Roy Grow (1941 – 2013) was the
Kellogg Professor of
International Relations at
Carleton College
Carleton College ( ) is a private liberal arts college in Northfield, Minnesota. Founded in 1866, it had 2,105 undergraduate students and 269 faculty members in fall 2016. The 200-acre main campus is between Northfield and the 800-acre Cowling ...
before retiring in April 2013. His specialty was the
political economy of East Asia, specifically
China
China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and ...
and
Southeast Asia. He was the faculty director of an off-campus studies program at Carleton focusing on the political economy of these regions, and had previously taught a comparative off-campus studies seminar with
Alfred Montero
Alfred P. Montero (born March 24, 1969) is Frank B. Kellogg Professor of political science at Carleton College, specializing in comparative politics. He has also done in-depth studies of Brazil and Spain, and is the faculty director of an off-cam ...
. Grow's course topics at Carleton included US Foreign Policy history, Intelligence Theory, Terrorism, Guerrilla Warfare and Insurgency, Chinese politics, Russian and Soviet Government, Political Economy, and Marxism. He died on June 16, 2013.
Grow served as a
military interpreter and analyst in Asia. He later earned his Ph.D. from the
University of Michigan in 1973. He was a speaker of
Mandarin Chinese and
Japanese.
Grow was a frequent contributor to
Minnesota Public Radio, appearing often on the program ''Midday with Gary Eichten''.
References
1941 births
2013 deaths
American political scientists
University of Michigan alumni
Carleton College faculty
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