Overview
These papers contain field notes from New Mexico and Texas where Simmons conducted research for his doctoral dissertation, "Anglo Americans and Mexican Americans in South Texas; a study in dominant-subordinate group relations" as a graduate student in sociology at Harvard University.
Dates
- Creation: 1947-1948
Conditions Governing Access
Restrictions on access: None
Conditions Governing Use
Restrictions on use: None
Extent
1.25 linear feetThese papers contain the field notes created through ethnographic interviews with project participants in the Anglo and Mexican communities of Gallop, New Mexico and San Antonio, Texas. All of the material was generated while Charlotte and Ozzie Simmons were in the field in 1947-1948 under Harvard University professors Clyde Kluckhohn and Talcott Parsons, working on what would become Ozzie's doctoral dissertation. ["Anglo Americans and Mexican Americans in South Texas; a study in dominant-subordinate group relations."]
Biographical Sketch:
Ozzie Gordon Simmons worked as a graduate student in sociology at Harvard under Clyde Kluckhohn and Talcott Parsons during 1947-1948. He conducted his field work in Gallop, New Mexico and San Antonio, Texas. Part of this field work was the basis for his doctoral dissertation, "Anglo Americans and Mexican Americans in South Texas; a study in dominant-subordinate group relations." [HU 1952]
- October 9, 1919 - born in Winnipeg, Manitoba
- 1941 - Graduated Northwestern University
- 1942 - married Charlotte Gertrude Sonenklar
- 1948 - MA, Harvard University
- 1949 -1952 - Field Director Peru, Institute of Social Anthropology, Smithsonian Institution
- 1952 - PhD, Harvard University
- 1953 - Consulting Anthropologist, Institute of Inter-American Affairs, Chile
- 1953-1961 - Associate Professor of Anthropology; Director of the Harvard Community Health Project, Harvard University
- 1961-1968 - Director of the Institute of Behavioral Science, University of Colorado
- 1962 - receives Hofheimer Prize, American Psychiatric Association for "outstanding creative research in human behavior"
- 1969 - Program Advisor for Latin America and the Caribbean, Ford Foundation
- 1971 - affiliate of the Fordham Hispanic Research Center, Fordham University
- 11/26/1988 - died of lung cancer in Westwood, NJ
Sources:
- "Obituaries". The New YorkTimes. 8/25/2009.http://www.nytimes.com/1988/11/29/obituaries/ozzie-g-simmons-69-sociology-researcher.html
Arrangement
The papers are arranged in one series: I. Field Notes - New Mexico and Texas, which contains four subseries:
- a. [Ozzie Simmons] Field notes 1947-1948
- b. Student field notes 1948
- c. Charlotte Simmons [field notes]1947-1948
- d. Life histories 1948
Physical Location
Peabody Museum Archives
Immediate Source of Acquisition
#999-15
These papers were donated to the Museum in June 1999 by Charlotte Simmons, Ozzie Gordon Simmons' wife.
General note
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Processed by:
Sarah R. Demb, Archivist; June 1999; edited by Patricia H. Kervick, Associate Archivist; August 2009
- Title
- Simmons, Ozzie Gordon, (1919-1988) Papers, 1947-1948: A Finding Aid
- Author
- Peabody Museum Archives
- Language of description
- und
- EAD ID
- pea00046
Repository Details
Part of the Peabody Museum Archives Repository
Papers in the Peabody Museum Archives consist of primary source materials that document the Museum’s archaeological and ethnographic research and fieldwork since its founding in 1866. More than 2,800 feet of archival paper collections contain documents, papers, manuscripts, correspondence, data, field notes, maps, plans, and other historical records that represent diverse peoples from around the world, and which were created or collected by the Museum, its individual affiliates, or related entities. The collections also document the history or provenience, as well as the creation of, many of the Museum’s archaeological and ethnographic collections.