Background
Mekeel, Haviland Scudder was born on April 30, 1902 in Saint Louis, Missouri, United States. Son of I. A. and Elizabeth May (Schureman) Mekeel.
Mekeel, Haviland Scudder was born on April 30, 1902 in Saint Louis, Missouri, United States. Son of I. A. and Elizabeth May (Schureman) Mekeel.
Student California Institute Technology, 1920-1921. Princeton University, 1921-1924, Universite de Strasbourg, France, 1925-1926. Bachelor of Science, Harvard, 1928.
Master of Arts, University of Chicago, 1929.
Doctor of Philosophy, Yale, 1932.
Research assistant, Institute Human Relations, Yale, 1929-1933. Fellow Social Science Research Council, 1932-1934. Fellow in psychology, Harvard, 1933-1935.
Field representative of communications of Indian Affairs and director applied anthropology, United States Bureau of Indian Affairs, 1935-1937.
Acting director special socio-economic unit, Soil Conservation Service, unites states department of Agriculture, 1936. Director Laboratory of Anthropology, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 1938-1942.
On leave, 1940-1942. Associate professor of sociology and anthropology, University of Wisconsin, since 1940.
On leave, 1943-1944; consultant, Julius Rosenwald Fund, 1943-1944. Lecturer University of New Mexico, 1938-1940.
Member governor board International Committee for Mental Hygiene since 1947. Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (member of council). Member American Anthropological Association, American Folklore Society, Institute of Pacific Relations, American Sociological Society, American Orthopsychiatric Association, American Ethnological Society, Chicago Psychoanalytic Society, Sigma Xi, Alpha Kappa Delta.
Married Velma Lucile Brown, April. Children: Joyce Haviland, Judith Abbott, Peter Schureman.