Hoffman, Bernard G.

Steward of Die Design at the Briggs Manufacturing Company between 1940-1967. Member of the Briggs Joint Apprenticeship Committee and Chrysler's Joint Apprenticeship Committee. Secretary and chairman of the Chrysler's Automotive Body Division Union.

Bernard G. Hoffman earned a B.A. in 1946 from the University of Montana and a Ph.D. in 1955 from the University of California at Berkeley. He worked in 1955 and 1956 as a research analyst with the United States Department of Justice Indian Claims Section, in 1957-1958 as a research associate of the American University Foreign Area Study Division, in 1958-1964 as a research analyst for the National Science Foundation Foreign Service Information Program, and in 1964-1965 as head of the National Science Foundation's Course Content Improvement Program. In 1965 he joined the faculty of the Department of Anthropology at the University of Maryland at College Park, specializing in eastern American Indians from Appalachia to eastern Canada.

Bernard G. Hoffman earned a B.A. in 1946 from The University of Montana-Missoula and a Ph.D. in 1955 from the University of California at Berkeley. While he was a graduate student, Hoffman returned to Montana to join the archeological survey of the Canyon Ferry dam site under the supervision of Professor Carling Malouf. In 1955-1956, Hoffman was a research analyst with the U.S. Dept. of Justice Indian Claims Section; 1957-1958, research associate of the American University Foreign Area Study Division; 1958-1964, research analyst for the National Science Foundation Foreign Service Information Program; and 1964-1965, head of the National Science Foundation's Course Content Improvement Program. In 1965, he joined the faculty of the Dept. of Anthropology at the University of Maryland at College Park. His specialty was eastern American Indians from Appalachia to eastern Canada. Hoffman published three books: Cabot to Cartier; sources for a Historical Ethnography of Northeastern North America, 1497-1955 (in 1961), Observations on Certain Ancient Tribes of the Northern Appalachian Province (in 1964), and The Structure of Traditional Moroccan Rural Society (in 1967). In 1988 he retired to Chantilly, Va.