Personal Information

Name: Brad Brewster

City: Madison

State: WI

Background Information

Occupation: Ph.D. Student, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Hobbies, interests, travels: I earned my bachelors in art in 1991 and subsequently worked in the graphics field for three years. Then I went back to school, earned my masters in sociology in 1997, and taught sociology at University of Central Missouri, Longview Community College, and Kansas City Kansas Community College for a few years. I then started my Ph.D. in sociology at Iowa State University and later transferred to University of Wisconsin-Madison, which is where I am now, attempting to finish up an interdisciplinary Ph.D. in environmental studies and sociology with a minor in philosophy.  My dissertation topic, as currently conceived, has to do with the relationship between the contrasting yet co-existing scientific conception of "deep time" [geological and evolutionary time] and individual experience of "shallow time" [subjective and intersubjective time] and what role or roles, facilitative and/or prohibitive, these timescales play (or not) in individuals’ environmental concerns, values, and goals, which themselves implicate future time (e.g., concern for future generations, goals requiring the cooperation of future generations for their fulfillment, values based upon long-term foresight).

Favorite Truman memory or story: 

Message: I have my first publication (a theory article on everyday environmental experience) coming out this winter (2008-9) in an academic journal on environment and society.

Email: bhbrewster@wisc.edu