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Records of the Anthropology Department
Collection
Identifier: 11/3/2/4
Abstract
The Records of the Anthropology Department, filling five boxes, span the years 1964 to 1973. No records exist for the 1965-66 academic year. The bulk of the records fall between 1964 and 1969 and include, but are not limited to, annual reports, applications for graduate study or employment, budgets, correspondence, curriculum, department memos, faculty curriculum vitae, and materials relating to fellowships, the Program of African Studies, research proposals, and summer sessions.
Dates:
1964 - 1973; Other: Majority of material found within 1965 - 1969
Found in:
Northwestern University Archives
Melville J. Herskovits (1895-1963) Papers
Collection
Identifier: 35/6
Abstract
Anthropologist Melville Jean Herskovits presided over the creation of the department of anthropology at Northwestern University in 1938. In 1961, Northwestern appointed Herskovits to the Chair of African Studies, the first such position in the United States. The Melville J. Herskovits Papers document Herskovits' career during a period of very rapid growth of both anthropology and African studies. The bulk of the collection consists of professional correspondence and manuscripts of...
Dates:
1906-1963
Found in:
Northwestern University Archives
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