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.