DAVID BOGEN

>> “Living/learning innovator joins RISD leadership”
Providence Business News, September 24, 2007

risd connection: Associate Provost for Academic Affairs; appointed September 2007

roles at risd: The associate provost for Academic Affairs is closely involved in all aspects of academic activity at RISD, with priorities including the Office of Public Engagement, the writing center, international programs, budgeting for Academic Affairs, and academic interface with the Office of Information Technology. Since RISD is at the beginning of a new planning cycle, David Bogen will also work with Provost Jay Coogan on developing the academic plan that will chart RISD’s course for the next several years. In all of these areas, his “interest and challenge is to help RISD pursue its mission,” Bogen explains. “With the pressing issues of our age, art and design are not just central to the immediate academic and community context, but can also have a larger social impact on national and international culture.”

about his work: In his sociological research and writing, David Bogen focuses on social theory, science and technology studies and philosophy of language. Appointed by Emerson College in 1992 as an Assistant Professor of Sociology, he soon found a relevant new context for his interests - the nascent world of the web and new media. In 1996 he helped Emerson launch a digital culture program that became a successful early model of immersive living/learning environments; that experience in student-centered education “informed my approach to teaching,” he explains. “I saw profound potential for student agency, which is vital to tap into.” In 1997, Bogen was asked to head the college’s Institute for Liberal Arts and Interdisciplinary Studies, an experimental new body founded to facilitate cross-departmental collaboration and innovation in teaching, scholarship and creative work. While continuing to teach, he also led a design team that built up Emerson’s digital resources and instituted an electronic portfolio system that “exploits the social properties of new media” by allowing students and faculty to share and critique coursework online. Given RISD’s emphasis on new uses of technology and interdisciplinary study, Bogen is looking forward to “wonderful continuity” between his career thus far and his new role as associate provost for Academic Affairs.

recent publications
‘The City in Transition’: A Multi-Year Thematic Initiative at an Urban Institution, in J. Branch, E.R. Cohn, and J.W. Mullennix (eds.), Diversity Across the Curriculum: A Guide for Faculty in Higher Education (Anker Publishing, forthcoming)

My memory has been shredded: A non-cognitivist investigation of mental phenomena, with Michael Lynch, in H. te Molder and J. Potter (eds.), Conversation and Cognition (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005)

The Iran-Contra Affair, with Michael Lynch, in John P. Resch (ed.), Americans at War: Society, Culture, and the Homefront (New York: MacMillan, 2004)

Order Without Rules: Critical Theory and the Logic of Conversation, State University of New York Press, 1999

The struggle between testimony and evidence at the Iran-Contra Hearings, with Michael Lynch, in Paul Jalbert (ed.), Media Studies: Ethnomethodological Approaches (Washington, DC: University Press of America, 1998)

Reinventing Cognitive Sociology, with Michael Lynch, in Aurelia Marcarino (ed.), Analysi Della Conversazione e Prospettive di Ricerca in Etnometodologia (Urbino, Italy: Quattro Venti, 1997)

The Spectacle of History: Speech, Text, and Memory at the Iran-Contra Hearings, with Michael Lynch, Duke University Press, 1996

education
Boston University, MA, Sociology, 1986; PhD, Sociology, 1991
Macalester College, BA, 1982
University of Edinburgh, Scotland, 1980-81

fellowships + grants
2006 Davis Foundation Grant, Making Work Visible: E Portfolios and the Assessment of Student Learning at Emerson College

2003-06 Davis Foundation Grant, The Emerson Learning Portals Project

2002-03 American Council on Education Fellow, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth

2002-03 Foundation for National Service/Campus Compact “Learn and Serve” Grant, The Public Communication and Media Project, Emerson College

1997-99 Davis Foundation Grant, New Media and the Liberal Arts, Emerson College