Brian

Writer & Photographer

Thank you for visiting my website! It is being adapted to capture my transition into retirement: retaining my past professional writing and adding new writing efforts and my developing activities, such as photography.

I spent 30 years as a professor of social sciences. As a whole, my work addressed how context impacts individual and social development – particularly how contexts from parenting to political systems interfere with healthy, identity development. Specifically, I helped reconstruct the construct of parental psychological control and document its inhibiting effect on children’s sense of self and identity development in 15 cultures. Some of the grounding publications documenting this are in Child Development and the Monograph of the Society of Child Development.  See citations of my work on Google Scholar.

Mid-career, I transitioned to studying how political structures attempt to impede identity development by studying Palestinians under Israeli occupation in the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and, most intensively, in the Gaza Strip. Our research findings can be found in The Lancet, Social Science & Medicine, Global Public Health, PLOS ONE, etc., and in my published volume Adolescents and War: How Youth Deal with Political Conflict.

My current writing is a non-academic, narrative nonfiction following the lives of three Gazan families over the past 30 years. The working title is No Way but Forward.

As for photography, I am captivated by all forms of natural beauty—from simple street photography to architecture, landscapes, seascapes, etc. During a 2018 expedition to the Arctic with National Geographic, I developed an interest in photographing wildlife, particularly birds.

The website will be developed further. Watch This Space!

PHOTOGRAPHY

Western Bluebird

Western Bluebird

Library of Congress, Washington DC

Library of Congress, Washington DC

Solana Beach, CA

Solana Beach, CA

2021 Inauguration, Washington DC

2021 Inauguration, Washington DC

Cathy Baker, Khaled Alostath

Cathy Baker, Khaled Alostath

Brown-crested Flycatcher

Brown-crested Flycatcher

Library of Congress, Washington DC

Library of Congress, Washington DC

Sister, Gail Barber Higginbotham

Sister, Gail Barber Higginbotham

Male Cardinal, Washington DC

Male Cardinal, Washington DC

Alexandria, Egypt 2011

Alexandria, Egypt 2011

Turkey Vulture, Maryland

Turkey Vulture, Maryland

Library of Congress, Washington DC

Library of Congress, Washington DC

Derek, Beth, Piper, Gus Higginbotham

Derek, Beth, Piper, Gus Higginbotham

Northern Mocking Bird

Northern Mocking Bird

Western Bluebird

Western Bluebird

Nephew Derek Higginbotham

Nephew Derek Higginbotham

Arctic Expedition Friends

Arctic Expedition Friends

Black Phoebe

Black Phoebe

Male Cardinal, Washington DC

Male Cardinal, Washington DC

Polar Bear, Svalbard

Polar Bear, Svalbard

Library of Congress, Washington DC

Library of Congress, Washington DC

Library of Congress, Washington DC

Library of Congress, Washington DC

Cottontail Kitten

Cottontail Kitten

American Crow

American Crow

David Tritelli, Yorgos Schwartzman

David Tritelli, Yorgos Schwartzman

Svalbard, the Arctic

Svalbard, the Arctic

Black Phoebe

Black Phoebe

Washington DC

Washington DC

Royal Terns, Solana Beach, CA

Royal Terns, Solana Beach, CA

Library of Congress, Washington DC

Library of Congress, Washington DC

Walruses, Svalbard

Walruses, Svalbard

Tabernacle Organ

Tabernacle Organ

2021 Inauguration, Washington DC

2021 Inauguration, Washington DC

Svalbard, the Arctic

Svalbard, the Arctic

Male Cardinal, Washington DC

Male Cardinal, Washington DC

St. Matthew’s Cathedral, Washington DC

St. Matthew’s Cathedral, Washington DC

Svalbard, the Arctic

Svalbard, the Arctic

Cottontail Kitten

Cottontail Kitten

American Crow

American Crow

Cottontail Kitten

Cottontail Kitten

Black Phoebe

Black Phoebe

Solana Beach, CA

Solana Beach, CA

Charlie Ivins Barber

Charlie Ivins Barber

Coopers Hawk

Coopers Hawk

2021 Inauguration, Washington DC

2021 Inauguration, Washington DC

Polar Bear, Svalbard

Polar Bear, Svalbard

Grandnephew Abe Higginbotham

Grandnephew Abe Higginbotham

St. Matthew’s Cathedral, Washington DC

St. Matthew’s Cathedral, Washington DC

George Floyd Memorial, Washington DC

George Floyd Memorial, Washington DC

Brown Pelican, Solana Beach, CA

Brown Pelican, Solana Beach, CA

Svalbard, the Arctic

Svalbard, the Arctic