I am a professional educator with a PhD in psychology. I am presently employed as an associate professor at a liberal arts college in the Midwest, where I teach an interdisciplinary course in human evolution as well as a wide variety of psychology courses. The majority of my previous published work consists of academic articles in professional journals and edited books.
But that's the kind of thing that I am expected to say on an author website bio. Notice that there is not a lot of humanity in that description. Even if I were to add details about my family, say, that I have a loving wife, three children, and a seven-year-old granddaughter who is teaching me what true anarchism looks like, it would still be a description framed largely in terms of my functional roles within the machine.
I might attempt to inject some quasi-humanity by describing the various ways I attempt to cope with civilization: four-season organic gardening, mandolin, homemade mead--lots and lots of homemade mead.
But the truth is that I am merely a slave who has stumbled upon keys to a box in the master's tool shed labeled "social science." I'm not sure exactly what to do with the tools inside, but I'm starting to get some ideas...
But that's the kind of thing that I am expected to say on an author website bio. Notice that there is not a lot of humanity in that description. Even if I were to add details about my family, say, that I have a loving wife, three children, and a seven-year-old granddaughter who is teaching me what true anarchism looks like, it would still be a description framed largely in terms of my functional roles within the machine.
I might attempt to inject some quasi-humanity by describing the various ways I attempt to cope with civilization: four-season organic gardening, mandolin, homemade mead--lots and lots of homemade mead.
But the truth is that I am merely a slave who has stumbled upon keys to a box in the master's tool shed labeled "social science." I'm not sure exactly what to do with the tools inside, but I'm starting to get some ideas...