Todd Gifford May is a political philosopher who has been teaching at Clemson for nearly thirty years with specialization in recent French thought, especially that of Michel Foucault and Gilles Deleuze. He writes on topics of anarchism, poststructuralism, and post-structuralist anarchism. More recently he has turned his attention to broader life concerns: meaning in life, coping with suffering, acting with moral decency, and so on. He is the author of sixteen books of philosophy. In addition to his academic work he teaches in a local prison and has organized both inside and outside the university, for instance opposing the university administration's public silence on such important issues as racism on campus and the Muslim ban.