Before joining Rutgers, he worked as a prosecutor of white collar crime at the Manhattan District Attorney's Office, an associate in a Wall Street law firm, and a field attorney for the National Labor Relations Board. His current research centers around the value of ambivalence and contradiction in individual and collective decision-making. He is a Vice-Chair of the South Orange/Maplewood Community Coalition on Race and has served as president of the First Unitarian Universalist Church of Essex County in Orange. His weblog address is http://eastmania.blogspot.com.