EDUCATION

University of Minnesota, 1973.
Ph.D., American Studies

University of Minnesota, 1968.
M.A., Library Science

University of Minnesota, 1963.
B.A., American Studies

Professor Wright arrived at St. Thomas in 1968. He was Director of the then-College of St. Thomas Library from 1974 to 1979. Following a Fulbright Lecturing Grant to Japan in 1979 he switched to full-time teaching. His principal upper division courses are: Early American Thought and Culture; American Thought and Culture Since the Civil War; and Introduction to Japanese History and Culture. He was twice a Visiting Professor at Osaka Gakuin Junior College in Japan (1987-9, 1993-4) and has served three terms as chair of the UST History Department.