Peter Roman

Background

Peter Roman was born on the 16th of March, 1941 in Los Angeles, California, United States.

Education

Peter attended the University of California in Berkeley, graduating cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1961. Also, he studied at Princeton University, where he earned a Master of Arts degree and obtained a Doctor of Philosophy degree.

Career

Peter Roman began his academic career at Northern Illinois University in DeKalb, where he held the post of a professor of political science from 1967 to 1969. After that, he served as a journalist for The Guardian in New York for two years. Peter joined Hostos Community College in the Bronx as a professor of behavioral and social sciences in 1971. He was promoted to the post of a professor in the Department of Political Science in 1999 and from 2019 he is a Professor Emeritus.

In 1976, when New York State planned to close Hostos, he was active in the Save Hostos Committee and was elected chairperson of the Behavioral-Social Sciences Department and subsequently chapter chairperson of the Professional Staff Congress (PSC), the faculty union. In 1981, a Hostos colleague was not reappointed as a faculty member and Doctor Roman successfully led the student/faculty coalition to save her job. He was elected social sciences unit coordinator, the position he held until 2018. Additionally, in 2000, he served as a professor of political science at the Graduate School and Undergraduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY Graduate Center).

Peter Roman was a member of the editorial board for Socialism and Democracy journal in 1985. Also, he was an editorial associate at the Institute for Theoretical History in 1979-1982. He edited several special journal issues on Cuba in the 1990s. Moreover, he was a contributor of articles and reviews to periodicals. In 1999, he wrote, People's Power: Cuba's Experience with Representative Government.

Achievements

• Peter Roman is an outstanding educator and a well-known author, as well as a contributor of articles and reviews to periodicals. He authored the book, titled People's Power: Cuba's Experience with Representative Government. He received a number of the Professional Staff Congress-City University of New York (PSC-CUNY) Research Awards in 1995, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2001 and 2002 for his research on Cuba. He got CUNY-Caribbean Exchange Program Grants for travel to Cuba from the City University of New York in 1989, 1992, 1993 and 1996. He was made a senior research fellow by the Council on Hemispheric Affairs in 2000. Peter was a guest on the Canadian radio program The Cuban Hour and on public radio programs in New York City and Colorado.

Works

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  • People's Power: Cuba's Experience with Representative Government

    (People's Power is a theoretical, historical, and analytic...)

    1999

Membership

Peter Roman is an associate member of the Columbia University Latin American Seminar.

Connections

Peter Roman is married.