I'm a law professor, freelance writer, and guitarist still striving for mediocrity. My articles range in topic from borderlands issues and immigration and refugees to politics, health policy, bioethics, autism, and music and musical instruments. My writings have been published in law reviews, medical journals, music magazines, national newspapers, and the Oxford Dictionary of Music. My X-ray project that demonstrated why the "Banner" Gibsons built by the Kalamazoo Gals are superior to those built by their male predecessors and successors has morphed into an art show that is traveling to museums throughout the US through 2018 with the National Guitar Museum. My newest book, "One Hundred Years of Solitude, Struggle, and Violence along the US/Mexico Border: An Oral History" is both personal and, I hope, provocative. For more information about "Solitude, Struggle, and Violence" visit: https://solitudestruggleviolence.com/. For more information about "Kalamazoo Gals" visit http://www.kalamazoogals.com/. For some of that mediocre guitar playing and to check out some of my other projects, visit http://www.johnthomasguitar.com/.
