Keywords: smithsonian institution smithsonianinstitution woman ethnology china sicily milocca cia anthropology smithsonian institution archives smithsonianinstitutionarchives women's history month womenshistorymonth women in science womeninscience 2011 academia government 20th century - mid 20thcenturymid monochrome people blackandwhite portrait black and white Creator: Moffett Studios Subject: Chapman, Charlotte Gower 1902-1982        United States Marine Corps        Lingnan University (Hong Kong, China)        United States Office of Strategic Services        United States Central Intelligence Agency Type: Black-and-White Prints Topic: Women anthropologists      Women scientists      Anthropology Local number: SIA Acc. 90-105 [SIA-SIA2008-2015] Summary: Charlotte Gower Chapman (1902-1982), an ethnologist and author of Milocca: A Sicilian Village, was teaching at Lingnan University in China when the United States entered World War II; she was taken prisoner by the Japanese and repatriated in 1942. Chapman then joined the Marine Corps, was assigned to the Office of Strategic Services, and, in 1947, became a Central Intelligence Agency employee, working there until her retirement in 1964. This public relations photograph, distributed by the University of Chicago, where Chapman earned a Ph.D. in anthropology in 1928, was captioned "Miss Charlotte Gower studies Sicilians in their native hills, in Chicago's Little Italy, in agricultural settlements in the south." The book based on her fieldwork had been completed in 1935 but was not published until 1971. Cite as: Acc. 90-105 - Science Service, Records, 1920s-1970s, Smithsonian Institution Archives Persistent URL:Link to data base record Repository:Smithsonian Institution Archives View more collections from the Smithsonian Institution. Creator: Moffett Studios Subject: Chapman, Charlotte Gower 1902-1982 United States Marine Corps Lingnan University (Hong Kong, China) United States Office of Strategic Services United States Central Intelligence Agency Type: Black-and-White Prints Topic: Women anthropologists Women scientists Anthropology Local number: SIA Acc. 90-105 [SIA-SIA2008-2015] Summary: Charlotte Gower Chapman (1902-1982), an ethnologist and author of Milocca: A Sicilian Village, was teaching at Lingnan University in China when the United States entered World War II; she was taken prisoner by the Japanese and repatriated in 1942. Chapman then joined the Marine Corps, was assigned to the Office of Strategic Services, and, in 1947, became a Central Intelligence Agency employee, working there until her retirement in 1964. This public relations photograph, distributed by the University of Chicago, where Chapman earned a Ph.D. in anthropology in 1928, was captioned "Miss Charlotte Gower studies Sicilians in their native hills, in Chicago's Little Italy, in agricultural settlements in the south." The book based on her fieldwork had been completed in 1935 but was not published until 1971. Cite as: Acc. 90-105 - Science Service, Records, 1920s-1970s, Smithsonian Institution Archives Persistent URL:Link to data base record Repository:Smithsonian Institution Archives View more collections from the Smithsonian Institution. |