Small, Albion Woodbury, 1854-1926.
Albion W. Small papers, 1904-1924.
Correspondence; syllabi drafts and lecture notes for some of Small's sociology courses; notes and drafts for books; and research and reading notes. The letters concern the International Congress of Arts and Science at the Universal Exposition at St. Louis in 1904, of which Small was the vice president; and his duties as dean of the Graduate School of Arts, Literature and Science at the University of Chicago.
Educated at Colby College, then Colby University, (B.A., 1876), Newton Theological Institution, the Universities of Berlin and Leipzig, and Johns Hopkins University (Ph.D., 1889). He taught history and political economy at Colby from 1881 to 1888, becoming president of that institution in 1889. From 1892 to 1925, he was Professor and Head of the Department of Sociology at the University of Chicago, the first department of its kind, and was also Dean of the Graduate School of Arts, Literature and Science from 1904 to 1923. He was vice-president of the Congress of Arts and Sciences at the Universal Exposition at St. Louis in 1904, president of the American Sociological Society (1912-14), a founder of the American Journal of Sociology, and its editor from 1895 to 1926.
Small, Albion Woodbury, 1854-1926.
Congress of Arts and Science (1904: Saint Louis, Mo.).
Sociology -- Study and teaching.
Universities and colleges -- United States -- Illinois.
Drafts (documents). aat
Lecture notes. aat
Notes. aat
Syllabi. aat
University of Chicago. Graduate School of Arts, Literature and Science at the University of Chicago -- Administration.
International Congress of Arts and Science (1904: Saint Louis, Mo.).
International Exhibition (1904: Saint Louis, Mo.)
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