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PETER I. ROSE
Sophia Smith Professor Emeritus of Sociology and Anthropology, Senior Fellow, Kahn Liberal Arts Institute Smith College Northampton, MA 01063
Education
1950-1954 Syracuse University A.B., magna cum laude 1954 1954-1958 Cornell University M.A. 1957 Cornell University Ph.D. 1959
Academic Appointments
1953-1954 Syracuse University: Teaching Assistant 1954-1958 Cornell University: Teaching Fellow (1954-1957); Research Supervisor (1957-1958) 1958-1960 Goucher College: Instructor in Sociology and Anthropology
1960- Smith College: Assistant Professor (1960-1963) Director, Social Science Research Center (1961-69, 1972-73, 1977-78) Associate Professor (1963-1967) Professor (1967-73) Sophia Smith Professor of Sociology and Anthropology (1973-2003) Appointed Sophia Smith Professor Emeritus, 2003
Chair of Department (1967-74) Chair of Division, History and Social Sciences (1971-1977) Co-Director, American Studies Diploma Program [for foreign graduate students] (1969-1972) Director, American Studies Diploma Program (1972-2003) Jean Picker Fellow (1991-1992) Danziger Fellow (1999-2002) Organizing Fellow and Director, Project on “The Anatomy of Exile,” Kahn Institute (2000-2001) Senior Fellow, Kahn Liberal Arts Institute (2001- )
1961- University of Massachusetts: Lecturer in Sociology (1961-1963); Associate Professor (1965-1966); Professor (1971-1972); Part- time appointments. Member of the Graduate Faculty since 1961.
1964-1965 University of Leicester, England: Visiting Senior Lecturer and Senior Fulbright Lecturer 1966-1967 Wesleyan University: Visiting Associate Professor in Public Affairs 1968 University of Colorado: Visiting Professor (Summer) 1968-1969 University of Leicester, England: Visiting Professor (October; April-May) 1969 University of California at Los Angeles: Visiting Professor (Summer) 1969-1970 Yale University: Visiting Professor, part-time appointment. 2
1970 Kyoto American Studies Summer Seminar, Kyoto, Japan: Fulbright Professor (July) 1970 Flinders University of South Australia: Fulbright Professor in American Studies (Australian Winter term) 1970-1971 Clark University: Visiting Professor Part-time appointment. Amherst College: Visiting Professor (Fall term). Part-time appointment. 1971 Nordic Association for American Studies, Summer Institute, Kungalv, Sweden: Lecturer (Summer) 1983-1985 Harvard University: Visiting Scholar, Kennedy School of Government 1983-1984 Harvard University: Visiting Professor (Spring term) 1986 Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing, PRC Visiting Fellow (October- November) Rockefeller Foundation’s Study Center, Bellagio, Italy Fellow (June-July) 1989 Oxford University: Rhodes Trust Visiting Professor in Refugee Studies (Fall) 1994 East-West Center, Honolulu, Hawaii: Visiting Fellow and Lecturer (January) 1994-1995 Oxford University: Visiting Fellow, St. Catherine's College, and Visiting Scholar, Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies (Spring) 1996 Hoover Institution, Stanford University: Visiting Scholar (Spring) 1997 Centro Studi Ligure, Bogliasco, Italy: Fellow in Anthropology (Spring) 2000 Doshisha University, Kyoto, Japan: Distinguished Visiting Professor (November and December) 2001 Centro Studi Ligure, Bogliasco, Italy: Fellow in History (Fall) 2004 University of Vienna, Austria: Fulbright Senior Specialist and Visiting Professor 2005 Stanford University, Visiting Scholar (January-February) University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden, Guest Professor (April-May) Stanford University: Visiting Fellow (January-February) 2007 Roosevelt University College of Utrecht University, Netherlands: Fulbright Senior Specialist and Visiting Professor (Fall) 2008--2014 Stanford University: Visiting Fellow (January-March) 2014 University of Deusto, Bilbao, Spain, Guest Professor in Erasmus-Mundus Master’s Program (March-April)
Honors and Awards
1954 Phi Beta Kappa; Phi Kappa Phi; Alpha Kappa Delta 1972 Martin Foundation Fellow, Hebrew University, Jerusalem. Israel 1977 Katherine Engel Lecturer, Smith College 1982 Oldendorff Lecturer, University of Tilburg, Tilburg, The Netherlands, 1988 First Pioneer Award, Massachusetts Sociological Association 1990 Distinguished Fulbright Professor, Australian American Educational Foundation 1992 Awarded University Medal, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands 1992 William and Florence Schneider Endowed Chair Lecturer, Southern Oregon State College, Ashland, Oregon 1994 Rhodes Trust Visiting Professor, Refugee Studies Centre, Oxford University 1995 Awarded Year-Long Fellowship at Netherlands Institute of Advanced Studies, Wassenaar, the Netherlands 1996 Honored Professor, Smith College 2003 Award for Distinction in Public Diplomacy, Department of State, Washington, D.C.
Grants Received
1967 ACLS Travel Grant (Italy) 1968-1969 Ford Foundation – small grant for research on minorities 1973-1976 CIES and Cultural Affairs Section, U.S. Department of State – for commissioned 3
study of Senior Fulbright Program in East Asia and the South Pacific 1979-1983 Weatherhead Foundation – support for research on refugee policy 1982-1985 Exxon Educational Foundation – support for research on teaching about refugees and refugee policy 1984-1985 Rockefeller Foundation – grant for research and writing 1999-2003 Smith College – Danziger Grant for independent research
Publications
Books (author)
They and We: Racial Ethnic Relations in the United States, New York: Random House, 1964 [2nd ed., 1974; 3rd ed., 1981; New York: McGraw-Hill, 4th ed., 1990; 5th ed., 1997; Boulder: Paradigm Publishers, 6th ed. 2006; 7th -- and 50th anniversary edition, 2014.]
The Subject is Race: Traditional Ideologies and the Teaching of Race Relations, New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1968.
Strangers in Their Midst, Merrick, New York: Richwood Press, 1977.
Mainstream and Margins: Jews, Blacks, and Other Americans, New Brunswick, New Jersey: Transaction Books, 1983.
Tempest-Tost: Race, Immigration, and the Dilemmas 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 Reservations, Bloomington, Indiana: iUniverse Press , 2010.
Postmonitions of a Peripatetic Professor, Amherst, Massachusetts: Levellers Press, 2013.
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, 1978, 470 pp. [2nd ed., 1984, 3rd ed., 1989.]
Over Vreemdeling en Vluchteling [On Strangers and Refugees], (with H.P.M. Adriaansens and others), The Oldendorff Lectures, Tilburg, The Netherlands: Gianotten, 1983
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] 4
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. Martin’s 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.
Chapters in and Introductions to Books (author)
Foreword to Lewis M. Killian’s The Impossible Revolution: Black Power and the American Dream, New York: Random House, 1968, vii-xiv.
“The Developments of Race Studies,” in Race Among Nations: A Conceptual Approach (George Shepard and Tilden Lemelle, eds.), Lexington: D.C. Heath, 1970, 23-60, notes 223-230.
Foreword to R.A. Schermerkorn’s Comparative Ethnic Relations, New York: Random House, 1970, vi-xi.
“Sociologists Look at Race and Ethnic Relations,” in Racial and Ethnic Relations (Helen MacGill Hughes, ed.,), Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1970, 1-17.
Foreword to Myron Glazer’s The Research Adventure, New York: Random House, 1972, ix-xi.
“Zur socialpsychologischen analyse von Minderheiten konflikten in der Gegenswartsgesellschaft,” in Minderheiten: Ein Internationales Problem, Berlin: Colloquium Verlag, 1974: 17-27. 5
Foreword to Lewis M. Killian’s The Impossible Revolution?: Phase II, New York: Random House, 1975, vii-x.
“Cultural Diversity in National Unity: The American Experience,” in National Developments in an Interdependent World (Silvendra Rajendram, ed.), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia: AISEC Malaysia, 1979, 117-124.
