(Abbreviated) Curriculum Vitae

Charles M. Ess

 

Distinguished Research Professor,                                        Professor II, Programme for Applied

    Interdisciplinary Studies                                                        Ethics, Globalization Programme,

Professor,                                                                                    Norwegian University of Science

    Philosophy and Religion                                                        and Technology, Trondheim

Drury University                   

900 N. Benton Ave.                                                    Home:  646 S. Weller

Springfield, MO  65802                                                          Springfield, MO  65802

voice :  417-873-7230                                                             417-863-1819

fax:  417-873-7450                                                     mobile: 417-773-6610

Email: cmess@drury.edu       Homepage: http://www.drury.edu/ess/ess.html

 

Education: 

    Ph.D.-1983:            Philosophy, Pennsylvania State University

    M.A.- 1975:            Philosophy (minor in Greek), Penn State

     B.A.- 1973:            Philosophy and German, Texas Christian University (graduated with university honors, philosophy departmental honors, Phi Beta Kappa)

 

Dissertation:  Analogy in the Critical Works: Kant¹s Transcendental Philosophy as Analectical Thought (Ann Arbor, MI: University Microfilms International, 1983.)

 

Academic Positions:

               2007:            Visiting [Full] Professor, Department of Information and Media Studies, Aarhus University, Denmark. (fall semester).

                                    Professeur Invité (guest professor), Institute Universitaire de Formation des Maîtres (IUFM) (a unit of le laboratoire interdisciplinaire de recherche en didactique education et formation [LIRDEF]), Centre Universitaire Vauban, Nîmes, France.  June.

       2006-2007            Information Ethics Fellow, the Center for Information Policy Research, School of Information Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

               2006:            First Opponent, PhD defense; Department of Interdisciplinary Studies of Culture, Faculty of Arts, Norwegian Science and Technical University (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway.

                                    PhD preliminary examiner (information ethics), Mälardalen University, Sweden.

                                    PhD Examiner, Murdoch University, Perth, WA, Australia.

      2005-2008:            Professor II, in affiliation with the Programme for Applied Ethics, Norwegian Science and Technical University (NTNU).

      2005-2006:            Erasmus Mundus Scholar, Masters Course in Applied Ethics (NTNU, Linköping University, Sweden, and Utrecht University, The Netherlands – funded by the European Commission.

      2005-2008:            Committee on Scientific Freedom and Responsibility, American Association for the Advancement of Science (Chair, 2007-2008)

      2005-2007:            Vice-President, Association for Internet Researchers (AoIR) (President, 2007-2009).

      2005-2006:            PhD co-supervisor (with Espen Aarseth), IT-University, Copenhagen.

               2004:            Fulbright Senior Scholar, Universität Trier (Departments of Chinese [Sinologie] and Media Studies [Medienwissenschaft]), Sept. 16-Dec. 15

  2004-present:            Editorial Board, INSEIT Journal (International Society for Ethics and Information Technology).

  2004-present:            Editorial Board, International Journal of Technology and Human Interaction

  2004-present:            Editorial Board, Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication

               2003:            Visiting [Full] Professor, Department of Digital Aesthetics & Communication, IT-University, Copenhagen (sabbatical leave, fall)

               2003:            PhD Examiner, Murdoch University, Perth, WA, Australia.

                                    PhD Examiner, Charles Sturt University, New South Wales, Australia.

  2003-present:            Editorial Board, new media and society (Sage)

      2003-2009:            Distinguished Research Professor, Interdisciplinary Studies, Drury University

  2002-present:            Research Associate, Information Ethics Group, Oxford Computing Laboratory

      2002-2005:            Academic Advisory Panel, Pew Internet and American Life Project

      2002-2005:            Committee on Scientific Freedom and Responsibility, American Association for the Advancement of Science

  2002-present:            Editorial Board, Arts & Humanities in Higher Education (Sage)

               2002:            PhD Examiner, School of Communications and Multimedia, Edith Cowan University (Mount Lawley, Western Australia)

      2000-2005:            Chair, Ethics Working Committee, Association of Internet Researchers

      2001-2002:            Director, Interdisciplinary Studies Center, Drury University

      1998-2000:            Board member, ASIANetwork <www.asianetwork.org>

      1996-1998:            Research Associate, Center for the Advancement of Applied Ethics,

                                    Carnegie Mellon University (sabbatical leave, fall, 1996)

      1995-2001:            Chair, Philosophy and Religion Department, Drury College

               1994:            Tenure, promotion to Professor, Drury College       

      1988-1994:            Associate Professor, Drury College

      1986-1988:            Assistant Professor, Morningside College, Sioux City, Iowa. 

                                    (Leave replacement)

      1980-1986:            Assistant Professor, Rocky Mountain College, Billings, Montana. 

                                    (Tenure, leave of absence approved, 1986; promotion to

                                    associate approved, 1988)

Languages:  German (fluent); reading ability in French; reading ability (fair), classical and koiné Greek, Danish, Norwegian

 

Works in progress:

Book (under contract), Digital Media Ethics, Polity Press.  Projected MS submission date: January, 2008.

Special Issue, "Floridi and His Critics," Ethics and Information Technology, 2008.

Special Issue, "Kant and Information Ethics ," Ethics and Information Technology, 2008.

(with Elizabeth Buchanan) ³Internet Research Ethics,² K. Himma and H. Tavani (eds.), Information and Computer Ethics.  John Wiley & Sons, 2007.

Invited book chapters

Culture and global networks: hope for a global ethics? In Jeroen van den Hoven and John Weckert (Eds.), Information Technology and Moral Philosophy. Cambridge University Press.
[This chapter was translated into Chinese for publication in a special issue on information ethics, 耀怀 吕 (Lü Yao-huai), ed., Journal of Shanghai Teachers University.]

Lectures, presentations, conference organization:

Conference co-chair, AoIR 8.0.  Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. October 11-14, 2007

 

Recent Publications:

Books

Editor, with Soraj Hongladarom, Information Technology Ethics: Cultural Perspectives.  Idea Publishing, 2007.

Editor, with Fay Sudweeks and Herbert Hrachovec, Fifth International Conference on Cultural Attitudes towards Technology and Communication 2006. Murdoch, WA: Murdoch University.

Editor, with May Thorseth, Technology in a Multicultural and Global Society. Programme for Applied Ethics: Publication Series No. 6. Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, 2005.

Editor, Critical Thinking and the Bible in the Age of New Media.  Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2004.

Editor, with Fay Sudweeks, Culture, Technology, Communication: Towards an Intercultural Global Village. Preface by Susan Herring. SUNY Press Series on Computer-Mediated Communication.  (June, 2001)

Editor, Philosophical Perspectives on Computer-Mediated Communication. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1996. Includes my ³Thoughts along the I-Way: Philosophy and the Emergence of Computer-Mediated Communication² (Introduction) (pp. 1-12), and ³The Political Computer: Democracy, CMC, and Habermas² (pp. 197-230).

 

Recent book chapters

When the Solution becomes the Problem: Cultures and Individuals as Obstacles to Online Learning. (Opening chapter.)  In Marie-Noëlle Lamy and Robin Goodfellow (eds.) Learning Cultures in Online Education.  Continuum Press, 2008.

