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Carol B. Roskey
A nationally recognized expert on housing, Dr. Carol Roskey has spent 40 years studying its every facet. While a faculty member at Cornell, she wrote the well known Prentice Hall textbook Housing. ...view moreA nationally recognized expert on housing, Dr. Carol Roskey has spent 40 years studying its every facet. While a faculty member at Cornell, she wrote the well known Prentice Hall textbook Housing. She was also a LEGIS Fellow with the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, and a senior economist with the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Widely sought as a consultant, her work has taken her to a number of other countries, including India, Saudi Arabia, and Norway, to name a few. Dr. Roskey has published scores of articles and papers on everything from electrical wiring in homes to insulation to mortgages, and served as an officer in or a consultant to numerous professional organizations, including the National Association of Home Builders, the Manufactured Housing Institute, MIT’s Center for Real Estate Development, and the National Association of Building Sciences. Dr. Roskey is a Past President of the American Association of Housing Educators. She has taught at Cornell and the University of Georgia, and was Dean of the College of Family and Consumer Sciences at Iowa State University.view less