Derek Hoff (Carleton '94) is an associate professor of U.S. history at Kansas State University. He is the author of The State and the Stork: The Population Debate and Policy Making in US History (University of Chicago Press, 2012), and, with John Fliter, Fighting Foreclosure: The Blaisdell Case, the Contract Clause, and the Great Depression (University Press of Kansas, 2012). For more information, please contact Professor Clifford Clark. Following his public talk, the Carleton Bookstore staff will offer a book signing of Professor Hoff's new books outside of Leighton 304!  Light refreshments event.