Internet Research Ethics. In Adam Joinson, Katelyn McKenna, Tom Postmes, and Ulf-Dietrich Reips (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Internet Psychology, 487-502.  Oxford University Press, 2007. 

Research Ethics of Internet Research, International Encyclopedia of Communication, Blackwell Press, 2007.

Can the Local Reshape the Global? Ethical Imperatives for Humane Intercultural Communication Online.  In Johannes Frühbauer, Rafael Capurro and Thomas Hausmanninger (Eds.) Localizing the Internet. Ethical Aspects in an Intercultural Perspective, 153-169.
 (Volume 4, ICIE Series.)  München: Wilhelm Fink, 2007.

Liberal Arts and Distance Education: Can Socratic Virtue (arete) and Confucius' Exemplary Person (junzi) Be Taught Online? In Mark Pegrum and Joe Lockard (eds.), Brave New Classrooms: Educational Democracy and the Internet, 189-212. New York: Peter Lang, 2007.

Universal Information Ethics? Ethical Pluralism and Social Justice.  In Emma Rooksby and John Weckert (eds.), Information Technology and Social Justice, 69-92.  Hershey, PA: Idea Publishing, 2006.

Computer-Mediated Colonization, the Renaissance, and Educational Imperatives for an Intercultural Global Village. Ethics and Information Technology IV (1): (February, 2002), 11-22. Reprinted in: John Weckert (ed.), Computer Ethics. (The International Library of Essays in Public and Professional Ethics.)  Hampshire (UK): Ashgate, 2007.

Japanese translation of ³Ethical Pluralism and Global Information Ethics³. In Toru Nishigaki & Tadashi Takenouchi (eds.), 国際情報倫理学 (Kokusai Joho Rinrigaku - Intercultural information ethics (provisional title). Tokyo: NTT Publishing. 2006.

From Computer-Mediated Colonization to Culturally-Aware ICT Usage and Design. In P. Zaphiris and S. Kurniawan (eds.), Advances in Universal Web Design and Evaluation: Research, Trends and Opportunities, 178-197. Hershey, PA: Idea Publishing, 2006.

Du colonialisme informatique à un usage culturellement informé des TIC.  In J. Aden (ed.), De Babel à la mondialisation: apport des sciences sociales à la didactique des langues, 47-61. Dijon : CNDP - CRDP de Bourgogne, 2006.

³Being In Place Out of Place.../ Being Out of Place In Place: CMC, Globalization, and Emerging Hybridities as New Cosmopolitanisms?² In May Thorseth and Charles Ess (eds.), Technology in a Multicultural and Global Society, 91-114. NTNU Publication Series No. 6. Trondheim, Norway: Norwegian University of Science and Technology, 2005.

Computer-Mediated Colonization, the Renaissance, and Educational Imperatives for an Intercultural Global Village. In Robert Cavalier (ed.), The Internet and Our Moral Lives, pp. 161-193. (Albany, NY: SUNY Press), 2004.

³Discourse Ethics,² in Carl Mitcham et al (eds.), Encyclopedia of Science, Technology, and Ethics. New York: MacMillan Reference, 2005. 

³Das Christentum gab dem Eros Gift zu trinken Š²: Can Confucian thought provide an antidote?² In Hans-Georg Moeller and Günter Wohlfart (eds.), Love East and West. Chora Verlag: Munich, 2005.

Computing in Philosophy and Religion, in Susan Schreibman, R.G. Siemens and John Unsworth (eds.), A Companion to Digital Humanities, pp. 132-142. Oxford: Blackwell, 2004.

Beyond Contemptus Mundi and Cartesian Dualism: Western Resurrection of the BodySubject and (re)New(ed) Coherencies with Eastern Approaches to Life/Death, in Günter Wollfahrt and Hans Georg-Moeller (eds.), Philosophie des Todes: Death Philosophy  East and West, 15-36. Chora Verlag: Munich, 2004.

The Cathedral or the Bazaar? The AoIR document on Internet Research Ethics as an Exercise in Open Source Ethics, in Mia Consalvo et al (eds.), Internet Research Annual Volume 1: Selected Papers from the Association of Internet Researchers Conferences 2000-2002, pp. 95-103. New York: Peter Lang, 2003.

(with Steve Jones), Ethical Decision-Making and Internet Research: Recommendations from the AoIR Ethics Working Committee, in Elizabeth Buchanan (ed.), Readings in Virtual Research Ethics: Issues and Controversies, 27-44. Hershey: Idea Group Publishing, 2003.

Cultural Collisions and Collusions in the Electronic Global Village: From McWorld and Jihad to Intercultural Cosmopolitanism, in Peter D. Herschock, Marietta Stepaniants, and Roger T. Ames (eds.), Technology and Cultural Values on the Edge of the Third Millenium, 508-527. Honolulu: University of Hawai¹i Press and East-West Philosophers Conference, 2003.

³(Re)New(ed) Perspectives on Embodiment and Internet Research Ethics,² in May Thorseth (ed.), Applied Ethics in Internet Research, 13-29. Trondheim, Norway: Programme for Applied Ethics, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim. 2003.

Computer-mediated Communication and Human-Computer Interaction.  2003. In Luciano Floridi (ed.), The Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of Information and Computing, 76-91.  Oxford: Blackwell.

Epilogue: Are We There Yet? Emerging Ethical Guidelines for Online Research. 2003. In Mark D. Johns, Shing-Ling  Sarina Chen and G. Jon Hall (eds.), Online Social Research: Methods, Issues, and Ethics, 253-263. New York: Peter Lang, 2003.

Electronic Global Village or McWorld? The Paradoxes of Computer-mediated Cosmopolitanism and the Quest for Universal Values. In Rolf Elberfeld, Johann Kreuzer, John Minford, and Günter Wohlfart (eds.), Komparative Ethik: Das gute Leben zwischen den Kulteren [Comparative Ethics: the Good Life between Cultures], 319-342. München: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 2002.

Cultures in Collision: Philosophical Lessons from Computer-Mediated Communication. In James H. Moor and Terrell Ward Bynum (eds.), CyberPhilosophy: The Intersection of Philosophy and Computing, 219-242. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 2002.

Religious Perspectives (text and video contributions), in The Issue of Abortion in America: an exploration of a social controversy on CD-ROM, Robert Cavalier, Preston Covey, Elizabeth A. Style, and Andrew Thompson. London: Routledge, 1998.

Reading Adam and Eve: Re-Visions of the Myth of Woman¹s Subordination to Man, in: Marie M. Fortune and Carol J. Adams (eds.), Violence Against Women and Children: A Christian Theological Sourcebook, 92-120. New York: Continuum Press, 1995.

The Political Computer: Hypertext, Democracy, and Habermas in: G. Landow (ed.), Hyper/Text/Theory, 225-267. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1994.

 

Journal articles, conference publications

³Déclinaisons culturelles en ligne : observation « de l'autre »," special issue of Etudes De Linguistique Appliquée (Paris: Didier Klienkensick), ³La culture ou les cultures à l¹école ou ailleurs / D¹autres espaces pour les cultures,² edited by Clara Farrao. No. 146 (avril, mai, juin 2007).

Bridging Cultures: Theoretical and Practical Approaches to Unity and Diversity Online.  Introduction to special issue, Information Ethics, International Journal of Technology and Human Interaction 3 (3 –July-September, 2007), iii-x.

