Background
Conklin, Harold Colyer was born on April 27, 1926 in Easton, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Howard S. and May W. (Colyer) Conklin.
Conklin, Harold Colyer was born on April 27, 1926 in Easton, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Howard S. and May W. (Colyer) Conklin.
Bachelor of Arts, University of California-Berkeley, 1950; Doctor of Philosophy, Yale University, 1955.
From instructor to associate professor anthropology Columbia University, 1954-1962. Lecturer anthropology Rockefeller Institute, 1961-1962. Professor anthropology Yale University, 1962-1996, chairman department, 1964-1968, Crosby professor anthropology, 1990-1996.
Curator of anthropology Yale Peabody Museum Natural History, 1974-1996, director division anthropology, 1994-1996, Crosby professor emeritus, curator emeritus, since 1996. Member Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey, 1972. Fellow Center for Advanced Study in Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, California, 1978-1979.
Field research in Philippines, 1945-1948, 52-54, 55, 57-58, 61, 62-63, 64, 65, 68-69, 70, 73, 80-81, 82-85, 90-91, 95, 2000-2001, 04, 06, Malaya, Malaysia and Indonesia, 1948, 57, 83, Melanesia, 1987, New York, 1942, 48, 52, California, 1943, 48, 51, Guatemala, 1959, Peru, 1987. Director, committee problems and policy Social Science Research Council, 1963-1970. Board directors Survival International United States of America, 1985-1990.
Special consultant International Rice Research Institute, Los Baños, Philippines, since 1962. Book review editor American Anthropologist, 1960-1962. Member Pacific science board National Academy of Sciences-National Research Council, 1962-1966.
Served with Army of the United States, 1944-1946. Member National Academy of Sciences. Fellow American Academy Arts and Sciences, American Anthropological Association (executive board 1965-1968), Royal Anthropological Institute, New York Academy of Sciences (secretary section anthropology 1956).
Member American Ethnological Society (councilor 1960-1962, president 1978-1979), Koninklijk Institute voor Taal- Land- en Volkenkunde, Connecticut Academy Arts and Sciences, Linguistic Society of America, Kroeber Anthropological Society, Philadelphia Anthropological Society, American Geography Society, American Oriental Society, Association Asian Studies, Classification Society, Linguistic Society Philippines, Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association, Society Economic Botany (Distinguished Economic Botanist award 2005), International Association Plant Taxonomy, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Xi.
Married Jean M. Morisuye, June 11, 1954. Children: Bruce Robert, Mark William.