The University of Michigan Department of Anthropology was established in 1929 by Carl E. Guthe, director of the university's Museum of Anthropology, and Julian Steward.
Carl E. Guthe
Chair of the Division of Social Sciences
1929-1943
(Guthe resigned in 1943)
Leslie A. White
1943-1945 (Acting) ?
1945-1957
Frederick P. Thieme
1957-1958
(Left to become Provost of University of Washington in Seattle.
James N. Spuhler
1958 (Acting)
Chair
1959-1967
(Accepted an endowed Professorship at the University of New Mexico)
Leslie A. White
Second Semester of 1958-59 (Acting)
While James Spuhler was away
William D. Schorger
1965-66 (Acting)
(During leave of James Spuhler)
1967-1970 (Chair)
(Director of the Center of Near East and North African Studies from 1961-1971 and 1974-)
Eric R. Wolf
1970-1971
(Resigned to accept a Distinguished Professorship
at City University of New York)
Richard King Beardsley
5/1/1971-6/30/1972 (Acting)
Also Director of the Center for Japanese Studies from 1961-1963
James Bennett Griffin
1972-1975
Roy A. Rappaport
1975-1980
Robbins Burling
1980-1983
Frank Livingston
1983-1986
Sherry B. Ortner
1986-1989
Richard I. Ford
1989-1995
Conrad Kottak
1995-2003
Katherine M. Verdery
7/1/2003-6/30/2004 (Acting)
Judith T. Irvine
2006-2009
Tom Frick
2009-
