Berkman Center Announces 2009-2010 Fellows
Cambridge, MA - The Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University today announced a new class of fellows for the 2009-2010 academic year and the establishment of a Fellowship Advisory Board. Over the past eleven years, the Berkman Center has been home to many of the brightest minds in law, technology, and social science, as well as leading entrepreneurs and activists, and next year continues this tradition.
Joining Berkman is an opportunity for fellows to further their current work or incubate new ideas or to apply their expertise more directly to the Center’s constellation of interdisciplinary research projects. Most importantly, all join a dynamic community — faculty, fellows, students, staff, and alumni — dedicated to scholarship with impact.
The Center has established a Fellowship Advisory Board and welcomes its inaugural members: Wendy Seltzer, Jake Shapiro, David Weinberger, and Ethan Zuckerman. These former fellows have made exceptional contributions to the Center over many years and across projects, technologies, and people. In their new roles they will continue their deep involvement in collaboration with the Center, the fellows program, and Berkman’s growing network of affiliated researchers.
Fellows returning for 2009-2010 include: David Ardia, Christopher Bavitz, Sam Bayard, danah boyd, Judith Donath, Oliver Goodenough, Eszter Hargittai, Kim Isbell, Jason Kaufman, Carolina Rossini, Dena Sacco (Cooley Cyberlaw Clinic Fellow), Stephen Schultze, and Doc Searls.
New 2009-2010 Berkman fellows:
David Abrams plans to focus on First Amendment and free speech-related activities in conjunction with the Chilling Effects Clearinghouse and the Citizen Media Law Project.
Fernando Bermejo of Madrid’s Universidad Rey Juan Carlos plans to research online advertising and commercial surveillance.
Hsiao-Ya Chung hails from Taiwan Hsin-Chu District Public Prosecutor’s Office and plans to explore a legal regulatory framework for communication interception in Taiwan.
Hao Dong, a Visiting Fulbright Junior Scholar from Yunnan University, plans to study copyright reform in China.
Andrew Eggers, a doctoral student in political science at Harvard, will contribute experience in Internet discourses and online community across various Berkman efforts.
Herkko Hietanen plans to write about the legal and societal issues of Creative Commons licensing, and comes to Berkman from the Helsinki Institute of Information Technology.
Karrie Karahalios of the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, plans to study interactions in online community forums and explore innovative visualizations.
Andrew McAfee, who teaches at the Harvard Business School, will continue to develop his research on Enterprise 2.0 and business’ use of information technologies.
Miriam Meckel from the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland, plans to collaborate with the Berkman Center on privacy in the digitally networked world and on the development of interdisciplinary research methods.
David Rand will help advance the Berkman Center’s studies on cooperative human behavior, and forge deeper ties with Harvard’s Program for Evolutionary Dynamics, where he is a research scientist.
Hal Roberts will apply his technical acumen to diverse areas of research, including surveillance, circumvention of Internet filtering, and media content analyses.
Christian Sandvig of the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, will undertake comparative study of Internet infrastructure, and will drive a year-long symposium on the subject.
Jeffrey Schnapp from Stanford University will be visiting Harvard and will work with the Berkman Center to further explore innovative scenarios for the future of knowledge production and reproduction in the arts and humanities.
Peter Suber, whose fellowship is jointly hosted by the Berkman Center, the Harvard Law School Library, and the Harvard Office for Scholarly Communication, will document Open Access efforts at Harvard and beyond.
Kevin Wallen will continue his efforts in Jamaica directing SET (Students Expressing Truth), using developing and new technologies within penal institutions as a means of rehabilitation and restorative justice.
In addition to the fellows and Fellowship Advisory Board, the Berkman Center also welcomes a group of faculty associates for the 2009-2010 academic year, including: Michael Best, Dan Gillmor, Lewis Hyde, Beth Kolko, Karim Lakhani, Harry Lewis, and Eric von Hippel.
About the Berkman Center for Internet and Society
The Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University is a research program founded to explore cyberspace, share in its study, and help pioneer its development. Founded in 1997, through a generous gift from Jack N. and Lillian R. Berkman, the Center is home to an ever-growing community of faculty, fellows, staff, and affiliates working on projects that span the broad range of intersections between cyberspace, technology, and society. More information can be found at http://cyber.harvard.edu.
Contact:
Seth Young
+1.617.384.9135
syoung@cyber.harvard.edu
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