Background
Bourguignon, Erika Eichhorn was born on February 18, 1924 in Vienna, Austria. Daughter of Leopold H. and Charlotte (Rosenbaum) Eichhorn.
Bourguignon, Erika Eichhorn was born on February 18, 1924 in Vienna, Austria. Daughter of Leopold H. and Charlotte (Rosenbaum) Eichhorn.
Bachelor, Queens College, 1945. Graduate study, University Connecticut, 1945. Doctor of Philosophy, Northwestern University, 1951.
Doctor of Humane Letters, City University of New York, 2000.
Field work, Chippewa Indians, Wisconsin, summer 1946; field work, Haiti anthropology, Northwestern University, 1947-1948; instructor, Ohio State University, 1949-1956; assistant professor, Ohio State University, 1956-1960; associate professor, Ohio State University, 1960-1966; professor, Ohio State University, 1966-1990; acting department chairman anthropology, Ohio State University, 1971-1972; department chairman, Ohio State University, 1972-1976; professor emeritus, Ohio State University, since 1990; director, Cross-Cultural Study of Dissociational States, 1963-1968. Board of directors Human Relations Area Files, Inc., 1976-1979.
Fellow American Anthropological Association. Member Central State Anthropological Society (treasurer 1953-1956, executive committee 1995-1998), Ohio Academy Science, World Psychiatric Association (transcultural psychiatry section), American Ethnological Society, Current Anthropology (associate), Society for Psychological Anthropology (nominations committee 1981-1982, board directors 1991-1993, lifetime achievement award 1999), Society for the Anthropology of Religion, Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Xi.
Married Paul H. Bourguignon, September 29, 1950.