Dr. Alfred Higgins
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Dr. Alfred Higgins

Alfred Carrington Higgins, born 1950, Leeds (“Go Rhinos!”), West Yorkshire, England, to a Welsh minister and his former Jamaican housekeeper, is an educator and scholar with a following on both sides of the Atlantic. Currently a visiting professor at MIT doing a series on Philosophy for the Natural Sciences, Higgins’ home base is in Cambridge, England, though in Boston he lives in the faculty slums just off campus, in a book-filled apartment that looks like it was decorated by one of his teaching assitants.

A life-long student as well as an educator, Dr. Higgins holds degrees in Biology, Psychology, and has the equivalent of undergraduate degrees in social sciences and education. His 1979 paper on Milgran’s obedience to authority is still considered the final word on the subject. His most recent magazine article was in The New Yorker, an essay called “There Are 10 Types of People In This World”.

Though his famed inter-disciplinary courses often require expertise in multiple fields of study to comprehend, he’s still a much-beloved figure amongst his students, past and present.

His iPod is full of an odd mix of groups specializing in authentic period instrumentation for the performance of Renaissance and Madrigal music, swing and be-bop cuts from 1940 to 1960, and American rap music released before 1983. When in his cups, Higgins sometimes claims he once auditioned to play bass for The Doors, but the dates he talks about don’t add up quite right.

Classically trained as a youth, Higgens always brings his viola when traveling to the West Coast, in case there’s an opportunity to play with Big Friday while he’s out there.

Out of many possibilities, Higgens finally chose as his lesson learned:

“The world is not only stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we CAN imagine.”

A few random cards from Higgins...

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