“Ghetto,” entry in The Academic American Encyclopedia, Princeton: Arete Publishing Company, 1980, 167.
“Sociology and Psychology:” In American Studies: An Annotated Bibliography of Works on the Civilization of the U.S. (Murray Murphy, ed.), Washington, D.C.: American Studies Association, 1983, 639-769.
“The Harbor Masters: American Politics and Refugee Policy,” in Social Problems and Public Policy (Michael Lewis, ed.), Greenwich: JAI Press, 1984, 273-312.
“Asian Americans: From Pariahs to Paragons,” in Clamor at the Gates: The New American Immigration (Nathan Glazer, ed.), San Francisco: Institute for Contemporary Studies, 1985, 181-212, notes 328-331. [Abridged version in Multiculturalism and Ethnic Relations (J. Frideres, ed.), Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1989, 107-122.]
“Humanitarian Proclivities and the Pressure of Politics,” in American Refugee Policy: Ethical and Religious Reflections (Joseph M. Katigawa, ed.), San Francisco: Seabury Press, 1985, 31- 46.
“Fulbright Fandango,” in the Fulbright Experience: Encounters and Transformations (Arthur P. Duddin and Russell R. Dynes, eds.), New Brunswick: Transactions Books, 1987, 89-95.
“Everyone Came from Somewhere Else”; “We and They”; and “In Many, One.” Three chapters translated into Japanese in Amerika no gengo Bunka I: Introduction to American Culture, Tokyo: Log International Corporation, 1989, 9-24, 93-107, 109-122, respectively.
“Values, Beliefs and the Politics of Ethnicity in America: The Reagan Years and Beyond,” in Commonality and Difference: Australia and the United States (Glen Withers, ed.), London and Sydney: Allen and Unwin, 1991, 30-48.
“White Liberal: Some Reflections on Personal and Professional Socialization and the Field of Race Relations,” a chapter in A History of Race Relations Research, (John H. Stanfield II, ed.) New York: Sage, 1993, 210-232.
“Breaking Waves: Natives, Newcomers and the Multiethnic Society,” in Migrations: The Politics of Contemporary Population Movements, Bergen, Norway: Sampol, 1993, 41-59.
Foreword to Vincent Parrillo’s, Strangers to These Shores, New York: Macmillan, 4th ed. 1993, vii-ix, 5th ed. 1996.
“Black Anti-Semitism and the Rhetoric of Resentment,” in Performances in American Literature and Culture: Essays in Honor of Orm Øverland, (Vidar Pedersen and Zelijka Svrljuga, eds.) Bergen, Norway: University of Bergen, 1995, 236-251.
“Long Time Passing: Race, Prejudice and the Reduction of Inter-group Tensions,” in A Nation Divided: Diversity, Inequality and Community in American Society (Phyllis Moen and others, eds.) Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1999, 277-303. 6
“Robin M. Williams, Jr. and the Study of American Society," in Predecessors: Intellectual Lineages in American Studies (Rob Kroes, ed.) Amsterdam, The Netherlands: VU University Press, 1999, 21-33.
“The Persistence of (an) Ethnicity: Nativism Revisited,” in Over (T)Here: Transatlantic Essays in Honor of Rob Kroes (Kate Delaney and Ruud Janssens, eds.), Amsterdam, The Netherlands, VU: University Press, 2005 pp.37-48.
Foreword to Ida Pillar-Greenspan and Susan M. Branting’s When the World Closed Its Doors: Struggling to Escape Nazi-Occupied Europe, Boulder, CO: Paradigm Publishers, 2006.
Foreword to Diane Asseo Griliches, An Appalachian Farmer’s Story: Portrait of an Extraordinary Man, Macon, GA: Mercer University Press, 2007.
“Hans Adriaansens, The Liberal Arts, and Educational Reform in the Netherlands,” De disciplines voorbij: De colleges van Hans Adriaansens (Herman Tak and Barbara Oomen, eds.), Middelburg, The Netherlands: Roosevelt Academy, 2012, 69-75.
Foreword to Richard P. Unsworth’s, A Portrait of Pacifists: Le Chambon, the Holocaust and the Lives of André and Magda Trocmé, Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2012.
“Creating and Maintaining an Academic Foreign Legion: A Short History of the Diploma Program in American Studies at Smith College,” in Smith’s Foreign Legion: The First Fifty Years (Julia C.G. MacKenzie, ed.) Northampton, MA: The Squirrel Rampant Press, 2012, 16-24.
Booklets, Published Lectures, Reports (author)
Regional Conferences for Senior Fulbright-Hays Scholars: A Survey of Opinions and Suggestions, Washington: Committee on the International Exchange of Persons, 1973.
Academic Sojourners, Washington: Office of Policy and Plans, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, Department of State, 1976.
“Nobody Knows the Trouble I’ve Seen,” Some Reflections on Insider-Outsider Debate, 20th annual Engel Lecture, Northampton, Smith College, 1978.
Group Status in America, New York: Institute of Human Relations, 1981.
Ethnicity in America: “The Hyphen Connects instead of Separates,” Boston: International Institute of Boston, 1987.
Journals and Bulletins (editor)
Joint Newsletter on Intergroup Relations, published by The Society for the Study of Social Problems and the Study for the Psychological Study of Social Is3ues. 1959.
Research Bulletin on Intergroup Relations, published by The Society for the Study of Social Problems and the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues. 1960, 1961, 1962 (with Beau Fly Jones), 1963 (with Beau Fly Jones).
The Threat of War: Policy and Public Opinion, special issue of Social Problems, 11: 1963 (co- editor, with Jerome Laulicht). 7
Articles
“Student Opinion on the 1956 Presidential Election,” Public Opinion Quarterly, 30, 1957, 371-376.
“Can More Nurses Be Recruited?” (wi4h Anne Hansen and Rodney F. White), New York State Nurse, 30, 1958, 4-9.
“Small-Town Jews and heir Neighbours in the United States,” in Jewish Journal of Sociology (England), 3: 1961, 174-191. [Reprinted in Minority Problems (Arnold and Caroline Rose, eds.), New York: Harper and Row, 1966, 265-273; and in A Coat of Many Colors: Jewish Subcommunities in the United States (Abraham Lavender, ed.), New York: Greenwood Press, 1977, pp. 34-54.]
“The Public and the Threat of War,” Social Problems, 11, 1963, 62-77.
“Citizens’ Opinions on Civil Defense,” The Correspondent, 24, 1963. 25-37.
“Rural Jews,” The Jewish Digest, 8: 1963, 28-32.
“The Myth of Unanimity,” Sociology of Education, 37: 1963, 129-149. [Reprinted in Readings in the Sociology of Education (R.M. Pavalko, ed.), Itasca, Illinois: Peacock, 1968, 197-218.]
“Race and Education in New York,” Race, 6: 1963, 108-116 (with Stanley Rothman).
“Radical Pacifism and the Negro Revolt,” The Torch, Fall, 1963, 2-9.
“Outsiders in Britain,” Transaction, 4 March, 1967, 18-23. [Reprinted in Sociological Realities (Irving Louis Horowitz and Mary Symms Strong, Eds.), New York: Harper & Row, 1971, 270-275.]
“Reflections on Jewish Life in America,” Humanistic Judaism, 2: 1968, 3-11.
“The Black Experience: Issues and Images,” Social Science Quarterly, 69: 1969, 286-297. [Reprinted in The Unity of English (H. Hierth, ed.), New York: Harper, 1971, 145-156.]
“The Senior Fulbright-Hays Program in East Asia and the Pacific: Research and Recommendations,” Exchange, 12: 1976, 19-23.
“Blacks and Jews: The Strained Alliance,” The Annals, American Academy of Political and Social Science, 454, March, 1981, 55-69.
“Some Thoughts About Refugees and the Descendants of Theseus,” International Migration Review, 15, Spring-Summer, 1981, 8-15.
“American Studies for International Students,” American Studies International, 19, 2, Winter, 1981, 76-79.
