Background
Smythe-Haith, Mabel Murphy was born on April 3, 1918 in Montgomery, Alabama, United States.
ambassador federal agency administrator
Smythe-Haith, Mabel Murphy was born on April 3, 1918 in Montgomery, Alabama, United States.
Student, Spelman College, 1933-1936; Doctor of Laws (honorary), Spelman College, 1980; Bachelor, Mount Holyoke College, 1937; Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Mount Holyoke College, 1977; Master of Arts, Northwestern University, 1940; Doctor of Philosophy, University of Wisconsin, 1942; Doctor of Laws (honorary), University Wisconsin, 1991; Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), University Massachusetts, 1979.
Assistant professor, Lincoln U., Missouri, 1942-1945;
professor, Tennessee A. and I. U., 1945-1946;
professor, Brooklyn College, 1946-1947;
visiting professor, Shiga U., Japan, 1951-1953;
deputy director research for school segregation cases, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Legal Defense and Education Fund, 1953;
teacher, principal, New Lincoln High School, New York City, 1954-1969;
with, Phelps-Stokes Fund, 1970-1977;
director research and publications, Phelps-Stokes Fund, 1970-1972;
vice president, Phelps-Stokes Fund, 1972-1977;
United States ambassador to United Republic of Cameroon,, Yaounde, 1977-1980;
United States ambassador to Equatorial Guinea,, 1979-1980;
deputy assistant secretary for, African affairs Department State, 1980-1981;
Melville J. Herskovits professor African studies, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, 1981-1983;
distinguished professor, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, 1983-1985;
professor emeritus, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, since 1985;
co-director international internship program, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, 1983-1985;
co-director African seminar, Northwestern University, 1985. Member Advisory Committee on Ednl. Exchange unites states department State, 1961-1962, Advisory Commision on International Ednl. and Cultural Affairs, 1962-1965.
Member Department Stateadv. county on African Affairs, 1962-1965. United States delegate 13th general conference United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, 1964. Trustee Connecticut College, 1964-1965, 69-77, Mount Holyoke College, 1971-1976, vice chairman, 1975-1976, trustee fellow, since 1988, Spelman College, 1980-1989, life trustee, since 1991, Hampshire College, 1971-1977, 85-88, vice chair, 1975-1976.
Member United States National Committee for United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, 1965-1970, National Advisory review Board, 1974-1977. Co-director African seminar for president black colleges, 1971. Board directors National Corporation for Housing Partnerships, 1972-1977.
Scholar-in-residence United States Commision on Civil Rights, 1973-1974. United States delegate International Conference for Assistance to Refugees in Africa, Geneva, 1981, Southern African Development Coordination Conference II, 1980. Guest scholar Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, 1982.
Member Aspen Institute Humanistic Studies Executive Seminar, 1983. Member study mission toJapan with Association Black American Ambassadors, 1984, 85. Member commission on policy for racial justice Joint Center for Political and Economics Studies, 1983-1992.
Co-leader: Maryland. Consortium to Togo, Sierra Leone, Senegal, Liberia and Cameroon from 1970. Co-director Mission to Malawi Women's Commision on Refugee Women and Children, Malawi, 1989. Advisory commission Howard University Patricia Roberts Harris Public Affairs Program, since 1989.
Advisory board Lincoln University (Pennsylvania) Center for Public Policy and Diplomacy, since 1991. Board directors Ralph Bunche Institute on United Nations, CUNY, 1986-1994. Co-chair African-American Institute Del.to observe presidential elections, Madagascar, February, 1993.
Board of directors Refugee Policy Group, 1983-1989, advisory county, since 1989. Consultant African Development Foundation, since 1986. Member Friends Institute for Democracy in South Africa (formerly Institute for a Democratic Alternative in South Africa),1990-.
Member Council Foreign Rels., National Council Women United States, Council American Ambassadors, Association Black American Ambassadors (Executive Committee).
Married Hugh H. Smythe, June 22, 1939 (deceased 1977). 1 child, Karen Pamela. Married Robert Haith, Junior, October 18, 1985.