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CONVERSATIONS BIOS
Clay Jenkinson is a North Dakotan, born in Minot, raised in Dickinson, who left to go to college and then lived elsewhere for more than 20 years. He returned to North Dakota in 2005. Clay is a humanities scholar, a writer, award winning historical performer and the voice of his alter-ego Thomas Jefferson on the weekly NPR program The Thomas Jefferson Hour.
He holds degrees in the humanities from the University of Minnesota and Oxford University. He is a backdoor historian, a Chautauquan, and an essayist. He has published half a dozen books, including the award winning edition of the writings of the Lewis and Clark Expedition in North Dakota, A Vast and Open Plain. He writes a weekly column, Sundays, for the Bismarck Tribune, and travels extensively as a historical performer of such characters as Thomas Jefferson and Theodore Roosevelt, among others.
Clay is the Director of the Dakota Institute, a subsidiary of the Fort Mandan Foundation; the principal consultant of the Theodore Roosevelt Center at Dickinson State University, which was his brainchild; and a distinguished humanities scholar at Bismarck State College, where these conversations occur.
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Dr. Larry C. Skogen is BSC's sixth president. He has taught in collegiate and military settings and worked in many management capacities for the U.S. Air Force, where he served 26 years and retired as lieutenant colonel.
An instructor at the U.S. Air Force Academy, Skogen was academic dean and deputy superintendent for academic affairs at New Mexico Military Institute, Roswell. He was an educational consultant to the United Arab Emirates and inspector general of the Francis E. Warren Air Force Base in Wyoming.
Skogen has a doctorate in history from Arizona State University, Tempe, MA in history from Central Missouri State University, Warrensburg, and BS in secondary education from Dickinson State University.
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