“Links in a Chain: Observations of the American Refugee Program in Southeast Asia,” Migration Today, 9:4, 1981, 22-28. [Expanded version, Catholic Mind, 80, No. 1362, 1982, 11-25.]
“From Southeast Asia to America: Links in a Chain, Part II,” Migration Today, 9:4, 1981, 22-28. [Expanded version, Catholic Mind, 80, No. 1362, 1982, 11-25.]
“David Riesman Reconsidered,” Society, 19: 1982, 52-61.
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“Mid-Course Corrections,” New England Sociologist, 4, 1982, 13-20.
“Die neueste Flüchtlinge: Polish Refugees in Austria,” Migration Today, 10:2, 1982, 13-16.
“The Business of Caring: Refugee Workers and Voluntary Agencies,” Refugee Reports, 4:2, 1983 pp. 1-6. [Reprinted in Refugee Settlement: Southeast Asian in Transition, Vancouver, University of British Columbia, 1985, 133-140.]
“The Politics and Morality of U.S. Refugee Policy,” The Center Magazine, September/October, 1985, 2-8. [Reprinted in Rethinking Today’s Minorities (Vincent Parrillo, ed.), Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1991, 176-190.]
“Norodom Sihanouk: [An Interview with] The Once and Would-Be King, Migration Today, 13:2, 1986, 13-17.
“Long Night’s Journey into Day: The Odyssey of the Indochinese Refugees,” Society, 2:March/April, 1986, 75-79. [Photo essay]
“Documenting the Plight of the Uprooted: Moving Pictures of the Hmong,” Migration Today, 13:4/5, 1985, 42-44.
“Toward a Sociology of Exile,” International Migration Review, 19, Winter, 1986, 768-773.
“Long Time Passing: Race, Prejudice and the Reduction of Inter-group Tensions,” in A Nation Divided: Diversity, Inequality and Community in American Society (Phyllis Moen and others, eds.) Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1999, 277-303.
“Robin M. Williams, Jr. and the Study of American Society," in Predecessors
“On the Slopes of Mt. Allegro,” Congress Monthly, Nov/Dec. 1986, 12-13. [Also published in Italian-Americana, 8:1, Fall/Winter, 1987, 5-8.]
“The Cantonese Connection,” Migration World, Winter, 14:4, 1987, 24-28.
“Four Just Men,” Migration World, XVII, 8:2, 1989.
“Blacks and Jews: The Bittersweet Encounter,” Los Angeles Times [Op-Ed page], May 30, 1991, B7.
“Tempest-Tost: Exile, Ethnicity and the Politics of Rescue,” Sociological Forum, 8:1, March 1993, 5-24.
“Of Every Hue and Caste: Race, Immigration and Perceptions of Pluralism,” The Annals, 530, November 1993, 187-202.
“Blaming the Jews,” Society, 31:6, September/October 1994, 35-40.
“Leopold and Me,” Congress Monthly, 65/6, November/December 1998.
“’Toward a More Perfect Union’: The Career and Contributions of Robin M. Williams, Jr.,” The American Sociologist, 70:2, Summer 1999, 60-74.
“The Good Old Days,” Congress Monthly, 66/5, September/October 1999, 18-19.
"Varian Fry Remembered," Migration World, Vol. 29: 12, 2001, 35-42.
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"Reaping the Peace Dividend in Northern Ireland, Christian Science Monitor, October 26, 2002.
"Fallen Idol: The Truth about Harry Truman and the Jews," Daily Hampshire Gazette, August 16-17, 2003.
"Atop the Ivory Towers," Forward, August 28, 2003
“Niemand wird tolerant geboren….,” {an essay on tolerance], StadtAnsichten, January 2006, 20-23.
“Minus Sum Games in a Land of Guilty Memories,” Congress Monthly, January/February, 2007, 3-7.
“Ruth Gruber: Ever Engaged,” The American Society of Journalists and Authors Monthly, 56: 10, November, 2007, 8-9.
“Smith in the Netherlands: A Trans-Atlantic Connection,” GrecourtGate News, December 14, 2007.
"Getting to Know Herbert Hoover, Enigmatic Humanitarian," Social Science and Modern Society, Vol. 47: 6, 2011, 529-533 ,
“Ethnicity, Persistence of,” Encyclopedia of Diversity in Education, Los Angeles: Sage References, 2012, 852-856.
“Prejudiee and Discrimination,” Encyclopedia of Diversity in Education, Los Angeles: Sage References, 2012, 1688-169.
“Kudos: My Indebtedness to Certain Mentors and Models,” Syracuse University Magazine, 31:1, Spring, 2014, 50.
“Defining Refugees,” Encyclopedia of Migration, New York: Springer Publishers, IN PRESS
“William Julius Wilson, Sociologist,” International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Science, 2nd Edition, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, IN PRESS
Poetry
"Evocation/Evocazione," a poem in English and Italian, Genoa, Italy: Galleria San Bernardo, December, 2001 [reprinted in English and Swahili, in Metamorphosis.]
Review Essays
“Red, White, Blue – and Black,” The Massachusetts Review, 6, 1965, 851-858.
“Race Relations in the U.S.A.,” The British Journal of Sociology, 16: 1965, 159-163.
“Why Can’t They Be Like Us?” Contemporary Sociology, 2, 1973, 14-17.
“Aftermath of War: Stanley Mooneyham’s Sea of Heartbreak, Bruce Grant’s The Boat People, John McGowan and Scott C. S. Stone’s Wrapped in the Wind’s Shawl, Barry Wain’s The Refused, International Migration Review, 17, Fall, 508-511.
“Refugee Scholars in America: Their Impact and Their Experiences,” Society, 23:4, May/June 1986, 88-90.
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“Bitter Harvest: Israel in the Black American Perspective,” Present Tense, Summer, 13:4, 1986, 66-67.
“Breaking the Silence,” Congress Monthly, January, 19-20.
“The Real McCoy? Tom Wolfe’s ‘Bonfire’,” Congress Monthly, May/June 1988, 20-21.
“Years of Horror, Days of Hope,” Journal of Refugee Studies, 1, 1988, 86-88.
“Serving Others,” Present Tense, May/June, 1989, 15-18.
“The New Immigration: A Bibliographic Essay,” Choice, April 1990, 1284-1291.
“Culture of Racism: George M. Fredrickson’s The Arrogance of Race,” Reviews in American History, 18:2, July 1990, 256-261.
“Maven’s Delight,” Congress Monthly, 57:5, July/August 1990, 20-22.
“Some Americans from Asia: Roger Daniel’s Asian America: Chinese and Japanese in the U.S. Since 1850,” Reviews in American History, 18:3, 1990, 430-435.
“Race and the American City: Jim Sleeper’s The Closest of Strangers and Ze’ev Chafet’s Devil’s Night and Other Tales of Detroit,” Congress Monthly, February 1991, 20-22.
“Down Home and Up North: Nicolas Lemann’s The Promised Land: The Great Black Migration and How It Changed America,” Congress Monthly, September/October, 1991, 17-18.
“A Man and a Metaphor: Characterizing a Nation. Lawrence Fuch’s The American Kaleidoscope,” Sociological Forum, 6:4, December 1991, 731-738.
“A Singular Clan: A Commentary on the Morgenthaus,” Congress Monthly 59:3, March/April, 1992, 19-22.
“South-Central L.A.: Reaping the Whirlwind,” Congress Monthly, 59, July/August 1992, 3-6. [Reprinted in New Community, Utrecht, The Netherlands, October 1995.]
“Downeast Jews: Crossing Lines in Three Communities,” Congress Monthly, 60:2, 1993, 22-23.
“The Limits of Tolerance: Robert Hughes on ‘The Culture of Complaint,’” Congress Monthly, 60:7, 1993, 00-22.
“Passion and Politics,” Congress Monthly, 66:1, January/February 1999, 18-19.
“Travels with Bech,” Congress Monthly, 66:2, March/April 1999, 15-17.
“Ghosts,” Congress Monthly, 67:3, May/June 2000, 21-23.
“The Quality of Mercy…,” Congress Monthly, 67:4, July/August 2000, 21-22.
