Roderic H. Davison - After PhD work at Harvard and instructing in history at Princeton, came four years during WWII when he was in Europe on relief work, a diplomatic intern in Germany, and in a conscientious objectors' work camp in New York. He spent over 46 years in teaching, specializing in the Ottoman Empire and teaching European history at George Washington U. He became a full professor in 1954 and retired emeritus in 1986 but continued teaching part-time until the early 1990s. George Washington U. gave him an honorary doctor of humane letters degree in 1994, with Hillary Clinton looking on. He served as president of both the Middle East Studies Assn. and the Turkish Studies Assn as well as treasurer of the American Historical Assn with three books and over 50 articles to his credit.
