Fairleigh Dickinson University Faculty: Allen Cohen (Composer), Barbara Kellerman (Academic), Bino Realuyo, Bradford Graves, Charles E. Schaefer, Davi

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 26. Chapters: Allen Cohen (composer), Barbara Kellerman (academic), Bino Realuyo, Bradford Graves, Charles E. Schaefer, David M. Rosen, Ellen Akins, Gene Weltfish, George Klir, Herbert Gutman, J. Michael Adams, Joan Voss, Joseph Willard Roosevelt, Lloyd Ultan (historian), Margherita Marchione, Mordechai Rozanski, Nigel Forman, Nikolai Bezroukov, Pat Schuber, Paul Levinson, Raphael Patai, Rene Steinke, Richard Bronson, Robert Donaldson, Robert T. Francoeur, Tahesha Way, Tom Davis (journalist), Tosun Bayrak, Warren Boroson. Excerpt: Gene Weltfish (Born Regina Weltfish) (August 7, 1902 - August 2, 1980) was an American anthropologist and historian working at Columbia University from 1928 to 1953. She studied with Franz Boas and was a specialist in the culture and history of the Pawnee people. Her 1965 ethnography The Lost Universe is considered the authoritative work on Pawnee culture to this day. She is also known for the 1943 pamphlet for the U.S. Army called The Races of Mankind, which she co-wrote with Ruth Benedict, meant to teach military personnel about the cultural differences between the peoples of the world. In the text they argued that perceived differences between the races are cultural rather than biological. Among the data used in the text was an IQ study that had found higher scores among some northern Blacks than among some southern Whites. The pamphlet was not widely circulated within the army, and eventually it was banned as subversive. Weltfish was engaged in social activism and attracted the attention of the FBI which suspected her to be a communist. In 1952 and 1953 she was called in for questioning by two of the committees dedicated to investigating "un-American activity" during the 1950s red scare. Two weeks before appearing at the 1953 hearing in which she refused to answer questions from Roy Cohn and Joseph McCarthy as to whether she was a communist, her 16 year appointment at Columbia was terminated, and she was unable to find an academic position for nearly a decade. One of two daughters born into a German Jewish family in New York's Lower East Side, Gene Weltfish grew up speaking German as her first language, taught by a German governess hired by her grandfather. Her father, to whom she was very close, died when she was 13. Encouraged by her grandmother, she went to the synagogue to say the kaddish for him, an honor and responsibility traditionally reserved for a son. Without a father, the family was in a difficult economic situation. Because her father had died witho