My teaching and scholarship revolves around this question: How to empower the 99% in a society, an economy, a cultural, an educational system and a way of thinking and perceiving designed and orchestrated by the 1% at the expense of everyone else. Far too many of students are products of a school system which equates education with passive acceptance of authority, where ideas in service of the 1% are presented as “facts” beyond challenge, whose meaning is seldom reflected upon. In my teaching, I try to bring students to take charge of their own education in order to feel empowered to create the type of society where they would like to live. Accordingly, I avoid having a rigid structured syllabus and emphasizing grades.

These concerns also underlie my scholarship. My recent book You’re Fired addresses how the 1% is striving to amass even greater power and how the 99%, including students, are resisting. Part of this book has been preformed as a play. (To see the play as it was preformed at Boston College, go to this website: http://mlib.bc.edu/media/play/fired.mp4) My vitae lists my other publications. I am attaching other short papers to my departmental website which reflect my worldview and my philosophy of education and scholarship.