About
Cathy N. Davidson is HASTAC’s cofounder and codirector. She is Senior advisor to the Chancellor on Transformation, Distinguished Professor of English, Digital Humanities, and Data Analysis and Visualization, and Founding Director of the Futures Initiative at the Graduate Center CUNY. She is also R. F. DeVarney
Professor Emerita of Interdisciplinary Studies at Duke University where she was Duke’s (and the nation’s) first Vice Provost for Interdisciplinary Studies. The author of over twenty books, she was appointed by President Obama to the National Council on the Humanities (2011-17) and served as the first educator on the Board of Directors of Mozilla (2012-18). She is the recipient of the 2016 Ernest L. Boyer Award for Significant Contributions to Higher Education and The New Education: Revolutionizing the University for a World in Flux (Basic Books, 2017) has been honored with the 2019 Frederick W. Ness Book Award from the Association of American Colleges and Universities. She is the 2021 recipient of the Advocacy Award from the Council of Arts and Sciences. Her most recent book, coauthored with Christina Katopodis, is The New College Classroom (Harvard UP, Sept 2002). She has twice keynoted the Nobel Prize Forum on the Future of Learning, in Chile and Stockholm. Work Shared in CORE
Charts
Reports
Blog Posts
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Thank you, Pratt Institute! Thank you, HASTAC Community! HASTAC2023 is a wrap.
(Educational and Cultural Institutions,
2023-06-12)
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A (Very Brief) History of HASTAC (2002-2023)
(Educational and Cultural Institutions,
2023-06-08)
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How To Upload a File: May, 1994
(Technology, Networks, and Sciences,
2023-04-09)
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Measuring the Impact of Urban Renewal: DH that Counts!
(Social and Political Issues,
2023-03-22)
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In Memoriam to Julie Thompson Klein, One of HASTAC’s CoFounders
(Technology, Networks, and Sciences,
2023-01-16)
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HASTAC Scholars Application Link Here (Due Nov 15)
(Humanities, Arts, and Media,
2022-11-08)
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Welcome to HASTAC Commons!
(Teaching and Learning,
2022-11-07)
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HASTAC.org Migrates to HASTAC Commons
(Technology, Networks, and Sciences,
2022-03-29)
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How Does Your Grad Dept Prepare Students to Teach? An Open, Crowdsourced @HASTAC Project
(Teaching and Learning,
2021-11-01)
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Announcing Upddated Edition of The New Education (Coming Spring 2022)
(Teaching and Learning,
2021-09-29)
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6th COMPUTATIONAL ARCHIVAL SCIENCE (CAS) WORKSHOP
(Technology, Networks, and Sciences,
2021-07-26)
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A Tip to Ward off Zoombification (And Get You Through to End of Term)
(Teaching and Learning,
2021-04-17)
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“I Wake Up Counting”: A Free Online Publication of Syllabi and Activities from our Spring 2020 Course
(Teaching and Learning,
2021-03-16)
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The Announcement I Wish I Would Hear from a College President
(Humanities, Arts, and Media,
2020-05-27)
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Don’t Let The NYT Fool You! College is Worth It, Necessary, and the Only Major Tool We Have for Combatting Income Inequality
(Social and Political Issues,
2019-12-28)
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How To Remake (i.e. Save) the History Major in 7 Steps
(Humanities, Arts, and Media,
2019-08-19)
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How a University Can Sell Its Soul: HASTAC’s Stanford Origins and the University’s Current Decision on Stanford University Press
(Educational and Cultural Institutions,
2019-04-28)
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Black Love: An Interview w Prof Racquel Gates
(Humanities, Arts, and Media,
2019-02-12)
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How to Cope with the Dreaded–I mean, AMAZING– “Revise and Resubmit”
(Publishing and Archives,
2019-01-25)
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Building a Better Major: The Case of English
(Humanities, Arts, and Media,
2019-01-17)
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Is College Worth It? People Who Are Worth A Lot Think So!
(Social and Political Issues,
2018-12-12)
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Thank you, Mozilla
(Technology, Networks, and Sciences,
2018-08-29)
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Is Higher Ed “Insatiable” or Sucked Dry? A Response to @Chronicle of Higher Education
(Educational and Cultural Institutions,
2018-08-01)
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How To Get Your First Job: Smart Talk (via Twitter) from Prof Tressie Cottom
(Educational and Cultural Institutions,
2018-06-01)
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Student Food Insecurity and What To Do About It: #RealCollege Launches a Campaign for Real Change
(Social and Political Issues,
2018-04-18)
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SSRC Works with Facebook To Make Data Available for Ethically Responsible Research
(Social and Political Issues,
2018-04-09)
