Craig Allin: Life after Cornell

Craig Allin
Politics, 1972–2017

There’s no question that Craig Allin’s major retirement activity is cycling. He and his wife, Liz Sparks ’75, chose both of their residences (in Coralville, Iowa, and Tucson, Arizona) based on proximity to biking trails. In 2023 he logged 7,896 miles. “It’s a perfect speed with which to move through the world,” he notes. He says teaching at Cornell “was always first and foremost about the students,” so rather than spend too much time working on the half-written book he knows he’ll never finish, he still teaches courses in his head, where he mentally revises his Constitutional Law syllabi based on developments in U.S. Supreme Court cases.

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