Daniel Schwartz has been teaching in colleges and universities in California, Arizona and New Mexico for more than 40 years. His interests and publications reflect his broad academic background in cultural anthropology, sociology, and public health. He presently teaches Environmental Sociology in the Sociology Department at the University of New Mexico.  His education began at a community college and continued in California in the 1960s where he received advanced degrees at the California State Universityat Los Angeles and the University of California, Berkeley.