Background
Mead was born in Milford, Massachusetts.
Mead was born in Milford, Massachusetts.
Dartmouth College; University of Rochester.
He received a bachelor of arts degree from Dartmouth College in 1936, as well as a master"s degree in 1937 and a Doctor of Philosophy in 1939 from the University of Rochester. Mead held a variety of teaching positions in the Psychology Department at Tufts from 1939 until his retirement in 1976. He served as acting president from 1966 through 1967, when he was awarded an honorary degree from Tufts.
In 1968, he took a leave of absence to serve as the project specialist for the Ford Foundation at the University of Delhi in India.
He returned to Tufts and retired in 1979.