Gwendolen M. Carter, (1906-1990) Papers 1915-1991

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Gwendolen M. Carter, (1906-1990) Papers 1915-1991

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The Gwendolen M. Carter Papers chronicle Carter's career as a political scientist and Africanist from the 1930's through the 1970's (a small amount of earlier material is also included.) The bulk of the collection dates from approximately 1960 through approximately 1975. Carter's South African research interests and her activities as director of Northwestern University's Program of African Studies are especially well documented. The collection is divided into eight sections: Personal Papers; Administrative Files; South African Research Materials; Papers and Speeches; Research Files; Manuscript of ; Dissertation Research Materials; and Scrapbooks. National Unity and Regionalism in Eight African States

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Carter, Gwendolen Margaret, 1906-1991

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Professor of political science, Northwestern University. From the description of Gwendolen Margaret Carter interview summaries, 1973. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754869983 Gwendolen Carter, who once expressed her sole interest in life as "the world and all it contains," was born in Ontario in 1906. After obtaining her B.A. from the University of Toronto in 1929, she went on to obtain a master's degree at Oxford in 1935 and her Ph. D. at Radcliffe College in 1...

Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.). Program of African Studies

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Northwestern University's Program of African Studies, founded in 1948, was the first program on Africa in the nation and the first multidisciplinary program at Northwestern. Developed by anthropologist Melville J. Herskovits to train a corps of scholars maintaining African interests across disciplinary lines, the Program has grown to include core and associated faculty from such diverse disciplines as African-American studies, art history, history and literature of religions, law, management, me...