Bio

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...