Melford Spiro: Difference between revisions

Spiro received his B.A. from the [[University of Minnesota]] in 1942<ref>{{Cite web |title=Melford E. Spiro papers {{!}} Collection {{!}} search=null {{!}} SOVA |url=https://sova.si.edu/record/NAA.2015-04 |access-date=2022-08-21 |website=sova.si.edu}}</ref>, where he majored in philosophy,<ref name="D'Andrade 2015">{{cite journal |doi=10.1073/pnas.1500172112 |pmid=25675524 |pmc=4343101 |title=Melford E. Spiro, 1920–2014 |journal=Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences |volume=112 |issue=7 |pages=1915–1916 |year=2015 |last1=d'Andrade |first1=Roy G. |bibcode=2015PNAS..112.1915D |doi-access=free }}</ref> following which he studied at the [[Jewish Theological Seminary in New York City]]. Having developed an interest in culture theory, he explored this interest bythrough enrolling in the anthropology department at [[Northwestern University]], where he worked with [[Melville Herskovits]] and [[A. Irving Hallowell]], and received his PhD in 1950. He taught at [[Washington University]] (in St. Louis)]], [[University of Connecticut]], [[University of Washington]], and [[University of Chicago]] before moving In 1968 to the [[University of California, San Diego]] where he was inviteda tofounding foundmember of the anthropology department of anthropology. He received postgraduate training in psychoanalysis at the San Diego Psychoanalytic Center and practiced as a lay analyst,<ref name="D'Andrade 2015"/> additionally overseeing a course series at UCSD that exposed graduate students in anthropology to psychiatric training.