Special Theme Issue (with Akira Kawabata and Hiroyuki Kurosaki), "Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Religion and Computer-Mediated Communication," Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication 12 (3), April, 2007. <http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol12/issue3/ess.html>

 (with May Thorseth [NTNU]), Neither relativism nor imperialism: Theories and practices for a global information ethics [introduction, pp. 91-95] and special issue on "Global Information Ethics: Cross-cultural Approaches to Emancipation, Privacy and Regulation."  Ethics and Information Technology, Volume 8, Number 3, pp. 91-154.

Ethical Pluralism and Global Information Ethics.  (Uehiro / Carnegie Foundations Oxford Conference lecture.) In Luciano Floridi and Julian Savulescu (eds.), ³Information Ethics: Agents, Artifacts and New Cultural Perspectives,² a special issue of Ethics and Information Technology 8 (4: November 2006), 215 – 226.
[This chapter is being translated into Japanese for simultaneous publication in: 西垣通 (Toru Nishigaki) & 竹之内禎 (Tadashi Takenouchi), eds., 国際情報倫理学 (Kokusai Joho Rinrigaku - Intercultural information ethics), NTT publishing, Tokyo, 2006.]

(with Gove Allen, Dan Burk), ³Academic Data Collection in Electronic Environments: Defining Acceptable Use of Internet Resources.² Ethics and Information Technology.

Special issue (co-editor with Elizabeth Buchanan), The Ethics of E-Games. International Review of Information Ethics, Vol. 2/2005. < http://www.i-r-i-e.net/>

ŒŒLost in translation¹¹?: Intercultural dialogues on privacy and information ethics (Introduction to special issue on Privacy and Data Privacy Protection in Asia), Ethics and Information Technology (2005) 7 (1): 1–6.

³Culture and Computer-Mediated Communication: Toward New Understandings,² (with Fay Sudweeks), theme issue, Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, Culture and Computer-Mediated Communication: Toward New Understandings. Vol. 11, No. 1: October, 2005. <http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol11/issue1/ess.html/>

With Fay Sudweeks, ³Communication, Culture and Praxis,² special issue of Electronic Journal of Communication/La Revue Electronique de Communication, Vol. 15 (1-2), 2005. <http://www.cios.org/www/ejc/v15n12.htm>

³Liberal Arts and Distance Education: Can Socratic Virtue (arete) and Confucius' Exemplary Person (junzi) Be Taught Online?² In Soraj Hongladarom (ed.), Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Technology and Universities in Asia (ITUA 2002), 107-137. Bangkok, Thailand: Chulalongkorn University Press.

Comparative Approaches in Philosophy of Religion, ASIANetwork EXCHANGE: A Newsletter for Teaching about Asia, Vol. XI, No. 1 (Fall, 2003), 18-22.

The RESPECT Guidelines: Ethical, Cultural, and Meta-Ethical Considerations, presentation to the RESPECT Conference (funded by the European Commission¹s Information Society Technologies (IST) Programme, to draw up professional and ethical guidelines for the conduct of socio-economic research), Budapest, June 11-12, 2003.  Conference presentations available from the RESPECT Project website, <http://www.respectproject.org/main/index.php>.

Liberal Arts and Distance Education: Can Socratic Virtue (arete) and Confucius' Exemplary Person (junzi) Be Taught Online? Arts and Humanities in Higher Education, vol. 2, no. 2 (June, 2003): 117-137.

(With Fay Sudweeks), Introduction and special issue on ³Liberatory Potentials and Practices of CMC in the Middle East,² Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, Vol. 8, issue 2, 2003. <http://www.ascusc.org/jcmc/vol8/issue2/>

Final Report of the AoIR ethics working committee, ³Ethical Guidelines for Internet Research,² AoIR (Association of Internet Researchers). <aoir.org/reports/ethicsfinal.pdf>

Introduction, Ethics and Information Technology 4 (3): 177-188. Special issue on Internet Research Ethics, (co-edited with Helen Nissenbaum), based on panel presentations at the Computer Ethics: Philosophical Enquiries (CEPE) Conference, Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK. December 14-16, 2001.  Available online: <http://www.nyu.edu/projects/nissenbaum/projects_ethics.html>.

Borgmann and the Borg: Consumerism vs. Holding on to Reality. A review essay on Albert Borgmann¹s  Holding on to Reality, special issue of Techne, edited by Phil Mullins.  2002. <http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejournals/SPT/v6n1/ess.html>

Liberation in cyberspace ... Or computer-mediated colonization? / Liberation en Cyberspace ou Colonisation Assistee par Ordinateur? Introduction to ³Global cultures: collisions and communication,² special issue of Electronic Journal of Communication/La Revue Electronique de Communication, Volume 12 Numbers 3 & 4, 2002. <http://www.cios.org/www/ejc/v12n34.htm>

Cultures in Collision: Philosophical Lessons from Computer-Mediated Communication, Metaphilosophy, Vol. 33, Nos. 1/2 (January, 2002): 229-253.

Computer-Mediated Colonization, the Renaissance, and Educational Imperatives for an Intercultural Global Village. Special issue, ³The Impact of the Internet on our Moral Lives,² Ethics and Information Technology IV (1): (February, 2002), 11-22.

Co-editor (with Jonathan Zhu and Fay Sudweeks), Internet Adoption in the Asia-Pacific Region, special issue of Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 7: 2 (January, 2002). <http://www.ascusc.org/jcmc/vol7/issue2/>

Initial Comments on Teaching Comparative Philosophy, ASIANetwork EXCHANGE IX (2: Winter, 2001), 20-25.

On the Edge: Cultural Barriers and Catalysts to IT Diffusion among Remote and Marginalized Communities, introduction to special issue of New Media and Society, 3 (3: September), 2001.

The Word online? Text and image, authority and spirituality in the Age of the Internet. Special issue, ³The Net: New Apprentices and Old Masters / Nouveaux Horizons, Vielles Hégémonies,² Mots Pluriels et grands themes de notre temps. Revue électronique de Lettres à caractère international. 19 (Octobre/October 2001). <http://www.arts.uwa.edu.au/MotsPluriels/MP1901ce.html>

We are the Borg: the Web as agent of assimilation or cultural Renaissance? - PhilTech article in ephilosopher, (Fall, 2000). <http://www.ephilosopher.com/120100/philtech/philtech.htm>

Wag the dog? Online Conferencing and Teaching, Computers and the Humanities, August - 34: 3 (August 2000), 297-309.

Cultural Collisions and Collusions in the Electronic Global Village: From McWorld and Jihad to Intercultural Cosmopolitanism, Philosophy and Social Action 26: 1-2 (March) 2000.

Cultural Attitudes towards Technology and Communication: New Directions of Research in Computer-Mediated Communication, Guest Editorial, special issue of AI and Society, ³Cultural Attitudes towards Technology and Communication² (co-edited with Fay Sudweeks), Vol 13, 1999. Pp. 329-340.

Co-editor (with Fay Sudweeks), special issue of Javnost-the Public, ³Global Cultures: Communities, Communication and Transformation.² Vol 6, 1999.

