Mark Kaufman
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| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Education |
| Occupation | Social work professor |
| Location | Topeka, Kansas, United States |
| Introduction | I am a teacher in the Social Work Dept at Washburn University in Topeka, Kansas, where for the past eight years I have taught courses in human development, psychotherapy, and social work and the law (I also have a law degree). I am a long time member of the American Humanist Association and the Society for Humanistic Judaism.(I started the first-ever Reconstructionist Havurah in St.Louis in the early 1980s.) I was born in 1952, and grew up in Steubenville, Ohio.I lived on Kibbutz Yad Mordechai in Israel for one year, after high school. I did my undergraduate studies in psychology and political science, and graduate studies in social work and law, all at Washington University in St.Louis. I also lived in Kansas City for a few years, before moving to Topeka in 1989 to work as a clinical social worker and administrator at the Menninger Clinic (psychiatric hosptital) in Topeka. I am divorced, and enjoy having a good friendship with my former spouse and my two step-daughters. |
| Interests | Social work and the entire social services/mental health field, religious humanism including its many strands within Judaism, American popular music, left of center politics, Middle East politics, and in general my friends and ecclectic music and ecclectic reading and non-vigorous walking |
| Favorite movies | Dr.Zhivago; Zelig; |
| Favorite music | Jazz; Broadway Musicals; Classical; Folk; "American Standards" |
| Favorite books | The Blank Slate by Steven Pinker, Nonzero by Robert Wright, Childhood and Society by Erik Erikson, I and Thou by Martin Buber, A Separate Peace, by John Knowles |