Professor Ruth Rosen

Ruth Rosen, a professor emerita at the University of California, Davis, teaches history and public policy at U.C. Berkeley. She is the editor of The Maimie Papers and author of Prostitution in America . She is a former columnist for the Los Angeles Times and editorial writer and columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle . A cofounder and senior fellow of the Longview Institute, she writes for a wide variety of magazines and journals, including TomDispatch.com, The History News Network ,...See more

Ruth Rosen, a professor emerita at the University of California, Davis, teaches history and public policy at U.C. Berkeley. She is the editor of The Maimie Papers and author of Prostitution in America . She is a former columnist for the Los Angeles Times and editorial writer and columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle . A cofounder and senior fellow of the Longview Institute, she writes for a wide variety of magazines and journals, including TomDispatch.com, The History News Network , TomPaine.com, The American Prospect, Dissent, The Nation , AlterNet.org, and is a regular contributor to the online political Web site Talking Points Memo Caf� . See less