Robert Bonner, Director Emeritus, in his Big Horn Office. He will come down to teach AMST/ENTS/HIST 195 Spring term

Richard Keiser, Associate Professor of Political Science, and the Associate Director of American Studies has been at Carleton since 1991. He is a scholar of the politics of American cities.

Michael Kowalewski, Professor of English, is the Director of American Studies. He joined the Carleton faculty in 1991 after teaching for five years at Princeton University. He has a special interest in regionalism and "place" in American history and culture. He is the director of our only American Studies off-campus program, "Visions of California," which was most recently offered in the winter of 2001.

Robert Tisdale, Class of 1944 Professor of English and the Liberal Arts, has taught literature and American Studies at Carleton since 1966. A specialist in American literature and poetry, he also has served as Director of the program.

Wilson Valentin-Escobar, Fred C. Andersen Pre-Doctoral Fellow in American Studies