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 Keita2005: The Working Poor: Invisible in America
Presenters: Robert A. Oden, Jr., President of the College; Kaila Yang, Class of 2003; David K. Shipler, Author2004: West of Kabul, East of New York
Presenter: Tamim Ansary, Author2003: 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 20012002: All Over but the Shoutin'
Presenters: Martha Paas, Professor of Economics; Paul Thiboutot, Dean of Admissions; Christopher Gonzalez-Crane, Class of 20022001: 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 19902000: 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 19991999: The Color of Water
Presenters: Hudlin Wagner, Associate Dean of Students; Justin London, Associate Professor of Music; Dana Wright, Class of 19951998: My Brother
Presenters: Jillian Baird Burnett, Senior Assistant Dean of Admissions; Harry Williams, Associate Professor of History; Mario Small, Class of 19961997: 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 19951996: 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 Member1995: 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 Trustee1994: The Woman Warrior
Presenters: Eleanor Zelliot, Laird Bell Professor of History; Nader Saiedi, Associate Professor of Sociology/Anthropology; Eden T. Inoway, Class of 19871993: The House on Mango Street
Presenters: Elizabeth J. Ciner, Associate Dean of the College; Robert Tisdale, Professor of English; Georgina Moreno, Class of 19921992: Donald Duk
Presenters: Robert Bonner, Dean of Students and Professor of History; Lloyd Komatsu, Associate Professor of Psychology; Andrew Kim, Class of 19921991: 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 History1990: Hunger of Memory
Presenters: Maria Lugones, Professor of Philosophy; Jackson Bryce, Professor of Classical Languages; Deborah Appleman, Assisant Professor of Educational Studies1989: July's People
Presenters: Stephen R. Lewis, Jr., President of the College; Susan Jaret McKinstry, Associate Professor of English; Cherif Keita, Assistant Professor of French1988: Love Medicine
Presenters: Nancy Ashmore, Director of Publications/Editor Carleton Voice; Rudolph Byrd, Assistant Professor of English; Robert Bonner, Professor of History