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 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 Davidson, however, 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.,,
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 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 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.
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