As an undergraduate, Jonathan studied a combined curriculum of biomedical engineering, politics, philosophy, and global studies at California Lutheran University and the University of California, Santa Barbara. After living in Arlington, Virginia and working onScience Progress for a while, he returned for global studies graduate work at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Email: [email protected]
I am not usually one to feel nostalgic. It is not my nature. But there is something about the idea of an ancient academy or a very old university that makes me long for the past. Perhaps I have been deceived by the romantic image of Demosthenes running on the beach with pebbles in his…
I grew up on a dusty, rural road by the lower Colorado River in the Mojave Desert. The occasional ride to the nearest city, Las Vegas, was a two-hour special event. The smog, sprawling stores, slums, and soaring signs of the Strip were the best of urban life that I knew. To this day, visiting…
A quiet, global community of researchers want to change how psychologists think about the mind and culture — or to put it a bit more precisely, they want to call attention to some almost forgotten ones. They publish their research in Culture & Psychology, whose founding editor is Jaan Valsiner. Professor Valsiner was kind enough…