Remembering Roy Rosenzweig: historian, mentor, and digital pioneer
Thanks, Roy is a wonderful site honoring Roy Rosenzweig, who passed away last month.
A few years ago Roy and I did a little seminar for a NY-based center for Jewish history. We had a great time together. I had admired his work for years before. I was thrilled to discover that he was a super person in real life as well.
Roy Rosenzweig was the Mark and Barbara Fried Chair and founding director of the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia. He used those positions, and his enthusiasm for new media innovation, to build an inclusive and democratic understanding of the past that blurred the line between popular and academic history.
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