Teaching Anthropology at Berkeley: Faculty and Students

Student reminiscences, faculty-teaching awards, classroom memorabilia, and faculty publications concerning pedagogy testify to the centrality of teaching throughout the history of the anthropology department at Berkeley.

1901	First Chair of the Department of Anthropology: Frederic W. Putnam
1901	First Faculty in Department of Anthropology: Alfred L. Kroeber
1904	First Masters degree in Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley: Louisa McDermott Thesis: Ethnology and folklore of Selish proper
1908	First Ph.D in Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley: Samuel Barrett Thesis: Pomo Indian Basketry
1936	First Ph.D in Archaeology at the University of California, Berkeley: Waldo Rudolph Webel Thesis: Some Historical and Ethnic Aspects of Nebraska Archaeology