PETER ALEXANDER BATKE
5609 Tomahawk Trail
Durham, NC 27712

Aiglhofstrasse 22
A-5020 Salzburg
Austria

email: batke_p@hotmail.com

RECENT PROFESSIONAL WORK EXPERIENCE:

• 2008 to Present: Privately Funded Research. Various writing projects: "Google Books: Google Book Search and its Critics," 2010, Lulu.com; various programming projects; reading history of the Danube Basin with the goal of designing an open-ended data-structure.
• 2004 to 2007: Privately Funded Research. "Anomalous Word Frequencies in Husserl's Logische Untersuchungen." A suite of Perl Programs, PHP routines and mysql datrastructures to explore the philosophical vocabulary of phenomenology before and after Husserl.
• 2002 to 2004: Computer Coordinator, Cambridge/Edinburgh Shahnama Project, Cambridge University. Planning and implementation of the computer function of a 5-year project, funded by the British Academy of Science to collect and describe Persian Book Illustrations. Merge data from field personnel with the main computer, modify data structures, program the Perl scripts that turn the Access data into web pages. Alpha test of CD-ROM with 3000 images, 500 mss and 8000 folios released in 2003.
• 2000 to 2001: Humanities Specialist, Educational Technology Center, Princeton University. Member of a newly formed team under the Provost Office of educational technologists, programmers and media specialists to implement educational technology projects with Princeton Faculty. Chief developer of the Princeton Shahnama Project: http://www.princeton.edu/~shahnama (resigned due to family medical emergency).
• 1994 to 2000: Humanities Specialist, Computer and Information Technology, Princeton University. Proactive consulting with humanities faculty on a variety of New Media computing projects: the Charrette Project - a transcriptions and JPEG images of all the manuscripts of the Charrette tradition; the Princeton Dante Project - a collection of New Media and traditional scholarly Dante resources in a DHTML inter-face; the Geniza Project - a collection of 3000 Judeo-Arabic transcriptions, c. 1000 A.D. Summer workshops for Graduate students and faculty on computers in all aspects of academics.
• 1988 to 1994: Humanities Discipline Specialist, Homewood Academic Computing, The Johns Hopkins University. Support humanities faculty and students in use of mainframe computing (VM-CMS, VMS and UNIX) and personal computing. Update and revise computer center documentation. Contribute regularly to the computer center publication on topics such as: configuring computer systems, non-roman characters in word processing, spreadsheet grading and PC-mainframe data transfer, text-retrieval, scanning, e-mail, internet tools. Consult with faculty on hardware are and software are purchases and on design and implementation of computer research techniques.
• 1983 to 1988: Senior Research Associate. Humanities Computing Facility, Duke University. Managed computing facility dedicated to computer literacy for humanities departments; supported microcomputer users in humanities departments. clerical and research; managed a team of programmers and linguists involved in contract work to IBM and government language programs; tested software developed at the facility: oversaw production of lesson material in several languages; gave workshops and lectures on computers and education.

BIOGRAPHICAL DATA:

• born: February 10, 1947; Vienna, Austria;
• citizenship: Austrian; immigration status: permanent resident;
• marital status: single (taken).

EDUCATION:

• 1979 Ph.D. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Germanic Languages. Dissertation: "Autobiographical Elements in Heimito von Doderer's Die Dämonen." http://www.princeton.edu/~batke) Minor concentration: Computer Science.
• 1972 M.A. UNC-CH, Germanic Languages. Thesis: Satire in the Parodies of Johann Nestroy.
• 1968 B.A. UNC-CH, German.
• 1964 H-S. Needham Broughton, Raleigh, NC.
• 1961 J. H-S. Josephus Daniels, Raleigh, NC.

FOREIGN LANGUAGES: German, French.
COMPUTER LANGUAGES: Perl, php, Javascript.

PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND:

• 1980 to 1982 Assistant to the Executive Secretary, University Centers, New York, NY. Copy editor for Measure; office manager: installation of word processing and data base functions; fund raising.
• 1979 to 1980 Post-doctoral research at the National Library, Vienna, Austria
• 1978 to 1979 Research Assistant, UNC Computer Center, Prepared dissertation on Waterloo Script.
• 1973 to 1977 Supervisor, Circulation. Wilson Library.
• 1969 to 1973 Teaching Assistant. German, UNC-CH.
• 1968 to 1969 Stack Supervisor. Wilson Library, UNC-CH.