Much to his mother's consternation, History Punk is a graduate student in history at a local university. His utterly unprofitable research interests are numerous, fluctuating, and subject to change at the least whim but currently are the former Yugoslavia; the roles historical mythology and inaccurate history play in the construction of identities and social movements; and modern history from the First World War onward, with a fixation on America because History Punk has been unable to master another language despite a decade of toil.