Sonya Orleans Rose (1935 – October 15, 2020)[1] was an American historian and sociologist whose work focused on the cultural history of the United Kingdom and the British Empire in the 19th and 20th centuries.
[3] Her doctoral dissertation was entitled Managing uncertainty: The honeymoon period of new patients on an adolescent ward.
She began her academic career at Colby College in 1974 before moving to the University of Michigan in 1993.
The work, focusing on nationalism and class, has been described as "one of the key interventions in the history of wartime Britain.
"[1] It was inspired by Rose's own experiences in the United States at the time of the September 11 attacks and the outbreak of the Iraq War.