Review Essay, ³Critique in Communication and Philosophy: an Emerging Dialogue?² (regarding James W. Chesebro and Dale A. Bertelsen, Analyzing Media: Communication Technologies as Symbolic and Cognitive Systems [New York: Guilford Press, 1996)]), Research in Philosophy and Technology, special issue on Philosophies of the Environment and Technology, Vol. 18, 1999. Pp. 219-226.

 

Recent Translations, Invited Lectures, Keynote Addresses

Invited plenary speaker, ³Philosophy of the Information Society - Philosophie der Informationsgesellschaft,² 2007 International Wittgenstein Symposium. Kirchberg, Austria, August 5-11.

Invited plenary speaker, Zweiter internationaler Kongress “Kulturwissenschaftliche Technikforschung³ [Second international congress, "Cultural-Scientific Technology Research"], University of Hamburg, Germany, 1-3 June, 2007.

Information Ethics Fellow Lecture, Center for Information Policy Research, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. November 13, 2006.

Video available online: <http://129.89.43.24:8080/ramgen/classes/CIPR/charlesess.rm>

Final text version: <http://www.uwm.edu/Dept/SOIS/cipr/docs/ess.pdf>

Invited participant, ³The ethical, legal and institutional issues of e-research,² chaired by Bill Dutton, Director of the Oxford e-Social Science Project, Oxford Internet Institute; Research Methods Festival, sponsored by the Economic and Social Research Council, Oxford Internet Institute and the Oxford Computing Laboratory, University of Oxford. 17-20 July, 2006.  (Invitation declined.)

Invited speaker, workshop on ³Privacy and Surveillance Technology – Intercultural and Interdisciplinary Perspectives,² ZiF (Center of Interdisciplinary Studies), University of Bielefeld.  February 10-11, 2006.

Invited speaker, 2005 Conference of the Uehiro Foundation and Carnegie Council: University of Oxford Symposium on Ethics, Oxford University, December 8-9, 2005.

Keynote address, ³What should IRB members know about Internet research ethics?²  IRB Member Education Symposium, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, April 25, 2005.

Panel respondent, ³Japanese Religions and ICTs,² 19th World Congress of the International Association for the History of Religions, Tokyo, Japan, 30 March, 2005.

Invited lecture, Information Ethics: Local Approaches, Global Potentials? Or: Divergence, Convergence, and Ethical Pluralism as Maintaining Distinctive Cultural Identities and (quasi?)-universal Ethics (sponsored by the Uehiru Foundation for Ethics and Education), Tokyo University, March 22, 2005.

Plenary address, ³From Computer-Mediated Colonisation to Culturally-Aware ICT Usage and Design,² Conference, ³Contenus culturels et didactique des langues : rôle des disciplines contributoires,² hosted by ALDIDAC (Approche Linguistique et Didactique de la Différence Culturelle), Cergy Pontoise, France, March 11, 2005.

Invited keynote address, ³International Restrictions Affecting Internet Research: Conflicts, Risks, Resolutions?² National Conference (Canada) of NCEHR/CNERH (National Council on Ethics in Human research / Conseil national d¹éthique en recherche chez l¹humain).  Ottawa, Canada, March 5, 2005.

Invited keynote address, ³Information ethics: local approaches, global potentials?,² Second Asia-Pacific Computing and Philosophy Conference (AP-CAP), Bangkok, Thailand, January 7 - 9, 2005.

Invited lecture, ³Cross-cultural communication online: How Diverse Cultural Values and Communicative Preferences Shape Users and Uses of Computer-mediated Communication Technologies,² Informatics Institute, Humboldt University, Berlin, December 16, 2004.

Invited lecture, ³Cross-cultural communication online: How Diverse Cultural Values and Communicative Preferences Shape Users and Uses of Computer-mediated Communication Technologies,² Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute (HATII), University of Glasgow, December 10, 2004.

Invited lecture, ³(Quasi) Global Research Ethics? Challenges, Accomplishments, More Challenges,² Networked Research and Digital Information (NERDI), KNAW-Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Science, November 25, 2004, Amsterdam. Available online: <http://www.niwi.knaw.nl/en/nerdi2/lectures/charles_ess>.

Keynote address, ³Can the Local Reshape the Global? Ethical Imperatives for Humane Intercultural Communication Online – Views from the Centers and the Margins,² International Conference on Information Ethics.  Karlsruhe, Germany.  Oct. 4 – 5, 2004.

Invited lecture, ³Cross-cultural communication online: How Diverse Cultural Values and Communicative Preferences Shape Users and Uses of Computer-mediated Communication Technologies,² Carnegie Mellon Libraries, Pittsburgh, PA.  August 3, 2004. Available online: <http://www.library.cmu.edu/Libraries/FIDArchive.html>

 ³Research Ethics: Cases, Issues, Possible Resolutions,² presentation and conference organization, ³Practical Ethics in Journalism and New Media,² University of Colorado, Boulder. June  16-19, 2004.

Workshop facilitator (with Dan Burk), ³The Law and Ethics of Online Research,²Computers, Freedom, and Privacy conference. Berkeley, CA. April 20-23, 2004. <www.drury.edu/ess/CFP/CFP.html>

Invited panel presentation, ³What Computers Can/'t Do: Ethics and Culture Offline/Online.² Panel with Andrew Feenberg, ³Computers and the Mediation of Human Experience,² sponsored jointly by the American Philosophical Association¹s Committee on Philosophy and Computers and the Society for Philosophy and Technology. APA Pacific meeting, Pasadena, CA. March 24-29, 2004. [cancelled because of Prof. Feenberg¹s travel difficulties]

³Socratic Virtue (arete), Confucius¹ Exemplary Person (junzi) and the Quest for Global Online Ethics,² Philosophy Department, University of Missouri, Columbia.  March 17, 2004.

Invited panel presentation, ³(Quasi-) Global Research Ethics?  Challenges, accomplishments, More Challenges,² National Conference (Canada) of NCEHR/CNERH (National Council on Ethics in Human research / Conseil national d¹éthique en recherche chez l¹humain).  Chateau Cartier, Gatineau, Quebec.  March 7, 2004.

Invited commentary, ³International /Interdisciplinary Applied Ethics: The RESPECT Guidelines.²  RESPECT Project, workshop. European Commission. Brussels, January 21, 2004.

With Line Gulløv Lundh, ³Research ethics guidelines for internet research² – a translation of ³Forskningsetiske retningslinjer for internettforskning.² English translation approved by Den nasjonale forskningsetiske komité for samfunnsvitenskap og humaniora (NESH): 3. December 2003.  Posted on the NESH website, <http://www.etikkom.no/Engelsk/Publications/internet03/>.

Invited lecture, ³Who needs ethics? Cross-cultural approaches to legal and ethical aspects of online research.²  Seminar presentation, Department of Film and Media Studies, University of Copenhagen.  December 3, 2003. (Slides online: <http://www.itu.dk/~chess/KUA/KUAEthics.html>.)

Invited lecture, ³From the Garden to Cyberspace – and Back Again? (Re)new(ed) Perspectives on Embodiment, Identity, Ethics, and Community.² Philosophy Department, Århus University, December 2, 2003. (Slides online: <http://www.itu.dk/~chess/Aarhus/Garden.html>.)

