Teaching materials
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Asch, Timothy, 1932-1994
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content: Timothy Asch papers
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 10 Linear feet
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1964-1993
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.1996-16, Series 3
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: This series was sorted by institution or subject and then arranged alphabetically.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: This series documents Asch's teaching career through class projects, course information, lecture notes, and student papers. Some of these materials relate to Asch's film projects.

Asch's academic career was varied. Asch's first position was as a Visiting Assistant Professor at New York University from 1968 to 1970. He also worked at Brandeis University (1969-1973) and at Harvard University (1974-1976). He relocated to Australia in 1976 where he served as a Senior Research Fellow at the Australian National University (1976-1981) and as a Visiting Research Scholar at Macquarie University (1982). Asch returned to the United States in 1982 when he accepted a position at the University of Southern California. In addition, Asch served as an ethnographic film consultant for Harvard University's Peabody Museum (1959-1962). He participated in ethnographic studies and the Bushmen Social Studies Curriculum Project (initially Educational Services, Inc., later called Educational Development Center) as a curriculum consultant (1965-1966). From 1966 to 1968, he served as an Anthropology Curriculum and Media Consultant to the Newton Public Schools. Asch was also Director and Co-Founder of Documentary Educational Resources, a non-profit curriculum development corporation distributing educational media.