David C A Hillman Author

Dr. David C. A. Hillman is author of The Chemical Muse: Drug Use and the Roots of Western Civilization (St. Martin's, 2008), and Original Sin: Ritual Child Rape and the Church (Ronin, 2012). He earned his Ph.D. in classics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and an M.A. in classics and M.S. in bacteriology. He has given interviews to NPR's To the Best of Our Knowledge, Reason Magazine, and numerous other radio and print media. The London Times called his research "The last wild frontier of Classics," and his first publication stirred a fee speech debate at the university where he wrote his dissertation.