Royce A. Singleton, Jr. (Ph.D., Indiana University) is an American sociologist specializing in social psychology and research methodology who held teaching positions at the University of California, Riverside, and the College of the Holy Cross. His writing credits include numerous publications on topics ranging from racial oppression to grade inflation to alcohol consumption and academic performance. Although most of his articles have appeared in academic journals, he also has written for broader readerships. This includes multiple editions of two co-authored textbooks on methods of social research, published by Oxford University Press, articles in the Holy Cross alumni/ae magazine, an article in Change: The Magazine for Higher Learning, several book reviews, and a few op-eds. At Home and At Sea, about his parents’ experience during World War II, is his first trade book. Besides drawing on his intimate knowledge of his parents to tell this story, he uses his sociological lens to identify influences on their lives and to compare the social conditions of World War II with those of the present day.