I knew Roy, like many other diligent graduate students, through his scholarship long before I met him. I read _Eight Hours for What We Will_ for my doctoral oral comprehensive exam in U.S. History. While I enjoyed many of the books I studied for…

Roy Rosenzweig was my colleague across town at the Center for History and New Media at George Mason. We saw each other at meetings and conferences four or five times a year; I had gotten to know him more personally when my partner worked at the…

In various venues, friends and colleagues have remembered Roy for the myriad of qualities he possessed. Let me reiterate what I wrote for the History News Network and add a few more points:

Roy's untimely death will leave an incredible void…

I only knew Roy for a little over a year, but I can tell you one thing about the guy: he really liked apples.

When Roy ate an apple – as he did at nearly every lunch – he began in a completely ordinary fashion, orbiting around the…

Anyone who crossed paths with Roy knows he was a clearinghouse of generosity. One facet of this was his part time work as a one man job agency; he was always thinking about who would be good for a job, who needed a job, who might want to talk to…

I first met Roy in my History-711 course. I had heard the rumors--being that he was an amazing albeit "quirky" professor. I also knew a little bit about him from the very small office up in Robinson B that then housed CHNM (back in the 90s…

It was funny one day working in the office and a man came up and started to ask a bunch of the interns there names. Not really paying attention to it I continued to work when I felt a tap on the shoulder. Taking off the headphones this man asked me…

This is a message not only from myself but from the many researchers and activists working in applied and public history across Australia. Over the years we have all been excited and stimulated by Roy's wonderful, varied work.

We have been…

This is more of a brief comment, than a story. I was sorry to hear of the death of Roy Rosenzweig, as a reader and student of history rather than as a personal friend. Historian Heather Goodall, from the University of Technoloy in Sydney alerted me…