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Common Reading

 

Due to a decision to implement a different "common experience" for incoming first-year students, the Common Reading will not take place in 2009 and has been discontinued until further notice.

 

Past Common Readings:

  • 2008: The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy

    Presenters: Robert A. Oden, Jr., President of the College; Steve Strand, Professor of Economics; Charles Cogan, Associate Dean and Director of International Recruitment; Eunice Ajambo '06, Public Policy and International Affairs Fellow graduate student at the Kennedy School.
  • 2007: Mountains Beyond Mountains

    Presenters: Robert A. Oden, Jr., President of the College; Joseph Chihade, Associate Professor of Chemistry, Director of Biochemistry; Patrick Ganey, Carleton Development Officer; Amenah Babar '05.
  • 2006: Persepolis and Persepolis 2

    Presenters: Robert A. Oden, Jr., President of the College; Carol Donelan, Professor of Cinema and Media Studies; Visiting Professor Louis Fishman; Professor Cherif Keita
  • 2005: The Working Poor: Invisible in America

    Presenters: Robert A. Oden, Jr., President of the College; Kaila Yang, Class of 2003; David K. Shipler, Author
  • 2004: West of Kabul, East of New York

    Presenter: Tamim Ansary, Author
  • 2003: Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress

    Presenters: Qiguang Zhao, Burton and Lily Levin Professor of Chinese; Roy Grow, Frank B. Kellogg Professor of International Relations; Laura Clise, Class of 2001
  • 2002: All Over but the Shoutin'

    Presenters: Martha Paas, Professor of Economics; Paul Thiboutot, Dean of Admissions; Christopher Gonzalez-Crane, Class of 2002
  • 2001: A Hope in the Unseen: An American Odyssey from the Inner City to the Ivy League

    Presenters: Diane Nemec-Ignashev, Professor of Russian; Robin Hart, Director of Campus Activities; Lance McCready, Class of 1990
  • 2000: The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down

    Presenters: Denise Intihar-Lum, Nurse Practitioner; Mark Hansell, Associate Professor of Chinese; KaShia Tasli Moua, Class of 1999
  • 1999: The Color of Water

    Presenters: Hudlin Wagner, Associate Dean of Students; Justin London, Associate Professor of Music; Dana Wright, Class of 1995
  • 1998: My Brother

    Presenters: Jillian Baird Burnett, Senior Assistant Dean of Admissions; Harry Williams, Associate Professor of History; Mario Small, Class of 1996
  • 1997: The Tortilla Curtain

    Presenters: Mark Govoni, Dean of Students; Marisela Marquez, Fred C. Anderson Fellow in Political Science and American Studies; Ariadma Berkovich, Class of 1995
  • 1996: Whose Art Is It?

    Presenters: Elizabeth J. Ciner, Associate Dean of the College; Rick Salafia, Assistant Professor of Art; Raul Raymundo, Class of 1987, Alumni Board Member
  • 1995: Colored People: A Memoir

    Presenters: Clement F. Shearer, Dean for Budget and Planning; John Ramsay, Associate Professor of Educational Studies; Carol Barnett, Class of 1986, Carleton Trustee
  • 1994: The Woman Warrior

    Presenters: Eleanor Zelliot, Laird Bell Professor of History; Nader Saiedi, Associate Professor of Sociology/Anthropology; Eden T. Inoway, Class of 1987
  • 1993: The House on Mango Street

    Presenters: Elizabeth J. Ciner, Associate Dean of the College; Robert Tisdale, Professor of English; Georgina Moreno, Class of 1992
  • 1992: Donald Duk

    Presenters: Robert Bonner, Dean of Students and Professor of History; Lloyd Komatsu, Associate Professor of Psychology; Andrew Kim, Class of 1992
  • 1991: Black Boy (American Hunger: a Record of Childhood and Youth)

    Presenters: Elizabeth J. Ciner, Associate Dean of the College; Michael Zuckert, Dorothy and Edward Congdon Professor of Political Science; Harry Williams, Assistant Professor of History
  • 1990: Hunger of Memory

    Presenters: Maria Lugones, Professor of Philosophy; Jackson Bryce, Professor of Classical Languages; Deborah Appleman, Assisant Professor of Educational Studies
  • 1989: July's People

    Presenters: Stephen R. Lewis, Jr., President of the College; Susan Jaret McKinstry, Associate Professor of English; Cherif Keita, Assistant Professor of French
  • 1988: Love Medicine

    Presenters: Nancy Ashmore, Director of Publications/Editor Carleton Voice; Rudolph Byrd, Assistant Professor of English; Robert Bonner, Professor of History