Ernestine friedl biography sample
From New York to Vasilika: Ernestine Friedl, an Accidental Feminist in a Greek Village
Peter S. Allen
Rhode Island College
2023
Allen, Peter S., 2023. “From New York to Vasilika: Ernestine Friedl, an Accidental Feminist in a Greek Village”, in Bérose - Encyclopédie internationale des histoires de l'anthropologie, Paris.
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Résumé : Le présent article est un compte rendu détaillé de la vie et de l’œuvre d’Ernestine Friedl (1920-2014) en tant qu’anthropologue professionnelle, enseignante et administratrice d’université. Née en Hongrie, elle a immigré à New York et s’est installée dans le Bronx. Sa carrière universitaire a débuté avec l’obtention de son diplôme au Hunter College et de son doctorat à l’université Columbia sur les Indiens Chippewa étudiés dans leur réserve du Wisconsin. Friedl a ensuite enseigné au Queens College de l’université de l’État de New York pendant plus de 20 ans avant de devenir présidente du département d’anthropologie de l’université Duke en 1973. Entre-temps, elle avait accompagné son mari, l’helléniste Harry Levy, en Grèce où elle mena des recherches sur le terrain dans un petit village qui aboutirent à sa monographie, Vasilika : A Village in Modern Greece (1967), ouvrage pionnier de l’ethnographie européenne. Elle a été la première anthropologue étatsunienne à accomplir une enquête ethnographique de terrain moderne - voire novatrice - en Grèce, qui dépasse les études folkloriques, et l’une des premières à le faire dans une société européenne. L’article souligne la place particulière de Friedl dans l’histoire plus large de la recherche anthropologique sur l’Europe, tout en se concentrant sur le féminisme et la discrimination dans son milieu aca [Updated] The memorial service for Ernestine Friedl, an internationally known anthropologist and first female dean of Trinity College of Arts & Sciences, will be held at 3 p.m. Friday, Oct. 23, in Baldwin Auditorium. A reception will follow in the Friedl Building, the East Campus humanities facility named after her. Friedl died Oct. 12 at The Cedars in Chapel Hill. She was 95. Her deanship was significant as a new structure at Duke, combining the deanship of students in Trinity College with the deanship of the faculty of Arts & Sciences, which were previously separate positions. As dean of Trinity College of Arts &Sciences, Friedl added faculty and supported promising departments and units, such as the Primate Center, the Marine Lab, and the Art Museum. She launched initiatives to hire senior women and black faculty, to improve advising and teaching, and to make study abroad more feasible. During her tenure as dean, the Women's Studies Program at Duke was established. In 2008, the building that housed the art museum on East Campus was renovated as a center of learning for the humanities and social sciences and named after her. The Friedl Building now houses the departments of African & African American Studies and Cultural Anthropology, Literature and other humanities programs. "Her legacy is all around us," said Duke President Richard H. Brodhead at the building’s reopening. He hailed Friedl for being an "innovative scholar, breaking intellectual and disciplinary boundaries," a "builder of great faculty" and a "person of ever-young spirit, with a warmth and humanity that endears her to all." Ernestine Friedl, front right, at a reception earlier this month at the Department of Cultural Anthropology. Born in Hungary, Friedl emigrated to the United States when she was two. She developed her interest in anthropology while an undergraduate student at Hunter College. .She received her Ph.D. at Columbia in 1950, writing her Researchers must register and agree to copyright and privacy laws before using this collection. In off-site storage; 48 hours advance notice is required for use. For a period of twenty-five years from the origin of the material, permission in writing from the office of origin and the University Archivist is required for use. After twenty-five years, records that have been processed may be consulted with the permission of the University Archivist. Records, such as search committee files or others pertaining to employment where individuals are identified, are closed for 70 years. In accordance with the Family Education Rights and Privacy Act of 1974 as amended, Duke University permits students to inspect their education records and limits the disclosure of personally identifiable information from education records. Unprocessed materials are closed pending processing. Copyright for Official University records is held by Duke University; all other copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law. [Identification of item], Ernestine Friedl Papers, Duke University Archives, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University. . Ernestine Friedl papers, circa 1950 - 2000
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