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It has been a very sad week for us in the History Department at George Mason. Roy’s death has left a hole in our hearts as well as in our intellects. So many wonderful things could be said about him, and many of them already have been said by others. So, in this time of grieving, I want to reminiscence on a happier time, indeed one of the happiest times I ever experienced with Roy. It was on Saturday night, February 20, 1999. The setting was a colleague’s home, where most of the department and their spouses had gathered to honor Roy, accompanied by lots of food and drink. The occasion was his appointment as a College of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Scholar, the closest thing the college had to an endowed chair at the time, and the highest honor the college could give him. As I was also on the review committee appointed by the dean to advise on this appointment, I recall with pleasure one of the dozen or so outside letters by the some of the most distinguished historians in the country whom the dean solicited for their evaluations of Roy’s scholarly accomplishments. One of them began her letter with a striking statement: “Roy is a national treasure!” I had never thought of Roy in this way (Roy as Grand Canyon? Roy as Julia Child?), but it certainly rang true then, as it still does. But on the night of February 20, 1999 we were gathered in a spirit of fun, pleasure, and boundless admiration for a colleague whom everyone adored. One of our former chair’s, Marion Deshmukh, had started the tradition that on such occasions we should endeavor to create some doggerel, scribbled verse, or other creative party piece to honor the occasion. So on that night, I read aloud a limerick I had jotted down earlier in the day. It seemed fitting for the occasion and made me very proud and privileged to call Roy my friend and colleague. Upon re-reading it this week as I have been reflecting on Roy, it still seems fitting and says (in its own abominable way) what I still feel about him, indeed what we all feel.
A ROYAL LIMERICK
There was once a historian named Roy
Who was very perceptively coy.
He wondered why history
Was always a mystery
In all that he heard as a boy.
So he decided to make history a vocation,
And studied the American nation.
Though much to his surprise
He discovered all the lies
That had been spread since the beginning of creation.
From Columbia to Harvard he ascended,
Where he his dissertation defended.
He looked at workers' leisure
And all they did for pleasure
Eight hours every day, so he contended.
But he also met a lady from Brandeis
Whose hold over him began to aggrandize.
So he decided to woo her
And eventually pursue her,
Which made quite a match woman and man-wise.
So he set out in earnest to give chase,
But his beloved was setting the pace.
He found that too often
She was thinking of Jane Austin,
So he rarely made it to first base.
But wedlock and marriage are the ultimate blessing
Despite all the statistics so distressing.
To Washington and George Mason
They both soon did hasten,
Where they began a new life of professing.
Then Roy took off into Central Park
Which became his next major lark.
From the Tavern on the Green
To the eastern ravine,
He recorded it all, even muggers in the dark.
Then he launched the Center for History and New Media,
Which would transform poor old Clio he decreed. He, uh,
Made a CD-ROM that offended,
So the Wall Street Journal contended,
Because of gay cowboys and other such tedia.
But any distress Roy easily disguises
Because his CD-ROM won so many prizes.
And his history of the net
Will be his best work yet,
Or so one of his grad students surmises.
But what one notices of Roy is how hard he works.
There's nothing or no one that he shirks.
The late hours he keeps
And rumors he occasionally sleeps
Are part of his charming quirks.
But Roy is a friend always unfailing and just,
A constant someone we can always trust.
Even as CAS Distinguished Scholar
He's never too big for his collar,
Which makes Roy a King among us.
So tonight we have all gathered to attest
That Roy stands out from all the rest.
And though a trite cliché,
It's true anyway:
We salute you Roy; you're the best.
[February 20, 1999]
And you are the best, Roy. Rest in peace, dear friend.
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As I sit in my cubicle, I glance directly across the room at Roy’s empty office in CHNM and the nameplate for Room 483. Peaking inside his office you can tell that he intended to be back: half-full water bottles and plastic cups stand on the desk; a book with the cover broken in from the grip of a strong hand sits on the table attached to his resting chair waiting to be finished; papers on his desk are ready to be filed, answered, or thrown away. After a quick glance, his black sweater is not visible but it might be hiding on the floor underneath his desk.
He planned to be back at work, just like after other stays in the hospital. Roy maintained such a strong and steadfast commitment to CHNM, his colleagues, and his students throughout the past year and a half that would have been remarkable for a healthy person, never mind for someone carrying around an ever-present opponent in his body.
As we try to figure out what comes next, those of us working in the “west wing” fix our attention on the construction site outside our window. That activity provides an excellent distraction from the emptiness of Room 483.
