Foerster Lectures on the Immortality of the Soul
Charles M. and Martha Hitchcock Lectures
Howison Lectures in Philosophy
Jefferson Memorial Lectures
Bernard Moses Memorial Lecture
Carl O. Sauer Memorial Lecture
Barbara Weinstock Lectures on the Morals of Trade
George Foster, an authority on cultural and medical anthropology, was director of the Smithsonian Institution's Institute of Social Anthropology for nine years. He joined the Berkeley faculty in 1955. A graduate of Northwestern University in 1935, he earned his Ph.D. at Berkeley in 1955. Foster has been a Guggenheim Fellow, a Fellow of the Center for the Advanced Study of the Behavioral Sciences, and has served as consultant in India, Pakistan, the Philippines, Afghanistan, Zambia, Nepal, and Indonesia. In 1969-1970, he held the highest honor in the field of American anthropologists, election as President of the American Anthropological Association.