University of California , Berkeley
Erminie Wheeler-Voegelin went to which school from 1922 to 1930?
Erminie Wheeler-Voegelin Erminie Wheeler-Voegelin ( April 2 , 1903 – July 10 , 1988 ) was an anthropologist , folklorist , and ethnohistorian . Early life and education . Erminie was the child of Erminie Brooke Wheeler and Roscoe Wheeler , a mining engineer . She went to Technical High School in Oakland , California . She graduated from the University of California , Berkeley , in 1923 , and returned there after working for a newspaper in Florida , to pursue a masters degree in anthropology ( 1930 ) . Her masters thesis was entitled Mythological Elements common to the Kowa and Five Other Plains Tribes . Career . Her second marriage was to linguistic anthropologist Charles F . Voegelin , with whom she jointly conducted fieldwork among Native American peoples . In 1933 Eli Lilly , president of the prominent pharmaceutical company in Indiana , created a graduate fellowship at Yale University , to honor Native American history in southern Indiana . Charles Voegelin was the first recipient for the fellowship but it was then given to Erminie . The research she conducted during the fellowship inspired her dissertation . Fieldwork among the Tübatulabal people of northern California undertaken in 1933 led to her first book , Tübatulabal Ethnography , published by the University of California Press in 1941 . She holds the distinction of being the first woman to receive a doctoral degree in anthropology from Yale University when she received her degree in 1939 with a dissertation entitled Shawnee Mortuary Customs , published five years later by the Indiana Historical Society . In the 1940s , she worked in the upper Great Lakes conducting linguistic and ethnographic fieldwork among the Ottawas and Ojibwe living in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan . A specialist in Native American folklore , she founded the American Society for Ethnohistory in 1954 and was its first editor of the journal Ethnohistory until 1964 . Wheeler-Voegelin taught in anthropology , history , and folklore at Indiana University , Bloomington , beginning in the fall of 1943 . She received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1947 to pursue comparative studies of the folklore and mythology of American Indians and Eskimos . In 1948 , she became president of the American Folklore Society , and from 1949 to 1951 , she served as secretary for the American Anthropological Association . She edited the Journal of American Folklore from 1941 to 1946 . She was one of the original inductees into the Fellows of the American Folklore Society in 1960 . At Indiana University she also directed the Great Lakes-Ohio Valley Research Project from 1956 to 1969 , the date of her retirement . The research reports on tribes of the region are now housed as the Ohio Valley-Great Lakes Ethnohistory Archive in the Glenn A . Black Laboratory of Archaeology at Indiana University . Later life . Upon retirement , she moved to Great Falls , Virginia , to live with her daughter and son-in-law . In the fall of 1985 she gave her Shawnee field notes and remaining professional books and papers to the Newberry Library in Chicago . Wheeler-Voegelin died of cardiac arrest on July 10 , 1988 . Legacy . In 1982 , the American Society for Ethnohistory created its Erminie Wheeler-Voegelin Prize for best book-length work in the field of ethnohistory . Books . - Tubatulabal Ethnography , 1938 . Berkeley : University of California Press . - Shawnee Traditions : C.C . Trowbridges Account , 1939 , ( with Vernon Kinietz ) . Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press - Map of North American Indian Languages , 1941 , ( with C.F . Voegelin ) . American Ethnological Society . - Culture Element Distributions 20 : Northeast California , 1942 . Berkeley : University of California Press . - Mortuary Customs of the Shawnee and Other Eastern Tribes , 1944 . Indianapolis : Indiana Historical Society . WorldCat References . - Tanner , Helen Hornbeck . 1991 . Erminie Wheeler-Voegelin ( 1903-1988 ) , Founder of the American Society for Ethnohistory . Ethnohistory 38 ( 1991 ) : 58–72 . External links . - Erminie Wheeler-Voegelin Papers at the Newberry