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Roy taught me most of what I know about history that matters. He taught me a lot of history that I didn’t know mattered until I read what he wrote (those brave, dedicated, obstinate Musteites, the class-mixing Elks and the teetoling Washingtonians; Allen Nevins and his vision of a popular history in American Heritage, to say nothing of wikipedia, which I now know I can use with utter confidence). In graduate school, he and Warren Leon taught all of us how to experiment in teaching history, and Roy just kept running with that one. He taught me how to use a data base back in the days of Kaypros, and he kept running with that one, too. So what, if he entered “lawn” and I entered “grass”and we both entered “politics” for just about every other keyword? Roy tried very very hard to teach me how to write transition sentences, to say nothing of how to get organized, meet deadlines, and work 18 hours a day without getting cranky. What could one do if what Roy willed for his eight hours was to get another twenty tasks done? He taught me how to argue as a way of thinking a problem through and without getting cranky--well, he never got cranky, anyway. He taught me how to put some flesh and bones onto historical abstractions, how to find the people and think about what a difference they made to the story we were trying to tell. He taught me to have faith in people, who would go about making history, whatever the rules. This photograph is of Roy about five years ago doing research on the Central Park Conservancy. But Roy isn’t here to show me how to upload this paragraph and the image in the same file, so I have to count on the rest of you he taught to figure out how to fix this.
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Of all the amazing qualities Roy possessed -- intelligence, generosity, creativity, industry, wit, and so many more -- the one that always stood out for me was trust. Roy trusted in history. He trusted in hard work. He trusted in fairness. Most of all, he trusted in people.
Roy was a collaborator. He was brilliant on his own, but I think he was happiest and at his best when he was working with other people. And people flocked to him.
I think Roy was able to gather so many friends and colleagues around him because he trusted them, often without prior cause and always without prejudice, and so people trusted him back. Roy showed us that the way to gain trust is to give trust, which is the same thing as saying that the way to be loved is to love. It's the best work lesson and the best life lesson I have ever learned, and Roy was the best teacher.
I trust and love and miss him very much.
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Note: Prodded by the Digital Campus broadcasts, I had finally set up a blog on wordpress when I learned of Roy's death. This was my first post.
Roy Rosenzweig, Mark and Barbara Fried Professor of History and New Media at George Mason University, was a mentor and generous friend to those at a distance as well as to his many colleagues, collaborators, and students at George Mason University. We were saddened to hear of his death this past week.
I have long counted myself lucky to have invited Roy to come to Miami University almost a decade ago. I had read his work in labor history and followed the development of the American Social History Project and Center for History and New Media initiatives. Teaching at Miami University’s regional campus in Middletown, Ohio, I worked with area teachers and coordinated the local National History Day competition. With generous support from both the Ohio Humanities Council and Miami University, I was able to invite Roy through the OAH Distinguished Lectureship Program, to spend two days in Ohio. He presented a workshop and discussion for local social studies teachers in Middletown and a lecture on history and new media on the Oxford campus. My great good fortune was to spend the two days with Roy, introducing him to colleagues, learning about the Center for History and New Media initiatives, discussing his book, with David Thelen, The Presence of the Past: Popular Uses of History in American Life, and talking over my own research and interests in digital media projects. We rambled around the Oxford campus, stopping to talk with faculty at Miami’s former College of Interdisciplinary Studies and then having lunch with Juan Gilbert, a professor in computer sciences who is now at Auburn University. I felt a bit like an outsider looking in on their conversation but I enjoyed every minute. Roy was an exciting speaker and a generous listener and mentor.
Following his visit, Randy Bass came to the Middletown campus and the conversations that I had with both Roy and Randy inspired much of my subsequent work both directing a graduate program in public history at Wright State University and collaborating with educators on TAH grants. They helped me to see both my profession and the scholarship of history in a new way.
Roy was a pioneer; he embraced the enduring value of the paperback book while moving beyond the narrower confines of print scholarship. And Roy always carried others forward with him. The ubiquitous red Z for Zotero in Firefox will remind many of us of Roy’s impact, through the Center for History and New Media, on our work. This June, not knowing that Roy was ill, I asked him to meet with my husband Gary Greenberg about a public television project. Once again, he gave generously of his time and his insights. Roy Rosenzweig has cast a wide net through his influential writing and the enduring value of the Center for History and New Media resources as well as through all of the colleagues he has listened to and inspired.
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I met Roy perhaps ten times. At conferences in the booth. In the trailer at CHNM. At lunches where we’d discuss potential collaborations and the future of electronic media. We’d cluster round screens showing each other what we’re up to. I’d chat with him at the DC Area Tech & Humanities Forum. Ordinarily I’m not sure such occasional contact would lead me to post alongside Roy’s close friends and colleagues. But for Roy and for those who love Roy I really want to. He deserves it.
