thesis_year death_date birth_place nationality fields workplaces birth_date known_for image article_title name alma_mater
1899 1953 ionia , michigan united states economics , sociology , anthropology university of minnesota nov 28 , 1869 identification of minnesota woman albert_jenks_portrait . jpg albert jenks
 albert jenks university of wisconsin-madison -lrb- phd in economics -rrb-
albert jenks

albert ernest jenks -lrb- 1869-1953 -rrb- was an american anthropologist and a professor at the university of minnesota .
he was known for his work in historical anthropological studies on rice cultivation , the development of hominids , and his identification of the skeletal remains of minnesota woman , 8,000-year old human remains found near pelican rapids , minnesota .
he joined the united states bureau of ethnology in 1901 and served in the u.s. colonial government of the philippines from 1902 to 1905 .
in this capacity , he was involved in the exhibition of bontoc igorot people at the 1904 louisiana universal exposition in st. louis -lrb- st. louis world 's fair -rrb- .
the collection of bontoc objects that he assembled for the exposition was purchased by the american museum of natural history in new york .
he joined the faculty of the university of minnesota in 1906 as a member of the department of sociology .
he was promoted to full professor in 1907 and served as chair of the sociology department from 1915 until 1918 .
in 1918 , he was a founder of the department of anthropology at the university of minnesota and he served as the chair of that department until his retirement in 1936 .
