"In 1985, Kaczynski sent a bomb, disguised as a book manuscript, to University of Michigan professor James McConnell. The package was signed by a Ralph Kloppenburg, who claimed to be a Utah behavioral science student. According to the U Registrar’s Office of Verification at the U, no Ralph Kloppenburg ever attended the U. It was assumed that Kloppenburg was an alias used by Kaczynski to throw off the police from his true identity. The bomb detonated, causing McConnell hearing loss."

I ran across this person and thought that TJK might have been aware of him.
http://dces.wisc.edu/wp-content/uploads … -cv-12.pdf

JACK RALPH KLOPPENBURG
Professor, Department of Community and Environmental Sociology
Director GreenHouse Residential Learning Community
Gaylord Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies
Agroecology Program
340A Agriculture Hall, Department of Community and Environmental Sociology
University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706, USA
Phone: 608- 262-6867
E-mail: jrkloppe@wisc.edu
Web site: http://www.dces.wisc.edu/faculty/kloppenburg/index.php

EDUCATION
Cornell University, Ph.D., Development Sociology, 1985
Northwestern University, M.A., Anthropology, 1976
Yale University, B.A., Archaeology, 1974

HONORS
2007 Planter Award, Dane County Food Council
2000 Spitzer Excellence in Teaching Award, CALS-University of Wisconsin
1998 Lightning Rod Award, Madison Community Gardeners Coalition
1992-95 Pew Fellow in Conservation and the Environment
1991 Robert K. Merton Professional Award, presented by the Science, Knowledge, and
Technology section of the American Sociological Association for First the Seed
1989-91 Social Science Research Council-MacArthur Foundation Fellowship in
International Peace and Security
1989 Theodore Saloutos Memorial Book Award, presented by the Agricultural History
Society for First The Seed

EMPLOYMENT
Professor, Department of Community and Environmental Sociology, UW-Madison,
2003 – present
Associate Professor, Department of Rural Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison,
1992-2002
Assistant Professor, Department of Rural Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison,
1985-1992
Peace Corps Volunteer, Botswana, 1976-1979.
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BOOKS AND MONOGRAPHS
Kloppenburg, Jack,
1988 First The Seed: The Political Economy of Plant Biotechnology, 1492-2000. New
York, NY: Cambridge University Press (received the Agricultural History Society’s
Theodore Saloutos Memorial Book Award for best book on agricultural history
published in 1988; received the Robert K. Merton Professional Award from the
Science, Knowledge and Technology section of the American Sociological
Association in 1991; paperback edition published 1990).
2004 First the Seed reissued by University of Wisconsin Press with a new preface and an
additional chapter, “Still the Seed,” updating the book.
2006 Chapter 2 of First the Seed, “Science, Agriculture and Social Change” reprinted in
Nanneke Redclift and Sahra Gibbon (eds.), Genetics: Critical Concepts in Social and
Cultural Theory, Routledge Major Works Series.
2007 Korean language edition published by Nanan Publishers, Seoul, Korea.
Kloppenburg, Jack, (editor)
1988 Seeds and Sovereignty: The Use and Control of Plant Genetic Resources. Chapel
Hill, NC: Duke University Press.
REFEREED PUBLICATIONS AND BOOK CHAPTERS
Kloppenburg, Jack,
1983 "Group development in Botswana: the principles of collective farmer action." Pp.
311-333 in George Dalton (ed.), Research in Economic Anthropology. Vol. 5,
Greenwich, CT: JAI Press.
Kenney, Martin and Jack Kloppenburg,
1983 "The American agricultural research system: an obsolete structure?" Agricultural
Administration 14:1-10.
Kloppenburg, Jack, and Martin Kenney
1984 "Biotechnology, seeds, and the restructuring of agriculture." The Insurgent
Sociologist 12 (Fall):3-17 (reprinted in G. Berardi (ed.), World Food, Population,
and Development, Rowman and Allanheld, 1986).
Buttel, Frederick H., Martin Kenney, and Jack Kloppenburg,
1984 "Biotechnology and the Third World: toward a global political economic
perspective." Politics and the Life Sciences 2 (February):160-164.
Kloppenburg, Jack,
1984 "The social impacts of biogenetic technology in agriculture: past and future." Pp.
291-321 in Gigi M. Berardi and Charles C. Geisler (eds.), The Social Consequences
of New Agricultural Technologies. Boulder: Westview Press.