Louis R. Sullivan

American anthropologist

Louis Robert Sullivan (1892–1925) was an American anthropologist.

He was born in Houlton, Maine, on May 21, 1892. He studied at Bates College and Brown University. In 1916 he joined the staff of the American Museum of Natural History. From 1920 to 1925 Sullivan also held a joint appointment with the Bishop Museum in Honolulu, Hawai`i in order to study Native Hawaiians.^[1] Sullivan’s contributions to physical anthropology include a large number of papers upon a variety of subjects, but especially upon Polynesian anthropometry.^[2]

Works

Essentials of anthropometry (1928)
A Contribution to Samoan Somatology (1921)
Anthropometry of the Siouan Tribes (1920)^[3]
Racial Types in the Philippine Islands (1918)^[4]

References

^ Pili, Kamaka (12 March 2021). "New Bishop Museum exhibit challenges scientific racism in Hawaii". KHON2. KHON. Retrieved 13 March 2021.
^ Michael A. Little, Kenneth A. R. Kennedy Histories of American Physical Anthropology in the Twentieth Century 2009, p. 66
^ Sullivan, Louis R. (1920). "Anthropometry of the Siouan Tribes". Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History. 23 (Part 3): 131–4. hdl:2246/223.
^ Sullivan, Louis R. (1918). "Racial Types in the Philippine Islands". Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History. 23 (Part 1). hdl:2246/262.