Rupert Emerson

Rupert Emerson (August 20, 1899, in Rye, NY - February 9, 1979, in Cambridge, MA) was a professor of political science and international relations. He served on the faculty of Harvard University for forty-three years and served in various U.S government positions.

After serving in the U.S. Navy from 1917-18, he received a B.A. from Harvard University in 1922, then a Ph.D. at the London School of Economics in 1927. He was a member of the American Political Science Association, the Association for Asian Studies (president, 1952-53), the African Studies Association [http://www.africanstudies.org/] (president, 1965-66), the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the Council on Foreign Relations.

Emerson was on the faculty of Harvard University from 1927 until his retirement in 1970. A specialist on nationalism in Asia and Africa, he often guest lectured at universities in East Africa. He was an instructor at Harvard from 1927-31; assistant professor, 1931-38; associate professor of political science, 1938-46; professor of international relations, 1946-70; emeritus professor of political science, 1970-79. He was a lecturer at Yale University, 1937-38; a visiting professor of political science at University of California, Berkeley, 1953-54, and 1973, at University of California, Los Angeles, 1965-71, and at the American University in Cairo, 1972.

He served in various U.S. government posts in Washington, DC, 1941-46. He served as a constitutional advisor to the Korean government in 1962. He also served as a trustee of the Institute of Pacific Relations.

Awards

*Guggenheim Fellowship, University of California, Berkeley, 1953-54.
*Ford Foundation grant, Africa, 1960-61.

Personal

His parents were William Key Bond and Maria Holmes (Furman) Emerson. He married Alla Julievna Grosjean on September 14, 1925; they had 4 children.

Bibliography

*Emerson, R. Papers of Rupert Emerson, ca. 1960-ca. 1970 (inclusive).Unpublished manuscript.
*Emerson, R. (1928). State and sovereignty in modern Germany. New Haven, London: Yale University press; H. Milford, Oxford University Press.
*Emerson, R. (1937). Malaysia: A study in direct and indirect rule. New York: The Macmillan Company.
*Emerson, R. (1942). The Netherlands Indies and the United States. Boston: World peace foundation,.
*Emerson, R. (1949). America's Pacific dependencies: A survey of American colonial policies and of administration and progress toward self-rule in Alaska, Hawaii, Guam, Samoa and the Trust Territory. New York: American Institute of Pacific Relations.
*Emerson, R. (1955). Representative government in southeast Asia. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
*Emerson, R. (1960). From empire to nation: The rise to self-assertion of Asian and African peoples. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
*Emerson, R. (1963). Nation building in Africa. In K. W. Deutsch (Ed.), Nation Building (pp. 95-116).
*Emerson, R. (1963). Political modernization: The single-party system. Denver: Social Science Foundation University of Denver.
*Emerson, R. (1964). Self-determination revisited in the era of decolonization. Cambridge, MA: Center for International Affairs, Harvard University.
*Emerson, R. (1964). Nationalism and political development. In J. H. Hallowell (Ed.), Development for what? (pp. 3-33). Durham, N.C.: Published for the Lilly Endowment Research Program in Christianity and Politics by the Duke University Press.
*Emerson, R. (1964). Malaysia: A study in direct and indirect rule. Kuala Lumpur: University of Malaya Press sole distributors University of Malaya Cooperative Bookshop.
*Emerson, R. (1966). Parties and national integration in Africa. In J. G. LaPalombara (Ed.), Political parties and political development (pp. 267-301).
*Emerson, R. (1967). Africa and United States policy. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall.
*Emerson, R. (1971). Reflections on leadership in the third world. In Essays on modernization of underdeveloped societies (Vol. 2, pp. 540-556). Bombay.
*Emerson, R. (1979). State and sovereignty in modern Germany. Westport, CT: Hyperion Press.
*Emerson, R. ( [1963?] ). Political modernization: The single-party system. Denver: Social Science Foundation, University of Denver.
*Emerson, R., & Kilson, M. (1965). The political awakening of Africa. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall.
*Emerson, R., Mills, L. A., & Thompson, V. M. (1942). Government and nationalism in southeast Asia. New York: International Secretariat, Institute of Pacific Relations.
*Padelford, N. J., & Emerson, R. (1963). Africa and world order. New York: Praeger.
*Young, C., Young, H. E., & Emerson, R. (1999). The accommodation of cultural diversity: Case studies. Basingstoke, New York: Macmillan, St. Martin's Press.