David Cooper (Slavic Languages Professor)

No, no.

I think, you know, I'm already older than you.

And then and then, you know, you're more famous than me, presumably.

So, you know, I think that balances things nicely.

Yeah.

So it's, you know, recently, like I'd say maybe in the last decade or so, Google has gotten smart and sort of looks at who's searching because you're logged into Google.

And so it shows me myself first.

But I did go through a sort of crisis of identity, let's say, as as as the Internet grew.

And every time I'd search myself, I went further and further down the results page.

Right.

And it's one of the reasons that I use my middle initial with professionally, right?

Because I realize there's a lot of other academics out there named David Cooper.

And so by going by David L. Cooper, I've reduced the field significantly.

My major competition now is a rabbi, David L. Cooper, who is a prolific publisher.

Oh, what's wrong with him?

It would be a fun conversation.

Yeah.

So he's the one that sort of like comes in above me now, right?

But back in the mid-90s when I was in graduate school, I was like one of the jobs I gave myself was to create the very first webpages for the departments that I was in.

And, of course, I created a page for myself.