David Pearson

David E. Pearson, an Army veteran, graduated magna cum laude with

honors in sociology from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.

He received his Ph.D. in sociology from Yale University and was a

postdoctoral fellow in international security studies at The Ohio State

University. During his career he has served as professor of sociology,

as academic senate president, as host of the radio show Society Under

Fire, as founding director of the Dual Language Certification Program,

as vice president for partnership affairs at the University of Texas

at Brownsville, and as dean of the campus at San Diego State

University’s Imperial Valley Campus, where he is currently emeritus

professor. He is the author of four books, as well as numerous

articles in the scholarly, scientific, and popular presses.