Stephen Compton is a writer on Mesoamerican history. He obtained his undergraduate education from Shimer College and, via Shimer's Oxford study abroad program, Oxford University. He subsequently obtained master's degrees from the University of Chicago and Northwestern University. In his book Exodus Lost (2011), based on 14 years of research, Compton advanced a controversial but pathbreaking thesis on the origins of the Olmec civilization, adducing powerful evidence to link the Old and New Worlds. (from Shimer College Wiki)
