Roger L. Emerson ’58 AM - Brown Alumni Magazine

Roger L. Emerson ’58 AM, of London, Ontario; Feb. 28. He taught social science and humanities for a year at the University of Minnesota and for two years taught in the humanities program at MIT before joining the University of Western Ontario in London, Ontario, where he remained in the history department for the rest of his teaching career, becoming professor in 1983. He was the author of more than 60 articles and seven books. He sat on the editorial board of Hume Studies from 1984 to 1994 and was a longtime member of the Eighteenth-Century Scottish Studies Society, becoming its second president in 1984. He was the 2008 recipient of the ECSSS lifetime achievement award.