Finding Aid for Records of the Office of the Director: Files by School series

Summary Information

Repository
Shelby White and Leon Levy Archives Center, Institute for Advanced Study, Historical Studies-Social Science Library, Einstein Drive, Princeton, NJ 08540
Title
Records of the Office of the Director: Files by School
ID
DO.SCHOOLS
Date
1933-1992
Extent
12.0 linear feet (24 boxes)
Language
English

Preferred Citation note

The suggested citation for the material is "[item], Records of the Office of the Director: Files by School series, Box [box number], From the Shelby White and Leon Levy Archives Center, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ, USA."

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Scope and Contents note

The Files by School series of the Records of the Office of the Director contain administrative records retained by the Director's Office about each of the Schools. Topics and time periods covered for each of the Schools vary. The series currently dates through the first five administrations (Abraham Flexner through Harry Woolf). Filing protocols were not consistent, so materials located in this series during one administration may have been filed elsewhere under another administration.

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Administrative Information

Conditions Governing Access note

Administrative records of the Institute are closed for 30 years from the date of creation. In addition, letters of recommendation are closed until the death of both the author and the subject of the recommendation.

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Related Materials

Related Archival Materials note

This series relates to others created by the Office of the Director, including the Faculty series, Member files, and General Files.

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Collection Inventory

Files by school

Schools of Economics and Politics / Humanistic Studies, 1935-1949 

Scope and Contents note

The Schools of Economics and Politics / Humanistic Studies subseries of the Files by School series of the Records of the Office of the Director includes materials for the two Schools of the Institute that were combined in 1949 to create the School of Historical Studies, Humanistic Studies and Economics and Politics. This subseries of administrative materials spans the years 1933-1949, and includes Faculty meeting minutes.
  Box Folder

Economics and Politics: general administrative, 1933-1948 

 1 1

Humanistic Studies: stipends, 1944-1949 and undated 

 1 2

Humanistic Studies: general administrative, 1935-1948 

 1 3

Humanistic Studies: Faculty meeting minutes and agenda / general administrative, 1937-1949 

 1 4

School of Historical Studies

Scope and Contents note

The School of Historical Studies subseries of the Files by School series of the Records of the Office of the Director includes records spanning the years 1936-1992, with the bulk of the materials representing activity from the 1960s-1980s. These administrative records include memoranda, correspondence, faculty meeting minutes and agenda, budgets, materials relating to visiting scholars (e.g., Member Reports, lists of Members' publications, fellowship announcements), Faculty searches, and various initiatives of the School and of individual School Faculty.
  Box Folder

Memos, 1966-1971 

 1 1

Memos, 1972-1975 

 1 2

Memos, 1976-1981 

 1 3

Memos, 1982-1985 

 1 4

Minutes and agendas, 1950-1976 

 1 5

Minutes and agendas, 1977-1983 

 1 6

Minutes and agendas, 1985-1986 

 1 7

Minutes and agendas, 1987-1988 

 1 8

Cost reduction, 1986 

 1 9

Memos from Executive Officer, 1948-1974 

 2 1

List of art historians, 1987 

 2 2

Letters from Adminstrative Officer, 1980-1981 

 2 3

Letters from Administrative Officer, 1982-1987 

 2 4

Memos-general correspondence, 1985-1987 

 2 5

Budget, 1948-1970 

 2 6

Budget, 1971-1975 

 2 7

Budget, 1976-1987 

 2 8

Minutes, 1949-1962 

 2 9

Minutes, 1963-1973 

 2 10

Member Reports, 1971-1972, 1972 

 2 11

Member Reports, 1972-1973, 1973-1977 

 3 1

Member Reports, 1973-1974, 1973-1974 

 3 2

Member Reports, 1974-1975, 1975 

 3 3

Member Reports, 1975-1976, 1976-1977 

 3 4

Member Reports, 1976-1977, 1976-1977 

 3 5

Member Reports, 1977-1978, 1977-1978 

 3 6

Member Reports, 1978-1979, 1978-1979 

 3 7

Member Reports, 1979-1980, 1979-1980 

 3 8

Member Reports, 1980-1981, 1980-1981 

 3 9

Member Reports, 1981-1982, 1981-1983 

 4 1

Member Reports, 1983-1984, 1983-1984 

 4 2

Member Reports, 1984-1985, 1985 

 4 3

Member Reports, 1985-1986, 1985-1986 

 4 4

Member Reports, 1986-1987, 1986-1987 

 4 5

Current Departure Information, 1978-1986 

 4 6

American Academy in Rome, 1960 

 4 7

American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 1936-1981 

 4 8

Andrew W. Mellon Professorship in the Humanities, 1985 

 4 9

Seminar Notices (Archaeological Institute of America, Colloquia in Classical Studies, etc.), 1965-1979 

 4 10

Advisory Committee on Modern History, 1961-1962 

 4 11

Professorial Appointment (Mayer), 1983-1984 

 5 1

Responses to Historical Studies professor ad, 1983-1985 

 5 2

Responses to Historical Studies professor ad (cont.), 1983 

 5 3

The School of Historical Studies: historical overview, 1982 

 5 4

Historical Studies Faculty appointments, 1966-1979 

 5 5

Dinner for Members, 1960-1972 

 5 6

Faculty Meeting, October 9, 1972 

 5 7

Meetings of Faculty and Trustees, 1971 

 5 8

Panel on new Faculty, 1954 

 5 9

Recommendations of the Faculty, 1948-1955 

 5 10

General Correspondence, 1969-1970 

 5 11

General Correspondence, 1973-1974 

 5 12

General Correspondence, 1974-1975 

 5 13

Visitors list, 1966-1971 

 5 14

Goldman Fund, 1976 

 5 15

Requests for housing, 1976-1978 

 5 16

Use of Institute services, 1976-1978 

 5 17

Members lists, 1953-1966 

 5 18

Colloquia in History of Art (Irving Lavin), 1974-1981, 1974-1975, 1980, and undated 

