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name: Chad Broughton
about: I was born to little fanfare, I'll admit, in Cincinnati, Ohio, a decisively mediocre city, aside from its symphony and ice cream. I spent much of my youth in Batesville, a small town in southeastern Indiana, which is a cool place to ride a dirt bike and skin your knees. After Indiana U. as an undergrad, I received my PhD from the Department of Sociology at UChicago in 2001 and then taught at Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois, for five years. That’s where I got all wrapped up in a somewhat embarrassingly long research project that culminated in Boom, Bust, Exodus: The Rust Belt, the Maquilas, and a Tale of Two Cities. Since 2006, I've been a senior lecturer in Public Policy Studies in the College, which is an ongoing challenge that I mostl I was born to little fanfare, I'll admit, in Cincinnati, Ohio, a decisively mediocre city, aside from its symphony and ice cream. I spent much of my youth in Batesville, a small town in southeastern Indiana, which is a cool place to ride a dirt bike and skin your knees. After Indiana U. as an undergrad, I received my PhD from the Department of Sociology at UChicago in 2001 and then taught at Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois, for five years. That’s where I got all wrapped up in a somewhat embarrassingly long research project that culminated in Boom, Bust, Exodus: The Rust Belt, the Maquilas, and a Tale of Two Cities. Since 2006, I've been a senior lecturer in Public Policy Studies in the College, which is an ongoing challenge that I mostly love. I live in southeastern Evanston, Illinois, with other Outback-driving treehuggers (and still with little fanfare), near the Howard L stop, with my wife, Mona, and my three awesome daughters, Haley, Maya, and Olivia. And Pete, the rapscallion dog. ...more