Davis, Allison, 1902-1983
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Name (Latin)
Davis, Allison, 1902-1983
Other forms of name
Davis, W. Allison, 1902-1983
Davis, William Boyd Allison, 1902-1983
Davis, A. (Allison), 1902-1983
Davis, W. Allison (William Allison), 1902-1983
Davis, William Allison, 1902-1983
Davis, William Allison, 1902-
Davis, Allison, 1902-
Date of birth
1902-10-14
Date of death
1983-11-21
Occupation
Educators
Psychologists
social anthropologist
Gender
female
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Sources of Information
- Allison Davis (1902-1983), Professor of Education; A.M. in English and Comparative Literature 1925, Harvard University; Instructor in English at Hampton Institute, Virginia, 1925-1931; returned to Harvard in 1931 to study social anthropology and its application to contemporary society under W. Lloyd Warner; earned a Julius Rosenwald Fellowship for Foreign Study at the London School of Economics, took part in seminars of Bronislaw Malinowski and Launcelot Hogben in anthropology and Julian Huxley in evolutionary biology 1932-1933; upon return to the U.S., he began research in the deep South 1933-1935, through the auspices of Rockefeller Fellowships for Field Work and the Committee of Industrial Physiology at Harvard; joined in the field by his wife, Elizabeth Stubbs Davis, and later by [former student] St. Clair Drake; the resulting text, Deep South, was published by the University of Chicago Press in 1941 and is now considered a classic; in 1935 Davis accepted a position at the anthropology department, Dillard University, New Orleans, where he became Head of the Division of Social Studies; director of research (1938-1939) for a project sponsored by the American Youth Commission of the American Council on Education, on psychological and personality development of urban black adolescents in New Orleans and Natchez; followed his Harvard mentor Lloyd Warner to the University of Chicago in 1939, Ph.D. in anthropology 1942; staff member of the American Council on Education's Division on Child Development and Teacher Personnel, 1940-1942; appointed to the University of Chicago's Department of Education, with financial intervention of the Julius Rosenwald Fund, the first African American to hold full faculty status with teaching duties in an American university which was not traditionally all black; achieved tenure in 1947 and full professorship in 1948; remained there through the rest of his career, retiring in 1978 as Professor Emeritus ( (The University of Chicago Library, Guide to the Allison Davis Papers 1932-1984, 2009, viewed online October 18, 2024) )
- Wikipedia, October 18, 2024(Allison Davis (anthropologist); William Boyd Allison Davis; the second African American to hold a full faculty position at a major white university when he joined the staff of the University of Chicago in 1942; graduated from Washington D.C.'s segregated Dunbar High School in 1916, valedictorian like his father before him; graduated from Williams College in 1924 as valedictorian, summa cum laude, degree in English, and member of Phi Beta Kappa; entered Harvard University in 1924 on a scholarship, earned master's degree in literature a year later; began teaching at the Hampton Institute in fall 1925, taught there until 1931; changed his academic focus from arts to social sciences; returned to Harvard in fall 1931 for M.A. in anthropology; earned a PhD in anthropology from the University of Chicago, where he was offered a full teaching position; died in Chicago at age 81)
- His Children of bondage, 1940.
- Marquis who's who on the Web, June 16, 2008(Allison Davis, social anthropologist, psychologist, educator; b. Washington, Oct. 14, 1902; Ph.D., Univ. of Chicago, 1942; d. Nov. 21, 1983)
- OCLC, June 16, 2008(hdg.: Davis, Allison, 1902- ; usage: Allison Davis; W. Allison Davis; A. Davis; William Allison Davis)