Many emeriti faculty remain professionally active well beyond their classroom years. The Office of the Provost supports emeriti faculty by helping to fund their continuing professional interests.

Projects and conferences funded in the 2023-24 academic year

  • William Terriquez – attend the USTFCCCA Hall of Fame induction of Donna Ricks in Denver, CO
  • Guy Kalland – attend the NABC Convention in Phoenix, AZ
  • Becky Boling – research trip to Morelia, Mexico

Projects and conferences funded in the 2022-23 academic year

  • Jane Shockley – attended a Movement Workshop in Reykjavik, Iceland
  • Roger Paas – traveled to Harrassowitz Verlag in Wiesbaden and to Wolfegg Castle in Nuremberg, Germany, to work on catalogs on early modern German print publishers
  • Sam Demas and Laurel Bradley – attended the World Trails Network conference in Skiathos and Kastoria, Greece
  • Dan Bruggeman – attended the Theaster Gates exhibit at The New Museum of New York and the Wolfgang Tillmans exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City
  • Sigi Leonhard – attended the Ginger Poetry Workshop in Bemidji, MN
  • Jay Levi – research trip on Native American Nations in southern California and Baja California, Mexico
  • Becky Boling – research trip to Morelia and Chapala, Mexico
  • Alison Kettering – research trip to visit museums in Los Angeles, CA
  • Linda Burdell – research trip to Puerto Morelos, Mexico
  • Guy Kalland – attended the Men’s Final Four in Houston, TX
  • Fred Hagstrom – research trip to Los Angeles to visit museums and attended a pot luck with Carleton Alumni
  • Roger Jackson – indexing of forthcoming book, Saraha: Poet of Blissful Gnosis

Projects and conferences funded in the 2021-22 academic year

  • Jay Levi – research trip to the Pala Indian Reservation in San Diego, CA
  • Alison Kettering – attended the Historians of Netherlandish Art conference in Amsterdam
  • Bardwell Smith – indexing of forthcoming book, Precarious Balance: Sinhala Buddhism and the Forces of Pluralism

Projects and conferences funded in the 2020-21 academic year

  • Louis Newman – hired research students to help with forthcoming book, How to Think Like a College Student
  • Keith Harrison – preparations and printing expenses for three forthcoming books: My Father’s Apples; Not Quite Ithaka; A Man, A Woman, and a Blackbird
  • Alison Kettering – purchased a research book and virtually attended the 109th CAA Annual Conference
  • Roger Jackson – indexing of forthcoming book, Rebirth
  • Steve Schier – research expenses for forthcoming book on the Trump presidency; and also published the following books: How Trump Happened: A system Shock Decades in the Making and Presidential Elections: Strategies and Structures of American Politics
  • John Schott – printing and travel costs associated with recently completed book, WoodsWalks

Projects and conferences funded in the 2019-20 academic year

  • Roger Paas – attended the 17th Annual International Conference on Books, Publishing & Libraries in Granada, Spain; and gave lecture at the Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv, Ukraine
  • Carol Rutz – attended the Council of Writing Program Administrators national conference in Baltimore, MD
  • Richard Nau – attended Bridges 2019 in Linz, Austria
  • Alison Kettering – research trip to Amsterdam, London, and Paris; and attended the College Art Association meeting in Chicago, IL
  • Louis Newman – hired research students to help with his book, How to Think Like a College Student.
  • Tim Lloyd – research trip to Japan to further skills and continue studying Japanese metalwork techniques
  • Roger Jackson – indexing of Buddhist studies book, Mahamudra in India and Tibet
  • Sam Demas and Laurel Bradley – research expenses for co-authored Hut-to-Hut book project.
  • Steve Schier – attended the University of Iowa Conference on Iowa Caucuses
  • Steve Kennedy – attended a conference in Virginia and worked with his collaborator at the University of Richmond
  • Steve Kelly – support for music performances
  • Joel Weisberg – pulsar research at the University of Amsterdam and Myanmar Science Education in Korea
  • Nancy Wilkie – attended the Archaeological Institute of America conference in Washington, DC
  • Sam Patterson – attended the American Bee Research conference in Schaumburg, IL

