Education
1972 A. B. Princeton University
1975 Doctor of Philosophy Yale University.
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James Joseph
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He formerly served as University Professor at Georgetown University (2012-2015) and as Provost of Georgetown University from 2002–2012. O"Donnell previously served as Vice Provost for Information Systems and Computing at the University of Pennsylvania (1996–2002). He is a former President of the American Philological Association and a Fellow of the Medieval Academy of America.
Since 2012, he chairs the Board of the American Council of Learned Societies.
O"Donnell writes and lectures on topics of the late Roman Empire, Augustine of Hippo, and also on information technology in the modern academic and cultural world. He was an early adopter of the World Wide Web for academic collaboration within the humanities.
He has been involved with Bryn Mawr Classical Review since it was founded in 1990. In 1994, he offered the first Internet MOOC when five hundred students around the world participated in his University of Pennsylvania seminar on the life and work of Saint Augustine through gopher and email connectivity.
1972 A. B. Doctorate. O"Donnell"s website includes a biographical sketch of Doughbelly Price.
Price was a cowboy turned real estate agent in Taos, New Mexico. The biography includes a profile from Life in 1949 and feature audio clips of old cowboy songs by Price. The 2007 edition of the Edge - the third culture Annual Question O"Donnell offered positive words on humanity: "we turn out to be a stubbornly smart, resilient and persistent species, and we do not forget the most important things.".
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Society for Classical Studies. Medieval Academy of America.
