Cannon maintains an active and cutting-edge research program. His thesis work was in extragalactic observational astronomy, with an emphasis on the panchromatic properties of starbursts in Dwarf Galaxies. His publication record since 2002 includes 11 publications in the area of Dwarf Galaxies. After completing his doctorate, he spent two years as a postdoctoral research scientist at the Max Plank Institute for Astronomie in Germany. EDUCATION: B.S., University of Iowa Ph.D., University of Minnesota Cannon has been teaching at Macalester since 2007.