Robert W. Fuller
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Robert Fuller earned his Ph.D. in physics at Princeton University and taught at Columbia, where he co-authored the text Mathematics of Classical and Quantum Physics. He then served as president of Oberlin College, his alma mater. Beginning in 1978, he worked as a "citizen diplomat" to improve the Cold War relationship. With the collapse of the USSR, Fuller looked back reflectively on his career and understood 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 write Somebodies and Nobodies: Overcoming the Abuse of Rank and All Rise, which describes the "politics of dignity." His books have been published in translation in Korea, China, India, and Bangladesh. In all of them, Fuller shows how we can combat rankism and narrow the dignity gap… Read more This biography was provided by the author or their representative.
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