Background
Dixon, Paul William was born on August 1, 1936 in New York City. Son of Edward Everet and Esther (McCracken) Dixon.
Dixon, Paul William was born on August 1, 1936 in New York City. Son of Edward Everet and Esther (McCracken) Dixon.
Bachelor in English, Blackburn College, 1960. Master of Arts in General Experimental Psychology, University Hawaii, 1963. Doctor of Philosophy in General Experimental Psychology, University Hawaii, 1966.
Professor psychology College Arts and Sciences, U. Hawaii, Hilo, since 1965;
department chairman liberal studies College Arts and Sciences, U. Hawaii, Hilo, 1972-1982;
department chairman psychology College Arts and Sciences, U. Hawaii, Hilo, 1972-1975. Visiting associate professor psychology international division Sophia U., Tokyo, 1971-1972. Visiting professor department microbiology and immunology, University of California at Los Angeles, 1978-1979.
All-campus faculty personnel committee U. Hilo, 1967-1968, personnel committee social science and education division, 1968-1969, faculty senate, 1970-1971, library committee, 1970-1971, academic freedom, privilege and tenure committee, 1973-1974, dissertation committee department political science, 1974-1978, Research Council, 1977-1978, chairman all-college faculty personnel committee, 1970, library committee, 1973-1974, liberal studies committee, 1973-1982.
Presenter, demonstrator Frequency Transfer Hearing Aid to Action Group for the Hearing Impaired, Honolulu, 1980, also to State Hearing and Visual Handicapped Service, Hilo, Hawaii, 1980. Chairman commission on anthropology of mathematics International Union Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences. Fellow American Anthropological Association, Society for Applied Anthropology.
Member American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Psychological Association (travel grantee 1972), International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnographic Sciences.
Children: Michael H., Theodore K., Eleanor T., Aaron T., Ursula M.