I’m not an academic. I’m only partly versed in how the academy works. I'm not sure which parts of Roy’s work have most scholarly merit. Nor do I know which parts of CHNM that Roy was heavily involved in. But as a publisher and a fellow enthusiast of digital history there are some things I do know.
Roy’s understanding of digital history and its potential was spectacular. I’m not sure I know of anyone else who had quite such a handle on what might be achieved. Every time I talked to him I learned and was enthused.
Reading a paper written by Roy or looking at a project that Roy worked on one cannot but be impressed. What better example than his essay on the differences between Wikipedia and standard reference works (http://chnm.gmu.edu/resources/essays/d/42) – it’s infinitely clearer, more balanced and more constructive than the polemic that dominates the subject.
For me Roy was exceptional because he was more a facilitator rather than an owner of ideas and projects. He was an enabler of people. His ideas and implementation of those ideas always seemed grounded in generosity, in sharing and in moving things forward. This is not common in my world.
The field of digital history is well populated with ideas. Very few of these have been carried out well. I look over the glittering array of projects at CHNM, and beyond that to the enthusiastic and well informed staff. They seem both to be infused with a bit of Roy.
I know that every time I use those sites I’ll be thinking of and missing Roy.
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I have only had a handful of conversations with Roy, but each one was delightful. What made him refreshing in the world of academia was his unassuming and helpful manner while being such a recognized figure. It is a privilege to have known him albeit briefly and thankfully his work will live on through CHNM and all his colleagues there.
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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 and John Spencer) and I had developed rudimentary history cd-roms. Elena had gone on to study with Roy at GMU (and become CHNM's first employee), and as a result, John and I had been invited down to present our cd-roms at a brown bag lunch event at GMU's history department. Elena met us at the train station, and as we exited into the Washington sunlight, she led us toward a car driven by a slightly rumpled, distracted looking guy in a red button down shirt and black jeans. As the car pulled away from the curb, John and I realized that this was Roy Rosenzweig. *The* Roy Rosenzweig, respected scholar, one of the only people doing the kind of digital history to which we aspired. And he was picking up two unknown graduate students at the train station. It was an entirely appropriate way to begin; he exhibited particular generosity to those low on the academic food chain. I came to know Roy in more venues after that first day; through the <i>Radical History Review<i>, where I served as Managing Editor for two years, and through the American Social History Project, where I had the enormous privilege of working with him on a myriad of projects. While in no way officially connected with my doctoral education, Roy became a true mentor, introducing me to people I should know, and the first person I turned to for career advice.
There is so much that I will remember about Roy: his keen editorial eye (the quickest way to improve every grant proposal I ever wrote for ASHP was to run a draft past Roy); his ability to move projects forward; his deep reservoir of odd historical facts, handy for historical timelines and puzzles; the certainty that an email message to him would be returned within a matter of hours; his endearingly awkward half hugs of greeting. I'm still only barely able to acknowledge that he isn't going to be around any more, that there won't be some new project or meeting or meal at a conference or email message passing along information about a project or person I should know about. I hope that Roy had some idea of how very many people admired and loved and valued him. I guess what we do now is carry on in his spirit, the only alternative we have to carrying on in his presence.
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As a neighbor of Roy’s as well as a friend and colleague, I had many occasions to carpool with him over the last fifteen years. I came to understand that it was Roy’s gregarious nature as much as any environmental consciousness that led him to avoid riding alone. A commute with Roy always meant the better part of a conversation-filled hour covering a long menu of topics du jour. He’d slide in the door in a diffident way, and then he was off and running. Sometimes the issues were local--the in’s and out’s of campus politics or his most recent battles with the forces of bureaucracy. More often they reached beyond, into teaching, research, the profession. Riding with Roy meant tapping into a vast network of information and institutional savvy. It was like being part of a rolling salon.
When Roy was behind the wheel, I can’t say we got there fast, and there was at times an absent-minded professor quality to his driving: ideas were always more interesting to him than traffic conditions. But the trip was never dull, and we did get there safely and usually on time. And the conversation was always stamped by Roy’s trademark virtues: the wide scope of his intellectual inquisitiveness, his ability to cut through the haze of circumstance to fundamental issues of power and responsibility, and his wry sense of humor in the face of institutional and other frustrations.
Thanks, Roy, for reminding me so often that life is about the journey, not the destination.
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Rosemary Jann
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