Paul Michael Privateer
| Paul Michael Privateer | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1946 (age 79–80) Buffalo, New York, U.S. |
| 🏫 Education | California State University, Stanislaus (BA, MA) University of California, Davis (PhD) |
| 💼 Occupation | Educator, author |
| 👔 Employer | Arizona State University, Georgia Institute of Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Paul Michael Privateer (born 1946) is an American educator and postmodern author whose work focuses on digital AI culture, ecology, violence, and media studies. He has held faculty appointments at various research universities and is the author of scholarly books published by academic presses.
Early life and education
Privateer was born in Buffalo, New York. He served in the United States Air Force as a missile telemetry specialist before entering academia. He earned a Bachelor of Arts and a Master of Arts in English from California State University, Stanislaus. He completed a Ph.D. at the University of California, Davis, where his research focused on postmodern literature, digital culture, and science and technology studies.
Academic career
Privateer held faculty appointments at Georgia Institute of Technology and Arizona State University (ASU), where he served as a professor and chaired the Interdisciplinary Studies Department. During his tenure, he contributed to the School of Politics and Global Studies and the Consortium for Science Policy & Outcomes. He founded the Odyssey Project, an academic technology initiative at Arizona State University.[1] Additionally, Privateer served as a visiting professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and acted as an academic technology advisor to Apple and Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs).
His scholarly articles have been published in journals including The Journal of Higher Education and the British Journal of Educational Technology.
Research and public initiatives
Privateer is the founder of NoSchoolViolence.org (Alerax), a nonprofit organization focused on research-based approaches to reducing school-related violence. He has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Fulbright Program, through which he studied at the University of Geneva.
Publications
Scholarly books
- Inventing Intelligence: A Social History of Smart. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2006. ISBN 978-1-4051-1216-1 Search this book on
.. - Romantic Voices: Identity and Ideology in British Poetry, 1789–1850. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1991. ISBN 978-0-8203-1251-4 Search this book on ..
Fiction
- Mindweavers I: Origins. 2025. ISBN 979-8280089525 Search this book on ..
Reception
Inventing Intelligence (2006) was reviewed in the journal Theory & Psychology.[2] Media coverage of his work includes features in outlets such as The Guardian.[3]
References
- ↑ "The Odyssey Project: Mapping the Humanities," The Chronicle of Higher Education, November 2000.
- ↑ Dane Burns, "Review of Inventing Intelligence," Theory & Psychology, Vol. 21, No. 4, 547–550 (2011). https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/09593543110210040902
- ↑ Steven Poole, "Mental multiplication," The Guardian, 1 July 2006. https://www.theguardian.com/books/2006/jul/01/featuresreviews.guardianreview7
Category:1946 births Category:American educators Category:Living people Category:Arizona State University faculty Category:University of California, Davis alumni
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