Dr. Moti Nissani holds degrees in philosophy, psychology, and genetics. He taught at the Interdisciplinary Studies Program and the Department of Biology, Wayne State University, for 20 years and served as a Fulbright Professor at the Department of English, Tribhuvan University, Nepal. He taught university-level courses in biology, astronomy, history, writing, critical thinking, and interdisciplinarity. He taught in China, served as a visiting professor in Cuba and Myanmar, and worked as a postdoctoral fellow at Flinders University, South Australia. He was a recipient of the National Institute of Health postdoctoral fellowships at the Universities of Wisconsin and California. He is the author of Lives in the Balance: The Cold War and American Politics, 1945-1992, co-author of Flax Golden Tales, and a contributor to academic book collections. He published original, peer-reviewed, academic articles in such diverse fields as politics, history, history of science, environmental biology, climate disruptions, media studies, cognitive psychology, genetics, developmental biology, bruxism, and interdisciplinarity. Since 2008, he has posted dozens of articles in the alternative press, documenting the shortcomings and crimes of contemporary systems of governance; highlighting humanity’s gradual and needless slide towards perpetual wars, greater wealth inequalities, neo-feudalism, and probable extinction; and showing that a far better world is possible. His forthcoming book (2022) is: Eight Billion Cheers for Direct Democracy: Real Democracy is Humankind’s Last, Best, and Only Hope.
