Russell Arben Fox, a native of Spokane, WA, has lived in Wichita for eleven years. He received a BA and MA in Political Science and International Studies from Brigham Young University in Provo, UT, in 1993 and 1994, and a PhD in Politics from Catholic University of America in Washington DC in 2001. He taught at Mississippi State University, Arkansas State University, and Western Illinois University, before arriving at Friends University in 2006. He current serves as Professor of Political Science and Director of the Friends University Honors Program and their Model United Nations Program. He has published numerous articles on matters of American history, education, continental political thought, communitarianism, Confucian philosophy, and bicycling, and is currently working on a book on mid-sized cities. He is a long-time blogger, a regular political consultant for KWCH and KAKE, a frequent participant in city planning activities, and a leader in his Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints congregation. He and his wife Melissa are the parents of four daughters and one foster daughter.