Robert Earl Roeder
Robert Earl Roeder (16 May 1931 – 15 November 1998) was a historian and academic administrator who was one of the founders of the World History Association. He was also a founder of the American Issues Forum of the American Bicentennial. Roeder held positions at Harvard, the University of Chicago, and the University of Denver. Career Roeder graduated from the College of William and Mary in 1951 with a bachelor's degree in philosophy. He received his masters and doctorate degrees in history from Harvard University in 1953 and 1959, respectively. While at Harvard, he held a teaching fellowship in history and literature from 1953 to 1954. His Ph.D. thesis was on the history of New Orleans merchants in the post-colonial era. He served in the U.S. Army Counter-Intelligence Corps from 1954 until 1956. He then returned to teaching at Harvard, where he again held a teaching fellowship, and became an instructor in history in 1958. From 1959 to 1962 he held the position of Assistant Professor of History at the University of Chicago. Roeder left Chicago in 1962 to take the position of Professor of History at the University of Denver, where he remained until his retirement in 1995. At