Roy Grow (1941 – 2013) was the Kellogg Professor of

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before retiring in April 2013. His specialty was the

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of East Asia, specifically

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and

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. He was the faculty director of an off-campus studies program at Carleton focusing on the political economy of these regions, and had previously taught a comparative off-campus studies seminar with Alfred Montero. Grow's course topics at Carleton included US Foreign Policy history, Intelligence Theory, Terrorism, Guerrilla Warfare and Insurgency, Chinese politics, Russian and Soviet Government, Political Economy, and Marxism. He died on June 16, 2013. Grow served as a

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and analyst in Asia. He later earned his PhD. from the

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in 1973. He was a speaker of

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and

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. Grow was a frequent contributor to

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, appearing often on the program ''Midday with Gary Eichten''.

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