Mark A. Foster, Ph.D.
Mark A. Foster, Ph.D., the writer and publisher of this blog, is a tenured full professor of sociology at a suburban Kansas City community college, the developer of The MarkFoster.NETwork™, the sole proprietor of Mark A. Foster Services™, and the founding organizer of The Collective to Fight Neurelitism™, The Institute for Emancipatory Constructionism™ and ASMÁ Learning Communities™.
Dr. Foster has a Ph.D. in sociology and history and an M.A. in sociology. As a critical sociologist, he specializes in the subfields of the sociology of religion, social theory, public sociology, and clinical sociology. He has been teaching sociology in higher education since 1980 (full-time beginning in 1985) and is a former president of the Kansas Sociological Society. He is, in addition, a radical historian.
Furthermore, Foster has a Bachelor of Arts in Journalism (A.B.J.) degree with a major in magazine journalism and an Associate in Arts (A.A.) degree with a concentration in English. As a journalist, his current activities lie principally in the area of advocacy journalism. Previously, however, he was on the staff of three radio stations as, variously, a newscaster, a reporter, a news writer, and a producer.
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