That's me in the above photo, a recovering Catholic, still on his knees. It was taken by my brother Dan in a parking lot near the assisted-living facility where our parents were passing their final days.
I was a history professor in a previous life. Now I am retired after a forty-year teaching career at Murray State University and Georgia State University. I have written on a range of topics from US labor politics in the early national era to the politics of homelessness in our neoliberal era.
Toward the end of my classroom days I got hooked on seeing the world through the discipline of geography, the theories of Karl Marx and the lens of a camera. Framing Capitalism in Place is my attempt to synthesize these three ways of knowing.
One night a long time ago, my son Brendan, who was then in elementary school, said to me, "Dad, it's so dark I can't see my eyes." If geography, Marx and photography gave me a new way of seeing the world, Brendan gave me a reason to turn on the lights.