 | Peter I. Rose
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Peter I. Rose is a sociologist, ethnographer, writer and editor. For 50 years he has been writing about people on the move and their encounters with others. His subjects include explorers, settlers, slaves, immigrants, refugees, and, since the 1980s, travelers and tourists. Recent stories, about trekking in Tuscany, spending an autumn in the Alps, and cruising in Panama on the catamaran, Discovery, won first prizes in juried competition sponsored by the North American Travel Journalists Association in 2005, 2008, and 2009, respectively.
Sophia Smith Professor Emeritus of Sociology and Anthropology and Senior Fellow of the Kahn Liberal Arts Institute at Smith College, he is also a faculty member and fellow of the Salzburg Global Seminar in Austria. For 20 years he served on the Board of Trustees of the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies in Portland, Maine; and, for 15 years was Consulting Editor in Sociology at Random House. He has been a visiting professor at Clark, Wesleyan, the University of Colorado, UCLA, Yale and Harvard, a visiting scholar at Stanford and Oxford universities, the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in Beijing and at study centers in Bellagio and Bogliasco in Italy, and Fulbright professor in the UK, Australia, Japan, Austria, and the Netherlands. In 1992 he was awarded the Medal of the University of Amsterdam for his contributions to international graduate education.
His many books include They and We (Random House, 1964, 6e Paradigm Publishers, 2006), The Subject is Race (Oxford University Press, 1968), Seeing Ourselves (Knopf, 1972, 2e 1978), Through Different Eyes (Oxford University Press, 1973), Strangers in Their Midst (Richwood Press,1977) Views from Abroad (Forum, 1978), Mainstream and Margins (Transaction Books, 1983), Tempest-Tost (Oxford University Press, 1997), The Dispossessed (University of Massachusetts Press, 2005), and Guest Appearances and Other Travels in Time and Space (Swallow Press, 2003) . The last is a kind of bridge between his academic and "extracurricular" worlds. His latest book is With Few Reservations: Travels at Home and Abroad (iUniverse, 2010). Peter is editor of a number of other books and author of commentaries, reviews, and articles on a variety of subjects. Editor of SoGoNow.com, his travel stories and photographs often appear there and in the pages of Travelworld International and Global Writes and in newspapers and magazines.
When not traveling, he and his wife, Hedy, live in Northampton and Wellfleet, Massachusetts.
Published Books
They and We: Racial Ethnic Relations in the United States, New York: Random House,
Inc., 1964 [2nd ed., 1974; 3rd ed., 1981; New York: McGraw-Hill, 4th ed., 1990;
5th ed., 1997; Boulder: Paradigm Publishers, 6th ed. 2006]
The Subject is Race: Traditional Ideologies and the Teaching of Race Relations, New York: Oxford University Press, 1968.
Strangers in Their Midst, Merrick, New York: Richwood Press, 0977.
Mainstream and Margins: Jews, BlaCks, and Other Americans, New Brunswick, New Jersey: Transaction Books, 1983.
Tempest-Tost: Race, Immigration, and the Didemmas of Diversity, New York and London: Oxford University Press, 1997.
Guest Appearances and Other Travels in Time and Space, Athens, Ohio: Swallow Press, 2003.
With Few Reservation, Bloomington, Indiana: iUniverse Press, 2009
Books (co-author)
Sociology: Inquiring Into Society (with Myron and Penina Glazer), San Francisco: Canfield Press of Harper and Row, 1977 [2nd ed., New York: St. Martin's Press, 1982.]
Understanding Society (with Myron and Penina Glazer), Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall Educational Division, 470 pp. [2nd ed., 1984, 3rd ed., 1989.]
Over Vreemdeling en Vluchteling (On Strangers and Refugees), The Oldendorff Lectures, Tilburg, The Netherlands: Gianotten, 1983 (with Hans P.M. Adriaansens and others)
Books (editor)
The Study of Society: An Integrated Anthology, New York: Random House, 1967 [2nd ed., 1970; 3rd ed., 1973; 4th ed., 1977.]
The Ghetto and Beyond: Essays on Jewish Life in America, New York: Random House, 1969.
Slavery and Its Aftermath, Volume I of Americans from Africa, New York and Chicago: Aldine-Atherton, 1970. [To be reissued, with a new introduction and epilogue by Africa World Press, in press]
Old Memories, New Moods, Volume II of Americans from Africa, New York and Chicago: Aldine-Atherton, 1970. [To be reissued, with a new introduction and epilogue by Africa World Press, in press.]
Nations of Nations: The Ethnic Experience and the Racial Crisis, New York: Random House, 1971 [Reissued by the University Press of America, 1982.]
Seeing Ourselves, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1972 [2nd ed., 1975.]
Many People, One Nation, [a history book for high school students] New York: Random House, 1972.
Views From Abroad: Perspectives on Contemporary American Society, Washington: Forum, 1978.
Socialization and the Life Cycle, New York: St. Martins Press, 1979.
Working with Refugees, Staten Island: Center for Migration Studies, 1986.
Interminority Affairs in the U.S. Today: The Challenge of Pluralism, special issue of The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 508: 1993 and by Sage Publications, 1993.
Professorial Passions, Northampton: Smith College, 1997.
The Dispossessed: An Anatomy of Exile, with a Foreword by Liv Ullmann, Amherst and Boston: University of Massachusetts Press, 2005.
Book (co-editor)
Through Different Eyes: Black and White Perspectives on American Race Relations, (senior editor; with Stanley Rothman and William Julius Wilson) New York and London: Oxford University Press, 1973.
His many books include They and We (Random House, 1964, 6e Paradigm Publishers, 2006), The Subject is Race (Oxford University Press, 1968), Seeing Ourselves (Knopf, 1972, 2e 1978), Through Different Eyes (Oxford University Press, 1973), Strangers in Their Midst (Richwood Press,1977) Views from Abroad (Forum, 1978), Mainstream and Margins (Transaction Books, 1983), Tempest-Tost (Oxford University Press, 1997), The Dispossessed (University of Massachusetts Press, 2005), and Guest Appearances and Other Travels in Time and Space (Swallow Press, 2003) . The last is a kind of bridge between his academic and "extracurricular" worlds. His latest book is With Few Reservations: Travels at Home and Abroad (iUniverse, 2010). Peter is also the say: Peter is co-author and editor of a number of other volumes, reviews, and articles on a variety of subjects. Editor of SoGoNow, his travel stories often appear there and in the pages of Travelworld International and Global Writes.
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