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At present (2007), I am a graduate student (PhD candidate) in
Planning, Governance and Globalization at Virginia Tech. My dissertation is on organizational theories of leaderless organizations. My bachelors degree is from Johns Hopkins University where I mostly studied the History of Science and
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My name is Ryan Lanham. My primary interests are educational technology, learning sciences, social innovation, social entrepreneurship, leaderless organizations, borders and boundaries, non-governmental organizations, civil society in the
Caribbean and Africa, and budget matters of all sorts. I am
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My research crosses boundaries and I am a pretty big fan of actor-network-theory. I read social sciences--anthropologists, social psychologists, food web ecologists, panarchists, polyarchists, and the like. My writings tend to construct organizational and social theories of post-Weberian (i.e.
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Prior to being a mid-career graduate student, I was a entrepreneur who raised venture capital for a firm called Blue-Suit. We licensed the Star ATM brand name as a vehicle to provide financial services online through small banks. I was also a product manager at IBM and a computer consultant in
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I have worked at
Virginia Tech as a professional political geographer at the Center for Regional Strategies. I am affiliated with the Institute for Policy and Governance run by my dissertation chair,
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Sometimes I flyfish, read contemporary poets, and play around with power tools. I'm a fan of local baseball teams, whatever local means in a given day. I'm interested in the
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post-bureaucratic) organizations--like community foundations. I work a great deal in the areas of humanitarian relief and disaster preparedness and recovery.
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also interested in
Knowledge (XXG) as a theory of democratic governance. I have been fleshing out the section on public administration and related topics.
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I am very interested in food webs and other ecological models as they are applied to organizations and social networks.
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once worked for me! In another avatar, I helped automate the
Johannesburg Stock Exchange in South Africa in 1996.
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I have a family that includes my wife, Kate, and two sons, Fisher & Eli, and myself.
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