Doty, Alexander

Alexander M. Doty liked to joke that he was born in a trunk at the Princess Theatre in Pocatello, Idaho. Born in Waltham, Massachusetts in 1954, his family finally claimed west Texas as home. He received his BA from the University of Texas-El Paso (or "Harvard on the Border" as it is known on bumper stickers), and MA and PhD degrees from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He held academic positions at The American University of Cairo, at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, PA, and, from 2007 until his untimely death in 2012, at Indiana University, in Bloomington, where he held a joint-a...