Solon Toothaker Kimball
Academic
1909 – 1982
Who was Solon Toothaker Kimball?
Solon Toothaker Kimball was a noted educator and anthropologist. Kimball was born and raised in Manhattan, Kansas. He graduated from Kansas State University in 1930, then received a masters degree and Ph.D in social anthropology from Harvard in 1933 and 1936.
Kimball did groundbreaking anthropology work concerning family and community in rural Ireland and on the Navajo reservation in the American Southwest. Over the years, he was on the faculty of a number of universities, including the University of California, Columbia University, the University of Alabama, and the University of Florida. While in Alabama in the 1950s, Kimball studied social tension arising from racial segregation and found himself labelled an "academic radical."
Kimball was a founding member of the Society for Applied Anthropology, president of the American Ethnological Society, and he was instrumental in the establishment in 1978 of the Zora Neal Hurston Fellowship Award Fund, which honors outstanding African-American graduates in the field of anthropology. Kimball was rewarded for his work with a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1966.
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- Born
- Aug 12, 1909
Manhattan - Nationality
- United States of America
- Education
- Harvard University
- Kansas State University
- Employment
- University of California, Berkeley
- University of Florida
- University of Alabama
- Columbia University
- Lived in
- Manhattan
- Died
- Oct 12, 1982
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on July 23, 2013
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