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I was raised in Northern Minnesota on the Mesabi Iron Range. As a child, I attended four different grade schools and four different high schools while my family moved around. I have now resided in Dayton for 34 years. My career path has taken me from a short-term Jesuit with majors in psychology and philosophy, to a math educator and to a Marquette theology graduate student. I finally became a quasi-rationalist pragmatist.

Faculty perspective

"To do this job well, both teaching and research in particular, always takes more than 50 hours a week, and additional hours when there are exams or papers to be evaluated and commented on. Except for grading, this is a joy. Imagine getting paid to teach to do research! The extra fun comes with interdisciplinary work."

Research interests

• Religion and science
• The evolution of culture and religion
• Cross-cultural studies
• Evolutionary psychology and its implications for religion and morality