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Thomas Cooper
Professor Thomas Cooper taught ethics and media studies at Emerson College until 2021. Dr Cooper was a guest scholar at Stanford, Berkeley, the East – West Center and the University of Hawaii during his last sabbatical and at Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Oxford and Cambridge during the preceding sabbatical. The Association for Responsible Communication, which he founded, was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. Cooper taught at Harvard, where he graduated magna cum laude, and served as an ‘ethics expert’ at a United Nations project in Vienna and Athens. A former assistant to Marshall McLuhan, he was a consultant to the Elders Project, which involved Nelson Mandela, Kofi Anan and Jimmy Carter. Cooper is a playwright with a Ph.D. in theatre and media, a union musician who trained at the Royal Conservatory, poet, black belt, blogger and author of eight books and more than two hundred academic and professional articles and reviews.