Shawn Chandler Bingham is director of the University Honors Program and associate professor of sociology at Colorado State University. He is author of Thoreau and the Sociological Imagination, co-author of Seriously Funny: Disability and the Paradoxical Power of Humor, co-editor of The Bohemian South: Creating Countercultures, from Poe to Punk, and editor of The Art of Social Critique: Painting Mirrors of Social Life.