Roger D. Masters, Ph.D. - Biography


Roger D. Masters is Nelson D. Rockefeller Professor Emeritus in the Dartmouth College Department of Government. He heads the Dartmouth Foundation for Neuroscience and Society. For several decades he has researched the causes of violence and other dysfunctional human behavior such as ADD, ADHD, drug abuse and the like. His viewpoint, which has been published widely, is that toxins in the environment have subtle effects on brain and neural functions which are ultimately manifested in behaviors which many social scientists and politicians prefer to attribute to social dynamics.

Dr. Masters presented a groundbreaking study related to lead and silicofluorides at the recent 17th International Neurotoxicology Conference ( "Children's Health and the Environment," Little Rock, Arkansas, October 17-20, 1999).

Below are a few relevent excerpts from his Curriculum Vitae:

Education:


Behavioral Research (1995-1998)


Awards:


Work in progress: Analysis of neurotoxicity associated with pollution, poor diet, and lifestyle as risk factors in vi` crime, health, and social behavior.

Publications:

Editor and co-translator, Rousseau's First and Second Discourses (New York: St. Martin's, 1964)
The Nation is Burdened: American Foreign Policy in a Changing World (New York: Knopf, 1967)
The Political Philosophy of Rousseau (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1968)
Editor, Rousseau's Social Contract, with Geneva Manuscript and Political Economy (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1978)
Co-Editor with Margaret Gruter, Ostracism: a Biological and Social Phenomenon (New York: Elsevier Science Publishers, 1986)
The Nature of Politics (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1989)
Co-Editor with Christopher Kelly, Rousseau, Judge of Jean-Jacques; Collected Writings of Rousseau, Vol. 1 (Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 1990).
Co-Editor with Glendon Schubert, Primate Politics (Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 1991); paperback, with new Preface (University Press of America, 1994).
Co-Editor with Margaret Gruter, The Sense of Justice: Biological Foundations of Law (Newbury Park, CA: Sage, 1992)
Co-Editor with Christopher Kelly, Rousseau's First Discourse and Polemics; Collected Writings of Rousseau, Vol. 2 (Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 1992).
Co-Editor with Christopher Kelly, Rousseau's Second Discourse. Polemics, and Political Economy; Collected Writings of Rousseau, Vol. 3 (Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 1993)
Beyond Relativism: Science and Human Values (Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 1993)
Co-Editor, with Michael T. McGuire, The Neurotransmitter Revolution (Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 1994)
General Editor, Gruter Institute Reader: Biology, Law, and Human Behavior (Computerized Database for Customized Books of Readings; New York: McGraw Hill [Primis])
Co-Editor with Christopher Kelly, Rousseau's Socal Contract, Essay on the Virtue of Heroes, Geneva Manuscript; Collected Writings of Rousseau, Vol. 4 (Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 1994)
Co-Editor with Christopher Kelly, Rousseau's Confessions, Collected Writings of Rousseau, Vol. 5 (Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 1996)
Machiavelli, Leonardo, and the Science of Power (University of Notre Dame Press. 1996)
Fortune is a River: Leonardo da Vinci and Niccole Machiavelli's Magnificent Dream to Change the Course of Florentine History (New York: Free Press, 1998). Paperback edition, New York: Plume, 1999).

Over 150 scholarly articles and journalistic essays in English, French, and German, including contributions to Quarterly Review of Biology, Ethology and Sociobiology, American Political Science Review, World Politics, Politics and Life Sciences, Environmental Toxicology, International Journal of Environmental Studies, etc.