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Rogoff
Rogoff is a surname based on an alternate spelling of Rogov. The name Rogoff is identified as Jewish (from Lithuania and Belarus). It is a westernized form of Rogov, a habitational name from Raguva near Kaunas in Lithuania (Russian name ''Rogovo''). Notable people with the surname include: * Alice Rogoff (born 1951), American publisher and philanthropist * Barbara Rogoff, American academic * Irit Rogoff (born 1947), academic * Kenneth Rogoff (born 1953), American economist and chess grandmaster * Lynn Rogoff, American film and television producer * Mortimer Rogoff, American inventor and businessman See also * Rogov Rogov (russian: Рогов) and Rogova (russian: Рогова; feminine) is a common Russian and Jewish surname. People with this surname include: * Aleksandr Rogov (1956–2004), Soviet flatwater canoer * Aleksandr Rogov (footballer) (born 1986), ... References {{surname, Rogoff ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kenneth Rogoff
Kenneth Saul Rogoff (born March 22, 1953) is an American economist and chess Grandmaster. He is the Thomas D. Cabot Professor of Public Policy and professor of economics at Harvard University. Early life Rogoff grew up in Rochester, New York. His father was a professor of radiology at the University of Rochester. Rogoff received a BA and MA from Yale University ''summa cum laude'' in 1975, and a PhD in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1980. Chess At sixteen Rogoff dropped out of high school to concentrate on chess. He won the United States Junior Championship in 1969 and spent the next several years living primarily in Europe and playing in tournaments there. However, at eighteen he made the decision to go to college and pursue a career in economics rather than to become a professional player, although he continued to play and improve for several years afterward. Rogoff was awarded the IM title in 1974, and the GM title in 1978. He was 3r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alice Rogoff
Alice Nicole Rubenstein (née Rogoff, born November 10, 1951) is an American newspaper publishing executive, philanthropist, and writer. Early life and education Rogoff is the daughter of Mortimer Rogoff (1921–2008), former chairman and president of Navigation Sciences; her mother is the artist and muralist Sheila Rogoff. She has two siblings, Louisa Thompson and Julia Peach. Rogoff attended the Dalton School, Connecticut College, and Harvard Business School receiving an MBA degree in 1978. Career Rogoff served for over 10 years as the chief financial officer for the magazine '' U.S. News & World Report''. She worked at ''The Washington Post'' as an assistant to publisher Donald Graham, creating its online edition. From 1978 to 1980, Rogoff was a special assistant to the director of the Office of Management and Budget in the Carter administration. Rogoff first went to Alaska in 2002. She was introduced to Alaska by Theron "Terry" Smith, a former chief pilot for Alaska Airl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Irit Rogoff
Irit Rogoff is a writer, theorist, teacher and curator. Her research interests include visual culture; contemporary art and critical theory; postcolonialism, geoculture, and geographies, cultures of education and gender. Rogoff obtained her PhD degree from the Courtald Institute of Art in 1987. She was born in Jerusalem, Palestine and immigrated to London for her studies in the 1970’s. Teaching Between 1989 and 1997 Rogoff taught at UC Davis, where she merged the graduate programs in Art and Critical Theory under the department of Visual Culture. In 2002, she founded the trans-disciplinary department of Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths, University of London where she is a Professor of Visual Cultures, heading the PhD in Curatorial/Knowledge program. Curating Between 2005 and 2006 Rogoff was part of the curatorial team of the A.C.A.D.E.M.Y project which consisted of a series of exhibitions, projects and events at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Antwerp and the Van Abbemuse ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lynn Rogoff
Lynn Rogoff is an American film and television producer, playwright, screenwriter, theatre director, and academic. She is best known for writing the 1979 Emmy Award winning documentary film ''No Maps on My Taps'' and the 1983 play ''Love, Ben Love, Emma''; the latter of which examines the correspondence between Emma Goldman and Ben Reitman. She is an associate professor at the New York Institute of Technology. Early life and education Born in New York City, Rogoff is the daughter of the veterinarian, George Rogoff, past President of the Bronx Veterinary Society and founder of the Veterinary Medical Association of New York City Journal. She is a graduate of New York University Tisch School of the Arts with an MFA in Directing. In 1979 she was one of eight individuals accepted into the Astoria Motion Picture and Television Center Foundation's internship program. In 1980 she became a fellow in the Writers Guild of America, East's Screen and Television Writing Fellowship program whi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mortimer Rogoff
Mortimer Alan Rogoff (May 2, 1921 – August 1, 2008) was an American inventor, businessman, and author as well as an amateur photographer and radio operator. He is recognized for his work in spread spectrum technology which is the technology that modern cell phones and GPS systems are based on. He is also considered the grandfather of the electronic navigation chart. Early life Rogoff was born in Brooklyn, New York. He earned his B.S.E.E. from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1943 and his M.S.E.E. from Columbia University in 1948. While at Rensselaer he was a member of Kappa Nu fraternity and the Features Editor for the student newspaper. During World War II, he enlisted in the United States Navy and worked on developing radio communication and aerial navigation systems. One of the techniques he developed was undetectable by Axis forces because its power was below that of the background noise and its frequency varied in random ways. This secure transmission was the beg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barbara Rogoff
Barbara Rogoff is an American academic who is UCSC Distinguished Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Her research is in different learning between cultures and bridges psychology and anthropology. Education and career Rogoff graduated from Pomona College with a B.A. in psychology in 1971. She earned her Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1977. Rogoff investigates cultural variation in learning processes and settings, with special interest in communities where schooling has not been prevalent. Rogoff is the recipient of a Distinguished Lifetime Contributions Award from the Society for Research in Child Development and UCSC's 2017 Martin M. Chemers Award for Outstanding Research. Her fellowships include the National Academy of Education, the American Anthropological Association, the Association for Psychological Science The Association for Psychological Science (APS), previously the American Psychological Society, is an international no ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rogov
Rogov (russian: Рогов) and Rogova (russian: Рогова; feminine) is a common Russian and Jewish surname. People with this surname include: * Aleksandr Rogov (1956–2004), Soviet flatwater canoer * Aleksandr Rogov (footballer) (born 1986), Russian footballer * Aleksey Rogov (born 1991), Russian footballer * Daniel Rogov (1935–2011), Israeli food and wine critic * Evgeni Rogov (1929–1996), Russian footballer * Igor Rogov (born 1950), Kazakhstani politician * Maksim Rogov (born 1986), Russian footballer * Natalia Rogova (born 1995), Russian badminton player * Nikolai Rogov (1825–1905), Russian ethnographer and philologist * Oksana Rogova (born 1978), Russian triple jumper * Sergey Rogov Sergey Rogov is a Russian political scientist, member of Russian Academy of Sciences The Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS; russian: Росси́йская акаде́мия нау́к (РАН) ''Rossíyskaya akadémiya naúk'') consists of the ... (born 1948), Russian political sci ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
