Program of African Studies Records 1955-1991

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...

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...

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. ...

Paden, John N.

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