Jake Highton

Professor

• Office:  RSJ 215E
• Phone:  775-784-4193
• Email:  jake@unr.edu

Why I teach

I love teaching. There's no doubt about that. I think I have the best job in America. I do what I want to do-teaching, writing and researching-and I get paid well for that by the state of Nevada. Nobody else has that much luck.

Experience

Teaching Experience:

Instructor, Wayne State University

Professional Experience:

Reporter, Baltimore Evening Press

Copy editor, Los Angeles Times

Book reviewer, Detroit Free Press

Columnist for The Daily Sparks Tribune

Instructor, Wayne State University

Education:

M.A., journalism, Ohio State University

B.A., journalism, Penn State University

Biography

My American heroes: 

(Note: These are in no particular order.)

 Franklin D. Roosevelt

Louis Brandeis

Eugene Debs

Oliver Wendell Holmes

William O. Douglas

Emma Goldman

Henry David Thoreau

Thomas Jefferson

Abraham Lincoln

Hugo Black

Helen Keller (Many people know she was blind but few know she was a Socialist.)