Peter I. Rose was born in Rochester, New York in 1933. He received an A.B. from Syracuse University in 1954 and a PhD from Cornell University in 1959. He is Sophia Smith Professor Emeritus of Sociology and Anthropology and Senior Fellow of the Kahn Liberal Arts Institute at Smith, where, for more than thirty years he was director of the American Studies Diploma Program for international graduate students. He is also a member of the graduate faculty of the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He has authored several books on racism, ethnicity, and other social subjects.
With a secondary career as a freelance writer and travel journalist and photographer, he is a frequent contributor to a variety of newspapers and both print and web-based magazines, including Travelworld International and SoGoNow.com, which he edited for several years. In 2011 he received the silver medal of the North American Travel Journalists Association for With Few Reservations: Travels at Home and Abroad (iUniverse, 2010), a collection of his travel essays.
