Professor of Sociology holds a bachelors degree from Dickinson College and his masters and doctorate degrees from York University, Toronto, Canada. His teaching interests include Social Theory, American Social Character, Social Conflict, Schizophrenia and Social Science, and Interdisciplinary Courses. He has published articles in various journals on a range of social theorists, for instance, Harold Garfinkel, Georg Simmel, Hans-Georg Gadamer, Jurgen Habermas, George Herbert Mead, Erving Goffman, Talcott Parsons, and Kenneth Burke. In 1995 he was elected to a three-year term on the Theory Section Council of the American Sociological Association. He is author of Towards a Sociology of Schizophrenia: Humanistic Reflections with University of Toronto Press (1996) and Sociology after Bosnia and Kosovo: Recovering Justice (2000) with Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. His book Sociologija nakon Bosne [Sociology after Bosnia] was translated and published by Buybook Publishers in Sarajevo with a grant from the Cultural Affairs Ministry of the Federal Government of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

He is currently editor of the interdisciplinary, international, bilingual, online journal, Duh Bosne / Spirit of Bosnia. He has made several trips to Bosnia, and from February 2001 to June 2001 he taught sociology coures at the University of Sarajevo as a Fulbright Scholar. He joined the Wittenberg faculty in 2000.

Link to Reflections from Sarajevo: Reflections and Image