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Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

  • MS-13-86
  • Fonds
  • 1837-2020, predominant 1904-2008

Fonds contains records created and collected primarily by Alexander H. Leighton, with some by Jane Leighton Murphy. Documents span from Leighton's studies at Princeton, Cambridge, and Johns Hopkins univerities, through his government employment in World War II, and his teaching career at Cornell, Dalhousie, and Harvard. The majority of records are related to the 1961 Cornell-Aro Mental Health Research Project and the 1963 Study on the Role of Women, both based in Nigeria, and the Stirling County Study, based in Nova Scotia. Record types include correspondence, manuscripts, grant applications, reports, photographs and slides, medical and academic records, method and guidebooks, reviews, offprints and publications, teaching and course materials, and surveys and interview transcripts.

A sous-fonds contains records documenting the migration of Alexander Leighton's parents from Ireland to the United States and their subsequent life in Philadelphia. The sous-fonds contains extensive correspondence between extended family members over the course of a century, as well as photographs, diaries, wills, family trees, memoirs, and Alexander Leighton's personal correspondence.

Murphy, Jane Leighton

AquaNet

Series consists of records created and collected by Richard Apostle in the course of his aquaculture research conducted under the auspices of AquaNet: Network of Centres of Excellence in Aquaculture, which was an NSERC-funded grant of 10.9 million dollars for which Richard Apostle was a co-investigator through the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. The two projects on which he worked were “The Institutional and Social Structure of Aquaculture: A Comparative Study,” with Gene Barrett and John Phyne, and “The Social Construction of Environmental Risk and Benefits: Risk to Whom? Benefits to Whom?”, with Ralph Matthews, Susan Elliot, Brian Elliot and John Phyne.

Record types in this series include grant-related correspondence, applications, budgets and reports; research correspondence; presentations and papers in manuscript and published form; and secondary research materials.

AquaNet network proposal

Item is a bound NCE funding proposal dated October 4, 1999 with Pamela White's name and telephone numbers written on the inside cover.

Benue valley research project

File consists of handwritten notes and typed official guidelines for the Benue Valley Research Project of which James Morrison was a Junior Assistant. The project focused on retrieving cultural and religious histories, and economic data.

Community, State and Market on the North Atlantic Rim

Series comprises created and collected by Richard Apostle in the course of his study of the crisis in the fishing industries in Northern Norway and Atlantic Canada, which was funded by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and resulted in the publication of Richard Apostle et al., Community, State and Market on the North Atlantic Rim: Challenges to Modernity in the Fisheries. Record types include grant applications, reports and correspondence; publishing and editorial correspondence; secondary research materials; taped research interviews; manuscripts; and a copy of the published book.

Fejos, Paul

File contains correspondence with or about Paul Fejos. Also includes a proposal for "The value of photography in social research," and a program for the Conference on Medicine and Anthropology.

Ford Foundation proposal

File contains correspondence regarding grants from the Ford Foundation for collaborative study between Harvard and the University of Ibadan. Also includes "Proposal for a program of research in mental health and mental illness."

Fryer, E. R.

File contains correspondence with or about E. R. Fryer. Also contains a proposal for "A proposed training program for point four workers in the American southwest."

Institute of Ethnic Affairs

File contains correspondence with individuals in the Institute of Ethnic Affairs. Also includes meeting minutes, a newsletter, and an information pamphlet about the Institute. Also contains proposals for "The Institute for Racial Democracy" and "The Spanish Speaking People in the United States."

James H. Morrison fonds

  • MS-2-27
  • Fonds
  • 1918-1979, predominant 1970-1976
Fonds comprises records created and collected by James Morrison primarily documenting his oral history research of northern Nigerian communities between 1970-1976, including the Heipang, Riyom, Bachit, Ropp, Kuru and Irrigwe peoples. Record types include field notes; research notebooks; essays; manuscript drafts and a bound copy of Morrison's doctoral thesis; bibliographic files; correspondence; secondary published materials and reports; cassette recordings of oral interviews, speeches, singing and music; photographs related to the Jos Plateau; and a small number of maps.

Morrison, James H.

Mason, Edward A.

File contains correspondence with or about Edward A. Mason. Also contains the proposals "Some additional notes with regard to the proposal for filming community mental health in action," "A filmed example of a primary prevention program," "Proposal for filming community mental health in action," and a review titled "Navajo, the last red Indians."
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