Thanks for taking your time to check out my site. I am Daniel C Browning Jr—engineer turned archaeologist, former “tenured” Professor of Religion and History, now 3/5 of an “Instructor of History, Religion, and Geography,” and continuing student of those (and other) things. I spent most of a career at a “teaching institution” with a huge teaching load. Academics will understand the numbers: a nine-month contract with 30 semester hours course load, plus numerous overloads to supplement a meager salary. Thus, I became a “generalist” with a wide range of teaching subjects—one term, I recall noting that I would shift within a single day from teaching a class on The Holocaust in a crowded classroom to more crowded Intro to New Testament course, and then to translating Ugaritic (a Bronze Age “Canaanite” language) with three students in my office. At the same time, I developed several diverse but specific and oddly-connected research interests. These were informed by my engineering background, furthered by archaeological work, a study travel program with students, the later graduate study in GIS, and some “off the grid” research explorations.

I am currently (part time) Instructor of History, Religion, and Geography at Pearl River Community College, Forrest County Center, Hattiesburg, MS.

For the curious or those who want to offer me great opportunities: my academic CV is available on my Academia.edu page.

This site—as I conceive it—is a place to present some of my observations, musings, and perplexions relative to those research interests and how they relate to human behavior. At one point, I considered “monetizing” the site by accepting ads, but after one week I decided that was a corruption of my own ideals, so I maintain this site at my own expense and pose when I am inspired sufficiently to do so. I hope you find it interesting.