Albion Woodbury Small

Albion Woodbury Small
10th President of Colby College
In office
1889–1892
Preceded by George Dana Boardman Pepper
Succeeded by Beniah Longley Whitman
Personal details
Born (1854-05-11)May 11, 1854
Buckfield, Maine
Died February 12, 1926(1926-02-12) (aged 71)
Chicago, Illinois
Alma mater Ph.D., 1889, Johns Hopkins University
Profession Founder of the School of Social Science at the University of Chicago

Albion Woodbury Small (May 11, 1854 – March 24, 1926) founded the first Department of Sociology in the United States at the University of Chicago in Chicago, Illinois in 1892. He was influential in the establishment of sociology as a valid field of academic study.[1]

Small was born in Buckfield, Maine and grew up in Bangor, Maine. He studied theology from 1876 to 1879 at the Andover Newton Theological School. From 1879 to 1881 he studied at the University of Leipzig and the University of Berlin in Germany history, social economics and politics.[2]

From 1888 to 1889 he studied history at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland and was promoted in 1889 with a Ph.D. thesis (The Beginnings of American Nationality) at the same time continuing to teach at Colby College. From 1889-1892 he was the 10th President of Colby.

In 1892 he founded the first Department of Sociology at the University of Chicago. He chaired this department for over 30 years. In 1894 he, along with George E. Vincent, published the first textbook in sociology: An introduction to the study of society. In 1895 he established the American Journal of Sociology. From 1905 to 1925 he served as Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Literature at the University of Chicago.

Works

Albion Woodbury Small was a brother of the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity (Xi chapter).

See also

References

  1. ↑ http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~smalljd/ri/ri-als-soc.htm
  2. ↑ Barnes, Harry Elmer. "The Place of Albion Woodbury Small in Modern Sociology quick view," American Journal of Sociology (1926) 32#1 pp. 15-44. accessed at http://www.jstor.org/stable/2765244

Further Reading

Preceded by
Franklin Henry Giddings		 President of the American Sociological Association
1912–1913 		Succeeded by
Edward A. Ross
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