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First Recipients of Anthropological Doctorates in the United States, 1891‐1930
Author(s) -
Bernstein Jay H.
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
american anthropologist
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.51
H-Index - 85
eISSN - 1548-1433
pISSN - 0002-7294
DOI - 10.1525/aa.2002.104.2.551
Subject(s) - professionalization , applied anthropology , anthropology , sociology , four field approach , history of anthropology , sociocultural anthropology , graduate education , digital anthropology , field (mathematics) , graduate students , anthropology of art , social science , history , pedagogy , mathematics , contemporary art , performance art , pure mathematics , art history
This article seeks to show the origins of the professionalization of anthropology by examining early doctoral dissertations in this field and their authors. The bibliography consists of citations with biographical details of the authors, when known, of doctoral dissertations in anthropology from United States educational institutions up to 1930. One hundred twenty‐four citations are given all, representing 18 institutions. Forty‐one of the dissertations were not written for degrees in anthropology. Besides documenting existence of anthropological work outside recognized graduate programs of anthropology, the bibliography provides a demographic profile of anthropology and shows the distribution of subdiscipline concentrations and regional foci, as well as patterns in the professional domination of anthropology by graduates of various programs and in the publication of doctoral research. [Keywords: dissertations, anthropology—history, anthropology—bibliography, scholarly communication, graduate education]