Allan Carlson, Ph.D.

Dr. Carlson holds his Ph.D. in modern European history from The Ohio University. He has been an NEH Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, president of The Rockford Institute, and publisher of Chronicles, The Family in America, and the Religion & Society Report. He was a presidential appointee to the National Commission on Children, an expert witness before U.S. Congressional and executive panels on the family, and general secretary of the 1997 and 1999 World Congresses of Families. He is director of the Family in America Studies Center and editor of its monthly, and Distinguished Fellow for Family Policy Studies at the Family Research Council. His books include Family Questions, The Swedish Experiment in Family Politics, From Cottage to Work Station, The New Agrarian Mind, and The “American Way”. His articles have appeared in the Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, International Herald-Tribune, Journal of Social Issues, Journal of Law, Ethics, and Public Policy, Small Farmers’ Journal, and elsewhere. He has lectured at two dozen universities and institutes in both the U.S. and abroad.