Contact: Larry Jacobs, World Congress of Families,815-964-5819, 513-515-3685 cell, media@worldcongress.org

WASHINGTON, May 16 /Christian Newswire/ -- World Congress of Families International Secretary Allan C. Carlson will be a visiting Professor of Political Science and History at Hillsdale College (Hillsdale, Michigan) beginning with the Autumn, 2008 term.

Carlson's inaugural course at Hillsdale will be a seminar titled, "Intellectual History of the Natural Family in Western History."

Hillsdale is an independent, coeducational liberal arts college (www.hillsdale.edu).  Founded in 1844, it was one of the first colleges in the country to admit African-Americans and women. In 2008, U.S. News & World Report ranked Hillsdale among the best American Liberal Arts colleges.

Carlson holds a Ph.D. in Modern European History and is the author of 10 books and hundreds of articles dealing primarily with the family and population issues. Carlson commented, "I am delighted by this new affiliation with a college known for its commitment to autonomy, liberty and the heritage of Western Civilization."

Dr. Carlson, who is also the president of the Howard Center for Family, Religion & Society, added: "A half-teaching load will allow me to continue supervising the work of both the World Congress of Families and The Howard Center.  Since both the Center and my home will remain in Rockford, I will be commuting on a regular basis. Still, I am delighted by the opportunity to return to the classroom."

For a copy of Dr. Carlson's bio or more information on the World Congress of Families, go to www.worldcongress.org.  To schedule an interview with Allan Carlson, contact Larry Jacobs at 1-800-461-3113.

The Howard Center for Family, Religion and Society located in Rockford, Illinois is an independent, non-profit research and education center that strives to be the leading source of fresh ideas and new strategies for affirmation and defense of the natural family, both nationally and globally.  The World Congress of Families (WCF) is an international network of pro-family organizations, scholars, leaders and people of goodwill from more than 60  countries that seeks to restore the natural family as the fundamental social unit and the ‘seedbed’ of civil society.  The WCF was founded in 1997 by Allan Carlson and is a project of The Howard Center for Family, Religion & Society in Rockford, Illinois (www.profam.org).  To date, there have been four World Congresses of Families – Prague (1997), Geneva (1999), Mexico City (2004) and Warsaw, Poland (2007).