Author Bios

Samuel Day Fassbinder, Ph.D. (The Ohio State University, 1998) is a political blogger ( https://www.dailykos.com/blog/cassiodorus) and a “Visiting Professor of English” with DeVry University Online.  His most important work, however, is …

Max Haiven is Canada research chair in culture, media and social justice and co-director of the ReImagining Value Action Lab (RiVAL) at Lakehead University in Northwest Ontario. His recent books …

Stephen Benavides is a policy analyst and union organizer from Dallas, TX. He holds a bachelor's degree in political science from the University of North Texas and has done …

Professor Dhanjoo N. Ghista, Ph.D Stanford, is a world authority in biomedical engineering and physics, and a promoter of the role of governance competency foreffecting sustainable economic development and …

Frederik Blauwhof is writing his dissertation in political economy on the (im)possibility of ecologically sustainable capitalism, and has published in the Ecological Economics journal., Frederik has written on politics, …

Born in Guatemala City and raised in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, Tomas graduated with a Bachelors degree in Politics from Mercyhurst College in Erie, Pennsylvania. He then worked in Washington, DC …

Christopher H. Pyle teaches constitutional law and civil liberties at Mount Holyoke College. He is the author of Military Surveillance of Civilian Politics and Getting Away with Torture. In …

Nozomi Hayase is a contributing writer to Culture Unplugged. She brings out deeper dimensions of socio-cultural events at the intersection between politics and psychology to share insight on future …

Laura Powell is a Research Associate at the Council on Hemispheric Affairs.