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Pictured above, one of the few photographs we have with my father in them. From the top left: Robert Bruce Lucas and Grandma Irma Berry’s brother-in-law “Chick.” In row two, Gypsy, Geraldine Kickbusch (paternal grandmother). Jules Needle (maternal grandfather). In row three, Amelia Needle (maternal grandmother), and Mrs. Irma Berry. Esther (mother) and me as a baby.

Equity Lens
Here my evolving equity lens. For more information, check out Matthew Reynolds Consulting.

I am crafting a world in which I can be present yet decenter myself.

Websites of Interest

• Find the companion website for my dissertation at The Lawrence Tract.

• My wife, daughter, and I lived in Spain together for the academic year 2014-15. This blog documents a portion of our time there.

• I still have fond memories of working with Marty Pulvers at Sherlock's Haven--it was probably the most relaxing, unique, and fun job I have ever had. I built Marty’s website at Pulvers’ Prior Briar and trained him to manage it.

• With Amy Halapua, I designed this website for the Archbishop Carter Foundation in Jamaica, founded by my mentor at Foothill College, Dr. Joseph Woolcock.

• It's always inspiring to see what my friend, Mik Gaspay, is up to in the art world.

• Also in the art world, my sister, Kija Lucas, is a photographer.

• The Department of History at Bowling Green State University's blog, where my MA thesis co-chair and advisor, Dr. Amílcar Challú, wrote a nice article about my research on soup in nineteenth-century Mexico.

• A blog about the teaching profession called Zinnfull, written by Wilkins-O’Riley Zinn, a mentor of mine from Southern Oregon University's Master’s in Teaching program. She sadly passed away much too soon.