John M. Staudenmaier, sj

Editor Emeritus:
Technology and Culture

Assistant to the President for Mission and Identity:
University of Detroit Mercy

How to contact me:
Lansing-Reilly Hall:  The University of Detroit Mercy
4001 W. McNichols Road
Detroit MI 48221

Email: staudejm@udmercy.edu

It is possible to travel alone, but we know the journey is human life and life needs company.
Companion is the one who eats the same bread.

Dom Helder Camara

Nothing is more practical than finding God, that is, than falling in love in a quite absolute, final way.
What you are in love with,
what seizes your imagination,
will affect everything.

It will decide what will get you out of bed in the morning,
what you will do with your evenings, how you spend your weekends, what you read, who you know, what breaks your heart,
and what amazes you with joy and gratitude.

Fall in love; stay in love,
and it will decide everything.

Pedro Arrupe, s.j.

Professional Information

Curriculum Vitae

Short Biography

2011 Leonardo da Vinci Medal Lecture

Some Publications

History Of Technology

• "The Politics of Successful Technologies" (PDF) (1988)
• "Science and Technology: Who gets a Say?" (PDF) (1992)
• Historians and Sociologists Teach Each Other
  "Problematic Stimulation: Historians and Sociologists Constructing Technology Studies" (PDF) (1995)
• Politics and Ethics of Engineering (1995)(NSF funded textbook)
• "Technology"
  (Richard W. Fox and James Kloppenberg, eds. A Companion to American Thought (Cambridge, MA: Blackwell 1995):667-69) (1995)
  
• Denying the holy dark: The Enlightenment and the European Mystical Tradition" (PDF) (1996)
  
• Henry Ford (Oxford  Companion to United States History) (2001)
  
• "Rational, Agency, Contingency: Recent Trends in the History of Technology" (PDF) (2002)
• The River Rouge Plant and Industrial History (PDF) (2009)
  
• "SHOT at 50" (PDF) (2009)
  

Theological

• Middle Age and Jonah's Lament (PDF)(1986)
  
• "To Fall in Love with the World: Individualism and Self-transcendence in American Life" (PDF) (1994)
• "In Search of the Holy Dark" (1999)
  
• "Three ways to make time for the Holy Dark" (1999)
• Sensual Prayer Electronic Context: Ignatian Prayer for Internet Users (PDF) (2000)
  
• "Electric Lights Cast Long Shadows: Seeking the Greater Good in a World of Competing Clarities" (PDF) (2005)
  Link to University of Pennsylvania page (abstract)
• "Elegant Design Not Enough" (PDF) (2005)
  

I Like These Links

Jesuit Sites in the U.S.

• Jesuit Front Door
• Heartland-Delta Jesuit University Federation: Ignatian Colleagues & other programs 
• National Jesuit University Mission & Identity  
• Marquette Mission website  
• Xavier University Mission website    
• Santa Clara Ignatian Center   
  
• Jesuit Volunteer Corps 
  
• Alpha Sigma Nu Jesuit Honors Society 
  
• Red Cloud Indian School, Pine Ridge, SD   

Jesuit World-wide Sites

• Jesuit Refugee Service  
  
• Don Doll, photographer 
  
• University of Central America, San Salvador 
  

Prayer Help Sites

• Creighton University on-line retreat site  
  
• John Foley, sj's Center for Liturgy 
  
• Sacred Space (Jesuits of Ireland) 
  
• Manresa Jesuit Retreat House, Bloomfield Hills, MI   
  

History of Technology Sites

• Society for the History of Technology (SHOT) 
  
• Technology and Culture website  
  

Lakota Sites

• Don Montileaux, Lakota Artist 
  
• Oglala Lakota Community College 
  
• Tanka Bars (buffalo and cranberry bars) 
  

Other links I like

• Sisters of Mercy of the Americas  
  
• Conference of Mercy Higher Education  
  
• Center for Science, Technology and Society, Santa Clara University 
  
• Center for Victims of Torture  
  
• Amnesty International 
  
• Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility
• Paris at Night
  
• Detroit's Beautiful Ruins
  

Writing Resources

• Elements of Style - by William Strunk, Jr.
• Writing Tips - Tabs for Grammar Handbook, APA and MLA Bibliography Citation Styles and ESL Resources from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign's Writers' Workshop
• Writing-Related Resources - over 100 handouts on specific aspects of writing, with an index and summaries. Includes material on resume and cover letter writing. From the Purdue University Writing Lab.