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 living out their final days.
I was a professor of US history once upon a time. Now, I am a state pensioner after forty years of educating young minds at Murray State University and Georgia State University. I have written on a range of topics from labor politics in the early republic to the crises of homelessness and housing in the neoliberal republic.
Toward the end of my classroom days I made a discovery. The world made a lot more sense when I looked at it 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.