| Melville J. Herskovits AKA Melville Jean Herskovits Born: 10-Sep-1895
Birthplace: Bellefontaine, OH
Died: 25-Feb-1963
Location of death: Evanston, IL
Cause of death: unspecified
Gender: Male
Religion: Atheist
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Anthropologist Nationality: United States
Executive summary: The Myth of the Negro Past Military service: US Army (WWI; 1918-19) Father: Herman Herskovits
Mother: Henrietta Hart
Wife: Frances Shapiro (m. 12-Jul-1924, d. 1972)
Daughter: Jean Frances Herskovits (b. 1935)
High School: Erie High School, Erie, PA (1912)
University: University of Cincinnati
University: Hebrew Union College
University: University of Poitiers
University: PhB History, University of Chicago (1920)
University: MA Anthropology, Columbia University (1921)
University: PhD Anthropology, Columbia University (1923)
University: New School for Social Research
Lecturer: Columbia University (1924-27)
Professor: Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Howard University (1925)
Professor: Northwestern University (1927-63)
US Agriculture Department Forestry Service, Council on Human Relations (WWII)
Board of Economic Warfare Chief Consultant for African Affairs (WWII)
African Studies Association President
American Anthropological Association
American Association for the Advancement of Science
American Folklore Society
International Anthropology Congress
National Academy of Sciences (1959)
National Research Council Board of Biological Sciences (1923)
Royal Anthropological Institute Honorary Fellow
Royal Netherlands Geographical Society Honorary Fellow
Sigma Xi Scientific Research Society
Guggenheim Fellowship (1937-38)
Stroke 18-Jan-1963
Jewish Ancestry
Author of books:
Economic Transition in Africa (1964)
The Human Factor in Changing Africa (1962)
Continuity and Change in African Culture (1959)
The Myth of the Negro Past (1941)
Economic Life of Primitive People (1940)
The American Negro (1928)
The Cattle Complex in East Africa (1923, PhD dissertation)
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