Projects and conferences funded in the 2018-19 academic year

  • Jim Fisher – attended the 47th Annual Conference on South Asia in Madison, WI
  • Gary Iseminger – attended the American Society of Aesthetics in Toronto, Canada
  • Carol Rutz – presented at a conference of writing program directors from small liberal arts colleges at Davidson College
  • Sam Demas and Laurel Bradley – research trips to visit hut systems in the U.S. to prepare manuscript for a guidebook on hut-to-hut skiing, hiking, and biking
  • Tim Lloyd – equipment and materials for exhibition of new work with former student Jody Williams ’78 at the Raymond Avenue Gallery in St. Paul
  • Nancy Wilkie – attended the Cultural Heritage Coordinating Committee meeting at the Smithsonian Institute; and was invited by the Ambassador of Switzerland to the U.S. to attend a high level panel discussion on The Protection of Cultural Property in the Times of Armed Conflict in Washington, DC
  • Alison Kettering – funding for a research trip to Amsterdam and attend the College Art Association conference in New York
  • Cliff Clark – traveled to London for a conference and to do research
  • Sigi Leonhard – traveled to Berlin, Germany, to reflect on off-campus programs trips do research for an essay
  • Louis Newman – hired a research student to help with his book, How to Think Like a College Student
  • Roger Jackson – help with indexing fees for new Buddhist studies book, Mahamudra in India and Tibet
  • Roger Paas – attended the Seventeenth International Conference on Books, Publishing, and Libraries in Granada, Spain
  • John Schott – traveled to Devon, England, to collaborate with two English authors making photographs for a book project
  • Steve Kelly – support for performances, paper research, and Cannon Valley Elder Collegium (CVEC) class preparation
  • Steve Schier – research expenses for book on the Trump presidency and attended the MPSA Political Science conference in Chicago, IL

Projects and conferences funded in the 2017-18 academic year

  • Nancy Wilkie – attended the General Assembly of Blue Shield International conference in Vienna, Austria
  • Kathryn Sparling – research trip to Kyoto, Japan
  • Alison Kettering – attended exhibitions and symposiums in Baltimore, MD; Washington, DC; Cambridge, MA; and did research in Amsterdam and attended the Historians of Netherlandish Art conference in Ghent, Belgium
  • Diane Pearsall – research trip to Cusco, Peru
  • Keith Harrison – recorded a CD of his work titled WHEN WE COME HOME: Poems & Songs by Keith Harrison
  • Sam Demas – traveled to New Zealand to do research for hut-to-hut project
  • Laurel Bradley – traveled to the Appalachian Mountain Club (AMC) hut system in New Hampshire to do research for book project
  • Louis Newman – funds to hire a student research assistant to help with his book, How to Like a College Student
  • Steve Kelly – funds to purchase music books and saxophone reeds for music project
  • Jim Fisher – travel to Kathmandu, Nepal, to do research on the Sherpa Diaspora
  • Carol Rutz – attended the College Composition and Communication conference in Denver, CO

Projects and conferences funded in the 2016-17 academic year

  • Gary Iseminger – attended the American Society of Aesthetics meeting in Seattle, WA
  • Richard Nau – attended the Bridges 2016 conference in Jyväskylä, Finland
  • Julie Klassen – attended the Women in German conference in Banff, Canada
  • Jim Fisher – funds for copy editing and publisher fees for his book, Trans-Himalayan Traders Transformed
  • Steve Kelly – funds for Music Dispatch books
  • Sam Demas – attended the International Trails Symposium in Dayton, OH; traveled to Oregon to interview owners/operators of three hut systems and do research in archives; and hired a student worker to make website improvements
  • Alison Kettering – attended the College Art Association conference in New York, NY, and visit museums in Washington and California
  • Nancy Wilkie – attended the Archaeological Institute of America meeting in Toronto, Canada
  • Sam Demas – attended the International Trails Symposium in Dayton, OH

