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Morning Coffee with Roy, "Roy as Mentor"
I was Roy’s student and worked with him at the Center for History and New Media for ten years. Working with Roy gave me a skewed, somewhat utopian perspective of what academia was really like. He was always happy to meet with me. He read all of…
My Brother Roy
It has been comforting to read how many lives Roy touched in such a variety of wonderful ways.
Being Roy’s sister, I always thought he was the “brother extraordinaire”, who was always there when I needed him. I will miss him…
Remembering Roy Rosenzweig
This is the text of what I wrote in my blog (edwired.org) the day after Roy died:
Yesterday we lost one of the greatest historians and greatest humans I'll ever have the privilege to know. My colleague and friend Roy Rosenzweig passed away,…
He Actually Brewed Coffee During Class
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…
The Stranger
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…
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Other people can speak more intelligently about Roy's scholarship, more intimately about his friendship, than I. What I can say about Roy is that he set a standard of decency and kindness to which we should all aspire.
I began to suspect Roy…
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Remembering Roy Rosenzweig
Where to begin? It’s the only possible response when asked to remember Roy Rosenzweig. Academics are fortunate if they are able to become pioneers or innovators in a single field; Roy managed to found or advance at least three fields: social…