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Peter Ascoli
Peter M. Ascoli received a B.A. from the University of Chicago, a second B.A. from St. Catherine's College, Oxford, and a Ph.D. from UC Berkeley, all in European History. He also has a Master of Management degree from Northwestern's Kellogg Graduate School of Management. From 1971 to 1978, he was an Assistant Professor at Utah State University in Logan, Utah. In the late '70s, Mr. Ascoli was a consultant to the Educational Testing Service for the Advanced Placement exam in European history. He has published one scholarly book and several articles. In 1979, Mr. Ascoli moved to Chicago and worked as a fund raiser for a variety of cultural and educational nonprofit organizations, including the University of Chicago , Chicago Opera Theater, Steppenwolf Theater Company, and the University of Illinois at Chicago. Since 1993, he has been working on a biography of Julius Rosenwald, his grandfather The book, entitled Julius Rosenwald: The Man Who Built Sears, Roebuck and Advanced Black Education in the American South has recently been published by Indiana University Press.
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