Gillin, John P. (John Philip), 1907-1973
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Gillin, John Philip, 1907-
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Born in Waterloo, Iowa on August 1, 1907, John P. Gillin was the son of the noted sociologist John Lewis Gillin. He was married to Helen Norgord. They had one son, John Christian Gillin. Gillin received B.A. and M.A. degrees from the University of Wisconsin (1927, 1930) and M.A. and PhD degrees from Harvard (1931,1934). Gillin was Dean of the Division of Social Sciences and Professor of Anthropology at the University of Pittsburgh. He arrived at the University in 1959 from the University of North Carolina, where he was research professor of anthropology. He had previously served on the faculties of Duke University, Ohio State University, Sarah Lawrence College and the University of Utah. He was also on the staff of the Peabody Museum at Harvard. He is credited as a founder of Pitt's Department of Anthropology and its PhD program, which, under his tutelage, became one of the nation's most distinguished. Gillin's research interest were in cultural anthropology with emphasis on Latin America. His fieldwork included studies in Algeria, New Mexico, British Guiana, Ecuador, Easter Peru, Utah, Guatemala, Colombia and Wisconsin. He is the author of numerous books and scholarly articles and was a member of the American Anthropological Association, Society for Applied Anthropology (president 1959-60), National Research Council and many others. He was a member of Phi Kappa Phi, Alpha Kappa Delta, Alpha Kappa Lambda, and Phi Beta Kappa (1966). He retired in 1972 and died in 1973.
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