Margaret Mead

I chose to do Margaret Mead because Margaret is my grandma's name. I also chose her because her name was interesting.

Facts In Brief:
    Birth Place: Philadelphia, PA
    Born: December 16, 1901
    Death: November 15, 1978
    Parents: Edward Sherwood and Emily Fogg Mead

Margaret was the oldest of four children. Her father was a professor and her mother was a sociologist and an advocate of Woman's rights.

Margaret was an anthropologist and a successful author. She wrote forty-four book and more than 1,000 articles. Some of her books were: Attitudes Toward Authority, 1951; and Male and Female, 1949. Many of her book are now translated into many languages.

She graduated from Barnard College and majored in psychology. While she was at Barnard she got an interest in anthropology. She then got her Ph.D. from Colombia University in 1929. She also did some research on adolescent girls.

Margaret taught at many institutions, but her lost was at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. She served as president in the American Anthropological Association and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

She won twenty-eight honorary doctorates. She also won the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Her archives are now in the Library of Congress.

I think that she is a great woman that has a great impact on all Americans. She is now one of my role models now. Her work continues to contribute the understanding of people around the world around the world. She was one the leading American intellectuals of the 20th century.

Bibliography

1) Margaret Mead Biography, http://www.mead2001.org/Biography.htm,date of access - Thursday, March 29, 2001, and Author unknown.

2) Margaret Mead, http://www.cas.usf.edu/anthropology/women/mead/margaret_mead.htm, date of access - Thursday, March 29, 2001, author - Andrew Whiteford

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By: Kayla L.