Background
Schmidt, Nancy J. was born on May 17, 1936 in Cincinnati. Daughter of Leon Herbert and Ida (Genther) Schmidt.
Schmidt, Nancy J. was born on May 17, 1936 in Cincinnati. Daughter of Leon Herbert and Ida (Genther) Schmidt.
Bachelor, Oberlin College, 1958. Master of Arts, University Minnesota, 1961. Doctor of Philosophy, Northwestern University, 1965.
Master of Library Science, Indiana University, 1971.
Assistant professor anthropology St. Lawrence University, Canton, New York, 1966-1968. Assistant professor anthropology Stanislaus State College, Turlock, California, 1968-1970. Associate professor anthropology Rockford College, Illinois, 1971-1974.
Visiting associate professor anthropology and African Studies University Illinois, Urbana, 1974-1977. Librarian Harvard University Tozzer Library, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1977-1984. African studies area specialist, adjunct professor anthropology Indiana University, Bloomington, since 1984.
With cooperative Curriculum Development Center, Manitowoc, Wisconsin, summer 1967, African Outreach Workshop University Illinois, spring-summer 1974, Twentieth Century Children's Writers St. James Press, London, 1977, 82, 89, National Science Foundation, Chautauqua course Visual Evidence and Women's Roles, November 1976, April 1977.
Founding member Sinnissippi chapter National Audubon Society, Rockford, Illinois, 1972. Member American Library Association, African Literature Association (executive council 1983-1985), African Studies Association (board directors 1994-1996), Africana Libraries Council (chairman 1992-1993, editor newsletter), International Union Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (commission on documentation since 1973), Society for Humanistic Anthropology (book review editor 1982-1985, editorial board 1990-1993), American Anthropological Association (anthropology curriculum study project Chicago 1963-1965), Association for Study African Literature, Society Visual Anthropology (board directors 1986-1991).