The Carleton College Board of Trustees recently promoted two professors to endowed chair positions at the College. They are: Harry McKinley Williams Jr., the David and Marian Adams Bryn-Jones Distinguished Teaching Professor of History and the Humanities; and Stephen H. Strand, the Raymond Plank Professor of Incentive Economics.
Harry McKinley Williams Jr. earned his B.A. degree in journalism from Lincoln University and his M.A. in journalism from the University of Missouri, Columbia. He then completed a M.A. and a Ph.D. in American civilization at Brown University. Williams regularly teaches classes on African American history and the historiography of slavery, the Civil Rights Movement, and the Concord Intellectuals. Williams joined the Carleton faculty in 1989.
Stephen H. Strand received a B.A. in industrial engineering and operations research from Cornell University and a Ph.D. in economics from Vanderbilt University. His areas of specialization include government regulation of economic activity, managerial economics and micro-economic theory. He joined the Carleton faculty in 1981.