Ann Kirschner
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Ann Kirschner is an American
United States
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academic, entrepreneur
Entrepreneur
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, and author
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, best known as the author of Sala's Gift. She was the former head of Columbia University
Columbia University
Columbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...
's interactive knowledge network, Fathom, and is now the University Dean of William E. Macaulay Honors College
William E. Macaulay Honors College
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of The City University of New York
City University of New York
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.
Early career
Kirschner has had an eclectic career as an academic and writer, and as a media and marketing pioneer in broadcast television, cable, satellite, and interactive media. A Whiting Fellow in the Humanities, she received her PhD in English literature from Princeton UniversityPrinceton University
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, following her MA from the University of Virginia
University of Virginia
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and BA from the State University of New York at Buffalo.
She began her career as a lecturer in Victorian literature at Princeton, and has also been a freelance writer and editor at CBS
CBS
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, the New York Times, and Holt, Rinehart, and Winston. She was the assistant director for English programs at the Modern Language Association
Modern Language Association
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, and worked as an assistant to Lola Szladits, the director of the Berg Collection of the New York Public Library
New York Public Library
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. She received grants from the Texas Committee for the Humanities for a study on PhDs in business and from the Littauer Foundation for research on slave labor camps.
Entrepreneurship
Her start-ups include Request Teletext, the first full-channel cable teletext service; PrimeTime 24Primetime 24
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, one of the first home satellite broadcast networks; NFL Sunday Ticket
NFL Sunday Ticket
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and NFL.com, the first sports league on satellite television and the Internet; and FATHOM, the first interactive knowledge network associated with leading universities, libraries, museums, and research institutions. She previously headed up new media for the National Football League
National Football League
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(NFL), overseeing the introduction of new programming ventures in emerging technologies such as interactive television and the Internet., and is the founder of NFL.com, superbowl.com and Team NFL on America Online.
She served as president of Comma Communications, a telecommunications and interactive consulting firm. She also co-founded Satellite Broadcast Networks and PrimeTime 24
Primetime 24
Primetime 24 is a special package offered on C band satellite sent out to viewers who mainly live in Latin America, the Caribbean, and very rural areas of the United States and Canada; urban areas could receive the package as well, though reception is subject to Federal Communications Commission ...
, where she became the first executive vice president of sales and marketing of both companies. Earlier, she was the director of new business development for TelePrompTer/Group W Cable, where she won an ACE award in marketing.
Kirschner has served as a scholar-in-residence at Rollins College and James Madison University. She is a current or former board member of Apollo Group, Public Agenda
Public agenda
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, Jewish Women's Archive, MOUSE, Open University of Israel
Open University of Israel
The Open University of Israel is a distance-education university in Israel. , the Open University taught around 39,000 students.The Open University of Israel has more students than any other academic institution in Israel. The administration is based in the city of Ra'anana. Students from all over...
, New York Media Association, Theatreworks USA
Theatreworks USA
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, the Topps Company, the Princeton University English Department Advisory Council, and Leadership Council of the Princeton University Graduate School.
Service And Awards
She was named one of New York Magazine's "Millennium New Yorkers" and honored as a distinguished graduate of Princeton University and SUNY Buffalo.Books
Kirschner is the author of Sala's Gift: My Mother's Holocaust StorySala's Gift: My Mother's Holocaust Story
Sala's Gift: My Mother's Holocaust Story is an account by Ann Kirschner of her mother's experiences in the Holocaust, based primarily on a collection of letters her mother gave her, that she had received while in Nazi labor camps, written by about 80 correspondents...
, the story of her mother's wartime rescue of hundreds of letters written to her during five years in Nazi slave Labor camps. The letters include the correspondence between her mother and Ala Gertner
Ala Gertner
Ala Gertner , referred to in other sources as Alla, Alina, Ella, and Ela, was one of four women hanged in the Auschwitz concentration camp for her role in the Sonderkommando revolt of October 7, 1944.-Early life:Gertner was born in Będzin, Poland, one of three children in a prosperous Jewish family...
during the Holocaust. The book has also been also published in German as Salas Geheiminis, Polish, as Listy z Pudełka, Italian, as Il Dono di Sala, French, as Le Secret de ma mère,, and Chinese.
Other publications
- The Chronicle of Higher EducationThe Chronicle of Higher EducationThe Chronicle of Higher Education is a newspaper and website that presents news, information, and jobs for college and university faculty, staff members and administrators....
: Adventures in the Land of Wikipedia - The Chronicle of Higher EducationThe Chronicle of Higher EducationThe Chronicle of Higher Education is a newspaper and website that presents news, information, and jobs for college and university faculty, staff members and administrators....
: Reading Dickens Four Ways - The Chronicle of Higher EducationThe Chronicle of Higher EducationThe Chronicle of Higher Education is a newspaper and website that presents news, information, and jobs for college and university faculty, staff members and administrators....
: My iPad Day
External links
- Sala's Gift website
- Ann Kirschner's website
- Ann Kirschner on girlgeeks.org
- Ann Kirschner on The Technology Source