John McKnight, JD, Ph.D.
Program Lead and Assistant Professor of Sociology of Emerging TechnologiesEmail: jmcknight@HarrisburgU.edu
Biography
Dr. John Carter McKnight is an Assistant Professor and Program Lead in the Human-Centered Interaction Design master’s program at Harrisburg University of Science and Technology.
McKnight has taught and guest-lectured in the U.S., the U.K., and Denmark, and presented papers at the British Royal Society, Oxford University, the European Parliament, San Diego Comic-Con, and an English pub. His publications include work on the ethics of social robots, governance issues in long-term spaceflight, and sociocultural issues of peer-to-peer personal finance systems.
He has taught at HU since 2016, first in the General Education Program, where he pioneered games and simulations in the social science classroom, as Principal Investigator of SimGlobal, recipient of two Presidential Research Grants from the University, and as an instructor and member of the Board of Directors of the Reacting Consortium, developers of immersive classroom simulation systems for the humanities.
Prior to obtaining his PhD, Dr. McKnight worked for over a decade as an attorney specializing in financing high-technology companies, in New York City, Beverly Hills, and Silicon Valley. He has been an officer and director of STEM-related nonprofit organizations, including The Mars Society and the Space Frontier Foundation, was briefly CEO of a startup spacesuit design firm, and holds a NASA certification in planetary protection as well as International Committee of the Red Cross certification in international humanitarian law.
Education
Ph.D. in Human & Social Dimensions of Science & Technology, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, USA.
J.D., New York University School of Law, New York City, NY, USA.
M.I.A., Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs, New York City, NY, USA.
B.A. in Political Science, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA.
