About
My name is Ronald Ladouceur, and I am a very part time independent scholar, more of a hobby scholar really.
With a recently completed MA in Liberal Studies from Empire State College complementing an almost 30-year old BA in General Studies from SUNY Oneonta, I am certainly one of the most nebulously, and perhaps the most dubiously, credentialed authors to ever grace the pages a decent academic journal.
But there I am, on pages 435 to 471 of the September 2008 issue of the “Journal of the History of Biology.”
It’s my one claim to academic fame, and until I get around to duplicating it, I plan to milk it for all it’s worth.
Though I was an indifferent undergraduate, as a graduate student I made up for lost time. I applied my reasonably functional OCD and a “my whole entire adult life” fascination with the absurdities and entanglements of religion and science to a program focused on the history of popular and classroom anthropology and biology (with a little geography thrown in) in the United States in the twentieth century.
In the process, I invested a couple of thousand dollars from my day job toward the purchase an absurd number of pre-1970s American high school biology textbooks. As of today, 60 80 90 and counting. These, along with twice as many associated scholarly works, now sit side-by-side with the half-dozen Stephen Jay Goulds, four Edward Larsons, two Ronald Numbers and a well-worn copy of Science and Creationism I brought to my program.
It’d be a sin if I didn’t do something with this stuff, don’t you think?
