Professor Samuel Gerald Collins
Samuel Gerald Collins, Ph.D. is Chair, Department of Sociology,
Anthropology and
Criminal Justice,
Towson University.
Sam is a cultural anthropologist interested in information society
and
globalization, primarily in the United States and Korea. His M.A. in
Anthropology
and
Ph.D. in
Cultural Anthropology
are from American University in Washington, D.C. Before he
became
Chair and Professor at Towson University, he taught at Dongseo
University
in Pusan, South Korea. During 2006–2007, he spent a Fulbright year at
Kookmin University in Seoul.
Sam authored
All Tomorrow’s Cultures: Anthropological Engagements with the
Future and
Library of Walls: The Library of Congress and the Contradictions of
Information Society, and coedited
Handbook of Research on Agent-Based Societies: Social and Cultural
Interactions.
Read his
blog.
Read
How to Have Meetings in the Future,
Thinking Non-Technologically About Tech Futures (Part 1),
Thinking Non-Technologically About Tech Futures (Part 2),
Future City, and
Future View: Cultural Stickiness in Technological
Forecasting.