Robert Craig Baum, PhD is a media correspondent, higher education writer for Fortune (digital), political philosopher, digital communications expert, fiction and non-fiction writer, media producer, composer/arranger, public lecturer and debater, and Master Teacher with over twenty years experience in higher education, non-partisan politics, the history of philosophy and the (gasp!) Liberal Arts.
His mentors include the playwright August Wilson, performance artists Laurie Carlos, Chris Danowski, and Sharon Bridgforth; political philosophers Cornel West, Johan Norberg, Martha Nussbaum, and Jeffrey Hart; economic theorists Jeremy Rifkin; literary critics Harold Bloom, Donald E. Pease, and Dave Roediger; theatre theorists Michal Kobialka, Sonja Koftinec, Tamara Underiner, and Herbert Blau; philosophers Slavoj Žižek, Alan Badiou, Wolfgang Schirmacher, Avital Ronell, Thomas Prufer, and William Irwin Thompson, and filmmaker Mike Figgis.
He holds degrees from Catholic University (BA, Philosophy), Dartmouth College (MA, Liberal and American Studies), and the European Graduate School (PhD, Philosophy and Interdisciplinary Arts). He is the author of Itself (Atropos, 2011) and Thoughtrave: An Interdimensional Conversation with Lady Gaga (punctum, 2016). He is the Founder and Co-Executive Producer of N1Empire (Theatre/Lab/Education/Studio/Development).
Dr. Baum lives in the Washington DC area with his four boys and wife.
His mentors include the playwright August Wilson, performance artists Laurie Carlos, Chris Danowski, and Sharon Bridgforth; political philosophers Cornel West, Johan Norberg, Martha Nussbaum, and Jeffrey Hart; economic theorists Jeremy Rifkin; literary critics Harold Bloom, Donald E. Pease, and Dave Roediger; theatre theorists Michal Kobialka, Sonja Koftinec, Tamara Underiner, and Herbert Blau; philosophers Slavoj Žižek, Alan Badiou, Wolfgang Schirmacher, Avital Ronell, Thomas Prufer, and William Irwin Thompson, and filmmaker Mike Figgis.
He holds degrees from Catholic University (BA, Philosophy), Dartmouth College (MA, Liberal and American Studies), and the European Graduate School (PhD, Philosophy and Interdisciplinary Arts). He is the author of Itself (Atropos, 2011) and Thoughtrave: An Interdimensional Conversation with Lady Gaga (punctum, 2016). He is the Founder and Co-Executive Producer of N1Empire (Theatre/Lab/Education/Studio/Development).
Dr. Baum lives in the Washington DC area with his four boys and wife.