Background
Beals, Carleton was born on November 13, 1893 in Medicine Lodge, Kansas, United States. Son of Leon Elverson and Elvina Sybilla (Blickensderfer) Beals.
Beals, Carleton was born on November 13, 1893 in Medicine Lodge, Kansas, United States. Son of Leon Elverson and Elvina Sybilla (Blickensderfer) Beals.
Bachelor of Arts cum laude, University of California, 1916. Master of Arts, Columbia, 1917. Postgraduate U. Madrid, 1920, U. Rome, 1922, U. Mexico, 1923.
Director, English Preparatory Institute, Mexico City, 1919. Principal American High School, Mexico City, 1919-1920. Instructor personal staff President Carranza, 1920.
Lecturer New York Board of Education, 1924.
Associate editor Mexican Folkways, 1925-1937. Associate editor Latin-American Press Syndicate, 1933-1934.
President editorial board Latin-American Digest, 1934-1936. Contributing editor, Common Sense, 1933-1941, Modern Monthly, 1935-1937, Current History, 1939.
Member of advisory board Living Age, 1933-1935.
Advisory editor Controversy, 1935. Correspondent in Italy, 1920-1922, Mexico, 1923, 1925-1928, 1930-1932, 1937, 46, 61, in Central American, 1927-1928, (with General Sandino in Nicaragua, 1928), Spain, North Africa, Italy, Turkey, Russia and Germany, 1929, Cuba, 1932-1933, 1935, 57, 59-61, Panama, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, 1934, 46, 61. Researcher Housing Authority New Haven, 1959-1960.
Special correspondent North. American Newspaper Alliance, 1935.
Special correspondent New York Post, Scottsboro Trial, Alabama, 1936. Member expeditions to Indian regions, Mexico, 1926, 1930-1931.
Special correspondent Argentina, Chile, Bolivia, Peru, 1946, Haiti, Cuba, 1957, 59, 60, Colombia, Brazil, Paraguay, Venezuela, Uruguay, Guiana, Trinidad, 1961. Lecturer Latin-American Universities, 1961, Mexican-American relations Conference Cause and Cure of War (Washington), 1927, Seminar on Relations with Mexico, 1925-1928, 1930-1931.
Lecturer on Central America, National U. Mexico, 1928.
Faculty lecturer on Modern Mexico and Caribbean, University of California, summer, 1933, New School of Social Research, 1935. Chairman Committee Jacques Romain, 1935, member of advisory board Better Understanding Foundation. Board of Governors Academy Foreign Relations.
Member of advisory board Living Age, 1933-1935. Member expeditions to Indian regions, Mexico, 1926, 1930-1931. Member roundtable Harris Foundation, University of Chicago, 1951, Research Fuller F. Barnes Foundation, 1952-1953.
Fellow John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, 1931-1932.
Fellow American Geography Society, Society American Historians. Member PEN, Foreign Press.
Married Carolyn Kennedy, 1956.