Fresh from graduate study at Yale University, JOHN ROTH joined the Claremont McKenna College faculty in 1966. CMC has been his academic home ever since, but he has also taught in Switzerland, Austria, Japan, Israel, and Norway. Roth’s honors at CMC include the Huntoon Senior teaching Award, the Crocker Award for Excellence, which he has received three times, and the President’s Award. Dedicated to writing, Roth has published more than twenty books and hundred of essays, many of them focused on the Holocaust Museum Houston, which opened in that Texas City in March 1996. From 1992 to 1994, Roth chaired the California Council for the Humanities. Presently he serves on the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. The Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) and the Carnegie foundation for the Advancement of Teaching named Roth in the 1988 U.S. National Professor of the Year.