Mary J. Elkins holds a PhD in English and American Literature from Southern Illinois University. She taught in the English Department at Florida International University in Miami for 20 years before moving to Colorado. She has been a member of the Honors Program faculty since 2002. Her teaching interests revolve around American Studies (including literature, history, and philosophy). Her courses, including "The American West", "America: the Immigrant Nation", and "America and the Civil War", are attempts to address the question, "What does it mean to be an American?"

Keith Jaggers holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Colorado at Boulder. In addition to teaching in the Honors Program since 2002, he is a member of the Political Instability Task Force, a CIA-sponsored project that attempts to identify early warning indicators of state failure, democratic retrenchment and political violence across the globe. His teaching interests are currently focused on the topics of anti-Americanism, globalization and the philosophy of freedom. He was awarded the Honors Prof Award in 2007.

Jen Krafchick, Ph.D. has been at CSU since 1999 as a graduate student, the Assistant Director at Women’s Programs & Studies, and an adjunct faculty member in Human Development and Family Studies, Women’s Studies, Education, and the Honors Program. While at Women’s Programs and Studies, she provided support services to victims of interpersonal violence. Dr. Krafchick has operated a private practice as an individual, couple, and family therapist, and has worked as a victims’ advocate with a domestic violence agency. She also served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in the Solomon Islands from 1996-1998. Currently she teaches and conducts research on issues related to sexuality, gender, families, and diversity.

Anne Marie Merline, Ph.D. began teaching at CSU in 1998 for the Sociology department where she taught classes on Gender Roles, General Sociology, Contemporary Race and Ethnic Relations, and Social Stratification. She has been teaching full time with the Honors Program since 2003 and has taught courses on issues such as: Public Education and Inequality, Consumerism and its Effect on the Environment, American Voting Rights History, Human Rights, Expressions and Ideas of Community, and Literature of The Beat Generation. She is the recipient of the 2006 Honors Prof Award.

David Milofsky is professor of English at CSU and previously served as editor of Colorado Review and Director of the Center for Literary Publishing. He has been teaching for the Honors Program since 2000. He has published four novels and hundreds of articles, short stories and reviews. He has won fellowships from the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, the MacDowell Colony and the National Endowment for the Arts. In 2003 he was the recipient of the Colorado Book Award for his novel Color of Law. He teaches Honors seminars which examine American life through the genre of pulp fiction and film.

What you need to know about Bob Richburg is that he loves to teach. He's been a teacher at one level or another most of his adult life. He's also been a Peace Corps volunteer in Africa, a public school administrator in Minnesota, and even owned a ski lodge in the Colorado mountains. Bob has degrees from Grinnell College, the University of Southern California and the University of Colorado. His academic interests include brain research and how humans learn. He has a recent book out on how brain research can be applied to teaching. He was the Honors Prof of the Year in 2004.

Kenneth Rock, CSU Professor of History Emeritus, earned both his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Modern Central and Eastern European history and culture from Stanford University. He has taught courses in "Modern Europe,” “European Biography," "Slavic Civilization," and "Immigration History." He has also led Study Abroad experiences in Vienna, Budapest, and Prague. Dr. Rock has offered Honors sections of several history courses; team- taught Honors Colloquia on Viennese culture; and taught Honors Senior Seminars on the politics, culture, and conflict of peace treaties. He is a recipient of the 1978 Honors Prof and the 1996 Eddy Teacher awards.