Background
Fogelson, Raymond David was born on August 23, 1933 in Red Bank, New Jersey, United States. Son of William Edward and Pearl N. (Schwartz) G.
Fogelson, Raymond David was born on August 23, 1933 in Red Bank, New Jersey, United States. Son of William Edward and Pearl N. (Schwartz) G.
In 1958 and a Doctor of Philosophy in 1962 from the University of Pennsylvania, where he was influenced by two Americanist anthropologists with strong interests in psychology, Anthony F. C. Wallace and A. Irving Hallowell.
In 1951 he was admitted to Wesleyan University in the pre-medical program, shifting first to psychology and then to anthropology. He received an Master of Arts He began fieldwork with the eastern Cherokee in 1956 under the direction of the anthropologist John Gulick. Fieldwork with the Oklahoma Cherokee was conducted in 1958 and 1960.
In 1960-1961 Fogelson was a research fellow at the Eastern Pennsylvania Psychiatric Institute.
In 1962 he began a teaching position at the University of Washington, during which time he did fieldwork among the Shuswap in British Columbia, though fieldwork with Oklahoma Cherokee and Muskogee (Creek) continued through the 1960s. In 1965 he moved to the University of Chicago, where he continues to teach in the Department of Anthropology.
He has also testified extensively before congressional committees on federal recognition of Indian tribes such as the Lumbee. In 2006 a volume was published in his honor (New Perspectives on Native North America.
See sources), consisting of contributions from many of his former students, including Jeffrey Doctorate. Anderson, Mary Druke Becker, Margaret Bender, Robert A. Brightman, Thomas Buckley, Raymond A. Bucko, Raymond J. DeMallie, David Dinwoodie, Frederic West. Gleach, Michael East. Harkin, Joseph C. Jastrzembski, Sergei A. Kan, Robert East. Moore, Larry Nesper, Jean O"Brien, Pauline Turner Strong, Greg Urban, and Barrik Van Winkle.
The volume also contains articles by Regna Darnell, Jennifer South. H. Brown, and Peter Nabokov.
Fellow American Anthropol. Association (book review editor 1966-1971). Member Central States Anthropol.
Society (president 1984), American Ethnological Society, American Society for Ethnohistory (president 1987-1988), Society Psychological Anthropology.
Married Mary Wills Gunning, May, 1964 (divorced November 1964). Married Susan Elizabeth Hopkins, November 10, 1978 (divorced October 1983).