Dr. Frank W. Elwell received a Ph.D. in sociology from the University at Albany, Masters degrees from the University at Albany (sociology) and the State University of New York at New Paltz (political science/education), and a bachelor’s degree from Eastern Michigan University (history/ education). He is the author of the books Macrosociology: Four Modern Theorists (Paradigm, 2006), A Commentary on Malthus’s 1798 Essay on Population as Social Theory (Edwin Mellen Press, 2001), Industrializing America: Understanding Contemporary Society through Classical Sociological Analysis (Praeger Press, 1999), and The Evolution of the Future (Praeger Press, 1991). His areas of academic interest are social evolution, human ecology, and social theory.