The Rowan Tree: A Novel
Robert W. Fullerearned his Ph.D. in physics at Princeton University and taught at Columbia, where he co-authoredMathematics of Classical and Quantum Physics.  After serving as president of Oberlin College, he became a "citizen diplomat," working toward improving international relations during the Cold War. During the 1990s, he served as board chair of the non-profit global corporation Internews and promoted democracy via free and independent media. When the Cold War ended with the collapse of the USSR, Fuller reflected on his career and realized that he had been, at different times in his life, a somebody and a nobody. His periodic sojourns into "Nobodyland" led him to identify rankism--abuse of the power inherent in rank--and ultimately to writeSomebodies and Nobodies: Overcoming the Abuse of Rank.Three years later, he published a sequel that focuses on building a "dignitarian society" titledAll Rise: Somebodies, Nobodies, and the Politics of Dignity.With co-author Pamela Gerloff, he has also publishedDignity for All: How to Create a World Without Rankism.His most recent books areReligion and Science: A Beautiful Friendship?, From Genome to Wenome: The Key to Universal Dignity,andThe Rowan Tree: A Novel.