A Professor Who Set an Example

I was a student of Rogow’s at Stanford from 1960 to 1962 when I graduated. He was an inspiration: His passion for politics, his radical critiques of U.S. politics, his enthusiastic support and encouragement for us few women in political science, his two women TAs, and his strong encouragement for me to go to UC Berkeley and study with Sheldon Wolin all are still vibrant memories. I was sorry to lose touch with him when he went to New York, so I couldn’t tell him about my later adventures in the Free Speech Movement, in Georgia as a civil rights worker, and my continued political activism plus my later focus and writing on the dire effects of colonialism on African women. I may never have done any of those things without his example of political commitment blended with intellectual rigor and a wry sense of humor.