Mowrer, Ernest R. (Ernest Russell), 1895-1983

Ernest Russell Mowrer was born in Lost Springs, Kansas, on August 18, 1895. He received his B.A. (journalism) in 1918 from the University of Kansas and his M.A. (1921) and Ph.D. (1924) from the University of Chicago, both in sociology. Mowrer joined the faculty of NU in 1928, where he remained until his retirement in 1963. During his career he developed a scientific method for role theory in studying the interaction of members of a family and deviant behavior. Mowrer died in 1984.

In 1922-23 Mowrer was an assistant professor of sociology at Coe College and in 1923-24 he held the same position at Ohio Wesleyan University. After two years (1926-28) as a Wieboldt Foundation Research Fellow, Mowrer joined the Northwestern faculty in the fall of 1928 as an assistant professor of sociology. Northwestern promoted him to the rank of associate professor in 1933 and to full professor in 1943. Mowrer three times served as a visiting professor: at Michigan State University during the summer of 1940, at the University of Chicago during the spring of 1948, and at the University of Arizona in the spring of 1964. He retired from Northwestern in 1963 and was named professor emeritus.

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