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Julian Haynes Steward (1902-1972) was professor of anthropology (1952-72) and acting head of the Department of Anthropology (1959-60) at the University of Illinois Urban-Champaign (UIUC). He was highly influential in the twentieth-century field of anthropology, known for establishing the cultural ecology paradigm as well as for developing a scientific theory of culture change.
Steward was born in Washington, DC, in 1902. He earned a bachelor's degree in zoology and geology in 1925 before earning a master's degree (1926) and a doctorate in anthropology from the University of California, Berkeley (1929). His research interests centered on subsistence, the dynamic interaction of man, environment, technology, social structure, and the organization of work. He coined the term
Steward was the recipient of the Viking Fund Medal from the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research in 1952. He died on February 6, 1972, in Urbana, Illinois.
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Papers of Julian Haynes Steward (1902-72), professor of anthropology (1952-72), including correspondence, reports, manuscripts, reviews, publications, government documents, minutes, newsletters, directories, conference programs, research proposals and applications, student records and evaluations, lecture notes, diaries, field notes, drawings, maps, charts and photographs concerning personal, business and professional activities of faculty, friends and family; foundations and academic organizations supporting anthropological fieldwork in North and South America, Africa, Europe and Asia; petroglyphs; cultural ecology and evolution; human ecology; cultural anthropology theory; multilinear evolution; ethnography; indigenous religions; cross cultural regularities; North and South American indigenous cultures; Ute, Paiute Carrier and Shoshone peoples; Southwestern United States archaeology and ethnology; Utah, Great Basin; Puerto Rico; travels and teaching in Japan as Director of the Kyoto American Studies Seminar (1956-57); world trip (1957-58); Indian claims commission hearings (ca. 1950-55) and the Bureau of Indian Affairs (1936-37); American Association for the Advancement of Science; Telluride Association; teaching and supervision of graduate and field research in University of Illinois Sociology and Anthropology Departments (1952-69) and faculty positions at the Universities of Michigan (1928-30), Utah (1930-33), California at Berkeley (1933-34) and Columbia (1946-52) and as Associate Anthropologist in the Bureau of American Ethnology of the Smithsonian Institution (1935-46). Correspondents include Ralph L. Beals, Robert F. Heizer, Alfred Kroeber, Margaret Mead, George P. Murdock, Leslie White, Gordon K. Willey, Eric Wolf and Emma Schroeder (genealogy and sailing journals).