Invited lecture, ³Internet Research and Information Ethics: Issues, Cross-cultural Perspectives, Convergence and/or Divergence?² Seminar presentation, Department of Media and Communication Studies, Karlstad University, Karlstad, Sweden.  November 12, 2003. (Slides online: < http://www.itu.dk/~chess/Karlstad/ethics.html>.)

Invited lecture, ³Being In Place Out of Place.../ Being Out of Place In Place: CMC, Globalization, and Emerging Hybridities as New Cosmopolitanisms?²  ³Technology in a Multicultural and Global Society,² sponsored by the Programme for Applied Ethics and the Globalisation Project, NTNU, Trondheim, Norway. Oct. 9, 2003. (Slides online: <http://www.itu.dk/~chess/NTNU/NTNU03.html>.)

Invited lecture, ³Information Ethics and Intercultural Communication,² University of Canberra (in collaboration with the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Ethics, Charles Sturt University, NSW), May 21, 2003. [CANCELED - SARS]

Invited lecture, ³Cultural Attitudes towards Technology and Communication,² University, Perth, Western Australia, May 19, 2003. [CANCELED - SARS]

Keynote speaker, ³Language, culture, hybridity: towards global citizenship.² ASIA CALL (Computer Assisted Language Learning) Conference, Bangkok, Thailand. May 14-16, 2003. [CANCELED - SARS]

Invited lecture, ³Ethics and Intercultural Communication.² Symposium, Philosophy Department, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand. May 13, 2003. [CANCELED - SARS]

Invited lecture, ³Open Source Ethics? Pluralism, Cross-Cultural Communication, and Global Ethics.² Information Ethics Group, Oxford Computing Laboratory, Oxford, UK.  March 26, 2003.

Invited lecture, ³Cross-cultural Communication and Technology.² Humanities Higher Education Research Group (HERG), Open University, Milton Keynes, UK.  March 25, 2003.

Keynote speaker, ³Making common ground: Methodological and Ethical issues in Internet-research,² Department of Interdisciplinary Studies of Culture, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway. May 30 – June 2, 2002.

Invited lectures, Film & Media Studies, University of Copenhagen, University of Roskilde, IT-University Copenhagen, Denmark. May 27-29, 2002.

Keynote speaker, ³Liberal Arts and Distance Education: Can Socratic Virtue (aee    and Confucius' Exemplary Person (junzi) Be Taught Online?² Information Technologies and the Universities of Asia conference (sponsored by CALL Asia), Bangkok, Thailand, April 3-5, 2002.

Keynote speaker, ³Why We Don't Want Privacy on the Internet,² The La Roche College Center for the Study of Ethics, co-sponsored by the Carnegie Mellon University Center for the Advancement of Applied Ethics. October 24, 2001.

Keynote speaker, ³Public sphere and public discourse,² opening presentation for Public Privacy: Theoretical, Ethical, and Political Dimensions of the Public Sphere in the Age of the Internet, Ohio University, 6 April 2001.

Invited lecture, ³Culture / Communication / Technology: computer-mediated communication or computer-mediated colonization in the Œelectronic global village¹?² University of Paderborn (Germany), May 25, 2001.

Invited lecture, ³Computer-mediated Communication and Computer-mediated Culture: the Quest for Shared Values in an Electronic Global Village,² Académie du Midi / Institut für Philosophie: Ethics East-West Conference, Alet-les-Bains, France, 4-8 June 2001

Invited lecture, ³Culture / Communication / Technology: computer-mediated communication or computer-mediated colonization in the 'electronic global village'?² Monday ³Open Minds² series, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, 5 February 2001.

Invited lecture, ³Is there a Borg in your Future? Technological Determinism, Technological Instrumentalism, and Whither the Electronic Global Village?² Communication Department, University of Illinois at Chicago, 28 April 2000.

Invited lecture, ³Cultural Attitudes towards Technology and Communication: Avoiding Cybercentrism on the Fiber Optic Road to the Global Village.²  Kauai Community College, Kauai, Hawai¹i, 13 January 2000.  Under the auspices of University of Hawai¹i¹s International Affairs Outreach Program of the Pacific and Asian Affairs Council.

 

Recent Conference Organization, Presentations,

Faculty workshop organizer. ³Kant and Information Ethics,² NTNU, Trondheim, Norway. March 19-23, 2007.

Invited topic facilitator (Cultural Diversity and ICTs), Africa Information Ethics Symposium, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa. February 5 – 7, 2007.

War and Peace, East and West Online: A Comparison of How Different World Religions Use the Internet. Panel presentation, "Global Communication of Fundamentalist Knowledge," December 14–16 2006, Trondheim, Norway.

Religion on the Internet: Cross-Cultural Approaches to Conflict, Dialogue and Transformation  - as part of panel on ³Web Studies and Religion,² Brenda Brasher, Chair. Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, annual conference: Portland, Oregon. 19-22. October 2006.

An Impending ICE (Information and Computing Ethics) Age? (Panel Presentation, Terry Bynum, Chair). North American Computers and Philosophy Conference. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York. 10 August 2006.

Panel chair, organizer, ³Social, Cultural, and Metaphysical Issues,² CAP Conference.

Panel Respondent, ³Case-based Heuristics for Addressing Ethical Dilemmas in Internet-based Research,² Heidi McKee and James Porter, co-chairs. Internet Research 7.0: Internet Convergences (AoIR annual conference). Brisbane, Australia, 27-30 September, 2006.

Panel Chair, ³Discourse Ethics and Online Religion?²  AoIR 7.0.

Invited panel moderator, ³Global Communication of Fundamentalist Knowledge,² NTNU, Trondheim, Norway. Dec. 14-16, 2006. (See <http://www.hf.ntnu.no/cofu/index.php?lenke=programme.php>)

Conference Co-Chair (with May Thorseth, Johnny Søraker, NTNU) – European Computers and Philosophy Conference ¹06. NTNU, Trondheim, Norway. June 22-24, 2006.

Conference Co-Chair (with Fay Sudweeks), CATaC¹06, Tartu, Estonia, June 27-July 1, 2006.

³War and Peace, East and West – Online: A Comparison of How Different World Religions Use the Internet ,² 16th Symposium of the Académie du Midi (East-West Philosophy). Alet-les-bains, France, June 5-9, 2006.

Pre-conference workshop, panel coordinator, Internet Research Ethics, Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) annual conference, October 5-9, 2005.  Chicago, Illinois.

e-Commerce as Engines of Democracy?  The Case of Privacy and Data Privacy Protection Laws in Asia. Conference on ³Navigating Globalization: Stability, Fluidity, and Friction,² 4 - 6 August 2005, Trondheim, Norway.

Summer Faculty Workshop: ³Bridging Cultures: Computer Ethics, Culture, and Information and Communication Technologies.²  (With May Thorseth and Knut Rolland [NTNU], and Luciano Floridi (Oxford). Trondheim, Norway, May 15 – June 8, 2005. (see <www.anvendtetikk.ntnu.no/pres/bridgingcultures.php>)

Panel moderator, ³Religious Extremism: A Road Map Leading to War or Peace?², with Jacob Needleman, Huston Smith, Paul Hanson.  Southwest Missouri State University (Springfield, Missouri), First Public Affairs Conference, April 14, 2005. 

