Arnold P. Kaminsky & Roger D. Long

Dr. Long is professor of History at Eastern Michigan University. He is a British historian who received his B.A. from the University of London and his M.A., C.Phil, and Ph.D. from UCLA where he studied with Stanley Wolpert. He lived in Asia for ten years and has travelled widely visiting nearly fifty countries around the world. He has lived in his native England, Pakistan, Japan, Italy, Canada (Calgary) for one summer teaching at the University of Calgary, and he lived in Los Angeles for nine years before moving to Ypsilanti, Michigan in 1987. He is fond of sports and was once a competitive swimmer and water polo player. He collects history books and has several thousand books in his personal library. His other main hobby, especially when he travels, is photography and he owns a small collection of cameras, both analog and digital. He is married to Professor E.L. Cerroni-Long, an Italian anthropologist whom he met in 197 in Japan and who teaches in Eastern Michigan University's Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Criminology. She has two doctorates, one in Oriental Studies from the University of Venice, Italy, and the other in Anthropology from UCLA. While Dr. Long loves all aspects of history, he has specialized in his writings on the history of the British Empire in India, the decolonization process, and the creation of Pakistan. In addition to Western Civ and World History survey courses, he teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in the history of England, British Empire, and in the history of India.