Colleagues, friends, and visitors, I am excited to write this first of what I hope to be useful but “impressionistic” essays on public relations, media, research, and writing. We are living in an era of unprecedented technological and economic change, and the locus of many of these changes lie in South and East Asia.
James Blake Wiener was born and raised in Sarasota, Florida, and he attended New York University, where he received his BA, magna cum laude in History, and his MA in World History. Following his completion of graduate school, James taught history courses at the State College of Florida -- Manatee-Sarasota before helping to co-found Ancient History Encyclopedia (AHE), which remains one of world’s largest and most visited digital resources pertaining to history. James relocated to Zürich, Switzerland in 2018 where he now resides.