Projects and conferences funded in the 2015-16 academic year

  • Jim Fisher – attended the Association for Asian and Himalayan Studies conference in Austin, TX; and traveled to Kathmandu to do research and finish the Trans-Himalayan Traders Transformed book
  • Gary Iseminger – attended the American Society of Aesthetics meeting in Savannah, GA
  • Richard Nau – hired a student research assistant to help with his book on the history of the computer science major at Carleton
  • Anne Patrick – attended the Catholic Theological Society of American convention in San Juan, Puerto Rico, and the Women’s Orientation Worldwide in Philadelphia, PA
  • Nancy Wilkie – attended the Archaeological Institute of American in San Francisco, CA, and the Combatant Command Cultural Heritage Action Group meeting in Washington, DC

Projects and conferences funded in the 2014-15 academic year

  • Dick Crouter – travel and supplies for his book, Friedrich Schleiermacher and the Making of Modern Theology
  • Sam Demas – hired a student research assistant to assist him with a book about long distance walking
  • Jim Fisher – traveled to Nepal to do field research for a book project
  • Keith Harrison – funds for a pilot project to build one glass mosaic as the first part of a five-part series of illuminated poems
  • Gary Iseminger – attended the American Society of Aesthetics meeting in San Antonio, TX
  • Julie Klassen – attended the Women in German conference in Delaware, PA
  • Anne Patrick – attended the Society of Christian Ethics in Chicago, IL.  The Vatican II: Remembering the Future in Washington, DC.  The Catholic Theological Society of America in Milwaukee, WI
  • Carl Weiner – funds to continue work on the Esternay Project
  • Ruth Weiner – stipend for directing and providing dramaturgical support for Sunset Gun’s, The Blueprint Project, at the Red Eye Theater in Minneapolis 

Projects and conferences funded in the 2013-14 academic year

  • Richard Crouter – attended the International conference at the University of Portugal
  • Jim Fisher – attended the ANHS annual meeting at Yale University
  • Keith Harrison – funds to collaborate with Ron Nagorcka to produce approximately 10 songs and prepared them for performances in various venues throughout Australia, Asia, and Europe
  • Gary Iseminger – attended the American Society of Aesthetics meeting in San Diego, CA
  • Steve Kelly – funds for materials and repairs to support performance activities
  • Perry Mason – funds to mount and frame his Grand Canyon photos for an art exhibit in the Athenaeum
  • Frank Morral – traveled to Italy to give a talk at the International D.H. Lawrence conference
  • Anne Patrick – attended professional conferences
  • Gary Wagenbach – traveled to Yangon, Myanmar to run workshops and consult with Lumbini teachers
  • Carl Weiner – funds for continuing work on the Esternay project
  • Nancy Wilkie – attended the Association of National Committees of the Blue Shield meeting in Rome and the Archaeological Institute of America in Chicago, IL

Projects and conferences funded in the 2012-13 academic year

  • Pat Dust – funds to publish a manuscript, Finished Business: A Neuropsychoanalytic Account of Recovery from Complex Trauma, Fibromyalgia, and an Eating Disorder
  • Mary Easter – funds to pursue research to further completion of her poetry manuscript, The Body of the World
  • Jim Fisher – funds to pursue research to further the completion of his epilogue chapter for Trans-Himalayan Traders
  • Gary Iseminger – attended the American Society of Aesthetics meeting in St. Louis, MO, and the Pacific Division meeting in Monterey, CA
  • Julie Klassen – attended the Women in German conference in Delaware, PA
  • Tim Lloyd – materials for a project to produce a series of metal vessels based on drawings from the Grand Canyon
  • Anne Patrick – attended the Catholic Theological Society of America in Miami, FL
  • Lauren Soth – funds to continue research on van Gogh
  • Bob Sullivan – funds for printing copies of his poetry book
  • Bob Tisdale – funds to research and write a narrative about the history of African American students and faculty at Carleton
  • Gary Wagenbach – travel expenses for an assessment trip and workshop in Myanmar
  • Eleanor Zelliot – hired a student research assistant to help with her research