Rodnick, David, 1908-

Born in New Haven, Connecticut, sociologist and anthropologist David Rodnick (1908-1980) earned a B. S. from New York University in 1930, an M.A. from Yale in 1933, and a Ph.D. at the University of Pennsylvania in 1936. Following World War II, he began cultural analysis of European countries and cultures including posts at the Office of Military Government in occupied Germany, the Paris office of Air University, the University of Oslo, Columbia University, and Princeton University. In the 1950s he became a professor at Inter-American University, San German, Puerto Rico, before moving to Iowa Wesleyan College and then Texas Technological University (1965-1975). Rodnick’s fieldwork also included study of the Assiniboin and Siksika Indians of Montana and historical research of La Bahía Mission in Victoria County, Texas, for the National Park Service. He collaborated with Dr. Ruth Benedict and Margaret Mead and authored many books including The Fort Belknap Assiniboine of Montana: A Study in Culture Change (1938), Postwar Germans, An Anthropologist’s Account (1948), The Norwegians; A Study In National Culture (1955), and The Strangled Democracy: Czechoslovakia, 1948-1969 (1970).

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“Rodnick, David.” Vertical Files, Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, University of Texas at Austin.

Born in New Haven, Connecticut, sociologist and anthropologist David Rodnick (1908-1980) earned a B. S. from New York University in 1930, an M.A. from Yale in 1933, and a Ph.D. at the University of Pennsylvania in 1936.

Following World War II, he began cultural analysis of European countries and cultures including posts at the Office of Military Government in occupied Germany, the Paris office of Air University, the University of Oslo, Columbia University, and Princeton University. In the 1950s he became a professor at Inter-American University, San German, Puerto Rico, before moving to Iowa Wesleyan College and then Texas Technological University (1965-1975). Rodnick's fieldwork also included study of the Assiniboin and Siksika Indians of Montana and historical research of La Bahía Mission in Victoria County, Texas, for the National Park Service. He collaborated with Dr. Ruth Benedict and Margaret Mead and authored many books including The Fort Belknap Assiniboine of Montana: A Study in Culture Change (1938), Postwar Germans, An Anthropologist's Account (1948), The Norwegians: A Study In National Culture (1955), and The Strangled Democracy: Czechoslovakia, 1948-1969 (1970).