Bob Williams

About me

Gender Male
Occupation ethnographer/consulting
Location Oberlin, Ohio
Introduction Bob has wide experience in his teaching career: he's worked as a substitute teacher, teacher in private practice, elementary teacher, secondary teacher, prison school teacher, public school teacher, private school teacher, Head Coach, College Lecturer, Director of Sport, and Educational Administrator. Currently he owns an educational support service. "If you want to know something inside and out, you have to start out as a participant from the bottom", he said. Bob's writing at Authorsden is polemical, yet playfully serious, and geared for popular consumption. His socio/political and research interests are in alternative movements, especially libertarianism.
Interests ethnography (particularly political ethnography and visual ethnography), family farming, liberty & peace
Favorite Movies Roger and Me, Tall Tales, Mercury Rising, Three Days of the Condor, Bourne Identity, It's a Wonderful Life, Basil Rathbone's Sherlock Holmes series, Nevada Smith.
Favorite Music Cat Stevens
Favorite Books Paul H. Weaver's "The Suicidal Corporation" and "News and the Culture of Lying", Nicholas John Cull's "Selling War", Plato's "The Republic", C. Wright Mill's "The Power Elite", Bill Moyer's "The Secret Government", and many more . . .