Submitted by mikenutt on Sep 03, 2009, 09:40 PM

What can I learn from those with whom I disagree that will make my ideas and my practice stronger? Can I work collaboratively with the very people with whom I disagree, and could our outcomes be better than anything we could have produced from our siloed perspectives?

Submitted by Cathy Davidson on Aug 12, 2009, 09:37 AM

If academic publishing is a topic near and dear to your heart--and if you are an academic in any field from African history to archeology to the various sciences taken over by commercial price-gauging publishers; if you are a publisher; if you are a librarian; if you are dean with a faculty coming up for tenure or promotion; or if you are a provost charged with paying for all of this . . . . well, then, you should buy this book.

Submitted by Cathy Davidson on Dec 17, 2008, 12:54 PM

A whimsical piece I wrote on "The Art of Fudging" appeared this week in the Chronicle of Higher Education. Here's a link courtesy of the Duke News Service: Commentary: The art of fudging (Chronicle of Higher Education)
Cathy N. Davidson, a professor of interdisciplinary studies and English, on ?the deep roots of disciplinary fudging.?

http://chronicle.com/weekly/v55/i17/17b00501.html.

The clip is also included with a live link in the Duke in the News section of Duke Today, www.duke.edu/today.

Submitted by Cathy Davidson on Jul 03, 2008, 09:52 AM
I've been thinking more about disciplines after posting a few days ago on "tricking oneself out of disciplinary biases" (http://www.hastac.org/node/1454). Now I'm thinking about disciplinary shame and fudging. Is that one of the most important (unspoken) rules a discipline has to teach? Where to blur the lines?

Submitted by Cathy Davidson on Aug 06, 2007, 07:23 AM
I'm curious about why so many popular and scientific books go from highly empirical and careful analysis of data to the most mind-boggling leaps of faith into the realms of evolutionary biology, the new science fiction, the new scientific theology.

Submitted by Cathy Davidson on May 17, 2007, 04:56 PM
How do we know what we know? How do we know when we know it--or when we are merely generalizing to some theory on the basis of an experiment that may or may not lead exclusively to that theory? It's not an easy call.

Submitted by Cathy Davidson on Apr 23, 2007, 09:30 AM
In welcoming participants to the HASTAC conference, I outlined many of the ways that working across domains is exactly what makes for paradigm shifts. The Information Age is too important to leave only to the domain of scientists and engineers. We all need to work together to understand this moment.