Hidden Bibliographic Details
| Varying Form of Title: | Wax papers
Papers
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| Other authors / contributors: | Wax, Murray Lionel, 1922-
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| Notes: | No restrictions.
Rosalie Hankey Wax (1911-1998), anthropologist, wrote her dissertation about the field work she had conducted in California at the internment camps for people of Japanese descent during World War II. She taught at the University of Chicago and at the suggestion of the anthropologist Sol Tax she and her husband, Murray Wax, began conducting field work in the schools for American Indians on the Pine Ridge Reservation. In 1960s she conducted extensive fieldwork, studying schools for Native Americans. Later in her life she taught at the University of Kansas and at Washington University.
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| Summary: | The collection includes a biography of Rosalie Hankey Wax by her former husband, Murray Wax, her curriculum vitae, three administrative letters and the unpublished manuscript for her 1980 book about the Tule Lake internment camp.
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| Cite as: | When quoting material from this collection, the preferred citation is: Rosalie Hankey Wax. Papers, [Box #, Folder #], Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Library.
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| Cumulative Index / Finding Aids Note: | Finding aid available in the Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Library, 1100 E. 57th St., Chicago, IL 60637.
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