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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

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.

Tyhurst, James S.

File contains correspondence with or about James S. Tyhurst. Also contains course materials, project outlines and proposals, curricula vitae, research notes, and meeting transcriptions.

Teaching materials

Series consists of course materials, proposals, and progress reports for various classes and lecture series. Also contains correspondence regarding these teaching sessions and miscellaneous lists and other planning materials.

Whyte, William Foote

File contains correspondence with or about William Foote Whyte. Also contains project and study summaries, Whyte's curriculum vitae, research reports, chapter manuscripts, research proposals, research plan outlines, and papers titled "Toward a new model for social research on health in Latin America" and "Developing the national survey for Peru: notes on planning discussion."

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.

Various manuscripts, reviews, proposals

File contains letters concerning the book "The Navaho Door" by Alexander Leighton and Dorothea Leighton, a 1945 copy of the New York Times Book Review covering Leighton's book "The Governing of Men," a bundle of abstracts from the American Philosophical Society's AGM in 1952, a bulletin on teaching English to the Navajo, and a proposal for a retirement commemoration conference for Alexander Leighton. Also includes some of Alexander Leighton's reports and articles: "Pilot study of cultural items in medical diagnosis," "Mental health in Canada: working toward a better future," "Cornell southwestern program: a summary report on five years 1948-1953," and "Interview with the editor of a small town paper."

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."

Personality tests and psychoneurotic screening

File contains preliminary research plans, a seminar report on psychological testing, a multiphase personality inventory, and an excerpt on psychoneurotic screening in the Army, all written or originating with M.L. Kohn (1928-2021), who may have been a graduate or post-doctoral student at Cornell, working under Alexander Leighton.

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."

Tyhurst, James S. (continued)

File contains correspondence with or about James S. Tyhurst. Also contains course materials, project outlines and proposals, curricula vitae, research notes, meeting transcriptions, case notes, and manuscripts.

Psychiatric evaluation procedure

File consists of a research proposal by Bruce Dohrenwend titled "Considerations which enter into the formulation of a research design for determining the effect of sociocultural factors on the psychiatric evaluation procedure."

Zubin, Joseph

File contains correspondence with or about Joseph Zubin. Also includes research proposals for "An international commission on field studies of incidence of mental disorders" and "A cross-cultural study of diagnosis of mental disorders in Scandinavia."

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."
Proposal for the establishment of an Atlantic Research Centre for researching intellectual disabi...

Proposal for the establishment of an Atlantic Research Centre for researching intellectual disability

Item consists of a funding and research proposal drafted by the Nova Scotia division of the C.A.R.C. (Canadian Association for Retarded Children), presented to the Government of Nova Scotia, in order to create an Atlantic Research Centre to aid in research into treating people with intellectual disabilities in the region.

McHarg, Ian L.

File contains correspondence with or about Ian L. McHarg. Also contains a proposal titled "Toward a center for health and social policy: applicable resources and possibilities at the University of Pennsylvania."
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