David Jolly Papers 1945-1966

Melville J. Herskovits library of African studies

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Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.). Library. African Department

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Jolly, David, 1913-1980

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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...

Herskovits, Melville J. (Melville Jean), 1895-1963

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Pioneer anthropologist and Africanist; Professor of Sociology (1927-38) and of Anthropology (1938-61), Northwestern University. From 1961 through 1963, held Northwestern's Chair of African Studies, the first such position in the United States. From the description of Melville Herskovits Papers, 1906-1963. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 80577063 Anthropologist; Africanist; founder of the first African Studies program in the United States. Melville J. ...