Contributors

CONTRIBUTORS

Dr. Wendell E. Shaw (PhD, Marduk State; MA, Lathrop Tech; BA, Wandrei Institute of Books) The man behind the Vince College Review's popular, long-running feature "Ask History Doctor," Shaw is also one of the college's pre-eminent senior faculters, having achieved the rare distinction of receiving his doctorate from an accredited institution. Shaw's concentration is in colonial history, the American Civil War, and the films of Tab Hunter. He teaches two classes per semester, both of which are about maximizing your earning potential through judicious use of coupons. He is married to Harriet Beasley-Shaw, who is also on the Vince College faculty as its most distinguished historian of obscene hand gestures. Professor Alan Brubaker (MA, Terry Bradshaw State; BA, St. Barry's) A recognized expert in things that might have happened if unicorns were real, Professor Brubaker is one of Vince College's most prominent faculticians and a leading editorial voice in the Vince College Review. Brubaker's scholarly works include The One That Got Away (1981), Dallas, Post-Kennedy: The City That Ignores (1999), and That Which Bugs Me Still (1988), all published by Vince College Press. He is divorced, and makes a delicious sandwich using chorizo. Chris Merton-Pierce, Managing Editor (BA, Trundle College) With a long stint in the popular press, Chris Merton-Pierce brings to the Vince College Review the seasoned experience of a journalist who has been fired from no fewer than seven different publications. An enthusiastic, trusting young man, Merton-Pierce's tenure at the Review has been heartily welcomed by the Vince College faculty and other regular contributors, especially since he does not seem to be a dick about spelling. Merton-Pierce is not married, but furtively follows women home from work and takes pictures of their front stoop. There he is. . .. Behind You! Professor Paul Hermler (MA, University of Punchton; BA, Outback Steakhouse) Author of the forthcoming Primary Sources, Primary Danger (Vince College Press, 2009), Professor Hermler is new to the Vince College Review Contributors' Circle, but his so-far brief tenure has been eventful. In the spring 2007 issue, he wrote a provocative and widely circulated treatment of Aaron Burr's successful colonization of the moon; for that year's summer annual, he analyzed a series of field recordings which conclusively prove the Rolling Stones don't exist. Somehow, in the midst of it all, he still manages to find the time to work as a pizza delivery man. He is married to a rug. Donald J. Rich, Sr. (MA, Bergin U., BA, Examoder College) A senior member of the Vince College department of history and top contributor to the Review, Professor Rich is the author of the groundbreaking work "Let Them Have It" (Vince College Press, 1989) which suggests that the Armenian Genocide did take place and that another is justified. Banned from most major cable stations and news networks, Professor Rich hosts his own short wave HAM radio program airing Friday nights at 11:00 called "Ignore Me At Your Own Peril." In the autumn semester he teaches a popular course on faking injuries and in the spring, a well-known seminar on getting even with former wives and girlfriends without breaking the law. He is twice divorced, sleeps in his car and washes in fast food restaurant bathrooms. Charlotte O. Best (MA, School of the Americas; BA, Brown & Williamson Flavor Institute) Professor Best worked for the National Security Council during the Reagan administration until the publication of "Horrible Things The Reagan Administration Did in Central America" (Oxford University Press, 1987) led her to the academic world after a brief stint on a whaling ship. Her Masters thesis, "Wear Their Eyes as Jewelery" was a must-read among the Contras in Nicaragua during the 1980s. Professor Best was recognized by Foreign Affairs as being the "most discredited and widely derided academic in America," in 1995, a badge she says she wears proudly. She teaches International Affairs 202, which instructs students on how to bilk elderly people of their savings over the Internet and Comparative Political Leadership 350, a lecture course on having sane people committed. She is not permitted to travel in France, the UK, Germany, Poland, Morocco, the Netherlands or any nation below the equator in the Western Hemisphere. She sits on the Board of the Spiro T. Agnew Library and Birthplace. She is married to Allen Potts, a prison guard. They have a son, Peter, who has been missing since 1991.