and university professor. Beginning July 1, 2014, she is Distinguished Professor and Director of the Futures Initiative at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. She has served as the Ruth F. DeVarney Professor of English at Duke University since 1996 and has held a second distinguished chair as the John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies since 2006. She has served in leadership roles at Duke and a variety of organizations and has authored or edited 18 books. Her work for the last decade has focused on technology, collaboration, cognition, learning, and the digital age.

Background and education

Davidson was born in Chicago, received a B.A. from Elmhurst College, an M.A. and Ph.D. from the Binghamton University, and did postdoctoral studies at the University of Chicago. She has received honorary doctorates from Elmhurst College and Northwestern University. Prior to joining the faculty of Duke, Davidson was a professor of English at Michigan State University.

Career

Davidson served as Vice Provost for Interdisciplinary Studies at Duke University from 1998 to 2006, with administrative responsibility for over 60 research programs in Duke’s nine academic and professional schools. She was responsible for designing technologies for research, teaching, and learning, and in 1999 helped create ISIS, the program in Information Science + Information Studies at Duke. Davidson also worked with colleagues to help create the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience.

In 2002, Davidson co-founded (with David Theo Goldberg) the virtual organization HASTAC (Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Advanced Collaboratory), an international organization dedicated to rethinking the future of learning for the information age.

In 2003, Davidson initiated a program at Duke, in conjunction with Apple, to give free iPods to each member of the incoming class with no other requirements. This sparked harsh criticism and ridicule from the academic community and news media. The program was viewed as a success by Duke since it led to new applications for the iPod in an educational environment and inspired a new initiative among Duke students to innovate and collaborate.

During the 2006 Duke University lacrosse case, Davidson and 87 other Duke faculty members, sometimes referred to as the "Group of 88", published an open letter calling for Duke to dismiss the team and its players. The open letter gained additional prominence when the defense attorney for the lacrosse players requested a change of venue while citing the advertisement as evidence of Duke faculty bias against the players. In response to criticism of the ad, Davidson published a piece in the Raleigh News & Observer in January 2007. She stated that the ad was a response “to the anguish of students who felt demeaned by racist and sexist remarks swirling around in the media and on the campus quad in the aftermath of what happened on March 13 in the lacrosse house.”

In 2010, President Obama nominated her to a six-year term on the National Council on the Humanities, a position confirmed by the Senate in July 2011. Davidson serves on the Board of Advisors to the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation "Digital Media and Learning" book series. She is a former President of the American Studies Association and former editor of the journal American Literature. She lectures and consults on interdisciplinary, collaboration, digital literacy, virtual communities, and innovative learning-applications of new technologies.

In 2012, Cathy N. Davidson and David Theo Goldberg received Educators of the Year awards from the World Technology Network in recognition of “doing the innovative work of ‘the greatest likely long-term significance’ in their field” of education through their work as co-founders of HASTAC/MacArthur Foundation Digital Media and Learning Competition.

Works

Davidson is the author or editor of 18 books. Closing: The Life and Death of an American Factory (a collaboration with documentary photographer Bill Bamberger) was a recipient of the Mayflower Cup Award for Non-Fiction. The photographs from Closing traveled to museums around the U.S. for four years, including the Smithsonian Museum of American History.

She served as General Editor of the Oxford University Press Early American Women Writers Series and, with Ada Norris, edited American Indian Stories, Legends and Other Writings by Zitkala-Sa, the first Penguin Classic devoted to a Native American author.

Her book, Now You See It: How the Brain Science of Attention Will Transform the Way We Live, Work, and Learn was named by Publishers Weekly "one of the top ten science books" of the Fall 2011 season". One reviewer wrote: "She makes the case, through numerous examples and lucid argument, that we can do much better in aligning our schools, our workplaces and our lives, and that this will make us not only more successful as a society but more fulfilled as individuals."

Books

Now You See It: How the Brain Science of Attention Will Transform the Way We Live, Work, and Learn (2011)
"The Future of Thinking: Learning Institutions in a Digital Age" with David Theo Goldberg (2010)
Closing: The Life and Death of an American Factory with Bill Bamberger (1998)
The Oxford Companion to Women's Writing in the United States with Linda Wagner-Martin (1995)
The Oxford Book of Women's Writing in the United States with Linda Wagner-Martin (1995)
Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji: On Finding Myself in Japan (1993; expanded edition, 2004)
The Book of Love: Writers and Their Love Letters (1992)
Reading in America: Literature and Social History (1989)
Revolution and the Word: The Rise of the Novel in America (1986; expanded edition 2004)

