Derrick Cogburn Professor SIS | EDH | Environment, Development & Health
- Additional Positions at AU
- Professor, Kogod School of Business, Information Technology & Analytics
- Languages Spoken
- English, Spanish
- Bio
- Dr. Derrick L. Cogburn is Professor at 天美传媒 in Washington, DC. He has a joint appointment in the School of International Service where he serves in the Department of Environment, Development & Health; and in the Kogod School of Business where he serves in the Department of Information Technology & Analytics. He also serves at the founding Executive Director of the AU Institute on Disability and Public Policy (IDPP), is Faculty Co-Director of the Internet Governance Lab (IGL), and is Director of COTELCO the Collaboration Laboratory. Dr. Cogburn鈥檚 multifaceted research interests are located at the intersection of information technology, global governance, and socio-economic development. He uses a variety of computational text mining and data analytics approaches including unsupervised and supervised machine learning and artificial intelligence methodologies to better understand large-scale text based datasets in the areas of cybersecurity, disability policy, and distributed collaboration in knowledge work. He has published widely, with his most recent books being: Researching Internet Governance: Methods, Frameworks, Futures (MIT Press, 2020); Transnational Advocacy Networks in the Information Society: Partners or Pawns? (Palgrave-McMillian, 2017); Making Disability Rights Real in Southeast Asia: Implementing the CRPD in ASEAN (Lexington, 2016); and The Turn to Infrastructure in Internet Governance (Palgrave-McMillan, 2016). He is Editor of the Palgrave Macmillan book series Information Technology and Global Governance and serves on editorial boards for Journal of Information Technology and Politics, Review of Policy Research, and Journal of Political Science Education. He is former Chair of the Review Panel for the American Academy for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), Diplomacy, Security and Development, Science Technology Policy Fellowships, and served as a member of the inaugural AAAS Big Data and Analytics Fellowship Committee and returned to serve as its chair. He served as a member of the High-Level Panel of Advisors for the United Nations Global Alliance for Information and Communication Technologies and Development (UNGAID). Dr. Cogburn has been Principal Investigator on grants from a wide variety of government, private sector, and foundation sources including, the National Science Foundation Department of Education, Microsoft, Microsoft Research, Hewlett Packard, Cisco Systems, JPMorgan Chase, the WK Kellogg Foundation, and The Nippon Foundation. He also served on the Committee of Visitors for the Office of Cyberinfrastructure at the National Science Foundation. At Syracuse University, he was tenured Associate Professor in the School of Information Studies and Senior Research Associate in the Moynihan Institute at the Maxwell School. He is past president of the Information, Technology, and Politics section of the American Political Science Association and of the International Communication section of the International Studies Association. He served as Executive Director of the Global Information Infrastructure Commission-Africa and Vice Chair of the Global Internet Governance Academic Network. He holds a PhD in political science from Howard University in Washington, DC, where he was a W.K. Kellogg doctoral fellow at the Ralph J. Bunche International Affairs Center.
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- For the Media
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Teaching
Fall 2024
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ITEC-200 Edge of Information Technology
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ITEC-724 Big Data Analytics/Text Mining
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SISU-419 Senior Capstone: Int'l Studies: Inclusive Sustainable Dev:2030
Spring 2025
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ITEC-200 Edge of Information Technology
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ITEC-724 Adv Txt Anlytcs AI/Mach Learn
AU Experts
Area of Expertise
Global information and communication technology and policy; global governance; transnational nongovernmental organizations and global civil society; cyberinfrastructure, virtual organizations and teams
Additional Information
Dr. Cogburn specializes in global information and communication technology (ICT) policy, socio-economic development, disability policy, and Internet governance. His research focuses on the socio-technical infrastructure for geographically distributed collaboration and multistakeholder mechanisms for global governance. He has published extensively in top journals and authored several books, including Researching Internet Governance (MIT Press). Dr. Cogburn has served as Principal Investigator on over $12 million in research grants from organizations like the National Science Foundation, Microsoft Research, and The Nippon Foundation. He also directs the Center for Research on Collaboratories and Technology Enhanced Learning Communities (COTELCO), an award-winning research center.
For the Media
To request an interview for a news story, call AU Communications at 202-885-5950 or submit a request.