Biographical Information
About us
I live with my wife, Louise, and kids, Amanda and Noah, in the lovely Crozet, Virginia area, nestled at the foot of the Blue Ridge just west of Charlottesville.
I am associate director of the Information Security, Policy and Records Office within the Office of the VP/CIO at the University of Virginia; Louise is an associate professor of psychology at Mary Baldwin College in nearby Staunton.
We are active members of Jefferson Park Baptist Church, where I serve as webmaster. Louise is leader for Amanda's Girl Scout Troop 991.
We came to Charlottesville in 1995 intending to stay for two or three years when Louise accepted a postdoctoral fellowship in the Department of Biology at U.Va., followed by a second fellowship in the School of Medicine. As many do, once moving to the area, we decided we didn't want to leave. Before taking my current position, I worked at KCRC, ITC and the Department of Athletics, all at U.Va and all involving computing support.
In an earlier life (1988-1991), I was a National Science Foundation Predoctoral Fellow in the PhD program of the Political Science Department at the University of California at Berkeley. I passed my field examinations in American, Comparative and Soviet/East European politics and was working on a dissertation proposal investigating the relationship between nationalist and religious organizations in the Soviet Union before I left the program in January 1992. Although I was morally and politically pleased to see the old USSR land in the ash heap of history, my intellectual interests had always lain with unpleasant aspects of the old system. While waiting for Louise to finish her degree, I worked for both Molecular and Cell Biology and Chancellor's Office Information Systems at UC-Berkeley.
I met my wife, Louise Freeman Davis, when we were in college at Emory University in Atlanta. She (also a former National Science Foundation Predoctoral Fellow) completed her PhD in the biological division of the Department of Psychology at UC Berkeley. Her field of expertise is reproductive neuroendocrinology, and her dissertation detailed her research into sexual dimorphism in rats.
Louise grew up in Chattanooga, Tenn., where she attended the Girls' Preparatory School. I lived up and down the East Coast before my family settled in the St. Louis, Mo. area, where I attended Parkway South High School.
