Serenus Press publications help students choose a
college major, reinforce reasons for diligent study, and
provide concrete career options. Colleges and schools
find multiple uses for them: career advisors hand them
out to students as unique examples of nonacademic opportunities. College administrators find them helpful
in recruiting high school students. Parents consul them
to reinforce the value of a liberal arts education for their
children.
Nearly half the colleges throughout the United States,
as well as numerous schools, historical associations, and
libraries have depended on our material since 1984 when
our first publication, Careers for Graduates in History,
appeared under the imprint of the nonprofit National
Center for the Study of History. To confront the Center’s
inherent financial limitations and broaden its scope
beyond the discipline of history, the Center’s founder,
Robert Pomeroy, then established the Serenus Press.
Pomeroy, a history graduate from Stanford University,
served two years active service in the military, studied at
the graduate Arab Studies Program at the American
University of Beirut, then began a career in finance. This
took him from Lebanon to Brazil and from New York to
Washington, DC where, after 22 years service he retired
as an Advisor to the Inter-American Development Bank. |
During the 1970s, in response to problems voiced by
unemployed history PhDs, he organized a Business Group
for the American Historical Association’s National Coordinating
Committee for the Promotion of History. Later, in
1980, he helped found the National Council on Public
History, serving as a director, secretary, and treasurer as
well as an editorial board member of its journal, The Public
Historian. He also coedited The Craft of Public History
(Greenwood Press, 1983) with the Department of State’s
Historian, David Trask and, as a member of the Organization
of American Historians’ Committee on Public
History, wrote Educating Historians for Business: A Guide for
Departments of History.
Subsequently, Pomeroy has written, published, and
distributed over 370,000 copies of 29 Serenus Press
publications, contributed numerous articles to
educational journals, served on five college advisory
boards, and addressed students on topics concerning
history and careers at numerous U.S. colleges, two
government-sponsored Brazilian business forums, and
the first French symposium on enterprise-based history.
Having moved from Maine to California, he looks forward
to promoting the study and uses of history by way of free
distribution of material from this website. |
