Institute of Current World Affairs

Headquarters in Hanover, New Hampshire.

Dr. Eyler Newton Simpson, a University of Texas alumnus (B.A. 1921), worked in Mexico 1927-1928 as a field representative for the Institute of Current World Affairs. The mission of ICWA, which was founded in 1926, is the observation and study of foreign areas of contemporary significance. In the late 1920's, Dr. Simpson was expected to acquire an understanding of the social, religious, racial, political, economic and other forces operating in Mexico, to make a series of orientation studies covering those forces, and to cultivate relationships with people who commanded influence in and knowledge of Mexico.

Dr. Eyler Newton Simpson, a University of Texas alumnus (B.A. 1921), worked in Mexico 1927-1928 as a field representative for the Institute of Current World Affairs. The mission of ICWA, which was founded in 1926, is the observation and study of foreign areas of contemporary significance. In the late 1920s, Dr. Simpson was expected to acquire an understanding of the social, religious, racial, political, economic and other forces operating in Mexico; to make, as rapidly as possible, a series of orientation studies covering those forces; and to cultivate relationships with people who commanded influence in and knowledge of Mexico.