References

Cathy N. Davidson faculty profile page
Department of English at Duke University
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History | HASTAC
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"Collaborative Learning for the Digital Age". The Chronicle of Higher Education. August 26, 2011. Retrieved September 18, 2012.
Now You See It
http://diverseeducation.com/article/6902/ Duke Professors Reject Calls to Apologize to Lacrosse Players Retrieved 15 May 2014
Cathy Davidson, “In the Aftermath of a Social Disaster,” Raleigh News & Observer, Jan 5, 2007, A18. Quoted in the book Institutional Failures
"Cathy Davidson Confirmed for the National Council on the Humanities (Updated)". Duke Today. June 2, 2011. Retrieved September 18, 2012.
Department of English at Duke University
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Finalists 2012
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"Past Exhibitions". North Carolina Museum of Art. Retrieved May 29, 2013.
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"Early American Women Writers Series". Oxford University Press. Retrieved May 29, 2013.
"Oxford Companion to Women's Writing in the United States". Oxford Reference. Retrieved May 29, 2013.
Ruark, Jennifer (February 7, 2003). "Penguin to Spotlight American Indian Writer's Works as Part of Revamped Classics Series". The Chronicle of Higher Education. Retrieved May 29, 2013.
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Gold, Sarah (June 27, 2011). "Fall 2011 Announcements: Science: From Big Questions to the Brain". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved May 29, 2013.
Trapani, Josh. "Now You See It review". Book review. The Washington Independent Review of Books. Retrieved Aug 22, 2011.
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	In 2003, Davidson initiated a program at Duke, in conjunction with Apple, to give free iPods to each member of the incoming class with no other requirements. This sparked harsh criticism and ridicule from the academic community and news media.{{Citation needed\|date=July 2013}} The program was viewed as a success by Duke since it led to new applications for the iPod in an educational environment and inspired a new initiative among Duke students to innovate and collaborate.<ref>Duke University iPod First Year Experience Final Evaluations Report, June 2005, accessed July 2013, http://cit.duke.edu/pdf/reports/ipod_initiative_04_05.pdf</ref><ref>{{cite web\|url=https://chronicle.com/article/Collaborative-Learning-for-the/128789/ \|title=Collaborative Learning for the Digital Age \|date=August 26, 2011 \| publisher=The Chronicle of Higher Education \|accessdate=September 18, 2012}}</ref><ref>Now You See It</ref>		In 2003, Davidson initiated a program at Duke, in conjunction with Apple, to give free iPods to each member of the incoming class with no other requirements. This sparked harsh criticism and ridicule from the academic community and news media.{{Citation needed\|date=July 2013}} The program was viewed as a success by Duke since it led to new applications for the iPod in an educational environment and inspired a new initiative among Duke students to innovate and collaborate.<ref>Duke University iPod First Year Experience Final Evaluations Report, June 2005, accessed July 2013, http://cit.duke.edu/pdf/reports/ipod_initiative_04_05.pdf</ref><ref>{{cite web\|url=https://chronicle.com/article/Collaborative-Learning-for-the/128789/ \|title=Collaborative Learning for the Digital Age \|date=August 26, 2011 \| publisher=The Chronicle of Higher Education \|accessdate=September 18, 2012}}</ref><ref>Now You See It</ref>

	During the ], Davidson and 87 other Duke faculty members, sometimes referred to as the ], published an open letter calling for Duke to dismiss the team and its players. The open letter gained additional prominence when the defense attorney for the lacrosse players requested a change of venue while citing the advertisement as evidence of Duke faculty bias against the players.<ref>http://diverseeducation.com/article/6902/ Duke Professors Reject Calls to Apologize to Lacrosse Players Retrieved 15 May 2014</ref> In response to criticism of the ad, Davidson published a piece in the ] in January 2007. She stated that the ad was a response “to the anguish of students who felt demeaned by racist and sexist remarks swirling around in the media and on the campus quad in the aftermath of what happened on March 13 in the lacrosse house.”<ref name="Davidson response">Cathy Davidson, “In the Aftermath of a Social Disaster,” Raleigh News & Observer, Jan 5, 2007, A18. Quoted in the book Institutional Failures~~</ref> The only well documented racist statements had been by fellow Group of 88 members denouncing whiteness.<ref>KC Johnson, ''Until Proven Innocent''~~</ref>		During the ], Davidson and 87 other Duke faculty members, sometimes referred to as the ], published an open letter calling for Duke to dismiss the team and its players. The open letter gained additional prominence when the defense attorney for the lacrosse players requested a change of venue while citing the advertisement as evidence of Duke faculty bias against the players.<ref>http://diverseeducation.com/article/6902/ Duke Professors Reject Calls to Apologize to Lacrosse Players Retrieved 15 May 2014</ref> In response to criticism of the ad, Davidson published a piece in the ] in January 2007. She stated that the ad was a response “to the anguish of students who felt demeaned by racist and sexist remarks swirling around in the media and on the campus quad in the aftermath of what happened on March 13 in the lacrosse house.”<ref name="Davidson response">Cathy Davidson, “In the Aftermath of a Social Disaster,” Raleigh News & Observer, Jan 5, 2007, A18. Quoted in the book Institutional Failures</ref>

	In 2010, President Obama nominated her to a six-year term on the ], a position confirmed by the Senate in July 2011.<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://today.duke.edu/2010/12/Davidson_NCH.html \|title=Cathy Davidson Confirmed for the National Council on the Humanities (Updated) \|date=June 2, 2011 \| publisher=Duke Today \|accessdate=September 18, 2012}}</ref> Davidson serves on the Board of Advisors to the ] "Digital Media and Learning" book series. She is a former President of the ] and former editor of the journal ''American Literature''.<ref name = english></ref> She lectures and consults on interdisciplinary, collaboration, digital literacy, virtual communities, and innovative learning-applications of new technologies.		In 2010, President Obama nominated her to a six-year term on the ], a position confirmed by the Senate in July 2011.<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://today.duke.edu/2010/12/Davidson_NCH.html \|title=Cathy Davidson Confirmed for the National Council on the Humanities (Updated) \|date=June 2, 2011 \| publisher=Duke Today \|accessdate=September 18, 2012}}</ref> Davidson serves on the Board of Advisors to the ] "Digital Media and Learning" book series. She is a former President of the ] and former editor of the journal ''American Literature''.<ref name = english></ref> She lectures and consults on interdisciplinary, collaboration, digital literacy, virtual communities, and innovative learning-applications of new technologies.