Human Privacy in Virtual and Physical Worlds: Multidisciplinary Perspectives

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Mary C. Lacity is David D. Glass Chair and Distinguished Professor of Information Systems in the Sam M. Walton College of Business at the University of Arkansas. She was previously Curators Distinguished Professor at the University of Missouri. She has held visiting positions at MIT the London School of Economics Washington University and Oxford University. She is Founding Co-editor of the Palgrave Series on Technology Work and Globalization. She has published 32 books on the topics related to technology work and globalization including authoring and co-editing nine books in the series. Lynda Coon is Professor of History and Dean of the Honors College at the University of Arkansas. In 2023 she organized a cross-disciplinary course called Privacy recruiting professors from architecture political science engineering medicine business philosophy data science and library sciences to teach the course. Coons research focuses on the history of Christianity from circa 300-900. Her first book Sacred Fictions: Holy Women and Hagiography in Late Antiquity explored the sacred biographies of holy women in late antiquity. Her second book Dark Age Bodies: Gender and Monastic Practice in the Early Medieval West focused on the ritual spatial and gendered worlds of monks in the Carolingian period (ca. 750-987).