Donald H. Roy

Background

Donald H. Roy was born on July 29, 1944, in Hartford, Connecticut, United States. He is the son of Donald H., Sr. and Madeline (Reynolds) Roy.

Education

Roy graduated from Bard College with a bachelor's degree in 1966. He then received his master's degree from Georgetown University in 1970 and a doctorate from the University of Notre Dame in 1977.

Career

Roy started his career as an assistant professor of political science at Carroll College in 1978. Four years later, he became a director of research at Dallas Chamber of Commerce, Dallas, where he worked till 1987.

Roy then became an assistant professor of political science at Jefferson Community College, and since 1989, he worked as an associate professor of political science at Ferris State University.

Achievements

• Donald H. Roy is best known as the author of such works on politics as Dialogues in American Politics, Public Policy Dialogues, and The Reuniting of America: Eleven Multicultural Dialogues. His recent works include Plato's Mythoi: The Political Soul's Drama Beyond and Women and Children First: The Horrible Hartford Circus Fire.

Works

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  • Public Policy Dialogues

    (In this book, the author's primary task is to frame today...)

    1994
  • Women and Children First

    (In this circus fire book, there is a dialogue between the...)

    2008
  • Plato's Mythoi

    (Platonic mythos at its best offers the philosophic imagin...)

    2018
  • The Reuniting of America

    (Multiculturalism raises the issue of what characterizes o...)

    1996
  • The Dialogic Resurgence of Public Intellectuals 2002

Membership

Roy is a member of the Amnesty International, Catholic League for Civil Rights, Michigan Conference of Political Scientists and Catholic League for Civil Rights.

Interests

• Music & Bands

  Classical music

Connections

Roy was married to Bernice Phyllis, however, the marriage ended in a divorce on August 1996. The couple gave a birth to two children, Daniel and Marisa.

Father:

Donald H. Roy, Sr.

Mother:

Madeline (Reynolds) Roy

ex-wife:

Bernice Phyllis Roy

Son:

Daniel Roy

Daughter:

Marisa Roy