James Allen (Jim) Dator

Professor, and Head of the Alternative Futures Graduate Option Department of Political Science Director of the Hawaii Research Center for Futures Studies, Social Science Research Institute (The Center is also an Affiliate Campus of the International Space University, Strasbourg, France) Mailing Address: University of Hawaii 2424 Maile Way Honolulu, Hawaii 96822 USA   Phone: 1-808-956-6601 Fax: 1-808-956-2889   Email: dator@hawaii.edu

Also:

Member of the Academic Council, and 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, and Woodrow Wilson Fellow.

 

Education:

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 Judiciature 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, China, Costa Rica, Egypt, England, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Holland, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Korea (North and South), Latvia, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Pakistan, 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, On the Horizon, The Manoa Journal of Fried and Half-Fried Ideas (....about the future) (Editor). Police Futurist, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, World Futures Studies Federation Newsletter (Editor-in-chief for seven years).

 

He has authored and edited many books and articles. Among his more recent books are:

 

Co-creating a Public Philosophy for Future Generations. London: Adamantine Press, 1999 (with Tae-Chang Kim)

 

Futures Studies in Higher Education. (Editor and contributor) American Behavioral Scientist, Vol. 42, No. 3, November/December, 1998 (Entire issue).

 

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:

"When courts are overgrown with grass: The role of courts in the 21^st 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  

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