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Albert Galloway Keller

Albert Galloway Keller (April 10, 1874 – October 31, 1956) was an American sociologist, author, and student and colleague of William Graham Sumner. He is best known as the editor of Sumner's papers, in numerous volumes, published in the early 20th century by the Yale University Press. He was a scholar in his own right and wrote on German colonial policy, economic geography, and sociology.

Biography

Keller came from Springfield, Ohio. He graduated from Yale College in 1896 and received his PhD from Yale University in 1899. He immediately joined the social science faculty there and was appointed professor in 1907, succeeding Sumner, his mentor, and taught there until 1942.

He was the first holder of the "William Graham Sumner Chair of Political Science" at Yale.

Yale's eclectic approach to social science during his time there is illustrated by the Festschrift for Keller which was edited by George Peter Murdock. The volume of essays was created to honor Keller in celebration of his completion of 30 years as a professor. Twenty-six scholars who had studied with him made contributions to that volume.

Professor Keller and his wife, née Caroline Louise Gussman, were the parents of Deane Keller and the grandparents of Deane G. Keller, both artists.

Selected works

  • The Beginnings of German Colonization, Yale Review, May 1901.
  • The Colonial Policy of the Germans, Yale Review, February 1902.
  • ', New York: Longmans, Green, and Company, 1902.
  • ', New York: Longmans, Green, 1903.
  • Notes on the Danish West Indies, Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, vol. 22, no. 1, 1903.
  • Portuguese Colonization in Brazil, New Haven, 1906.
  • Colonization: A Study of the Founding of New Societies, Boston: Ginn & Company, 1908.
  • Race Distinction, New Haven: Department of Anthropology, Yale University, 1909.
  • ', American Academy of Medicine, New Haven, Conn., November 12, 1909.
  • ', with Herbert Ernest Gregory and Avard Longley Bishop, Boston: Ginn & Company, 1910.
  • ', with Avard Longley Bishop, Boston: Ginn & Company, 1912.
  • , 1914.
  • ', New York: Macmillan Company, 1915; later editions in 1931 and 1947.
  • ', with Avery Longley Bishop, Boston: Ginn & Company, 1918.
  • ', New York: Macmillan Company, 1918.
  • Starting Points in Social Science, Boston: Ginn & Company, 1925.
  • Sumner, W.G. and Keller, A.G. (1927), The Science of Society, 4 vols., New Haven: Yale University Press, 1927
  • Volume I (Parts I–III)
  • Volume II (Part IV)
  • Volume III (Parts V–VII)
  • Volume IV (Case-Book, Bibliography, and Index)
  • ', New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1932; a condensed edition of Sumner's, Keller's, and Davie's, The Science of Society; and Reminiscences (mainly personal) of William Graham Sumner; New Haven: Yale University Press, 1933.
  • Brass Tacks, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1938.
  • ', New Haven: Yale University Press, 1942.
  • "A Byzantine admirer of ‘western’ progress: Cardinal Bessarion", in Cambridge Historical Journal (Cambridge). Vol. 11 (1953–55), pp. 343–348.

Notes

References

  • Keller, Albert Galloway and George Peter Murdock. (1937). Studies in the Science of Society Presented to Albert Galloway Keller in Celebration of his Completion of Thirty Years as Professor of the Science of Society in Yale University. New Haven: Yale University Press; London: Oxford University Press.

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