Steven Rowan conducts research on the mos italicus consilia tradition in Roman law in the sixteenth century, and he performs further research on German Radicals in nineteenth-century Missouri. He is currently completing The Baron in the Grand Canyon: Friedrich Wilhelm von Egloffstein in the West (St. Louis Mercantile Library, being considered for publication). In cooperation with his colleague Professor Carlos Schwantes, he has prepared a new translation of Michel Chevalier, Letters on North America (1836), currently under consideration by the University of Washington Press. Rowan is also halfway through a translation of Chevalier's History and Description of the Routes of Communication in the United States (1840-1843), which will amount to over 1000 pages single-spaced, also in cooperation with Professor Schwantes.