Gary Olson
Emeritus Professor of Political Science
Education
B.A., Concordia College
M.A., University of South Dakota
Ph.D., University of Colorado
Postdoctoral National Endowment For The Humanities Fellowships:
University Of California, Berkeley
University Of Pittsburgh
UNC At Chapel Hill
UCLA
Contact
Email: olsong@moravian.edu
Areas of Research and/or Expertise
International political economy, labor politics, U.S. foreign policy in the Third World.
Biography
Dr. Olson's books include U.S. Foreign Policy and the Third World Peasant (1974), The Other Europe (1977), How the World Works (1981) and Empathy Imperiled: Capitalism, Culture and the Brain (2013). In 1977, Dr. Olson was awarded a Fulbright to Finland; in 1990, he received a Fulbright to Egypt and Jordan, and he received another in 1995 to Mexico. He was also awarded the Malone Fellow to Syria and Kuwait in 1993. He is a recipient of the Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching.
Recent Commentaries
- Profiting From Climate Change
- Irreconcilable Differences: Capitalism And A Sustainable Planet
- Empathy And Neuropolitics: This Is Your Brain On Neoliberal Culture. Any Questions?
- Frans De Waal's Age Of Empathy: A Review And Critique
- Empathy Marketing 101
- Remarks Delivered At The "Freedom For Gaza" Rally At 9th & Hamilton In Allentown On 1/10/09
- We Empathize, Therefore We Are: Toward A Moral Neuropolitics
- Movie Can Clarify Vision Of Rebel Che Guevera
- Hard-Wired For Moral Politics: Neuroscience And Empathy
- The Very Rich Are Different From You And Me F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Whither Diversity?
- Hold Those Responsible For Iraq Accountable
- Alternative Media Can Balance Establishment's Experts
- Nationalism, Not Islam, Motivates Most Suicide Terrorists
- Palestinian Diaspora Is Cause Of Conflict
- Graduates Face Choice Between Love Or 'Selling Out'
- Radical Teaching
- Scapegoating Human Nature
- Music, Meetings And Markets
Satire Pieces (Pseudonym I.M. Salmon)
Political Engagement
- Znet
Foreign Study, Teaching and Travel
| 1977 | Finland (Senior Fulbright Lecturer at University of Turku) |
| 1978 | Germany and Czechoslovakia |
| 1979 | Cuba (Co-led a study group from Moravian and Lafayette) |
| 1980 | USSR (American Professors Study Tour) |
| 1980 | England/France |
| 1981 | Occupied Territories (Gaza and West Bank), Lebanon and Israel |
| 1983 | El Salvador and Honduras (Peace and Social Justice delegation) |
| 1985 | USSR (Accompanied Moravian students on study tour) |
| 1990 | Japan (Study trip for U.S. Educators) |
| 1991 | Norway, Sweden & Denmark |
| 1992 | Syria and Jordan (Malone Fellow) |
| 1993 | Kuwait & Egypt (Studied Arabic at American University in Cairo) |
| 1995 | Mexico (Fulbright award to study NAFTA) |
| 2003 | Spain |
| 2007 | Portugal |
| 2009 | Turkey |
| 2012 | Greece |
| 2014 | Italy |
Important musical influences in my life
- Bob Dylan Highway 61 Revisited
- Joni Mitchell Blue
- Miles Davis Kind of Blue and In A Silent Way
- John Coltrane A Love Supreme
- Neil Young Harvest and Harvest Moon
- The Grateful Dead American Beauty
- The Beatles Abbey Road
- Roxy Music Avalon
- Van Morrison Astral Weeks
- Pink Floyd Dark Side of the Moon
- Cowboy Junkies Trinity Sessions
- Lucinda Williams Car Wheels on a Gravel Road
- Neil Young After the Gold Rush
- Carole King Tapestry
- The Band The Band
