Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Faculty Member, Science and Technology Studies
About
I have a bachelor's degree in Religious Studies from Indiana University, Bloomington, a master's degree in Cultural Anthropology, and I took my Ph.D. in History, American history.
Despite the fact that much of my research has focused on American history--America's culture wars, American Television, American intellectual history, American higher education, and American Protestant religious movements--and despite the fact that I continue to be fascinated by American Protestantism, American new religious movements, American social movements, American culture wars, notions of American exceptionalism, and American television, my intellectual and academic interests are rather broader than American history.
As my academic history suggests--I did graduate work in American Studies, Sociology, the Humanities, Cultural Anthropology, and History--I have a broad interest in culture theory, social theory, historiography, the sociology of knowledge, comparative history, and British settler society history. And I have a strong interest in British fictional television as my paper on Upstairs Downtairs and Downton Abbey indicates.
I guess more than anything else I see myself as an intellectual who learns something new about the world around me and the human world I inhabit everyday. And I wouldn't have it any other way.
"Serving Intellectual and Academic Heretics Since 1996"
