Dr. Robert K. Carlson
Academic Dean and Professor
A.A. (Liberal Arts), Casper College; B.A. (English), University of Wyoming; M.P. (Comparative Literature and English), University of Kansas; Ph.D. (Comparative Literature and English), University of Kansas
Dr. Robert K. Carlson taught philosophy and literature for 29 years at Casper College in Casper, Wyoming. In addition to his regular teaching duties, he founded, directed, and taught in Casper College’s Summer Humanities Program in Europe (Italy) for many years. He has lectured at the University of Notre Dame, the University of Kansas, Simpson College, Magdalen College, the University of Wyoming, and Notre Dame Seminary. Among his academic honors are memberships in Phi Theta Kappa and Phi Beta Kappa, nominations to Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers, and invitations to speak at the International Humanists Congress in Montepulciano, Italy, and the First World Meeting of University Professors in Rome (in celebration of the Jubilee Year). His articles have appeared in many journals, including Homiletic and Pastoral Review, The Wanderer, Crisis, New Oxford Review, and The Shakespeherian Rag. He published Truth on Trial: Liberal Education Be Hanged in 1995.