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Elspeth Davies Rostow '38, Leading Expert
on Politics and Foreign Policy, dies
updated
12.14.07
Elspeth Davies Rostow ’38, one of the country’s leading experts on politics and foreign policy, died on December 9. During her undergraduate years, Rostow served as president of the Undergraduate Association at Barnard, and early in her academic career, she was a member of the American Studies Program’s founding faculty. Established in the period immediately preceding U.S. involvement in World War II, the interdisciplinary program offered students a comprehensive understanding of their country’s history, economy, literature, and democratic institutions. Rostow and her colleagues created a program that was unique and groundbreaking in its interdisciplinary reach.
After leaving Barnard, Rostow taught at Sarah Lawrence, MIT, American University, and Georgetown, and she went on to spend more than 30 illustrious years at the University of Texas at Austin. In addition to teaching at Texas, she served as Dean of the UT Austin Division of General and Comparative Studies, and then as Dean of the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs. She also held posts in government and journalism, and continued to teach courses on the American presidency and on U.S. foreign policy until the end of her life.
Rostow received Barnard’s Distinguished Alumna Award in 1998. In January 2008, the LBJ School of Public Affairs will hold a public commemoration of her extraordinary life and exemplary achievements in education and public service.
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