Background
Dupree, Louis Benjamin was born on August 23, 1925 in Greenville, North Carolina, United States. Son of Chauncey Leary and Luna Emily (Tripp) Dupree.
Dupree, Louis Benjamin was born on August 23, 1925 in Greenville, North Carolina, United States. Son of Chauncey Leary and Luna Emily (Tripp) Dupree.
Bachelor of Arts cum laude, Harvard University, 1949; A.M., Harvard University, 1953; Doctor of Philosophy, Harvard University, 1955.
Assistant professor, Air U., Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama, 1954-1957;
associate professor, Air U., Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama, 1957;
associate professor anthopology, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, 1957-1966;
Adjunct Professor, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, 1966-1983;
director, Archaeol. Mission in Afghanistan, 1959-1978;
representative American universities field staff, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Soviet Central Asia, 1959-1983;
faculty associate, Columbia University Seminar in Archaeol. of Eastern Mediterranean, East Europe, Near East, 1967. Visiting lecturer Kabul U., 1962, 64-66, University of Chicago, 1968.
Distinguished professor of University Maryland., 1981, Mary Washington College, 1981, U. Nebraska, 1980. Visiting professor Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University, 1983-1984, United States Mil Academy, 1984-1985. Professor, senior research associate Islamic and Arabian Development Studies, Duke U.,1985-1989.
Professor of University North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1987-1989. Member Near and Middle Eastern committee of Social Science Research Council, New York, 1958-1959. Member of commission of Government Afghanistan for Japanese Archaeology Exhibition, 1963.
Archaeol. Institute American representative, People's Republic of China, 1978. Member EisenhowerExchange Fellowship Committee for Afghanistan, 1971. Consultant Agency for International Development, 1963, 66,International Rescue Committee, 1980-1989, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, 1977, World Bank, 1982, National.Security Council, 1986.
Member International Parliamentary Group for HumanRights in the Soviet Union, American Institute Pakistan Studies. Member of advisory board Afghanistan Freedom Organisation. Trustee American Friends of Afghanistan, Afghan Relief Committee.
Member of advisory council Committee for a Free Afghanistan. Board directors Afghan Freedom Organisation, American Aid for Afghans, Committee for a Free Afghanistan, American Institute Archaeology in Pakistan, International Medical Alliance, Free Afghanistan Alliance, Commission International d'Enquete Humanitaire sur les Personnes Deplacées en Afghanistan. Advisor on Afghanistan to the United States Amb. to Pakistan, 1988.
Member Agency Coordinating Body for Afghan Relief.
(NY 1958. Anthropological Papers of American Museum of Nat...)
Served with M.M.R., United States Naval Reserve, 1943-1944. Served with Army of the United States, 1944-1947. Fellow American Anthropological Association (committee ethics 1966), American Association for the Advancement of Science, Society Applied Anthropology, American Oriental Society, American Geography Society, American Ethnological Society, Society of America Archaeology.
Member Society Afghan Studies (founding), Archaeol. Institute American, Royal Society Asian Affairs, North Carolina Archaeol. Society, Societe Prehistorique Française, British Institute Persian Studies, Society World War I Aero Historians, Explorers Club, Friends of National Army Museum (United Kingdom), Gamma Alpha, Phi Kappa Phi Clubs: Harvard Travellers.
Married Nancy Marie Shakuntala Hatch, February 20, 1966. Children by previous marriage: Duggie, Louis F.R., Sally.