“Around the World in 15 Years: Paul Theroux’s Fresh Air Fiend,” Christian Science Monitor, July 17, 2000. [To be reprinted in Contemporary Literary Criticism ( E. Jefferson Hunter, editor), The Globe Group)
“Virtual Reality: On Selling the Holocaust,” Congress Monthly, 68:2, January/February 2001, 21- 22.
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"Debasing Good History with Bad Fiction: 'Varian's War'," The Chronicle of Higher Education Review, April 20, 2001, B 18-19.
"Prescient Prescriptions: The Limits of Humanitarian Military Intervention," International Studies Review, 4:1, Spring 2002, 201-205.
"The Talk of the Town." Congress Monthly, November-Decembep$ 2002, 21-22.
"An Eye for an Eye," Rich Cohen's The Avengers: A Jewish War Story, Congress Monthly, May/June, 2003, 21-33.
“Schindler’s Life: Myths and Realities,” David M. Crowe’s Oskar Schindler, Congress Monthly, March/April 2005, 16-17.
“Joining the Club: The ‘Mathew Principle” and College Enrollment,” Jerome Karabel’s The Chosen: The Hidden History of Admissions and Exclusion at Harvard, Yale, and Princeton, Congress Monthly, March/April 2006, 17-19.
“Number Our Days: The Life and Death of Everyman,” Philip Roth’s Everyman, Congress Monthly, May/June, 2006, 20-21.
“A Novelist’s Art Imitates Life in Our Times,” John Updike’s Terrorist, Congress Monthly. January/February, 2007,” 20-21.
“”The Celebrated Career of a Jewish Journalist,” Congress Monthly, July/August, 2007,15-17.
“Minus-Sum Games in a Land of Guilty Memories,” Congress Monthly, January/February, 2007, 3-7.
“Terror, Mass Murder, and the Shoah,” Saul Friedlånder’s Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945: The Years of Extermination, Congress Monthly, Jan-February, 2008.
“The Sarajevo Haggadah: A Fictional Commentary on an Iconic Codex,” Geraldine Brooks’ People of the Book, Congress Monthly, July/August, 2008, 19-20.
"Crime and Punishment: Revisiting the Story of Leopold and Loeb," Social Science and Modern Society, September-October, 2009.
"Killing the Messenger: The Black Family and the Politics of Race," Social Science and Modern Society, March-April, 2011
“Yankees and Other Ethnics: The American Evolution,” Contemporary Sociology, 40, July, 2011, 409-412.
“Systemic Angst in a Polarized America,” Social Science and Modern Society, November-December, 2012, 554-557.
“Edward Ball: The Inventor and the Tycoon,” Social Science and Modern Society, April, 2014
Reviews
The Silent Language, by Edward T. Hall, Baltimore Sun, April 12, 1959, A:6.
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The Countdown on Segregated Education, by William M. Brickman and Stanley Lehrer, American Sociological Review, 26: 1961, 165-166.
Newark: A City in Transition, by the Market Planning Corporation, American Sociological Review, 26: 1961, 335.
Sociology: The Study of Social Systems, by Duncan Mitchell, American Sociological Review, 26: 500-501.
Almost White, by Brewton Berry, American Journal of Sociology, 69: 1963, 310.
The Negro Leadership Class, by Daniel C. Thompson, American Journal of Sociology, 1963, 242.
Colour and the British Electorate, edited by Nicolas Deakin, American Sociological Review, 31: 1966, 275.
Social Change and Prejudice, by Bruno Bettelheim and Morris Janowitz, Social Forces, 43: 1966, 582-583.
English Rustics in Black Skin, by Sidney M. Greenfield, Transaction, 5: 1967, 61-62.
Ethnic Stratification: A Comparative Approach, by Tomastsu Shibutani and Kian W. Kwan, American Journal of Sociology, 73: 1968, 124-125.
Race Relations, by Michael Banton, Social Forces, 47: 1969, 351-352.
Soulside, by Ulf Hannerz, Race, 12: 1970, 130-131.
The Jewish Mystique, by Ernest van den Haag, International Migration Review, 5: 1971, 99.
Prejudice, U.S.A., edited by Charles Y. Glock and Ellen Siegelman, American Journal of Sociology, 77: 1971, 172-173.
Anti-Semitism in America, edited by Leonard Dinnerstein, International Migration Review, 6: 1972, 463-464.
Race and the Social Sciences, by Irwin Katz and Patricia Gurin, The Social Studies, 2: 1972, 92.
Race Relations in Sociological Theory, by John Rex, Contemporary Sociology, 1: 1972, 354.
The Blending of Races, by Noel P. Gist and Anthony Dworkin, American Journal of Sociology, 81: 1973, 1058-1059.
Intergroup Relations: Sociological Perspectives, edited by Pierre van den Berghe, Social Forces, 52: 1973, 306-307.
The Black American in Sociological Thought, by Stanford Lyman, Contemporary Sociology, 3: 1974, 401-403.
The Mask Jews Wear, by Eugene Borowitz, Sociological Analysis, 35: 1974, 228-230.
Nathan Glazer: A Different Kind of Liberal, by Leonard Dinnerstein and Gene Koppel, Journal of the American Jewish Historical Society, 64: 1974, 72-74.
The White Ethnic Movement and Ethnic Politics, by Perry L. Weed, Sociology and Social Research, 58: 1974, 203-204. 13
The Future of the American Jew, edited by David Sidorsky, Journal of the American Academy of Religion, December 1975, 814.
Ethnicity: Theory and Experience, edited by Nathan Glazer and Daniel Patrick Moynihan, and Athnic Identity, edited by George DeVos and Lola Romanucci-Ross, Contemporary Sociology, 5: 1976, 189-190.
Zion in America, by Henry L. Feingold, International Migration Review, 10: 1976, 266-267.
Interethnic Relations, by E. K. Frances, International Migration Re6iew, 13: 1939, 152-153.
Neighbors in Conflict, by Ronald H. Bayor, American Journal of Sociology, July 1981, 228-231.
Majority-Minority Relations, by John E. Farley, Sociology, 9 May/June 1982, 108.
Mount Alhegro, by Jerre Mangione, Contemporary Sociology, 12: 1983, 222-223.
American Ethnic Politics, edited by Joseph s. Roucel and Bernard Eisenberg, Journal of Ethnic History, 3: 1983, 95-96.
The Economics and Politics of Race, by Thomas Sowell, Christian Science Monitor, July 3, 1984, 23-24.
Escape to Freedom, by Aaron Levenstein, Christian Science Monitor, November 13, 1984, 42-43.
Rice, Rivalry, and Politics, by Linda Mason and Roger Brown, Christian Science Monitor, November 20, 1984, 38.
Ethnicity, Identity, and History: Essays in Memory of Werner B. Cahnman, edited by Joseph B. Meier and Chaim I. Waxman, Contemporary Sociology, 13:2, 1984, 214-215.
The Abandonment of the Jews: America and the Holocaust, by David S. Wyman, Christian Science Monitor, January 15, 1985, 24-25.
A Certain People: American Jews and Their Lives Today, by Charles S. Silberman, Christian Science Monitor, October 28, 1985, 26.
New Lives: The Adjustment of Soviet Jewish Immigrants in the United States and Israel, edited by Rita J. Simon, Contemporary Sociology, 14:6, 765-766.
Landscape and Exile, edited by Marguerite Guzman Bouvard, Christian Science Monitor, January 10, 1986, 25-26.
The Unwanted: European Refugees in the Twentieth Century, by Michael Marrus, Christian Science Monitor, April 4, 1986, B6.
Looking Back, by Maris Jastrow, Christian Science Monitor, June 2, 1986, 30.
Beyond Ethnicity, by Werner Sollors, Christian Science Monitor, July 8, 1986, 22-24.
A Special Legacy, by Sylvia Rothchild, Congress Monthly, July/August 1986, 20-21.
Men’s Lives, by Peter Matthiessen, Christian Science Monitor, August 5, 1986, 23.
