Mark E. Blum has served in the Department of History at the University of Louisville since 1976 and has been a professor in the department for almost twenty years. He received his MA and PhD in history from the University of Pennsylvania. Before joining the University of Louisville faculty, he was Visiting Fellow at the Carl Rogers Center for Studies of the Person. His previous book, Continuity, Quantum, Continuum, and Dialectic: The Foundational Logics of Western Historical Thinking, was published by Peter Lang in 2006.