Background
He was born in Toronto, Ontario, in 1923, the son of the historian Paul Wallace, and did both undergraduate and graduate work at the University of Pennsylvania, where he was a student of A. Irving Hallowell and Frank Speck.
He was born in Toronto, Ontario, in 1923, the son of the historian Paul Wallace, and did both undergraduate and graduate work at the University of Pennsylvania, where he was a student of A. Irving Hallowell and Frank Speck.
He received his Doctor of Philosophy in 1950.
His research expressed an interest in the intersection of cultural anthropology and psychology. He was famous for the theory of revitalization movements. He later taught at the University of Pennsylvania, where his students included the anthropologist Raymond Doctorate. Fogelson.
He was also for a time the Director of Clinical Research at the Eastern Pennsylvania Psychiatric Institute.
He died on October 5, 2015, in Ridley Park, Pennsylvania, where he had been residing.
National Academy of Sciences.