Professor Roy Grow is the Kellogg

Frank B. Kellogg

Frank Billings Kellogg was an American lawyer, politician and statesman who served in the U.S. Senate and as U.S. Secretary of State. He co-authored the Kellogg-Briand Pact, for which he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 1929..- Biography :Kellogg was born in Potsdam, New York, and his family...

 Professor of International Relations

International relations

International relations is the study of relationships between countries, including the roles of states, inter-governmental organizations , international nongovernmental organizations , non-governmental organizations and multinational corporations...

 at Carleton College

Carleton College

Carleton College is an independent non-sectarian, coeducational, liberal arts college in Northfield, Minnesota, USA. The college enrolls 1,958 undergraduate students, and employs 198 full-time faculty members. In 2012 U.S...

. His specialty is the political economy

Political economy

Political economy originally was the term for studying production, buying, and selling, and their relations with law, custom, and government, as well as with the distribution of national income and wealth, including through the budget process. Political economy originated in moral philosophy...

 of East Asia, specifically China

China

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 and Southeast Asia

Southeast Asia

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. He is the faculty director of an off-campus studies program at Carleton focusing on the political economy of these regions, and has previously taught a comparative off-campus studies seminar with Alfred Montero

Alfred Montero

Alfred P. Montero is an associate professor of political science at Carleton College, specializing in comparative politics. He has also done in-depth studies of Brazil and Spain, and is the faculty director of an off-campus studies program at Carleton that focuses on the European Union as well as...

. Grow's course topics at Carleton include US Foreign Policy history, Intelligence Theory, Terrorism, Guerrilla Warfare and Insurgency, Chinese politics, Russian and Soviet Government, Political Economy, and Marxism.

Professor Grow previously served as a military interpreter and analyst in Asia. He later earned his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan

University of Michigan

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 in 1973. He is a speaker of Mandarin Chinese.

Professor Grow is a frequent contributor to Minnesota Public Radio

Minnesota Public Radio

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, appearing often on the program Midday with Gary Eichten.