CHRISTOPHER G. HUDSON (1949- ) was raised in Yellow Springs, OH, as well as in Saudi Arabia, Bolivia, Ecuador, Jordan, Taiwan, and Switzerland. After completing his bachelors and masters degrees at the University of Chicago, he worked as a clinical social worker and psychotherapist during the remainder of the 1970s. Since completing his Ph.D. at the University of Illinois at Chicago in 1983, he has taught in MSW programs in Illinois, North Carolina, and since 1987, at Salem State College's School of Social Work, Salem, MA. During these years he has taught courses in human behavior, mental health policy and services, research methods, spirituality and social work, among other subjects, and conducted a variety of studies involving mental health policy and services, homelessness, psychiatric hospitalization and managed care, socioeconomic dimensions of mental illness and health, complex systems theory, and the geography of mental health. He also has had academic appointments at the London School of Economics, Smith College, and the City University of Hong Kong, the last of which was supported by the award of a J. William Fulbright Fellowship. Other awards include Researcher of the Year, awarded by the Alliance for the Mentally Ill (MA). His books include DIMENSIONS OF STATE MENTAL HEALTH POLICY (Praeger, 1991), AN INTERDEPENDENCY MODEL OF HOMELESSNESS (Edwin Mellen, 1999), and COMPLEX SYSTEMS AND HUMAN BEHAVIOR (Lyceum Books, 2010), and his publications include extensive articles in leading social service and mental health journals.