Register of the Marjorie Fiske Papers, 1937-1949
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Register of the Marjorie Fiske Papers, 1937-1949
Collection number: MSS 84-7
UCSF Library & CKM
Archives and Special Collections
University of California, San Francisco
Contact Information:
- UCSF Library & CKM
- Archives and Special Collections
- 530 Parnassus Ave.
- San Francisco, CA 94143-0840
- Phone: (415) 476-8112
- Fax: (415) 476-4653
- Email: http://www.library.ucsf.edu/collections/archives/contact
- URL: http://www.library.ucsf.edu/collections/archives
- Processed by:
- Special Collections staff
- Date Completed:
- June 1990
- Encoded by:
- Brooke Dykman Dockter
© 1998 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
Descriptive Summary
Title: Marjorie Fiske Papers,
Date (inclusive): 1937-1949
Collection number: MSS 84-7
Creator: Fiske, Marjorie. 1914-1992
Extent: 20 cartons
Repository:
University of California, San Francisco. Library. Archives and Special Collections.
San Francisco, California 94143-0840
Shelf location: For current information on the location of these
materials, please consult the Library's online catalog.
Language:
English.
Administrative Information
Access
Collection is open for research.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Marjorie Fiske Papers, MSS 84-7, Archives & Special
Collections, UCSF Library & CKM
Biographical Data
Social psychologist Marjorie Fiske was born in Attleboro, Massachusetts on June 25, 1914.
She received her B.A. from Mt. Holyoke College in 1935 and M.A. from Columbia University
in 1938. The first six years of her career following graduate school were spent in New
York City. From 1949-1953 she was deputy director of the evaluation staff of the State
Department's International Broadcasting Service (Voice of America). In 1953-1954 she
served as the executive director of the Ford Foundation's national planning committee on
research in television. From 1953-1955 she also served as research director for Columbia
University's Bureau of Applied Social Research.
In 1955 she came to California, serving as a lecturer in the sociology department of the
University of California at Berkeley from 1955-1956, and from 1956-1958 she directed a
book selection and censorship study and also lectured in social research at that
institution's school of librarianship. In 1958 she came to the University of California
School of Medicine at San Francisco, first as a lecturer in the psychiatry department
(1958-1965) and later as professor of social psychology (1966-1983; emerita, 1983-1992).
At UCSF, she chaired the graduate group in human development, was founder and director of
a pre-and post-doctoral training program in adult development and aging, and directed a
closely related research program on social, psychological and cultural factors associated
with adaptation at critical periods of adulthood and old age. A Fellow of the American
Psychological Association, the American Sociological Association, the Gerontological
Society and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, she also served as
president of the Psychological and Social Sciences Section of the Gerontological Society,
and in 1973 was the recipient of that society's Kleemeier Award for outstanding and
meritorious contributions to reserch in aging. A frequent contributor of articles to
professional journals, she authored or co-authored a number of books, most notably
Mass Persuasion (1946),
Book Selection and Censorship(1959),
Lives in Distress (1964),
Aging and Mental Disorder
in San Francisco
(1967),
Four Stages of Life: A Comparative Study of Women
and Men Facing Transitions
(1975) and
Middle Age: The Prime of Life?(1979).
Marjorie Fiske died on February 11, 1992.
Carton Carton 1
Appointment books, 1961, 1964-74. 12 vols.
Carton Carton 2
Graduate student matters (5 folders); M. Fiske and staff reprints/papers (43); UCSF committees (20); consultant work (15);
misc. (10)
Carton Carton 3
M. Fiske reprints: misc. (13 folders); trans. (31); GRP (25); pre-GRP (24)
Carton Carton 4
Speeches, outlines, publicity, drafts, reports, correspondence, reviews: Fund for Adult Education, National Federation Business
& Professional Women's Clubs (1943-45); Implementation Comm. on TV; grant proposals, e.g., Rockefeller Foundation (1952); vita; chronological file correspondence, 11/75-1979 (45 folders)
Carton Carton 5
Student memos, course notes (17 folders); notes for talks (59)
Carton Carton 6
Reprints: Fiske, Simon, Estes, etc. (108 folders)
Carton Carton 7
Johann Richert;Hermann Ravin: case study; mss of book (9 folders, mss notes on cards)
Carton Carton 8
Clipping file (2 folders); Gerontological Society 1972-73 (6); Psychological/social sciences program, M. Fiske, Chair (20)
Carton Carton 9
UCB/UCSF files (19 folders); other universities, institutions (26)
Carton Carton 10
Consultant files (12 folders); hospitals (10); correspondence (2); Dept. of Mental Health (1958-65) and other state agencies (6); federal agencies (10)
Carton Carton 11
Conferences, symposia on aging, gerontology (1951-70) (70 folders)
Carton Carton 12
Chronological files, 1968-78 (15 folders)
Carton Carton 13
Human Development Program (5 folders); misc. correspondence (9); American social associations (3); American Psychological
Assn, Calif. Psychological Assn, Western Psychological Assn (12)
Carton Carton 14
Site visit training 1976 (9 folders); Consultants Conference (6); other institutions (9); misc. correspondence, 1974-76 (2); honorary degree Mt. Holyoke (4); name change (1); other (2)
Carton Carton 15
American Assn Public Opinion Research (9); AAAS, other organizations (4); Gerontological Society, American Geriatrics Society,
International Society Gerontology, Western Gerontological Society (28 folders)
Carton Carton 16
UCSF committees (27); M. Fiske students (4); funding (5); misc. (12)
Carton Carton 17
UCSF correspondence, 1958-71 (21 folders); misc. correspondence (13)
Carton Carton 18
Gerontological Society, 1969-75 (26 folders)
Carton Carton 19
Professional associations, 1970-74 (54 folders)
Carton Carton 20
Publications, publishers' correspondence (29) folders; reviews, consultations (13)
