A specialist in modern British history and the history of the modern Middle East, Roger Adelson is Professor of History Emeritus at Arizona State University. He received a bachelor's degree with honors from George Washington University and a bachelor's degree from from Oxford University, his master's and doctoral degrees from Washington University, St. Louis, where he held a graduate Danforth Fellowship. He was an Alistair Horne Research Fellow at Oxford and taught briefly at Harvard before joining the Arizona State University faculty in 1974.A specialist in modern British history and the history of the modern Middle East, Roger Adelson is Professor of History Emeritus at Arizona State University. He received a bachelor's degree with honors from George Washington University and a bachelor's degree from from Oxford University, his master's and doctoral degrees from Washington University, St. Louis, where he held a graduate Danforth Fellowship. He was an Alistair Horne Research Fellow at Oxford and taught briefly at Harvard before joining the Arizona State University faculty in 1974....more