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Harvard/Radcliffe. Economics PhD alumna, Ruth Jackson Woodruff, 1931

 

Besides the curricula of graduate education in economics, every so often Economics in the Rear-view Mirror presents the life-stories of men and women who have received a Ph.D. in economics. Where did they come from and where did they end up, along with all the stations in between. Today we meet Ruth Jackson Woodruff, a Radcliffe Ph.D. (1931). This was back in the day when Harvard and Radcliffe still differentiated their doctorates.

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Doctor of Philosophy

Ruth Jackson Woodruff, A.M.

Subject, Economics. Special Field, Economic History since 1750. Dissertation “A History of the Hosiery Industry in the United States before 1890.”

Source:  Annual Reports of Radcliffe College for 1930-31 (February, 1932), p. 21.

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Publications

Woodruff, R. (1921). A Classification of the Causes of Crime. Journal of the American Institute of Criminal Law and Criminology, 12(1), 105-109. [Written while still a student at Bryn Mawr College.]

Ruth Woodruff, “The Hosiery Industry,” Bulletin Series No. 5, Junior Employment Service, Board of Education of Philadelphia (Philadelphia, 1925).

Alexander, N., & Woodruff, R. (1940). Determinants of College Success. The Journal of Higher Education, 11(9), 479-485.

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Life and career dates

December 21, 1898. Born in Scranton, Pennsylvania.

1919. Bryn Mawr, A.B.

1920. Bryn Mawr, A.M.

1927-28. Attended University of Pennsylvania.

1931. Radcliffe, Ph.D. in economics.

1932-1953. Dean of Women at the University of New Hampshire. [Began as assistant professor of economics in the College of Liberal Arts]

1954-1962. Professor of Economics in the College of Liberal of Arts of the University of New Hampshire.

1962-1965. Professor of Economics at Whittemore School of Business and Economics of the University of New Hampshire.

1965. Retired.

October, 1983. Died in Newtown, Pennsylvania.