The Chimpanzees of Gombe, by Jane Goodall, Christian Science Monitor, August 27, 1986, 21. 14
A Book of Travellers’ Tales, assembled by Eric Newby, Christian Science Monitor, September 11, 1986, 24.
Clay Walls, by Kim Ronyoung, Christian Science Monitor, October 3, 1986, B3.
Rising From The Plains, by John McPhee, Christian Science Monitor, November 5, 1986, 22.
Calculated Kindness, by Gil Loescher and John A. Scanlan, Christian Science Monitor, November 12, 1986, 34.
Southeast Asian Exodus, edited by Elliot Tepper, Migration World, 14:3, 1986, 34.
The Fatal Shore, by Robert Hughes, Christian Science Monitor, January 22, 1987, 22-23.
The Tree of Liberty, by Nicolas N. Kittrie and Eldon D. Wedlock, Christian Science Monitor, March 6, 1987, B3, 4, 5.
Cities on a Hill, by Frances Fitzgerald, Christian Science Monitor, March 9, 1987, 24.
Haven, by Ruth Gruber, and Token Refugee, by Sharon Lowenstein, International Migration Review, 20:4, 1987, 1054.
Chinatown and Little Tokyo, by Stanford M. Lyman, Choice, April 1987, 660.
Southeast Asians: A New Beginning in Lowell, by James Higgins and Joan Ross, Migration World, 2, 1987, 34.
The American Ambassador, by Ward Just, Christian Science Monitor, May 1, 1987, 26.
Waltzing with a Dictator, by Raymond Bonner; The Four Days of Courage, by Byron Johnson: May 14, 1987, 21-22 and Corazon Aquino, by Lucy Komisar, Christian Science Monitor,.
The Chinese Experience in America, by Shih-Shan Henry Tsai, Choice, June, 1987,496.
Life and Death in Shanghai, by Nien Chiang; and Born Red, by Gao Yuan, Christian Science Monitor, June 22, 1987, 20.
American Dream, by Angelo Pellegrini, Migration World, 15:3, 1987, 40.
Ethnic Studies at Chicago, 1905-1945, by Stow Persons, Choice, July-August, 1987,628.
Stay Alive, My Son, by Pin Yathay, Christian Science Monitor, September 10, 1987, 19-20.
Summer Long-A-Coming, by Barbara Finkelstein, Christian Science Monitor, September 17, 1987, 22.
Still the Golden Door, by David Reimers, Contemporary Sociology, 16:5, 987, 683-684.
Rescue: The Exodus of Ethiopian Jews, by Ruth Gruber, Christian Science Monitor, October 15, 1987, 20.
Chinese Lives by Zhang Xinxin and Sang Ye, Christian Science Monitor, November 5, 1987, 24.
Breakfast in Hell, by Myles F. Harris, Christian Science Monitor, November 16, 1987,20.
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The National Geographic Society: 100 Years of Adventure and Discovery, by C. D. B. Bryan, Christian Science Monitor, January 12, 1988, 10.
The Holocaust and History, by Michael Marrus, Christian Science Monitor, February 10, 1988, 18.
The Chinese Laundryman: A Study in Social Isolation, by Paul C. P. S. Siu, Choice, March, 1988, 602.
The Yellow Wind, by David Grossman, Christian Science Monitor, March 10, 1988, 22.
If I Had a Hammer ... The Death of the Old Left and the Birth of the New Left, by Maurice Isserman, Contemporary Sociology, 17:3, 1988, 333-334.
Blaming the Victims, edited by Edward Said and Christopher Hitchens, Christian Science Monitor, April 7, 1988, 20.
Shores of Refuge, by Ronald Sanders, Christian Science Monitor, April 14,1988, 20.
The New Chinatown, by Peter Kwong, Christian Science Monitor, April 21, 1988, 20.
Black American Street Life, by Dan Rose, Choice, May, 1989, 556.
Hidden History, by Daniel C. Boorstin, Christian Science Monitor, June 30, 1988, 20.
Coyotes, by Ted Conover, Migration World, 16:1, 1988, 38.
Immigration in New York, by Elizabeth Bogen, Choice, July-August, 1988, 611-612.
Chicago, '68, by David Farber, Contemporary Sociology, 17:4, 1988, 457.
The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem, 1947-1949, by Benny Morris, Christian Science Monitor, August 1, 1988, 18.
The Psychology of Everyday Things, by Donald Norman, Christian Science Monitor, August 4, 1988, 17.
Peace and Revolution, by Guenter Lewy, Christian Science Monitor, August 29, 1988, 18.
Between Two Worlds, by Tamar Horowitz, Contemporary Sociology, 17.5, 1988, 641-642.
The Australians, by Ross Terrill, International Migration Review, 22: Fall, 1988, 145-146.
Social Identifications, by Michael Hogg and Dominic Abrams, Choice, November, 1988, 661.
The Rabbi of Lud, by Stanley Elkin, Present Tense, January-February, 1989, 52.
U.S. Immigration in the 1980s: Reappraisal and Reform, edited by David E. Simcox, Choice, February, 1989, 641-642.
Imperial Spoils, by Christopher Hitchens, Newsday, July 9, 1989, 21.
Convictions of the Heart: Jim Corbett and the Sanctuary Movement, by Miriam Davidson, Migration World, 8:1, 1989, 42.
Strangers from a Different Shore, by Ron Takaki, Newsday, July 9, 1989, 21.
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The Guarded Gate: The Reality of American Refugee Policy, by Norman L. and Naomi Flink Zucker, Contemporary Sociology, 18:5, September, 1989, 779-780.
The Middleman and Other Stories, by Bharati Mukherjee, Migration World, 8:5, 1989, 40.
Passage from India, by Joan M. Jensen, International Migration Review, 23, Fall, 1989, 735-736.
Our Parents' Lives, by Neil and Ruth Cowen, Congress Monthly, January, 1990, 20-22.
Belonging to America, by Kenneth L. Karst, Contemporary Sociology, 19:1, 1990, 18-19.
Killing Mister Watson, by Peter Matthiessen, Newsday, June 18, 1990,11:2.
A Matter of Conflict: Ethnic Maintenance and Ethnic Style among Third Generation Japanese Americans, by Kaouri Oquri Kendis, Choice, June, 1990, 656-657.
Immigrant America, by Alejandro Portes and Ruben Rumbaut, Newsday, June 24, 1990.
American Immigrants and Their Generations: Studies and Commentaries on the Hansen Thesis After Fifty Years, edited by Peter Kivisto and Dag Blanck, Choice, July-August, 1990, 647-648.
A Summer World, by Stefan Kanfer, Journal of American Jewish History, Summer, 1990, 76:4, 573-575.
The Moral Nation, edited by Bruce Nichols and Gil Loescher; and Detained, Denied, Deported., Asylum Seekers in the U.S., by Helsinki Watch, Journal of Refugee Studies, 1990, 3:1, 72-74.
Democratic Eloquence, by Kenneth Cmiel; The Mother Tongue, by Bill Bryson; and Grand Illusions ' by Elizabeth Webber and Mike Feinselber, Newsday, July 22, 1990, 24, 21.
Ethnicity and Race in the U.S.A., edited by Richard Alba, Journal of American Ethnic History, Fall 1990-Winter 1991, 10:1 and 2, 117-119.
The Mexican American Family, by Norma Williams, Choice, February, 1991, 649.
Pacific Rising, by Simon Winchester, Newsday, April 21, 1991, 23.
Deliberate Speed: The Origins of a Cultural Style in the American 1950s, by W. T. Lhamon, Jr., Choice, May, 1991, 656-657.
Uncommon Martyrs: The Plowshares Movement and the Catholic Left by Fred A. Wilcox; and A Just and Lasting Peace, by Roger A. Peace, Newsday, May 7, 1991.
Little Germany, by Stanley Nadel, Choice, June, 1991, 506.
The New Chosen People: Immigrants in the United States, by Guillermina Jasso and Mark R. Rosenzweig, Choice, June, 1991, 621.
