Dr. Lawrence Foster is a Professor of American History in the School of History, Technology, and Society. He received his PhD at the University of Chicago in 1976 under Martin Marty and has taught at Georgia Tech since 1977. Foster specializes in American religious and social history, with strong interests in Modern European and comparative history, as well. His most recent research has focused on changes in American family patterns and sex roles, the social impact of new and controversial religious movements (or "cults"), and the dynamics of mass movements and political revolutions. He has published more than forty articles and three books-- Religion and Sexuality (1981), Women, Family, and Utopia (1991), and Free Love in Utopia (2001)--primarily on the celibate Shakers, "free love" Oneida Community, and polygamous Mormons in 19th-century America. He has served as President of the Communal Studies Association and the 1,000-member Mormon History Association (although he is not a Mormon). Foster has received an NEH Fellowship and a Fulbright Fellowship to Australia and New Zealand. One of his long-term projects is a history of Antioch College and innovation in American higher education since Antioch's reorganization during the 1920s.