Thomas, Dorothy Swaine (1899–1977)

Dorothy Swaine Thomas, sociologist and demographer, was born in Baltimore, Maryland, the daughter of John Knight and Sarah (Swaine) Thomas. A graduate of Barnard (BA 1922) and the London School of Economics (PhD 1924), she held academic positions at several leading universities and research institutions. In nine books and more than 70 articles, she studied the business cycle, population, and migration in Sweden and the United States, and the forced evacuation and internment of Japanese Americans during World War II. Appointed to the University of Pennsylvania in 1948, she became the first woman professor at the Wharton School and, four years later, the first woman president of the American Sociological Association. In 1958 she was also elected president of the Population Association of America

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  Dorothy Swaine Thomas•American Sociological Review•1952

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