PhD Author
My blogs
| Industry | Education |
|---|---|
| Occupation | Writer & Researcher |
| Location | Eureka, CA, United States |
| Links | Audio Clip |
| Introduction | For almost 3 decades I have lived and worked among the people that pick our food and fiber, Mexican farm workers and their families. I have a number of publications, and have been the recipient of a series of prestigious grants. However, I never got a tenure track position in academia in large part because I consistently alienate others, burning my (social) bridges before I cross them! I am now a full-time writer with 3 books somewhere along a continuum of potential chapters already published as stand-alone articles in academic volumes, musings that will be the fodder for my blog entries, and notes/dreams in my boxes and brain. I hope to post a new entry in each of my 2 blogs (my second has a link, below) every two weeks, so please stay tuned, and feel free to comment! |
| Interests | anthropology, psychology, history, biking, hiking, thinking, writing, politics, public policy, immigrants, music, films, fun, games, life, food, love, sex, health, hate, illness, death |
| Favorite movies | El Topo, 1900, Wild Strawberries, 8 1/2, The 400 Blows, The Marriage of Maria Braun, Rashamon, Five Easy Pieces, MASH, Jerimiah Johnson, Network, If, O Lucky Man, A Clockwork Orange, Marat Sade |
| Favorite music | Björk, ("rhymes with jerk!"), Joni Mitchell, Mose Allison, Lila Downs, Cranberries, Dylan, Kronos Quartet, Everything But the Girl, Sheila Chandra, Weather Report, Mozart, Bach, Doors, Hendrix, The Modern Jazz Quartet |
| Favorite books | My PhD, Sirens of Titan, The Stranger, 100 Years of Solitude, Sometimes a Great Notion, The Grapes of Wrath, Been Down so Long it Looks like Up to Me, Food First, Seducing the Demon, Tomatoland, Maidens Meals and Money, Farm Workers Agribusiness and the State |