Provost, Carleton College
Michelle Mattson is presently the Provost at Carleton College. Prior to joining Carleton, she served as Provost at Wittenberg University in Springfield, Ohio. Before that, she had filled a variety of administrative appointments at Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee. She received her doctorate in German Studies and Humanities from Stanford University. After that she held faculty positions at Princeton, Columbia University, Iowa State, and Rhodes College. Dr. Mattson gradually increased her administrative responsibilities beginning at Iowa State and continuing at Rhodes College before moving finally into Academic Affairs.
As a scholar, Dr. Mattson’s research has covered such diverse topics as contemporary German drama, political representation in German television, questions of immigration and diversity in Germany today, issues of political subjectivity, and post-war women’s literature. In the summer of 2022, she stepped into her current role as Provost at Carleton College in Northfield, MN.