Panel participant, ³Research Ethics,² Association of Internet Researchers¹ Fifth Annual Conference, September 22, 2004. Sussex, UK.

Panel participant, ³Space as Metaphor,² Association of Internet Researchers¹ Fifth Annual Conference, September 22, 2004. Sussex, UK.

Panel Coordinator, ³Information Ethics and Philosophy of Information: Emerging Landscapes?² Computers and Philosophy Conference, Carnegie-Mellon University, August 2-4, 2004.

CATaC¹04 (Cultural Attitudes towards Technology and Communication), conference co-chair.  (The fourth biennial CATaC conference, begun in London, 1998, with Fay Sudweeks.) Karlstad, Sweden; June 28-July 1, 2004. <www.it.murdoch.edu.au/catac>

³Christianity gave eros poison to drink²: Can Confucian Thought Provide the Antidote?²  Académie du Midi / Institut für Philosophie: East-West Conference, Alet-les-Bains, France.  May 30 - June 4, 2004.

³Technology in a multicultural (global) society,² conference organization and presentation with May Thorseth (Programme for Applied Ethics, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim) and Dag Elgesem (Department of Humanistic Informatics, Bergen University, Bergen, Norway).  Trondheim, Norway. October 9, 2003.

Panel respondent (based on my chapter ³Are We There Yet?² in Mark Johns et al, (eds.), 2003.), ³Online Social Research: Methods, Issues, and Ethics,² AoIR 4.0, Toronto, Oct. 16, 2003.

³Internet Research Ethics,² Pre-conference workshop, AoIR 4.0 conference, Toronto, October 15, 2003.

³Ethical Guidelines for Internet Research,² New Research for New Media: Innovative Research Methods Symposium. University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, September 4-6, 2003.

Program Committee, CEPE 2003: Fifth International Conference of Computer Ethics - Philosophical Enquiry June 25-27, 2003. Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA (USA).

³Comparative Approaches in Philosophy of Religion.²  Part of panel on Teaching Comparative Philosophy, ASIANetwork Annual Conference, Furman University, Greenville, South Carolina, April 11-12, 2003.

³Internet Research Ethics.² Computers and Philosophy Conference, Glasgow University, Glasgow, Scotland.  March 28, 2003.  

Chair, ³Ethical Decision-making and Internet Research: The AoIR Ethics Working Committee¹s Recommendations,² AoIR 3.0, Maastricht, the Netherlands, Oct. 14, 2002.

³Culture, Technology, Communication: Insights Old and New.² 17th annual Computers and Philosophy conference, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA. August 8-10, 2002.

Co-chair, with Fay Sudweeks, ³Cultural Attitudes towards Technology and Communication² (CATaC) ¹02.  Montréal, Canada, July 13-17, 2002. Sponsored in part by grants from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and the Université de Montréal.

Conference presentation, ³Beyond Contemptus Mundi and Cartesian Dualism: Western Resurrection of the BodySubject and (re)New(ed) Coherencies with Eastern Approaches to Life/Death,² Académie du Midi / Institut für Philosophie: East-West Conference, Alet-les-Bains, France, May19-26, 2002.

Panel respondent, ³The Impact of Computing on the Profession: Theory,² panel sponsored by the American Philosophical Association¹s Committee on Philosophy and Computing, APA Central Conference, Chicago, Illinois, April 24-27, 2002. I responded to presentations by Barbara Becker (University of Paderborn, Germany), Gordon Graham (Kings' College, University of Aberdeen, Scotland, UK), and Paul Thagard (University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada).

Program Chair, ³Computer Mediated Communications/Cross Cultural Issues,² Computers and Philosophy Conferences, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA. 1999-present.

With Helen Nissenbaum, panel organizer/convenor, ³Internet Research Ethics,² Computer Ethics: Philosophical Enquiries (CEPE) Conference, Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK. December 14-16, 2001. (NSF Grant SES-0135590)

Internet Research: An Introduction For Researchers And Teachers. A Preconference Workshop, Nancy Baym, Chair. National Communication Association (Atlanta, GA), October 31, 2001.

Preliminary Report, Ethics Working Committee, Association of Internet Researchers. October 10, 2001.  <aoir.org/reports/ethics.html>

³Introduction to Philosophy: an East/West Approach,² plenary panel presentation, ASIANetwork annual conference, Cleveland, OH, April 20-22, 2001.

³The Impact of the Internet on our Moral Lives.² Invited panel presentation, American Philosophical Association Central meeting, May 3-5, 2001. Minneapolis, MN.

³Culture/Technology/Communication - Towards an Intercultural Global Village,² Conference Presentation, ³Internet Research 1.0: The State of the Interdiscipline,² September 14-17, 2000, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas.

Panel convenor, ³Computing and World Cultures,² 15th annual Computers and Philosophy conference, Carnegie Mellon University, August 10-12, 2000.

Conference co-chair, with Fay Sudweeks, CATaC 2000, ³Cultural collisions and creative interferences in the global village² (the second conference on culture, technology, and communication), Murdoch University, Perth, Australia, July 13-15, 2000. See <http://www.it.murdoch.edu.au/~sudweeks/catac00/>

Panel convenor, ³Teaching and Technology,² ASIANetwork annual conference, Hickory Ridge Conference Center, Lisle, Illinois, April 28-30, 2000.

³Cultural Collisions and Collusions in the Electronic Global Village: From McWorld and Jihad to Intercultural Cosmopolitanism,² Eighth East-West Philosophers¹ Conference, University of Hawaii/East-West Center, Honolulu, Hawaii, January 12, 2000.

Conference Co-chair, ³Cultural Attitudes towards Technology and Communication² (CATaC), Science Museum, London, Aug. 1-3, 1998. Co-chair Fay Sudweeks (School of Information Technology, Murdoch University, Western Australia). An interdisciplinary, international conference examining how diverse cultural attitudes - including the cultures of Central and East Asia, North America, Western Europe, and of indigenous peoples - shape the appropriation and use of the Internet and the World Wide Web. CATaC is sponsored by scholarly organizations in the disciplines of communication, cultural studies, religion and philosophy, as well as the Science Museum (London), under contract with the Swiss Office of Technology Assessment.

 

Consultancies

Interdisciplinary Curriculum Development, College of Mount St. Joseph, Cincinnati, Ohio. April 23-25, 2003.

Ontario Council on Graduate Studies, Philosophy M.A. Program Appraisal.  Brock University, St. Catherines, Ontario.  (On-site visit, March 19-21, 2003).

American Bible Society: ³Best Practices Internet Project.² September, 2002.

Invited participant, the first Pew Internet & American Life Project academic advisory meeting, University of Illinois at Chicago, April 15, 2002.

American Bible Society: ³Best Practices Internet Project.² February, 2002.

American Bible Society, ³Critical Thinking and the Bible in the Age of New Media.² Editor of book (conference-based chapters plus additional invited contributions) to be published in 2004.

 

Recent Grants:

Co-PI (with Elizabeth Buchanan, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee), "Internet Research Ethics:  Discourse, Inquiry and Policy," National Science Foundation, Division of Social and Economic Sciences - Ethics and Values of Science Engineering and Technology Program.  $149,999.00 / 2007-2009. SES 0646591.

