Barry Wood, a Canadian by birth, is a naturalized American. He earned degrees at University of Toronto, University of British Columbia, and an interdisciplinary doctorate from Stanford University in English and American literature, Humanities, and Religious Studies. Barry is a faculty member at University of Houston and has taught in all areas of his doctorate. He has held visiting appointments at Trent University, Canada; the London Studies Program, United Kingdom; and the State University of New York program in Malaysia where he resided for four years while on leave from UH. His current interest is his self-designed core-curriculum course, COSMIC NARRATIVES, a 13.8-billion-year narrative history from the Big Bang to the present emphasizing its relevance for the human situation. Related to this course, he is a founding member of the International Big History Association (IBHA). His earliest publications were editorials related to the first Earth Day, 1970. He now has over sixty publications, including three books.