The intriguing odyssey of an American academic through time and space.
In this second edition of his colorful memoir, Postmonitions of a Peripatetic Professor, Peter I. Rose, a nonagenarian sociologist, ethnographer, teacher, writer, photographer, world traveler and travel writer expands on the story of his long life as a social scientist in the U.S. and abroad, his work as researcher, editor and consultant, and his extracurricular excursions – and serendipitous encounters — in many parts of the world. In new chapters, the author, who has written about race, immigration, and the dilemmas of diversity in the U.S. for more than sixty years, offers his reflections on and concerns about the volatile state of our democracy since 2013, the year the first edition was released.
Along with a Foreword by the author’s former Smith College student, playwright, and novelist Andrea Hairston. the narrative is enriched by excerpts from his published articles, reviews, and books, including the most recent – and timely – Tropes of Intolerance: Pride, Prejudice, and the Politics of Fear.
PETER I. ROSE, a sociologist, ethnographer and writer is Sophia Smith Professor Emeritus and former director of the Diploma Program in American Studies for foreign graduate students at Smith College. He studied at Syracuse University (A.B. 1954) and Cornell University (Ph.D. 1959), taught at Smith for 44 years and served as a visiting professor at Clark, Wesleyan, UCLA, the University of Colorado, Yale and Harvard and as a Senior Fulbright Lecturer in the UK, Japan, Australia, Austria and The Netherlands. He has also been a resident fellow at centers and institutes in Jerusalem, Beijing, Oxford, Bellagio and Bogliasco in Italy, the East-West Center in Honolulu, Harvard and Stanford. He was a founding member of the board of the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies in Portland, Maine, helped to establish two international honors colleges affiliated with Utrecht University in The Netherlands, and long served as a faculty member in sessions on American Studies at the Salzburg Global Seminar and those of its affiliated Global Citizenship Alliance program. In addition to Postmonitions of a Peripatetic Professor, he is the author of They and We, The Subject is Race, Strangers in Their Midst, Tempest-Tost, Guest Appearances, With Few Reservations, Mainstream and Margins Revisited, and Tropes of Intolerance: Pride, Prejudice, and the Politics of Fear, and is editor of a number of other books in sociology, American culture, intergroup relations, ethnic history, and immigration and refugee policy, including The Study of Society, The Ghetto and Beyond, Americans from Africa, Nation of Nations, Views from Abroad, Working with Refugees, and The Dispossessed.
