Major Events in the Life and Career of Edward T. Hall |
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| 1914 | Born in Webster Groves, Missouri |
| 1918-32 | Grew up, mostly in New Mexico |
| 1933-37 | Worked on Navajo and Hopi reservations in the U.S. Southwest |
| 1936 | Earned B.A. in Anthropology from the University of Denver |
| 1938 | Earned M.A. in Anthropology from the University of Arizona |
| 1942 | Earned Ph.D. in Anthropology from Columbia University |
| 1942-45 | Served in WWII, commanding an African American regiment in Europe and the Philippines |
| 1946 | Married Mildred Ellis Reed |
| 1946 | Post-doctoral study in Sociology/Cultural Anthropology at Columbia University; conducted research on the U.S. military government administration of Truk |
| 1946-48 | Chairman, Department of Anthropology, University of Denver; studied race relations in Denver |
| 1948-50 | Taught at Bennington College in Vermont with Erich Fromm |
| 1950-55 | Director of the Point IV Training Program at the Foreign Service Institute, Washington, D.C. |
| 1952-56 | Affiliated with the Washington School of Psychiatry, Washington, D.C. |
| 1955 | Publication of “The Anthropology of Manners” in the Scientific American |
| 1959 | Publication of The Silent Language |
| 1960-63 | Affiliated (again) with the Washington School of Psychiatry |
| 1963-67 | Professor of Anthropology, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago; conducted NIMH-funded research on proxemics and interethnic encounters |
| 1966 | Publication of The Hidden Dimension. |
| 1967-77 | Professor of Anthropology, Northwestern University, until his retirement in 1977; further NIMH funded research on proxemics and interethnic encounters |
| 1976 | Participated in the Conference on Intercultural Communication, International Christian University, Tokyo |
| 1976 | Publication of Beyond Culture |
| 1977 | Presented a paper at the International Communication Association Conference, Berlin (Hall, 1978) |
| 1977-2009 | Living in retirement in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Occasional lectures at SIETAR conferences and the Summer Institute of Intercultural Communication |
| 1994 | Mildred Ellis Reed died |
| 2004 | After 8 years of partnering, married Karin Bergh |
| 2009 | Edward T. Hall Died |
| Source: Rogers & Hart (1998); Original sources: Hall (1992, 1994), Hall’s 1979 Curriculum Vitae in Box 6, Folder 5 of the E.T. Hall Papers, Special Collections, University of Arizona Library. | |