Roger Lee Emerson

Roger Lee Emerson, nephew of Governor Lee Emerson, grew up in Barton and returns annually to the Northeast Kingdom. A graduate of Dartmouth, Brown, and Brandeis, he taught history at The University of Minnesota (Minneapolis), MIT, and The University of Western Ontario, from which he retired in 1999. The author of six books, in 2013 he won the Saltire Society's award for the best book of the year in Scottish History, An Enlightened Duke: Archibald Campbell, Earl of Ilay, 3rd Duke of Argyll (1682...See more

Roger Lee Emerson, nephew of Governor Lee Emerson, grew up in Barton and returns annually to the Northeast Kingdom. A graduate of Dartmouth, Brown, and Brandeis, he taught history at The University of Minnesota (Minneapolis), MIT, and The University of Western Ontario, from which he retired in 1999. The author of six books, in 2013 he won the Saltire Society's award for the best book of the year in Scottish History, An Enlightened Duke: Archibald Campbell, Earl of Ilay, 3rd Duke of Argyll (1682-1761) (Humming Earth, 2013). See less