Kevin donnelly biography
Kevin Donnelly, Ph.D.
Book:
Adolphe Quetelet, Social Physics and the Average Men of Science, 1796 – 1874 (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2016)
Articles (Peer Reviewed):
“Saving Belgian Science: Periodic Phenomena and the Rejection of Determinism in Meteorology,” in History of Meteorology, December 2017, Volume 8, pp. 57-73
“On the Boredom of Science: Positional Astronomy in the Nineteenth Century,” in The British Journal for the History of Science, September, 2014, Volume 47, pp. 479-5033
“The Other Average Man: Science Workers in Quetelet’s Belgium,” History of Science, December 2014, vol 52, pp. 401-28
“Camus and the Scientist’s Duty,” The Civic Arts Review, Summer-Fall, 2013, vol. 25, pp. 12-15
Edited Collections:
“Social Physics or Social Disease: Villermé, Quetelet and Cholera 1832,” in Royalists, Radicals, and les Misérables: France in 1832, ed. Eric Martone (Cambridge Scholars Press, 2013)
“How to Make Robot Friends: Mocking Technophobia and Technophilia in Mystery Science Theater 3000,” ed. Shelly Rees (Scarecrow Press, 2013)
“The Failure of Wonder in Jimmy Corrigan, the Smartest Kid on Earth,” in History in the Graphic Novel, ed. Rick Iodinisi (Cambridge Scholars Press, 2013)
Conference Papers:
“How The Modern Fact Lost Its Edge,” Delivered September 22, Information + Humanities Conference at The Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA. (2017)
“The Reception of Social Physics,” Delivered May 5, International Society for Intellectual History, Crete. (2016)
“Death by Machine at the Chicago World’s Fair,” Delivered March 16, American Comparative Literature Association Annual Conference, Cambridge, MA.(2016)
“The New Intellectual Hierarchy: Mongrelist Sociology in America, 1918-1937,” Delivered November 24, History of Science Society (HSS) Annual Meeting, Boston, MA. (2013)
“Camus and the Philosophy of Science,” Delivered October 18, Pennsylvania Communication Association Pre-Conference, Erie, PA. (2013)
“The Melancholy Astron I am currently writing a monograph about evolutionary psychology, human perception and audiovisual culture. I am also co-editing three books: Haunted Soundtracks (with Aimee Mollaghan), Folk Horror Films: Return of Britain's Repressed (with Louis Bayman) and Music in Chinese Language Auodiovisual Culture Since the 1990s (with Ruby Cheung). I attended the University of East Anglia and the University of Cardiff, where I was taught by film theorist Thomas Elsaesser, film historians Charles Barr and Andrew Higson, novelist W.G. Sebald, composer Denis Smalley and parapsychologist David Fontana. As a research student I was teaching assistant to Laura Mulvey and Pam Cook. I have taught at the University of Wales, Aberystwtyth, Staffordshire University and the University of East Anglia before I joined the University of Southampton in 2007.Professor Kevin Donnelly
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Kevin Donnelly
Conservative Australian educator, author, and commentator (born 1952)
Kevin Donnelly | |
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| Born | (1952-01-07) 7 January 1952 (age 73) Melbourne, Victoria, Australia |
| Occupation | Educator, author and commentator |
| Education | Broadmeadows High School Melbourne High School |
| Alma mater | La Trobe University |
| Subject | Education, culture |
| Notable works | Taming the Black Dog (2014) The Culture of Freedom (2016) Dumbing Down (2014) How Political Correctness is Destroying Education: And Your Child's Future (2018) How Political Correctness is Destroying Australia (2018) A Politically Correct Dictionary and Guide (2019) |
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Kevin John DonnellyAM (born 1952) is an Australian educator, author and commentator. He is Senior Fellow at the Australian Catholic University's PM Glynn Institute
Donnelly has written numerous articles and books on contemporary developments in education, culture and politics. He is known for contributions to the evaluation of the Australian National Curriculum Australian National Curriculum, and for criticisms of the Australian "Safe Schools" programme.
Early life and education
Donnelly was born in Melbourne on 7 January 1952 His father was a Communist and his mother a Catholic. He experienced a difficult childhood with his father being "alcoholic and quite violent at times".
He grew up in "the housing commission tenements of Melbourne’s Broadmeadows in the 1950s" and attended Broadmeadows High School and Melbourne High School.
In 1994, he graduated with a PhD in education from La Trobe University.
Careers
From 1975, Donnelly taught for eighteen years in secondary schools (in both the government and non-government educational systems). He was also branch president of the Victorian Secondary Teachers Association (V.S.T.A.).[10 .