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Sophia Smith Professor Emeritus of Sociology and Anthropology, Senior Fellow, Kahn Liberal Arts Institute Smith College Northampton, MA 01063 Education 1 ] 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
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