Brad Hastings grew up in Pittsburgh, PA. He received his Ph.D. in Social Psychology at Kansas State University. After teaching for several years in Colorado, he returned to his native Pennsylvania where he served as Chair of the Social Science Department at Mount Aloysius College. Brad's current position is Dean, School of Liberal Arts at Dean College in the greater Boston area. His scholarly interests include authoritarianism, political behavior, philosophical psychology, spirituality, and theoretical developments in personality theory. His personal interests include reading, working out, Steelers football, hiking, live music, sci-fi television and movies, politics, and travel.