Jay Gitlin has taught at Yale for over thirty years and is Senior Lecturer in the History Department, teaching courses on the American West, Québec and Canada, Native American history, suburbanization, popular music, and the history of shopping. He is Associate Director of the Howard R. Lamar Center for the Study of Frontiers and Borders at Yale. He has four Yale degrees, including a PhD in History and a master’s from the School of Music. Jay’s contributions to the RDHP Program will be greatly valued.