Summary

I am an entrepreneurial academic with broad intellectual interests and expertise spanning the sciences and the humanities. I have extensive international knowledge and experiences and proven entrepreneurial talents in creating and managing large projects and staff. 

Computers: - Advanced User of all Microsoft Office Apps - Photoshop, Aperture, InDesign - Dreamweaver - FileMaker (Advanced Database Design) - Quickens and QuickBooks Nonviolence and Conflict Resolution Multicultural and Unlearning Racism Training Participatory Pedagogy

Strategic Planning Budgeting and Project Administration Team-Building Event Planning Public Relations Graphic Design Grants Management Proposal Writing Meeting Facilitation Program Metrics and Evaluation Curriculum Design

German                        Excellent Reading and Speaking, (Active)
Hebrew                        Completed Gimel in Ulpan System (Dormant)
Arabic                          Palestinian Colloquial (Dormant)
Russian                         Completed Nine-Week Immersion (Dormant)
Spanish                        Equivalent Two Years University Training (Dormant)

• Doctor of Philosophy, Religion Department, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, August 1994.
• Russian Language Summer School, Middlebury College in Vermont, Summer 1984.
• Bachelor of Arts in Political Science, cum laude, Middlebury College, May 1979.
• Junior Year Abroad, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel – Academic Year 1977/1978

• Senior Fulbright Fellow, Department of Buddhist Studies, University of Peradeniya, Kandy, Sri Lanka, 2007-2008.

• Founder and  Emeritus Executive Director, Metanexus Institute, a Philadelphia-based educational center promoting the constructive engagement of science and religion.  Managed rapid growth of the organization.  Staff of 17, Board of 45, $30m expenditures over ten year period with over 400 grant projects in 43 different countries.  Online journal with 9000 subscribers www.metanexus.net . 1998 to 2007.

• Assistant Professor, Intellectual Heritage Program, Temple University, Philadelphia. 1994-1999.

• Visiting Lecturer, Department of Religious Studies, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 1995-2001, 2003.

• Visiting Associate Professor, Department of Religion, Swarthmore College, PA, 1999-2000.

• Independent Computer Consultant, Macintosh and Windows systems and applications, 1989-1999.

• Real Estate Management and General Contractor, management of the rentals and repairs of a vacation home in Vinalhaven, ME (1984 to 2003), a coop house in Philadelphia, PA  (1984-1991) and general contractor on the construction of family home, apartment, and barn in Unionville, PA (1989-1991, 2000-2003).

• Disarmament Program Coordinator, Friends Peace Committee, a program of the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers),  Philadelphia.  Co-founder of the National Nuclear Weapons Freeze Campaign, Co-director of the Pennsylvania Freeze, 1985 – 1989, 1980 – 1982. 

• Director, 300th Anniversary Committee for the Germantown Protest Against Slavery, a non-sectarian project of Germantown Friends Meeting conducted in collaboration with community organizations and churches to revitalize Southwest Germantown, Philadelphia.  1987 - 1988.

• Director, U.S. Volunteer Program, Aktion Suehnezeichen Friedensdienste --  
Action  Reconciliation/Service for Peace, in West Berlin, Germany.  1983. 

• Counselor, Farm and Wilderness Camps, Plymouth, Vermont; worked with teenagers, taught  pottery, rock-climbing, and instituted Peace Studies Program.  Summers, 1980, 1979.

• Research Intern, Center for Defense Information in Washington, D.C. Fall 1979.

• Counselor, Beit HaBohnim  in a slum district of Jerusalem, Israel for five months in a live-in/social work program for Sephardic children and teenagers. 1978.

The New Sciences of Religion: Exploring Spirituality from the Outside In and Bottom Up, Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.

Politics by Other Means: Science and Religion in the Twenty First Century, Metanexus, 2010.

“Entangled Narratives: Competing Visions of the Good Life”, SLJH, 12/2008.
http://www.grassie.net/articles/2008_entangled_naratives.html.

“Nationalism, Terrorism, and Religion: A Bio-Historical Approach,” Colombo, Sri Lanka, 2/20/2008.  http://www.grassie.net/articles/2008_A_Biohistorical_Approach.html

 “Re-reading Economics: In Search of New Economic Metaphors for Biological Evolution” A review of Eric D. Beinhocker, The Origin of Wealth: Evolution, Complexity, and the Radical Remaking of Economics, Harvard Business School Press, 2006; published May 2007.
http://www.grassie.net/articles/2007_re-readingeconomics.html

“Useless arithmetic and Inconvenient Truths” A Review of Useless Arithmetic: Why Environmental Scientists Can’t Predict the Future by Orrin H. Pilkey and Linda Pilkey-Jarvis, Columbia University Press, 2007; published April 2007.
http://www.grassie.net/articles/2007_uselessarithmetic.html

“Science, Religion, and the Bomb”, presented at First International Congress on Religion and Science, Tehran, Iran, May 2006, published in Metanexus Global Spiral, May 3, 2006 and republished by the American Iranian Council Update 3:47, July 2006.
http://www.grassie.net/articles/2006_thebomb.html

“Universal Reason: Science, Religion and the Foundations of Civil Societies”, presented at National Congress on Science and Religion, Tehran, Iran, May 2005.
http://www.grassie.net/articles/2005_universalreason.html

 “Beyond Intelligent Design, Science Debates, and Culture Wars”, Metanexus, March 2005.
http://www.grassie.net/articles/2005_BeyondID.html

Enjoy many sports – hiking, skiing, sailing, scuba, tennis, yoga.  Amateur photographer. Member of Religious Society of Friends (Quakers).