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…

What follows is a speech I wrote for the special AHA session in Roy’s memory on January 5, abridged to avoid duplicating my other post on this site.

I worked with Roy at the Center for History and New Media for ten years, from 1995 to 2005,…

Good afternoon.

I’m Kathi Brown, a former student of Roy’s...as well as former neighbor...and also a friend. I met Roy more than 20 years ago when I first entered the evening Masters program in History at GMU. I also had the privilege…

Here are three things I never heard Roy Rosenzweig say:

1. "I'D LIKE TO HELP, BUT I'M TOO BUSY"

This is perhaps the most important sentence in an academic's vocabulary. As an assistant professor, I get one or two…

As a postdoc fellow last year at GMU, and a young historian just entering the field, I am deeply moved by all the stories and comments here, but they do not surprise me. I had already been deeply moved by Roy last year at GMU.

I was a greenhorn…

When Roy took me on as a Ph.D. student in 1998, I've been through three American universities and several advisers. I was alone in the US--my entire family was back in Russia. I was also broke and ready to give up. If it wasn't for Roy I…

I was introduced to Roy when I was a graduate student at a Yale, when he and his colleagues spoke at the May, 1994, "Hypertext @ Yale" conference (where a specially networked computer room was set up to allow participants to operate…

Like so many, I have tales to tell about Roy's generosity and intellect and unflagging, mind-boggling work ethic. I first met Roy at the beginning of my second year in graduate school; during my first year, two other students (Elena Razlogova…