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J.M. Anderson

J. M. Anderson received his Ph.D. in history from Syracuse University. He has taught at a community college, at two four-year colleges, at a state university, and at a for-profit university. He has written several articles and two books, The Honorable Burden of Public Office: English Humanists and Tudor Politics in the Sixteenth Century and The Skinny on Teaching: What You Don’t Learn in Graduate School. He is currently dean of the School of Business and Liberal Arts and Sciences at SUNY Cobleskill.

Articles by J.M. Anderson


How Academe Helped to Elect Trump

President Trump scares academe. Many feel threatened, under siege, rejected, aghast. Eric Klineberg, professor of sociology at New York University, summed up this anxiety a few days after the election:…