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Peter I. Rose
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Biography
Peter Rose is a sociologist, ethnographer, writer, photographer, and editor of SoGoNow.com. He is Sophia Smith Professor Emeritus and Senior Fellow of the Kahn Liberal Arts Institute at Smith College. a member of the Graduate Faculty of the University of Massachusetts, chair of the International Advisory Board of University College Utrecht and of the Roosevelt Academy, both honors colleges of Utrecht University in The Netherlands, fellow and frequent faculty member of the Salzburg Seminar in Austria, and a member of the Board of Trustees of the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies in Portland, Maine.
Born and raised in upstate New York, he received a A.B. from Syracuse University in 1954 and a Ph.D. from Cornell University in 1959. He has called Massachusetts home since 1960, but has spent extensive periods of time away from his base serving as a visiting professor at Clark, Colorado, Wesleyan, UCLA, Yale and Harvard, a visiting scholar the East-West Center in Hawaii, Oxford University, Stanford University, study centers in Bellagio and Bogliasco in Italy, and at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in the PRC. A frequent lecturer in the Netherlands, he was awarded the Univesity Medal by the University of Amsterdam in 1994. Other overseas assignments include Fulbright professorships in the United Kingdom, Japan, Australia, Austria and the Netherlands. He has visited and lectured in more than 40 other countries, and often written about various aspects of their cultures and people.
Credits
Peter Rose's travel writing is broad-based, ranging from stories about his life as a peripatetic professor and his extracurricular sojourns to profiles of (ad)venture capitalists, sea captains and tour guides to descriptions of "social climbing" in the Alps, skiing in Vermont, windjamming on the coast of Maine and on the Mediterranean, cruising from Alaska to Patagonia and commentaries on what goes on behind the scenes in the travel business. He has written on isolated minorities, immigration policy, race relations in the U.S. and in the U.K,, and the rescue and resettlement of refugees. He has published travel essays in the New York Times, the Boston Globe, the Christian Science Monitor, the Daily Hampshire Gazette, and other papers, and in SoGoNow.com and Travelworld International. In 2005, he received the NATJA "Award of Excellence for the Best Travel Article Written for the Internet" for 2004 for his essay, "Chianti Classico" published in TWI. He received the same award in 2008 for "Autumn in the Alps" and again in 2009 for "Panama: A Voyage of Discovery," stories that appeared in SoGoNow.com
A frequent contributor to national newspapers, magazines,and academic journals, in addition to a memoir, "Guest Appearances and Other Travels in Time and Space" (Swallow Press, 2003), Peter is the author of "They and We" (Random House, 1964, Paradigm Publishers, 6th ed. 2006), "The Subject is Race" (Oxford University Press, 1967), "Strangers in Their Midst" (Richwood Press, 1977), "Mainstream and Margins" (Transaction Press, 1983), and "Tempest-Tost" (Oxford University Press, 1997). He is also editor of a number of books on society, culture, race, immigration, and the dilemmas of diversity, most recently, "The Dispossessed: An Anatomy of Exile" (University of Massachusetts Press, 2005). A former consulting editor for Random House-Knopf and for Time-Life Books, he has long been a regular book reviewer for the Christian Science Monitor, New York Newsday, and Congress Monthly, and an occasional columnist for the Daily Hampshire Gazette's "Hampshire Life Magazine". "With Few Reservations," a book of 50 of his recent travel essays and many photographs, will be published in the fall of 2009.
Affiliations
Peter is a member of the American Society of Journalists and Authors, the Society of Professional Journalists, the North American Travel Journalists Association, the International Food, Wine, and Travel Writers Association, and a number of academic organizations.