Background
Rostow, Elspeth Davies was born on October 20, 1919 in New York City. Daughter of Milton Judson and Harriet Elspeth (Vaughan) Davies.
Rostow, Elspeth Davies was born on October 20, 1919 in New York City. Daughter of Milton Judson and Harriet Elspeth (Vaughan) Davies.
AB, Barnard College, 1938. AM, Radcliffe College, 1939. Master of Arts, Cambridge University, England, 1949.
Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Lebanon Valley College. Doctor of Laws (honorary), Austin College, 1982. Doctor of Laws (honorary), Southwestern University, 1988.
Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Wheaton College, 2006.
Member faculty various institutions Barnard College, New York City and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, 1939-1969. Member faculty University Texas, Austin, from 1969, dean division general and comparative studies, 1975-1977, professor government, 1976—2007, dean Lyndon B. Johnson School Public Affairs, 1977-1983, Stiles professor American studies, 1985-1988, Stiles professor emerita, 1988—2007. Member President's Advisory Committee for Trade Negotiations, 1978-1982, President's Commission for a National Agenda for the Eighties, 1979-1981.
Research associate Office of Strategic Services, Washington, 1943-1945. Geneva correspondent London Economist, 1947-1949. Lecturer Air War College, 1963-1981, Army War College, 1965, 68, 69, 78, 79, 81, National War College, 1962, 68, 74, 75, Industrial College Armed Forces, 1961-1965, Naval War College, 1971, Foreign Service Institute, 1974-1977, Department of State, Europe, 1973.
Board directors United States Institute of Peace, vice chairman, 1991, chairman 1991-1992. Co-founder The Austin Project, 1991. Member Governor's Task Force on Revenue, Texas, 1991.
Trustee National Academy Public Administration, 1989—1995, Sarah Lawrence College, 1952—1959, Southern Center for International Studies, from 1990. Board visitors and governors St. Johns College, 1986—1989. Board directors Barnard College, 1962—1966, Lyndon Baines Johnson Foundation, 1977—1983, Salzburg Seminar, 1981—1989, co-chair senior fellows, 1997—2001.
Visiting scholar Phi Beta Kappa, 1984—1985. Board advisory to president Naval War College, Newport, Rhode Island, 1995—1999. National advisor Commission on Deliberative Polling, 1999—2001.
Member of Texas Philosophical Society (trustee 1989-1995, 1997—2001), Headliners Foundation (vice-chairman 1996—2002), Phi Beta Kappa, Omicron Delta Kappa, Mortar Board (honorary), Phi Nu Epsilon (honorary).
Married Walt Whitman Rostow, June 26, 1947 (deceased February 13, 2003). Children: Peter Vaughan, Ann Larner.