page_title: Ashley Montagu
hierarchical_section_title: Ashley Montagu
caption_attribution_description: English: Portrait photograph of anthropologist Ashley Montagu Text of newspaper story reads in part as follows:Dr. M. F. Ashley Montagu, formerly professor of anthropology at Rutgers University, will be the featured speaker at the three-day Pacific Northwest Conference of Family Relations, which begins tomorrow in the Student Union Building at the University of Washington. … Dr. Montagu's keynote address on "Value Determinants and Conflicts in Today's Family" will be at 8 o'clock tomorrow night. His only public lecture, "The Nature of Human Nature," will be given at 8 o'clock Friday night in Meany Hall.
context_page_description: Montague Francis Ashley-Montagu — born Israel Ehrenberg — was a British-American anthropologist who popularized the study of topics such as race and gender and their relation to politics and development. He was the rapporteur, in 1950, for the UNESCO statement "The Race Question".
  As a young man he changed his name from Ehrenberg to "Montague Francis Ashley-Montagu". After relocating to the United States he used the name "Ashley Montagu".
  Montagu, who became a naturalized American citizen in 1940, taught and lectured at Harvard, Princeton, Rutgers, the University of California, Santa Barbara, and New York University. Forced out of his Rutgers position after the McCarthy hearings, he repositioned himself as a public intellectual in the 1950s and '60s, appearing regularly on television shows and writing for magazines and newspapers. He authored over 60 books throughout this lifetime. In 1995, the American Humanist Association named him the Humanist of the Year.
context_section_description: Montague Francis Ashley-Montagu (1905 – 1999) — born Israel Ehrenberg — was a British-American anthropologist who popularized the study of topics such as race and gender and their relation to politics and development. He was the rapporteur, in 1950, for the UNESCO statement "The Race Question". 
  As a young man he changed his name from Ehrenberg to "Montague Francis Ashley-Montagu".  After relocating to the United States he used the name "Ashley Montagu". 
  Montagu, who became a naturalized American citizen in 1940, taught and lectured at Harvard, Princeton, Rutgers, the University of California, Santa Barbara, and New York University. Forced out of his Rutgers position after the McCarthy hearings, he repositioned himself as a public intellectual in the 1950s and '60s, appearing regularly on television shows and writing for magazines and newspapers. He authored over 60 books throughout this lifetime. In 1995, the American Humanist Association named him the Humanist of the Year.
caption: Montagu in 1958
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