Services for Harold Rose, professor emeritus, will be Friday

Services will be Feb. 12  for Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Geography and Urban Studies Harold M. Rose, with a viewing from noon until services at 2 p.m. at Northwest Funeral Chapel, 6630 W Hampton Ave., Milwaukee. Rose died Feb. 2 at age 86.

Harold Rose, a prominent researcher and writer on racial policies and urbanization.
Harold Rose, a prominent researcher and writer on racial policies and urbanization.

Rose received his doctorate in geography from Ohio State University in 1960, and joined the geography faculty at UWM in 1962. Rose was active in geography, where he served as chair in the early 1990s, and also was an important figure in the Department of Urban Affairs (now Urban Studies), and in the Department of Afro-American Studies (now Africology), and served as chair in those departments during the 1970s.

According to an obituary in the Journal Sentinel, Rose went on to build a national reputation in his field, focusing on how racism and racial policy affected urbanization. “The Urban Ghetto,” his well-known book in the discipline, looked at how ghettos developed in urban areas.

Rose served as president of the Association of American Geographers from 1976-1977 and received its Lifetime Achievement Honor in 1996. He retired from UWM in 1995 after 31 years of teaching, mentoring and pioneering scholarship.

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