Dorothy M. Spencer

Dorothy M. Spencer
Fellow: Awarded 1941
Field of Study: Anthropology and Cultural Studies
Fellow: Awarded 1945
Field of Study: Anthropology and Cultural Studies
Competition: US & Canada
University of Pennsylvania
As published in the Foundation’s Report for 1941–42:
SPENCER, DOROTHY MARY: Appointed for studies of the MundÄrÄ«-speaking people in the Chota Nagpur plateau, Bihar, India; tenure, twelve months from June 1, 1941.
Born June 16, 1907, Chester, Pennsylvania. Education: University of Wisconsin, A.B., 1930; University of Pennsylvania, M.A., 1933, Ph.D., 1937.
Lecturer in Anthropology, 1938–40, University of Pennsylvania.
Publications: Articles in American Anthropologist, Sociometry, Asia. Contributor to Twenty-fifth Anniversary Studies, Philadelphia Anthropological Society, 1937; Volume Library, 1939.