Aarhus Universitets Forskningsfond (University of Aarhus Research Fund), 227,500 DKR in support of guest researcher position, Institute for Information and Media Sciences.  Fall, 2007.

(with Lorna Heaton, Université de Montréal, and Fay Sudweeks, Murdoch University) Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (CA$9,690 + 3,500 matching from Université de Montréal) in support of CATaC¹02 (Montréal, Canada), <http://www.sshrc.ca/english/programinfo/grantsguide/conference.htm>.

(with Helen Nissenbaum, New York University) National Science Foundation (SES-0135590: $20,529.) Title: Research Agenda Workshop on Internet Research Ethics.  In support of travel, accommodations, and conference registration fees for seven participants in a workshop on developing a research agenda for Internet research ethics (with Helen Nissenbaum).  In conjunction with the Computer Ethics: Philosophical Enquiries conference (CEPE), Lancaster, UK, Dec. 14-16, 2001.

(with Soraj Hongladarom, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok) Thailand Research Fund, Royal Golden Jubilee Program. This grant included travel funds ($5,500) for two trips to Thailand; one of these trips included my travel to serve as a keynote speaker for the Information Technology and the University in Asia (ITUA), April 3 to 5, 2002. 

Hewlett Foundation, ³Professionalizing the Liberal Arts.² 1998-2001. In concert with colleagues in architecture, we explore and incorporate the insights and pedagogical strategies of the other¹s discipline into our own, beginning with a teaching unit on Thomas Jefferson as architect/philosopher in Alpha Seminar (1998-99) and in subsequent courses in both philosophy and architecture. ($2,000.00)

3M Vision Grant, ³STEP UP,² (Director, Ruth Monroe, Theatre Department). 1998-2001.This grant supports philosophy students working with local middle- and elementary school at-risk students in conjunction with theatre, English, and education students, to teach critical thinking, writing, and presentation skills. ($50,000.00)

Program/consulting grant, Swiss Office of Technology Assessment. 1997-8.  Ca. $ 3,500 (5,000 Sfr) in support of CATaC Œ98.

 

Grant proposal reviews

Outside appraiser, grant proposal, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, February, 2007.

Outside appraiser, grant proposal, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, January, 2007.

Proposal reviewer, Netherlands Organisation of Scientific Research, September, 2005.

Outside appraiser, grant proposal, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, January, 2005.

Proposal reviewer, National Science Foundation, March 16, 2004.

Proposal reviewer, Netherlands Organisation of Scientific Research, May, 2003.

Proposal reviewer, National Science Foundation, April 16, 2003.

Outside reviewer, research proposal, Ohio University Research Committee. (March 6, 2003).

Outside appraiser, grant proposal, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, January, 2003.

Outside appraiser, ³Établissement de nouveaux chercheurs² [³Establishment of new researchers²], Programme Établissement de Nouveaux chercheurs, Fonds québécois de la recherche sur la nature et les technologies. Québec, Canada. December 3, 2001.

 

Recent Manuscript Reviews

MS on cross-cultural differences regarding information ethics and behaviors, Journal of Science and Engineering Ethics (April, 2007)

Submissions for ECAP'07 (information ethics)

Submissions for CEPE 2007.

Submissions for NA-CAP 2007 (as chair of the "Social, Cultural, and Metaphysical Issues" track).

MS on Information and Computer Ethics for forthcoming book, edited by Susan Stuart and Gordana Dodig-Crnkovic, April, 2006.

MS on Internet research ethics, Ethics and Information Technology, May 12, 2005.

MS on culture and CMC, International Journal of Technology and Human Interaction, January 15, 2005.

MS on online learning, Techné: Research in Philosophy and Technology, September 15, 2004.

MS submitted to Nancy Baym (ed.), special issue of The Information Society. April 26, 2004.

MS on Plato and Feminism, Polity Press. Cambridge, UK. March 13, 2004.

MS for Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, February 25, 2004.

Review of Gitte Stald and Thomas Tufte (eds.) 2002.  Global Encounters: Media and Cultural Transformation.  (Luton: University of Luton Press. For: Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies (David Silver, editor). <http://www.com.washington.edu/rccs>

MS for new media and society, November, 2003.

MS for new media and society, July , 2003.

MS for The Information Society, July, 2003.

MS for new media and society, April 1, 2003.

Book MS on history and philosophy of science, Columbia University Press, October-November, 2002.

Book MS on Nietzsche, Great Minds series, Blackwell Publishing, October-November, 2002.

MS for New Media and Society, September 30, 2002.

MS for New Media and Society, March 2, 2002.

MS for Ethics and Information Society.  November 13, 2001.

MS for Electronic Journal of Communication/Revue Electronique de Communication.  September 27, 2001.

Book MS, Routledge Publishing. July 1, 2001.

MS for Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication. Fall, 2000.

MS for Routledge Publishing (Critical thinking textbook). Fall, 2000.

MS for Peter Lang Publishing (³Cyber-philosophy² MS). Fall, 2000.

MS for Wadsworth Publishing (for a new edition of a popular university text on world religions). June, 2000.

 

Honors, Awards

Nominated for Drury University Faculty Award in Liberal Learning, 2005.

Nominated for Drury University Faculty Award, Teaching, 2001.

Drury University Faculty Award for Scholarship. 2000.

[Rated ³extraordinary² in the areas of teaching (partly on the basis of student evaluations) and scholarship by Dean Stephen H. Good as part of his review, 1997-2000.]

Nominee for Outstanding Faculty (one of four faculty chosen in ³Do away with dull; recognize innovative professors,² Drury Mirror (student newspaper), March 22, 1996.

³Joe Wyatt Challenge Success Story,² 1991. My work with IRIS Intermedia (an advanced hypermedia program) was recognized as one of 101 ³Joe Wyatt Challenge Success Stories² of the implementation of information technologies in higher education. An award/recognition program sponsored by EDUCOM.

Burlington Northern Faculty Achievement Award for Outstanding Teaching, Drury College, 1991.

Faculty Achievement Award for Distinguished Teaching, Rocky Mountain College, 1985.

Swiss Federal Stipend. 1976-8.  In support of two years¹ residency and study in Zürich, Switzerland, as part of my dissertation research.

Graduate Teaching Assistantship, Philosophy, Pennsylvania State University. 1973-76.

Phi Beta Kappa, 1972.

 

Computer-related projects:

Academic Dialogue on Applied Ethics, Center for the Advancement of Applied Ethics, Carnegie Mellon University, and Routledge Publishing. 1996-98. The project consisted of four on-line academic forums on meta-ethics (the ³conversational ethics² of Jürgen Habermas, Hillary Putnam, John Rawls, and Richard Rorty) and the application of these positions to the issues of pornography on the Internet (specifically feminist perspectives), abortion (including religious perspectives) and physician-assisted suicide. URL:  <http://www.lcl.cmu.edu/CAAE/Home/Forum/ethics.html>

Perseus Project, beta test site; Gregory Crane (Harvard), editor in chief, funded by Annenberg/CPB, published as Perseus 1.0: Interactive Sources and Studies on Ancient Greece, Yale University Press.