The Disuniting of America: Reflections on a Multicultural Society, by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., Newsday, August 14, 1991, 33-38.
The Rise of the Mexican American Middle Class, by Richard A. Garcia, Choice, September, 1991, 716-717.
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The Translator, by Ward Just, Newsday, September 1, 1991, 91.
Hierarchical Structures and Social Values: The Creation of Black and Irish Identities in the U.S., by Richard Williams, Choice, October, 1991, 677.
The Good Old Days: The Holocaust as Seen by Its Perpetrators and Bystanders, edited by Ernest Klee, Willi Dressen and Volker Reiss, Newsday, November 24, 1991, 33, 38.
The Death of an American Jewish Community, by Hillel Levine and Lawrence Harmon, Newsday, December 29, 1991, 91.
The Jews in America, by Arthur Herzberg, Journal of American Ethnic History, 11:4, Winter, 1992, 109-110.
Erin's Heirs: Irish Bonds of Community, by Dennis Clark, Choice, February, 1992, 667.
Coming to America, by Roger Daniels, International Migration Review, 26, Spring, 1992, 176.
Contemporary Jewish Philanthropy in America, by Barry A. Kosmin and Paul Ritterband, Contemporary Sociology, 21:2, March, 1992, 266-267.
International Migration Systems, edited by Mary M. Kritz, Lin Lean Lim and Hania Zlotnick, Journal of Refugee Studies, 5:2, 1992, 191-192.
A Century of European Migration: 1830-1930, edited by Rudolph J. Vecoli and Suzzane M. Sinke, Choice, May, 1992, 650.
Left and Right and The Tale of the Holy Drinker, by Joseph Roth, Newsday, May 31, 1992, 35.
To Make America: European Migration in the Early Period, edited by Ida Altman and James Horn, Choice, July-August, 1992, 613.
A Nation of Strangers: Prejudice, Politics and the Peopling of America, by Ellis Cose, Congress Monthly, November-December, 1992, 19-21.
America at Century's End, edited by Alan Wolfe, Social Forces, 71:2, December, 1992, 521.
From Another Place, by Gillian Bottomley, Choice, February, 1993, 387-388.
Mass Immigration and the National Interest, by Vernon M. Briggs, Jr., Choice, February, 1993, 612.
Minorities in the Middle, by William P. Zenner, American Ethnologist, 20:1, February, 1993, 205-206.
Eastern Sun, Winter Moon, by Gary Paulsen, Newsday, March 9, 1993, 48.
Hasidic People, A Place in a New World, by Jerome R. Mintz, Choice, March, 679-680.
Crossings: The Great Transatlantic Migrations, by Walter Nugent, Choice, May, 1993,686.
La Storia: Five Centuries of the Italian American Experience, by Jerry Mangione, International Migration Review, 27, Winter, 1993, 900-901.
Asian and Pacific Islanders in the United States, by Herbert Berringer, Robert W. Gardner, and Michael J. Levin, Choice, July-August, 1993, 93. 18
Immigration and Entrepreneurship: Capitalism and Ethnic Networks, edited by Ivan Light and Parminder Bhachu, Choice, January, 1994, 670.
Deconstructing the Nation: Immigration, Racism and Citizenship in Modem France, by Maxim Silverman, Contemporary Sociology, 23:2, March 1994, 276.
Who are We?: A Portrait of America based on the 1990 Census, by Sam Roberts, Newsday, March 17, 1994, 66.
Little Brazil, by Maxine Margoli, Choice, 32:2, October, 1994, 464-465.
Life on the Hyphen: The Cuban-American Way, by Gustavo Perez Fermet, Choice, December, 1994, 32:4, 741-742.
The Policy Challenge of Ethnic Diversity: Immigrant Politics in France and Switzerland, by Patrick Ireland, Annals, 539, Eay 1995, 198.
Hate Speech: The History of an American Controversy, by Samuel Walkep, New Community, 21:1, 1995, 127-128.
Gunnar Myrdal and Black-White Relations, by David Southerl,18New Community, 21:1, 1995, 129-130.
Jews and the New American Scene, by S. M. Lipset and Earl Raab, Choice, 32, 1995, 1112.
From Urban Village to East Village: The Battle for New York's Lower East Side, by James Abu-Lughod and others, Choice, 32, 1995, 8.
From the Other Side: Women, Gender and Immagrant Life in the U. S. 1820-1990, by Donna Gabbaccia, Choice, 32, 1995, 11-12.
Alien Nation, by Peter Brimelow, Choice, October, 1995, 371.
All the Nations Under Heaven , by Frederick Binder and David Reimers, Choice, December, 1995, 548.
From Vietnam, Laos and Cambmdia: A Refugee Experience, by Jeremy Hein, Choice, December, 1995, 675.
Nativism Reborn, by Raymmnd Tatelovich, Choice, January 1996, 880.
Origins and Destinies: Immigration, Race and Ethnicity in America, by Sylvia Pedraza, Reuben Rumbaut and others, Contemporary Sociology, 26:2, March, 1997, 201-203.
Fresh Blood: The New American Immigrants, by Sanford J. Unger, International Migration Review, 31:1, 1997, 90.
Braving the New World: Cambodian Refugees in an American City, by MaryCarol Hopkins, Choice, April 8, 1997.
Post-1965 Immigration to the United States, by Philip Q. Yang, Journal of American Ethnic History, Fall 1997, 92-93.
The Black Progress Question, by Stephan Burman, New Community (review)
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New Immigrants in the Marketplace: Boston's Ethnic Entrepreneurs, edited by Marilyn Halter, Choice (review)
Forced Migration and Scientific Change: German Speaking Scientists and Scholars after 1933 edited by Mitchell G. Ash and Alfonse Sollner, International Migration Review, 31, Fall, 1997, 190-191.
Assimilation American Style, by Peter Salins, Choice, 34, July 1997, 1882
Darwin's Athletes, by John Hoberman, Choice, 35, September 1997, 225.
Beyond Pluralism: The Conception of Groups and Group Identities in America, edited by Wendy F. Katin, et al, Choice, 36:4 December 1998
The Lineaments of Wrath: Race, Violent Crime and American Culture, Choice, 36:4, December 1998.
How the Jews Became White Folks and What That Says about Race in America, by Karen Brodkin, Choice, April, 1999.
Whiteness of a Different Color, by Mathew Frye Jacobson, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 25:2, 1999, 346-347.
The New Africa: Dispatches from a Changing Continent, by Robert M. Press, The Christian Science Monitor, December 30, 1999.
Middletown's Jews: The Tenuous Survival of An American Jewish Community. edited by Dan Rothenberg, Journal of American Ethnic History, 19:2 Winter 2000, 105- 106.
Me Against My Brother- At War in Somalia, Sudan and Rwanda, by Scott Peterson, Christian Science Monitor, May 4, 2000, 17.
The Unsteady March: The Rise and Decline of Racial Equality In America, by Philip A. Klinker, The Journal of Interdisciplinary History, XXXI: 3, Winter 2000, 472- 474.
Darkness in El Dorado: How Scientists and Journalists Devastated the Amazon, by Patrick Tierney, Christian Science Monitor, November 9, 2000, 19.
Immigration and Opportunity: Race, Ethnicity and Employment in the U.S., by Frank D. Bean and Stephanie Bell-Rose, Contemporary Sociology, 30.1, January 2001, 19-20.
Sharing American's Neighborhoods: The Prospect for Stable Racial Integration, by Ingrid Gould Ellen, Christian Science Monitor, January 11, 2001, 18.
Unspeakable Truths: Confronting State Terror and Atrocity, by Patricia Hayner, Christina Science Monitor, January 25, 2001, 17.
"Remembrance of Horrors Past," a review of Long Shadows: Truth, Lies and History, by Edna Paris, Christian Science Monitor, June 7, 2001, 16.
"A House for Dr. Strangelove," a review of One Nation Underground: The Fallout Shelter in American Culture, by Kenneth D. Rose, Christian Science Monitor, August 2, 2001, 17.
