About Me

I am presently a college dean and professor, a husband for almost 25 years (and counting), and father of 2 daughters.

My name is Douglas J. Cremer. I was born and raised in Southern California and currently reside with my family near Los Angeles. I have also lived, studied, and/or taught in San Diego, Atlanta, Munich, Barcelona, Berlin, Paris, Rome, Nanjing and Beijing. My training is in European and Asian social history, intellectual history, theology and philosophy.

I have taught courses in post-modernism and post-colonialism, terrorism and fascism, environmental ethics and existentialism. I have published in the Journal of the History of Ideas, the Journal of Church and State, the Catholic Historical Review, and the Journal of the Association for History and Computing as well as written regular reviews for The European Legacy.

Currently, I am Dean of the Institute of Transdisciplinary Studies at Woodbury University in Burbank, CA. My professional life has been a search across the usual divisions of the intellectual and academic world. But not only do my intellectual interests and activities transgress established bounds; my life is also such, being in an inter-racial relationship for over twenty years and raising two multi-racial daughters. I am a strong proponent of the 'trans-' way of life.