Gary B. Ostrower

Background

Gary B. Ostrower was born on October 11, 1939 in New York, United States. Son of Joseph and Ann (Weinstein) Ostrower.

Education

Ostrower graduated from Alfred University with a Bachelor of Arts in 1961. Then he obtained from the University of Rochester his Master of Arts in 1962 and a Doctor of Arts in 1970.

Career

Ostrower began his career at Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York, as an instructor in 1967-1968. Later he worked at Alfred University, Alfred, New York, as a professor of history since 1969.

Besides, Ostrower was a visiting lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania from 1979 to 1980.

Achievements

• Ostrower is known for his books "Collective Insecurity: The United States and the League of Nations" and "The League of Nations From 1919 to 1929".

Works

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  • The League of Nations From 1919 to 1929 (Partners for Peace)
  • Collective Insecurity: The United States and the League of Nations During the Early Thirties
  • The United Nations and the United States (Twayne's International History Series (Cloth))

Views

Quotations: “Teaching in a predominantly undergraduate institution, I find little time to write during the academic year. I therefore write frenetically during summers and occasional vacations, and I pray for sabbaticals. My approach to history is quite traditional. It presupposes that genuine objectivity is unattainable, yet leaves me committed to fairness and the belief that history is much more than the tricks Voltaire claimed we play on the dead. I am convinced that the test of a good historian is in how he or she deals with data that does not support one’s point of view. I think that I treat such data honestly; I hope my critics agree”.

Membership

Ostrower was a member of village board of trustees at Village of Alfred since 1981. He was also a member of the Society for the Study of Internationalism (president, 1988-1994), Organization of American Historians, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations.

• Society for the Study of Internationalism , United States

  1988 - 1994

• Village of Alfred , United States

  1981

Interests

• Coaching Little League, jogging, tennis.

Connections

He married Judith E. Samber on January 1, 1979. The couple has 2 children: Sarah, Peter.

Father:

Joseph Ostrower

Mother:

Ann (Weinstein) Ostrower

Spouse:

Judith E. Samber

child:

Sarah Ostrower

child:

Peter Ostrower