11 Facts About Cathy Davidson

Cathy N Davidson was born on 1949 and is an American scholar and university professor.

Cathy Davidson was a professor of English at Duke University in 2006.

Cathy Davidson's work focuses on technology, collaboration, cognition, learning, and the digital age.

Cathy Davidson has received honorary doctorates from Elmhurst College and Northwestern University.

Cathy 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.

Cathy Davidson 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.

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

In 2003, Cathy Davidson initiated a program at Duke, in conjunction with Apple Computer, to give free iPods to each member of the incoming class with no other requirements.

Cathy Davidson serves on the Board of Advisors to the John D and Catherine T MacArthur Foundation "Digital Media and Learning" book series.

Cathy Davidson was named the first educator on the six-person Board of Directors of Mozilla.

Cathy Davidson 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.