doctoral_advisor death_place death_date influenced birth_place influences religion nationality field work_institutions birth_date spouse doctoral_students known_for article_title name alma_mater
franz boas evanston , illinois 25 february 1963 ruth benedict , margaret mead , elsie clews parsons bellefontaine , ohio thorstein veblen , franz boas jewish united states anthropologist northwestern university 10 september 1895 frances shapiro william bascom african-american studies melville j. herskovits
 melville j. herskovits university of chicago , columbia university
melville j. herskovits

melville jean herskovits -lrb- september 10 , 1895 -- february 25 , 1963 -rrb- was an american anthropologist who firmly established african and african-american studies in american academia .