Intermedia Courseware Development Project. Funded by Annenberg/CPB Project, the Carnegie Trust of New York, and Apple Computer; coordinated by Dr. Robert Cavalier, Director, Center for the Design of Educational Computing, Carnegie-Mellon University. January, 1990 -- January, 1991.

 

Teaching Experience – Graduate Courses

Guest lecturer, student supervision, Erasmus Mundus Master's Program in Applied Ethics. NTNU (Trondheim). September 17-21, 2007.

Guest lecturer, student supervision, Erasmus Mundus Master's Program in Applied Ethics.  Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden. December, 2006.

Graduate Course, ³Bridging Cultures: Computer Ethics, Culture, and Information and Communication Technologies.² Trondheim, Norway, May 15 – June 8, 2005. (see <www.anvendtetikk.ntnu.no/pres/bridgingcultures.php>) 4 European Course Transfer System credits.

Hauptseminar, ³Cross-cultural Approaches to Internet Research Ethics: Basic Issues and Emerging Guidelines.²  Trier University, in affiliation with the Departments of Media Studies (Medienwissenschaften) and Chinese Studies (Sinologie). October 25-December 17, 2004.

M.A. Intensive course, ³Future World/s?: Cultural Homogeneity / Hybridity / Diversity Online.² IT-University, Copenhagen, Denmark. November 24 – Dec. 19, 2003.

Ph.D. course, ³Internet Research Ethics: Foundations, Law and Guidelines, and Cross-cultural Perspectives.²  IT-University, Copenhagen, Denmark. Oct. 27-31, 2003.  (Course recognized for 4 European Course Transfer System credits: excellent student evaluations)

Graduate course, ³Internet Research Ethics,² with Dag Elgesem (University of Bergen) and Chris Mann (Cambridge University). Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) (Trondheim, Norway). June 3-6, 2002.  See <http://www.hf.ntnu.no/fil/anvendt_etikk/eng/internet_ethics.htm>.

 

Teaching Experience - Drury University

Alpha Seminar: the American Experience (a multi-disciplinary course also responsible for development of writing, speaking, and critical thinking skills)

Values Analysis (an interdisciplinary applied ethics course)

Global Futures (capstone course of the Global Perspectives 21 curriculum)

Freshman Studies (a two-semester/4 semester hour course covering the Western intellectual and literary tradition)

Introduction to Philosophy

Introduction to Ethics

Introduction to Logic

History of Philosophy (three-semester sequence)

Introduction to Religious Studies

Religions of the World: Eastern

Religions of the World: Middle-Eastern

Philosophy of Religion

Philosophy of Science

Women and Religion

Seminars, Honors, Independent Study, Team-teaching

SciFi/Cy/Phi.  (Science Fiction/Cyberspace/Philosophy).  Honors, Spring, 2002. 

³Travelers in the Dark,² from Qoholeth to Kierkegaard: Existentialism and the Search for Meaning. Honors, Fall, 2000.

ARCH 595: Senior Studio (with Bruce Moore, Acting Director, Hammons School of Architecture). Spring, 2000.

³Visual Design: Epistemology / Aesthetics / Applications / Experiment² (Honors)

³Nietzsche, Christ, and Antichrist² (an Honors course on Nietzsche)

³Sex, Webs, Texts, and Lies² (an Honors course on Plato, Nietzsche, and Postmodernism)

Critical Theory and Postmodernism (Honors)

Religion, Technology and Science (Honors)

Environmental Ethics

Kant¹s Epistemology

Vertical Studio (team-taught with Christi Lewis, Hammons School of Architecture)

Design Studio (team-taught with Bruce Moore, Hammons School of Architecture)

 

College/University Service - Drury University

"Norway: Vikings, Christians, and Oil, oh my!" Global Insight Luncheon Series, Drury University, April 25, 2007.

Faculty workshop, "Integrating Sustainability in the GP 21 Curriculum," part of the faculty workshop series on "Sustainability in the Curriculum." Drury University, 29 March 2007.

President, Drury Chapter, AAUP.  Spring, 2007.

Promotion and Tenure Committee, 2002-2005.

GP21 Council, 2001-present.

Authored Chapter 3, ³Early Contributions to Building Connections on Campus² of The Drury Story, a volume on how Drury came to be the rather remarkable place we are.  My task was to provide an overview of the interdisciplinary programs such as Freshman Studies, Contemporary Issues, Women¹s Studies, Environmental Studies, and the Honors Program and how these laid the groundwork and fostered the interdisciplinary dialogues and experiences that became central for the development of GP21 as well as the exceptionally collegial place we know Drury to be.

(With Richard Schur) ³Jewish-Christian Dialogue: Healing Wounds & Building Bridges,² Chaplain Lunch Series, March 10, 2004.

Coordinator, presenter on ³Research Ethics,² as part of the Ethics-Across-the-Curriculum series directed by Dr. Lisa Esposito.  With Robin Miller and Greg Eastman. April 12, 2004

Faculty Affairs (1998-2000: Chair/Secretary, 1999-2000)

Search Committee, Director, Center for Faculty Excellence (Spring, 2000)

Search Committee, faculty position in Center for Interdisciplinary Studies (Spring, 2000)

Coordinator, ³Teaching with Technology² workshop (summer, 1999)

Planning Committee, Faculty Development Center (1999 - present)

Director, Undergraduate/Faculty Interdisciplinary Research Conference (1997 - 1999)

Assessment Committees: Values Analysis, Critical Thinking (1996 - present)

Academic Computing Advisory Committee (1996 - present)

Search Committee, Director, Center for Interdisciplinary Studies. 1996-7

Global Perspectives 21 Executive Committee (1995 - present)

Facilitator, ³Values Analysis: Faculty Summer Seminar,² May 13 - Aug. 4, 1997

Asian Studies Committee (1994-present)

Co-facilitator, Faculty Summer Seminar on Values Analysis, Drury College, June 26-July 7, 1995

Chair, Values Analysis Committee (1994-present)

Faculty Affairs Committee (1994-1996)

Academic Computing Committee (1994-1996)

Chair, Academic Affairs Committee (1993-94)

Search Committee, Director, Hammons School of Architecture (1994)

Women's Studies Advisory Committee (1992-93)

Orientation Leader Selection, Orientation Planning Committees (1994)

Director, Freshman Studies Program (1990 - 1995)

Chair, Academic Computing Committee (1989-90)

Faculty Development Committee (1987-90)

Think Tank (on the relationships between theory and practice in liberal arts/professional education) (1989-90)

Co-facilitator, ³Classical Ethics and Contemporary Developmental Theories.² A five-day class, co-taught with Prof. Grace Lane (Education Department,Drury College), as part of the Faculty Summer Seminar, Drury College. May 15-19, 1989.

Coordinator for campus visit by Professor Peter Heywood, Biology Department, Brown University; convocation series lecture on ³Biotechnology and Hunger in the Third World,² April 20, 1989.

Mission and Goals Committee (1989)

Honors Theses - Director and/or committee member: 1988 - present

 

Recent Community and Professional Service:

Board of Directors, Southwest Teachers Credit Union (Springfield, Missouri), 2004-2007

Elder, South Street Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), 2004-7.

 

 

References: a copy of my academic dossier, including transcripts and letters of reference, may be requested from:  Career Counseling and Placement Service, Pennsylvania State University, 408 Boucke Bldg., University Park, PA  16802.