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"Terrorism Never Works, Never Did," a review of The Lessons of Terrorism by Caleb Carr, Christian Science Monitor, February 14, 2002, 18.
"How Can Free People Fight Terror?," a review of Why Terrorism Works by Alan Derschowitz, August 8, 2002.
Review of Tom and Huck Don't Live Here Anymore: Searching for the Lost American Childhood, by Ken Powers, Christian Science Monitor, in press.
"Terrorism Never Works, Never Has," Caleb Carr's The Lessons of Terrorism, Christian Science Monitor, February 14, 2002.
"How Can a Free People Fight Terror?", Alan Dershowitz's Why Terrorism Works, Christian Science Monitor, August 8, 2002.
"The Agonizing Complications of Charity," David Reiff's A Bed for a Night, Christian Science Monitor, October 31, 2002.
"Lost Innocence Abroad," Mark Hersgaard's The Eagles Shadow, Christian Science Monitor, December 19, 2002.
"Disciples of Religious Terrorism Share One Faith," Jessica Stern's Terror in the Name of God, Christian Science Monitor, August 28, 2003.
“Tourism: Between Place and Performance,” edited by Simon Coleman and Mike Crang, Contemporary sociology, 32:6, November 2003, 6-7.
“The Twilight of Civilization?,” a review of Dark Age Ahead, Christian Science Monitor, by Jane Jacobs, May 24, 2004, 18.
“Palm Reading Dressed as Science,” a review of The Cult of Personality: How Personality Tests are Leading Us to Miseducate Our Children, Mismanage Our Companies, and Misunderstand Ourselves, by Annie Murphy Paul, Christian Science Monitor, September 24, 2004, 18-19.
"Extracurricular" Essays
"Asian Portraits," Smith Alumnae Quarterly, 54, 3, April, 11 -13, 1978 [photo essay.]
"Close Encounters of Another Kind: The American Studies Diploma Program for Foreign Students at Smith College," Smith Alumnae Quarterly, Winter, 1982, 25-26.
"Vivat Academia, Vivant Professores," Chronicle of Higher Education, September 3,1986, 136.
"Adventure Tours for Kindred Spirits," New York Times Travel Section, July 5, 1987, 13.
"Peripatetic Academic," Cornell Alumni News, September, 1987, 21-24.
"Colonists and Coneheads," Salt, 8:2, 1987, 6-7.
"A Mail Order Junkie's Lament," Hampshire Life, December 11, 1987, 14, 18.
"Tracking Avis Americana: A Field Guide to Species Seen in the Peoples' Republic of China," Hampshire Life, January 22, 1988, 10, 53.
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"Running Around The World," Christian Science Monitor, June 10, 1988, 20. [Reprinted as "A Jogger's Guide to World Travel," in Destinations: Uncommon Trips, Treks and Voyages, (Sonia Thomas, ed.), Boston: Christian Science Publishing Society, 1990, 80-83.]
"Mr. David," Hampshire Life, July 29, 1988.
"The Waiting Game," Hampshire Life, October 1, 1988, 10-11.
"The Second Time Around," New York Times Travel Section, July 31, 1988, 35.
"Social Climbing in Switzerland," The Boston Globe, June 18, 1989, B15-18.
"Yankees and Other Ethnics," Salt, 1989, 1-3.
"Eureka!," Hampshire Life, October 3, 1997
"Not-So-Private Lives," Hampshire Life, July 17, 1998.
"The Name Game," Hampshire Life, October 9, 1998.
"Mother's Music," Hampshire Life, December 18, 1998.
"Travel Sickness," Smith Alumnae Quarterly, Spring 1999.
"The Return of Max, the Sea-Dog," Hampshire Life, July 2, 1999.
"Wonder Bread: The Millennium's Greatest Hit, " Smith Alumnae Quarterly, Winter 1999-2000, 42.
"The Great Pathfinder," Hampshire Life, January 28, 2000.
“Destinations Unknown,” Hampshire Life, June 9, 2000.
“Good Intentions,” Hampshire Life, August 25, 2000.
"The New Ireland: You Have To See It To Believe It, "Travelworld International, www.travelworldmagazine.com
"Waikiki Watch," World Travel International, www.travelworldmagazine.com
"The Wapanoag Called It 'Beautiful'," Travelworld International, www.travelworldmagazine.com
"A Conversion in the Desert: Hot Rocks and Hedonism," Travelworld International, www.travelworldmagazine.com
"The Appeal of Kiawah Island: Pirates, Planters and Much More," Travelworld International, March/April 2003. www.travelworldmagazine.com
"Southern Exposure: Festival Time in Charleston, S.C.", Travelworld International, www.travelworldmagazine.com
"Bridge of Dreams," Travelworld International, www.travelworldmagazine.com
"Chianti Classico Trekking in Tuscany,” [cover story], Travelworld International, September/October 2003. www.travelworldmagazine.com [Winner of “Best 22
Article Written on the Internet in 2003 by North American Travel Journalists Association] Reprinted in SoGoNow.com, September 2007,
“Keeping the Faith: A Return to a Sybaritic Shrine in the Sun,” Travelworld International. www.travelworldmagazine.com
“European Ambiance in the Hub: A Boston Treat,” Travelworld International. www.travelworldmagazine.com
“Intrigued by Boobies,” in Bylines 2005 (Linda Hagen Miller, ed.), Spokane: Bylines Publishing, 2004.
“Organ Recitals,” Hampshire Life, October 22, 2004.
“No Tricks but Great Treats – and Treatments: Experiencing the Mexican Caribbean at Halloween, Travelworld International. www.travelworldmagazine.com
“Putting in My Two Cents,” Hampshire Life, March 25, 2005.
“Northern New Mexican Odyssey: A Photo Essay, SoGoNow, August 8, 2005.
“Plain Talk,” Hampshire Life, August 12, 2006. [An expanded version was published in The ASJA Monthly, March 2007, 13-25.]
“Stoop-Shouldered in Sanibel,” SoGoNow, August 25, 2005.
“Jammin’ with JR: Quality Time on an Old Wooden Schooner, SoGoNow, September 29, 2005.
“”Moorish Arches and Other Spanish Delights: Ten Days in Andalucia,” SoGoNow, January 15, 2006.
“A Room with a View: Enjoy Mozart’s Salzburg Anchored at a Palatial B&B,” [cover story], Travelworld International www.travelworldmagazine.com
“Windjamming Plain and Fancy,” SoGoNow, August 18, 2006.
“Pearls of Newport and Other Gems of the Oceanside,” SoGoNow, September 1, 2006
:”Impressions of Sarajevo Today,” SoGoNow, November 3, 2006.
“Snapshots of Spain [photo essay], Global Writes, Fall, 2006.
“Long Time Gone, Vermont Magazine, January, 2007.
“Rip van Winkle in Vermont, cover story, SoGoNow, January 8, 2007.
“Travel Sickness,” Editor’s Column, SoGoNow, February,, 2007.
“Zeeland: A Dutch Treat for Cape Cod Lovers, SoGoNow, March 4, 2007.
“When ‘Customer Service’ is an Oxymoron, Editor’s Column, SoGoNow, March, 2007.
“Seafarer’s Serendipity,” Editor’s Column, SoGoNow, April, 2007.
“Little Rock: Getting Ready for Prime Time,” Editor’s Column, SoGoNow, May,” 2007.
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“Groetjes uit Amsterdam,” cover story, SoGoNow, June 20, 2007.
“A Room with a View,” Editor’s Column, SoGoNow, June, 2007.
“Sometimes It’s Well to Stay Down on the Farm, Even if You’ve Seen Paree, Editor’s Column, SoGoNow, July, 2007.
“This Place is for the Birds,” cover story, SoGoNow, August 25, 2007.
“Autumn in the Alps,” cover story, SoGoNow, October, 2007. [Winner of “Best Article Written on the Internet in 2007 by North American Travel Journalists Association].
“INNstitute in Napa,” Editor’s Column, SoGoNow, November, 2007.
