Background
Bell, Earl Hoyt was born on March 27, 1903 in Shellrock, Iowa, United States. Son of Claud Victor and Vera (Lloyd) Bell.
Bell, Earl Hoyt was born on March 27, 1903 in Shellrock, Iowa, United States. Son of Claud Victor and Vera (Lloyd) Bell.
Bachelor of Arts, Iowa State Teachers College, 1925. Doctor of Philosophy, University of Wisconsin, 1931.
1 son, Claud Kimball. Principal Kirkville (Iowa) School, 1921-1922. Instructor Swea City (Iowa) Consolidated School, 1924-1925.
Superintendent Swan Lake Consolidated School, Maple Hill, Iowa, 1925-1927.
Assistant in sociology and anthropology, University of Wisconsin, 1928-1931. Instructor anthropology, University of Nebraska, 1931-1932, assistant professor, 1932-1940.
Director University of Nebraska Archeological Survey, 1932-1940. Special collaborator unites states department of Agriculture, 1939-1940.
Associate social psychologist, Division of Farm Population and Rural Welfare, Bureau of Agricultural Economics, unites states department of Agriculture, February-September 1940, leader Area II, Amarillo, Texas, September 1940 to November 1942.
On loan from unites states department of Agriculture to National Resources Planning Board to act as assistant director of Arkansas Valley Planning Project, May-August 1942. Senior Social Scientist, bureau of Agricultural Economics, unites states department of Agriculture, Washington, District of Columbia, since November 1942. On loan from unites states department Agriculture to Agricultural Rehabilitation Division, United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration, September 1945-January 1947.
Special assignments including acting chief Division Program Analysis for 3 months.
Acting chief Food and Agricultural Division Poland Mission for 6 months, chief of mission to Poland for the United Nations International Children"s Emergency Fund, 1947-1948. Head department sociology and anthropology, Syracuse University, 1949-1958, now professor sociology.
Member board directors committee for study of almholism, Syracuse. Member Onondaga council New York State Commission Against Discrimination. Fellow Society for American Archaeology.
Member American Anthropology
Association (exec.com. Central section), American Inter Professor Institute, Sigma Xi, Sigma Gamma Epsilon, Mu Alpha Nu, Alpha Kappa Delta.
Married Grace Edith Loder, August 22, 1924.