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VITAE through September 2005
Department of Political Science
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Co-Director, Space & Society Department
International Space University, Strasbourg, France.
Fellow and member of the Executive Council of the
World Academy of Art & Science,
Secretary General/President of the
World Futures Studies Federation, 1983-93.
Member of Phi Beta Kappa, Danforth Fellow,
Woodrow Wilson Fellow, and Fulbright Fellow.
Affiliate faculty member, UHM:
Public Administration Program
Architecture Doctorate Program, School of Architecture
Center for Japanese Studies, School of Hawaiian, Asian, and Pacific Studies
Stetson University (BA, Cum Laude, in Ancient and Medieval History & Philosophy), 1954
The University of Pennsylvania (MA, Political Science), 1955
The American University (PhD, Political Science), 1959
Virginia Theological Seminary (Certificate in History, Systematic Theology, & Ethics), 1958
Yale University Institute of Far Eastern Languages (Certificate in Japanese), 1960
Post-doctoral study at the University of Michigan (linguistics, 1960; survey research, 1964), and Southern Methodist University (mathematics for political science), 1965
Three major areas of specialization:
Futures studies (especially the design of new political institutions [for space settlements, as well as Earth], and the futures of law, education, and technology); the political-economic futures of North America, East Asia, and the Pacific Islands; and the politics of media.
Before coming to the University of Hawaii in 1969, he taught at Rikkyo University (in Tokyo, Japan, for six years), Virginia Polytechnic Institute, and the University of Maryland. He also spent two years as Head of the Futures Project, Ontario Educational Communications Authority (TV Ontario), Visiting Professor at the University of Toronto. Every Spring, 1975-1988, he co-directed the two-week annual Futures Course at the Inter University Center for Post Graduate Studies, Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia
Major Research and Consulting Activities:
He was an advisor to the Hawaii State Commission for the Year 2000, and has consulted with state futures commissions for Florida, Illinois, and Oregon. He has been a futures consultant for the Federal Judicial Center and several Federal district courts; for the state judiciaries of Arizona, Florida, Hawaii, Illinois, Kansas, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Puerto Rico, Tennessee, and Virginia; and for the national judiciaries of New Zealand, Singapore, and the Federated States of Micronesia, as well as the American Bar Association, the American Judicature Society, and numerous state bar associations, law firms, and other legal organizations.
He has also consulted extensively with other governmental, military, business, educational, religious, and especially many nonprofit, public-interest organizations worldwide, and has lectured to several thousand general, professional, governmental, business, as well as futurist, audiences throughout the United States and Canada, and in Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Chile, China, Costa Rica, Egypt, England, Estonia, France, Finland, Germany, Holland, Hungary, Israel Italy, Japan, Korea (North and South), Latvia, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Pakistan, Philippines, Romania, Russia, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, and Yugoslavia.
He is editor or editorial board member of the following journals: Foresight, Futures, Futures Research Quarterly, Journal of Futures Studies, On the Horizon, Technological Forecasting and Social Change.
His more recent books are:
Fairness, Globalization and Public Institutions: East Asia and Beyond. (with Dick Pratt and Yongseok Seo). University of Hawaii Press, 2005
Co-creating a Public Philosophy for Future Generations. London: Adamantine Press, 1999 (with Tae-Chang Kim).
Creating a New History for Future Generations. Kyoto: Institute for the Integrated Study of Future Generations, 1995 (with Tae-Chang Kim).
Alternative Futures for the State Courts of 2020. Chicago: American Judicature Society, 1991 (with Sharon Rodgers).
Recently Published Articles in books or journals:
"The WFSF and I," Futures, Vol.37, No. 5, June 2005, pp. 371-385.
"Assuming 'responsibility for our rose,'" in Jouni Paavola and Ian Lowe, eds., Environmental Values in a Globalising World: Nature, Justice and Governance. London: Routledge, 2005, Chapter 13.
"Reading History: Comment on Chenoweth and Feitelson, Futures, Vol. 37,No. 1, February 2005, pp. 83-86.
"De-Colonizing the Future," Journal of Futures Studies, Vol. 9 No. 3, February 2005, pp. 93-104, as part of their "Classics in futures studies" series. Republished from Andrew Spekke, ed., The Next 25 Years, Washington: World Future Society, 1975
"Universities without 'Quality' and Quality without 'Universities'," in Rob Carmichael, ed., Quality in a Time of Change. Melbourne: Australian Universities Quality Agency, 2004, pp. 1-19.
"Judicial Leadership Scenario," (with Sharon Rodgers), in Kathleen Sampson, ed., Handbook for Judges: An anthology of inspirational and educational readings. Chicago: American Judicature Society, 2004, pp. 225-231 (Excerpted from Jim Dator and Sharon Rodgers, Alternative Futures for the State Courts of 2020. Chicago: American Judicature Society, 1991.
"The Heretic: Visions, Values, Technologies and Schools," in Aharon Aviram and Janice Richardson, eds., Upon What Does the Turtle Stand? Rethinking Education for the Digital Age. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2004, pp. 241-250.
"Korea as the wave of a future: The emerging Dream Society of icons and aesthetic experience," with Yongseok Seo, Journal of Futures Studies, August 2004
"Teaching futures studies: Some lessons learned," Journal of Futures Studies, Vol. 7, No. 3, February 2003, pp. 1-6.
"Some in power, some in pain: A symphonic meditation on humanity and space," in Michael Rycroft, ed., Beyond the International Space Station: The future of human spaceflight. Dodrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2002, pp. 21-28.
"Visions, values, technologies and schools," On the Horizon, Vol. 10, No. 4, 2002, pp. 19-24.
"Artilectual salutations," Journal of Futures Studies, Vol. 6, No. 2, November 2001, 87-92.
"Closing the deal: How to make organizations act on futures research," (with Jerome Glenn and Theodore Gordon), Foresight, Vol. 3, No. 3, June 2001, 177-189.
"The last supper of the dinosaurs, Redux," Journal of Futures Studies, Vol. 5, No. 4, May 2001, 93-110.
"Judicial governance of the Long Blur," Futures, Vol. 33, No. 2, March 2001, 181-197.
"When courts are overgrown with grass: The role of courts in the 21st Century." Futures, Vol. 30, No. 2, March 2000.
"Bright future for unions?" in Arthur Shostak, CyberUnion. M. E. Sharpe, 1999.
"Return to long waves," Futures Vol. 31, No. 3/4, April/May 1999.
"From tsunamis to long waves and back," Futures, Vol. 31, No. 1, February 1999.
"Futures of universities: Ivied halls, virtual malls, or theme parks?" Futures, Vol. 30, No. 6 September 1998.