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SoGoNow’s editor, Peter Rose, is a sociologist, ethnographer, writer, photographer and inveterate traveler. He has been teaching and writing about the movements of people – pilgrims, pioneers, immigrants, refugees, travelers and tourists -– for nearly 50 years.

Peter’s travel writing is broad-based, ranging from stories about his life as a peripatetic professor and his extracurricular sojourns to specific adventures, such as "social climbing" in the Alps, windjamming on the coast of Maine and on the Mediterranean returning to downhill skiing in Vermont after a hiatus of four decades, hiking in the hills of Tuscany, cruising the waterways of Panama, and running around the world. Some of his stories and photographs are published in a memoir, "Guest Appearances and Other Travels in Time and Space" (Swallow Press, 2003); many others have appeared in the travel sections of New York Times, the Boston Globe, the Christian Science Monitor, the Daily Hampshire Gazette, and other papers, in magazines as varied as Vermont Life and the Physicians’ Travel and Meeting Guide, and in the SoGoNow and Travelworld International, another on-line magazine. In 2005, he received the North American Travel Journalist Association’s Award of Excellence for the “Best Travel Article Written for the Internet for 2004” for "Chianti Classico," published in TWI; in 2008, he received the same award for “Autumn in the Alps,” SoGoNow, September 2007. He will soon publish a new book of travel stories, "With Few Reservations."

Peter is also the author "They and We" (Random House, 1964; Paradigm Publishers, 6th ed, 2006), "The Subject is Race" (Oxford University Press, 1967), "Strangers in Their Midst" (Richwood Press,1977), "Mainstream and Margins" (Transaction Books,1983) and "Tempest-Tost" (Oxford U Press, 1997), and editor of a number of other books, most recently, "The Dispossessed: An Anatomy of Exile" (University of Massachusetts Press,2005). He has been a regular book reviewer for various academic journals and for the Christian Science Monitor, New York Newsday, and Congress Monthly, and an occasional columnist for the Hampshire Life Magazine. In the 1960s and 1970s, he was a consulting editor at Random House and at Time-Life Books and, for 25 years, served as a member of the Board of Trustees of the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies in Portland, Maine.

Peter was born in upstate New York and received an A.B. from Syracuse University and a Ph.D. from Cornell. He is currently Sophia Smith Professor Emeritus at Smith College, member of the Graduate Faculty of the University of Massachusetts, and fellow and faculty member at the Salzburg Seminar in Austria. Northampton, Massachusetts has been his home since 1960, but he has spent extensive periods away, serving as a visiting professor at Clark, Wesleyan, Colorado, UCLA, Yale, and Harvard; visiting scholar at Harvard, Stanford, the East-West Center, Oxford, the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, and at study centers in Bellagio and Bogliasco in Italy, and as Fulbright professor in the United Kingdom, Australia, Japan, Austria, and the Netherlands. A frequent visitor to Dutch universities, in 1994 he was awarded the University Medal from the University of Amsterdam. He has visited and lectured in more than 40 other countries and often written about aspects of their cultures and characters.

He is a member of the American Society of Journalists and Authors, Society of Professional Journalists, the North American Travel Journalists Association, the International Food, Wine, and Travel Writers Association and a number of academic organizations.