“Gothenburg: A Swedish Sojourn,” Editor’s Column, SoGNow, December, 2007.
“Being Prepared,” Editor’s Column, SoGoNow, January, 2008
“Eat, Shoots, and Leaves,” Editor’s Column, SoGoNow, February 2008
“Between Wintah and Mudtime,” cover story, SoGoNow, February, 2008
“Italian Culture in a Swiss Canton, Editor’s Column, SoGoNow, March, 2008
“Getting Behind the Scenes,” Editor’s Column,SoGoNow, April, 2008
“Panama: A Voyage of Discovery, “ cover story, SoGoNow, April, 2008
“At Home in Paradise,” Editor’s Column, SoGoNow, May, 2008
“Challenging Days, Star-Studded Nights,” Editor’s Column, SoGoNow, June, 2008
“Sooner Sophistication,” Editor’s Column, SoGoNow, July, 2008
“Roots and Branches: The Evolution of a Sailing Camp in Maine, " Editor’s Column, SoGoNow, August, 2008
“A Return to Stowe,” Editor’s Column, SoGoNow, September, 2008
“A Northwest Passage Across Europe,” cover story, SoGoNow, October, 2008
“Travel Tunes,” Editor’s Column, SoGoNow, October, 2008
"Hind Sights," Editor's Column, SoGoNow, November 2008
“Illusions of Isolation,” in 60 Candles, NY: American Society of Journalists and Authors and iUniverse, 2008.
"Partying Penguins in Patagonia," Editor's Column, SoGoNow, December 2008
"A New College in an Old City," Editor's Column, SoGoNow, January 2009
"Rereading Twain on Travel," Editor's Column, SoGoNow, February 2009 (reprinted in The American Society of Journalists and Authors Monthly, March 2009)
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"Austrian Ambiance in the Green Mountains,"cover story, SoGoNow, February 2009
"Liner Luxury, Editor's Column, SoGoNow, March 2009
"Malled in Suburbia," Editor's Column, SoGoNow, April 2009
"Schooner Heritage," cover story, SoGoNow, April 2009
"Bergen: Gateway to the Fjords," cover story SoGoNow, May, 2009
"White Sand, Blue Skies and Clear Water, Editor's Column, SoGoNow, in press
"Patagonian Panoramas," feature article, Travelworld International,,January-February, 2010.
“Foreign Service,” Global Writes, January-February, 2010
“The Outer Banks,” Travelworld International, January-February, 2012.
“The Mayan’s Riviera,” Travelworld International, July, 2012
“The Many Faces of Jerusalem: A Photo-Essay,” Travelworld International, September, 2012.
“Serving Sojourners in Switzerland,” Travelworld Internatioal, September, 2013, 42-49.
“’Yasny!’ A Special Place in Greece," Travelworld International, May/June 2014
“Virginia Real!,” Travelworld International, IN PRESS
“Images of Istanbul,” Travelworld International, IN PRESS
"Gentle Mustangs in the Green Mountains,” Vermont Magazine, IN PRESS
Editorial Work and Consulting
1965-1980 Consulting Editor in Sociology, Random House-Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. 1967-1975 General Editor, Random House Series, Ethnic Groups in Comparative Perspective---books include: White Southerners, by Lewis M. Killian (1970) Italian Americans, by Joseph Lopreato (1970) America's Jews, by Marshall Sklare (1971) Japanese Americans, by William Petersen (1971) New Minorities, Old Conflicts: West Indians and East Asians in Britain, by Sheila Allen (1972) Mexican American, by Ellwyn R. Stoddard (1973) Chinese Americans, by Stanford M. Lyman (1974) 1967-1970 Associate Editor, Social Problems, published by the Society for the Study of Social Problems. 1970-1976 General Consultant, Time-Life Books for Human Behavior Series (14 volumes) 1972-1978 Member, Editorial Board, Race and Nations, Monograph Series, Center for International Race Relations, Graduate School of International Studies, University of Denver 1976-1980 Member, Advisory Board, Harvard Encyclopedia of American Ethnic 25
Groups. 1987-1991 Associate Editor, Journal of Refugee Studies (Oxford University) 1988-1992 Principal Consultant on film Rebuilding the Temple: Cambodians in America, produced by Lawrence Hott and Claudia Levin, Florentine Films, Florence, MA. 1993-1999 Consultant on documentary film "Well Founded Fear" produced by Michael Camerini and Shari Robertson of New York, 1999. 1993- 2000 Member, Editorial Board, New Community (Utrecht, The Netherlands) 2007-2009 Editor in Chief, SoGoNow.com Travel Magazine 2008- Contributing Writer, Travelworld International
Professional Organizations
American Association of University Professors (Vice President, Smith College chapter 1964-1968) Massachusetts Sociological Society (President, 1967-1968) Eastern Sociological Society (Vice President 1970-1971; President 1991-1992) American Sociological Association (Publications Committee, 1972-1975; Council, 1975-1977) Society for the Study of Social Problems (Committee on Intergroup Relations, 1957-1965; Vice-President, 1968-1969) International Sociological Association Society for Applied Anthropology North American Travel Journalists Association Society of Professional Journalists American Society of Authors and Journalists
Related Activities
Co-Director, Camp Chateaugay, Merrill, New York, 1958-1967 Consultant, Anti-Defamation League, 1959-1970, 1981-1989 Consultant, Social Science Program, Department of Health, Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, 1962-1966 Consultant on desegregation and affirmative action policies, Office of Undersecretary for Manpower, Department of Navy, Washington, D.C. 1964 Member, Board of Directors, Study in Greece, Inc., 1971-1983 Consultant, Board of Foreign Scholarships and Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, Department of State, Washington, D.C. (on cultural exchanges), 1974-1976 Member, Selection Board for Foreign Scholars, American Council of Learned Societies, 1976-1979 Member, Advisory Board, American College of Barcelona, Spain, 1976-1979 Member, Board of Institute for Study of Religion and Ethnic Groups, Bar Ilan, Israel Consultant, Institute on Pluralism and Group Rights, American Jewish Committee, 1980-1990 Chair, Academic Board 1982-1994 and member, Board of Trustees, Salt Center for Documentary Field Studies, Portland, Maine, 1983-2003 Member, Massachusetts State Advisory Committee, United States Civil Rights Commission, 1984-1987 Member, Governor's Advisory Council on Refugee Affairs, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 1985-1992 Member, Advisory Board, Refugee Policy Group, Washington, D.C., 1985-1995 Member, Academic Council, American Jewish Historical Society, 1987-1997 Director, Medina Project on the Integration of New Americans, !988-1992 Member, Board of Directors, Graduate School of American Studies, Doshisha University, Kyoto, Japan, 1990-1995. Member, Board of Directors, Project Global Village, 1994-1995. 26
Chair, International Board, University College, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands, 1998-2005, and the Roosevelt Academy University College of Utrecht University, Middelburg, The Netherlands, 2005-2008. Fellow and faculty member, Salzburg Global Seminar, Salzburg, Austria, 1998- Member, Academic Advisory Committee, David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies, 2002- Member, Review Panel on Accreditation of Tilburg University, Nederlands-Vlaamse Acrreditati Organisatie, The Hague, The Netherlands. 2006. Founding member, Executive Board, ECOLAS (European Consortium on Liberal Arts and Sciences), offices in Brussels and Bratislava, 2007- Member, American Studies Board, Salzburg Global Seminar, Salzburg, Austria, 2011-
Addresses/Contact Information
Office: B 04 Lilly Hall, Smith College, Northampton, MA 01063 Phone: (413) 585-3515 FAX 413-585 3389
Home 96 Round Hill Road, Northampton, MA 01060 Phone: (413) 584-4518
Summer: Box 406, South Wellfleet, MA 02663 Phone: (508) 349-6629
E-mail [email protected], [email protected],
Website www.theprosewriter.com
Peter and Hedy Rose were married in Rochester, New York, on March 25, 1956. They have two children, Lies and Dan, and two grandsons, Jordan and Robert. The Roses live in Northampton and Wellfleet, Massachusetts.