Background
Landes, Ruth was born on October 8, 1908 in New York City. Daughter of Joseph and Anna (Grossman) Schlossberg.
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Ruth Landes
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Bachelor of Science, New York University, 1928; Master of Social Work, New York School Social Work, 1929; Doctor of Philosophy, Columbia University, 1935.
Career
Social worker, New York City, 1929-1931;
research fellow department anthropology, Columbia University, 1933-1940;
instructor, Fisk U., Nashville, 1937-1938;
instructor, Brooklyn College, 1937;
researcher, Carnegie Corporation, New York City, 1939;
research director, Coord. Inter-American Affairs, Washington, 1941;
representative, Fair Employment Practices Committee, Washington, 1941-1945;
director private interim commission on fair employment practices, 1945;
researcher, Los Angeles Metropolitan Welfare Council, 1946-1947;
study director, American Jewish Committee, 1948-1951;
Fulbright senior research scholar, Edinburgh (Scotland) U., 1951-1952;
lecturer, Wm. Alanson White Psychiatric Institute, New York City, 1953-1954;
lecturer, New School Social Research, New York City, 1953-1955;
director geriatrics, Los Angeles City Health Department, 1958-1959.
Lecturer, consultant University of California at Los Angeles, University of California, Berkeley, 1962, Los Angeles State College, 1963. Consultant California Social Work Department and Agilysys, California Bureau Mental Hygiene, California Department Education, California Public Health Department, San Francisco Police Department. Field research in Americas, We.
Europe, South Africa, 1929-1931, 32-36, 38-39, 46, 66, 68-72. Visiting professor University of Southern California School Social Work,1957-1958. Visiting professor, also director anthropology and education program Claremont Graduate School, 1959-1962.
Consultant International Business Machines Corporation, 1963-1966. Visiting professor Tulane University, 1964. Professor of University Kansas, Lawrence, summer 1964, McMaster U., Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, 1965-1991.
Achievements
Membership
Recipient fellowships and grante Social Science Research Council, Philosophical Society, Rockefeller Foundation, Rosenberg Foundation, Canada Council. Member American Anthropological Association, Author's League.
Connections
Married June 14, 1928 (divorced September 1935).
