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Carl Estabrook

Carl G. Estabrook has degrees in history and the study of religion (A.B., A.M., and Ph.D., all from Harvard University). He has taught at Brown, Notre Dame, and the University of Rochester, as well as Harvard. He is currently Visiting Professor of Sociology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where his wife recently retired as dean of the School of Library and Information Science; he has also taught in the departments of history and religious studies. They have five grown children, the youngest still in college. In addition to teaching intellectual history, Mr. Estabrook writes political columns for a local weekly, The Paper, and conducts two weekly radio programs on community station WEFT (90.1 FM), one of politics ("News from Neptune", Saturday 10-11 AM) and the other on poetry ("From Bard to Verse", Saturday noon-1 PM). He has spoken and written on history, politics, and US foreign policy, particularly with regard to the Middle East.