Ray Canoy writes on world history and was Associate Professor of European History at the University of Oklahoma until 2013. He has a PhD from Indiana University and is the author of The Discreet Charm of the Police State: The Landpolizei and the Transformation of Bavaria 1945-1965. He is working on a study of Ireland and the Philippines as agrarian Catholic ex-colonies of imperial Western powers, as well as a novel of Sundaland, a dry-land, alternate-world Southeast Asia where the Ice Age never ended. Born in Cebu, he lives in Europe.