Thomas Bass
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Thomas Alden Bass is an American
writer
and professor
in literature and history.
from the University of Chicago
in 1973 and earned his Ph.D.
in the History of Consciousness from the University of California Santa Cruz in 1980. He has received fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts, Blue Mountain Center, the Regents of the University of California, and the Ford Foundation
. He has taught literature and history at Hamilton College and the University of California
and is former director of the Hamilton in New York City Program on "Media in the Digital Age." Currently Bass is the Professor of English at University at Albany, State University of New York.
Bass has appeared on Good Morning America
, CNN
, NPR
, BBC
, and other venues to promote his books. He is the author of numerous articles for Wired, The New York Times, The New Yorker, Smithsonian, Discover, and other magazines.
Bass currently lives in New York
and Paris
with his wife and three children. He is giving a two-hours lecture class in Sciences Po Paris: "The political Economy of the Media"
is believed to have motivated the passage of a Nevada law banning the use of devices to gain an advantage at casino games.
In his preface to Camping with the Prince, Bass states that he accompanied seven scientific expeditions into Africa from 1985 to 1987. This book focuses on African viewpoints to the African situation. It underlines the intricacy of Africa, more complex and more resilient than generally assumed by those looking at the continent from the outside. Among the African scientists presented to readers of this book are: Oyewale Tomori and Thomas Odhiambo. Thomas Bass also mentions in that preface that when he was a teenager he travelled along Africa's east coast, down the Congo and up West Africa.
United States
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writer
Writer
A writer is a person who produces literature, such as novels, short stories, plays, screenplays, poetry, or other literary art. Skilled writers are able to use language to portray ideas and images....
and professor
Professor
A professor is a scholarly teacher; the precise meaning of the term varies by country. Literally, professor derives from Latin as a "person who professes" being usually an expert in arts or sciences; a teacher of high rank...
in literature and history.
Biography
Bass graduated with an honors A.B.Bachelor of Arts
A Bachelor of Arts , from the Latin artium baccalaureus, is a bachelor's degree awarded for an undergraduate course or program in either the liberal arts, the sciences, or both...
from the University of Chicago
University of Chicago
The University of Chicago is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois, USA. It was founded by the American Baptist Education Society with a donation from oil magnate and philanthropist John D. Rockefeller and incorporated in 1890...
in 1973 and earned his Ph.D.
Ph.D.
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in the History of Consciousness from the University of California Santa Cruz in 1980. He has received fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts, Blue Mountain Center, the Regents of the University of California, and the Ford Foundation
Ford Foundation
The Ford Foundation is a private foundation incorporated in Michigan and based in New York City created to fund programs that were chartered in 1936 by Edsel Ford and Henry Ford....
. He has taught literature and history at Hamilton College and the University of California
University of California
The University of California is a public university system in the U.S. state of California. Under the California Master Plan for Higher Education, the University of California is a part of the state's three-tier public higher education system, which also includes the California State University...
and is former director of the Hamilton in New York City Program on "Media in the Digital Age." Currently Bass is the Professor of English at University at Albany, State University of New York.
Bass has appeared on Good Morning America
Good Morning America
Good Morning America is an American morning news and talk show that is broadcast on the ABC television network; it debuted on November 3, 1975. The weekday program airs for two hours; a third hour aired between 2007 and 2008 exclusively on ABC News Now...
, CNN
CNN
Cable News Network is a U.S. cable news channel founded in 1980 by Ted Turner. Upon its launch, CNN was the first channel to provide 24-hour television news coverage, and the first all-news television channel in the United States...
, NPR
NPR
NPR, formerly National Public Radio, is a privately and publicly funded non-profit membership media organization that serves as a national syndicator to a network of 900 public radio stations in the United States. NPR was created in 1970, following congressional passage of the Public Broadcasting...
, BBC
BBC
The British Broadcasting Corporation is a British public service broadcaster. Its headquarters is at Broadcasting House in the City of Westminster, London. It is the largest broadcaster in the world, with about 23,000 staff...
, and other venues to promote his books. He is the author of numerous articles for Wired, The New York Times, The New Yorker, Smithsonian, Discover, and other magazines.
Bass currently lives in New York
New York
New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...
and Paris
Paris
Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
with his wife and three children. He is giving a two-hours lecture class in Sciences Po Paris: "The political Economy of the Media"
Publications
The 1985 publication of his book The Eudaemonic PieThe Eudaemonic Pie
The Eudaemonic Pie is a 1985 book by American author Thomas A. Bass, about a group of University of California, Santa Cruz physics graduate students who in the late 1970s and early 1980s designed and employed miniaturized computers, hidden in specially modified shoes, to help predict the outcome...
is believed to have motivated the passage of a Nevada law banning the use of devices to gain an advantage at casino games.
In his preface to Camping with the Prince, Bass states that he accompanied seven scientific expeditions into Africa from 1985 to 1987. This book focuses on African viewpoints to the African situation. It underlines the intricacy of Africa, more complex and more resilient than generally assumed by those looking at the continent from the outside. Among the African scientists presented to readers of this book are: Oyewale Tomori and Thomas Odhiambo. Thomas Bass also mentions in that preface that when he was a teenager he travelled along Africa's east coast, down the Congo and up West Africa.