Ian S.

Teaching has been the love of Ian’s life since being a petulantly precocious toddler explaining the proper mechanics of the Bah-Bah. He now aspires to an at least slightly more well-rounded personality. Ian grew up in a series of Western and Midwestern towns before landing for awhile at Dartmouth College, where he tripped over his intended commitment to music and astrophysics and landed in political science, philosophy, and comparative literature instead, graduating with High Honors in 2004. An M.A. and Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Chicago followed, as well as teaching at Chicago, Northwestern University, Bard College, and Harvard University. Sometime during the course of that teaching, Ian became completely hooked by it. After being assured that the prognosis was not fatal, he has immersed himself in teaching and tutoring whenever possible since. When not teaching or tutoring, he is an academic, essayist, and student of the history of New York City (or the topic of the day). Ian is a voracious and compulsive reader and cinephile, as well as an equally avid chef with a love of immersing himself in regional cuisines. Find a book, and if he hasn’t already, Ian probably wants to read it. Well not that one. Ok, yes, I lied, just a few pages.