 5 19

Financial Data, 1982-1983 

 5 20

Leibniz Society Meeting, June 1985, 1984 

 5 21

Member Lists, 1966-1974 

 6 1

Member Lists, 1974-1986 

 6 2

Publications of Members, 1966-1967 

 6 3

Publications of Members, 1967-1968 

 6 4

Publications of Members, 1968-1969 

 6 5

Publications of Members, 1969-1970 

 6 6

Publications of Members, 1970-1971 

 6 7

Publications of Members, 1971-1972 

 6 8

Work of the School, 1975-1982 

 6 9

Visiting Committee, 1980-1982 

 6 10

Visiting Committee, 1983 

 6 11

Visiting Committee, 1982 

 6 12

Fellowship ad, 1986, 1986 

 7 1

Fellowship ad, 1987, 1987-1988 

 7 2

Fellowship ad, 1988, 1988 

 7 3

Fellowship ad, 1989, 1988-1990 

 7 4

Membership ad - new publicity plan, 1990 

 7 5

Membership ads (SSS and SHS), 1989-1990, 1988 and undated 

 7 6

Membership ad, 1990, 1990-1991 and undated 

 7 7

Membership posters, 1990, 1990 and undated 

 7 8

Membership ad, 1991, 1990-1991 and undated 

 7 9

Membership ad, 1992, 1992 and undated 

 7 10

School of Mathematics, 1961-1962 

Scope and Contents note

The School of Mathematics subseries of the Files by School series of the Records of the Office of the Director spans the years 1930-1987. These administrative records relate to Faculty meeting minutes and agenda (the agenda are unique in the overall Archives Center collection), financial matters, visiting scholars, and various initiatives of the School.
  Box Folder

Miscellaneous general administrative, 1933-1970 

 1 1

General administrative, 1966-1977 

 1 2

General administrative, 1976-1979 

 1 3

General adminstrative, 1977-1987 

 1 4

General administrative, 1980-1983 

 1 5

Lists of Members, 1930-1976, undated 

 1 6

Lists of Members, 1976-1987, undated 

 1 7

Members' arrival and departure information, 1977-1985 

 1 8

Members reports, 1985-1986, 1986 and undated 

 1 9

Math Member reports, 1986-1987, 1986-1987 and undated 

 1 10

Publications of Members, 1966-1986 

 2 1

List of applicants for Membership, 1971-1972, 1971 

 2 2

Number of Members in the School of Mathematics, 1957-1986, 1967-1972 and undated 

 2 3

Summer Visitors list, 1984, undated 

 2 4

Possible Soviet candidates, undated 

 2 5

Publications fund, 1961 and 1967 

 2 6

Funding / Proposals, 1985-1987 

 2 7

Case statement, 1987 

 2 8

Stipends, 1958 

 2 9

Budget, 1940-1967 

 2 10

Budget, 1967-1986 

 2 11

Use of Institute services, 1976-1979 

 2 12

Work of the School, 1978-1982, 1975-1982 

 2 13

Work of the School, 1985, 1980 and 1985 

includes Report of the Joint Faculty, 1985 

 2 14

Committee on Logic, 1964-1968 

 2 15

Memos (School of Mathematics Faculty appointments), 1962-1963 

 3 1

Statements/memoranda to the Faculty, 1968-1972 

 3 2

Contracts concluded, 1954-1963, 1954-1964 

 3 3

IBM Fellowship [only "Cross Reference" sheets in this folder directing to Director's Office General File folder on the topic], 1960-1961 

 3 4

Visiting Committee, 1985-1986 

 3 5

Visiting Committee, 1985-1986 

 3 6

Report of the Visiting Committee, 1985-1986, undated 

 3 7

Symposium on Differential Topology, 1963, 1962 

 3 8

Harish-Chandra Memorial Symposium, April 23-27, 1984, 1984 

 3 9

Harish-Chandra Symposium speeches, 1984 

 3 10

Harish-Chandra Symposium speeches (cont.), 1984 

 3 11

Mathematics Faculty meetings: agenda and minutes, 1953-1971 

 3 12

Mathematics Faculty meetings: agenda and minutes, 1972-1978 

 3 13

Mathematics Faculty meetings: agenda and minutes, 1979-1987 

 3 14

Mathematics Faculty meeting (November 23, 1977) and Veblen Fund, 1977 

 3 15

Mathematics Faculty meeting minutes: amended versions, 1935 

 4 1

Mathematics Faculty meeting minutes, 1935-1944 

 4 2

Mathematics Faculty meeting minutes, 1945-1953 

 4 3

Mathematics Faculty meeting minutes, 1954-1958 

 4 4

Mathematics Faculty meeting minutes, 1959-1963 

 4 5

Mathematics Faculty meeting minutes, 1964-1969 

 4 6

Mathematics Faculty meeting minutes, 1970-1977 

 4 7

Mathematics Faculty meeting minutes, 1978-1985 

 4 8

School of Natural Sciences

Scope and Contents note

The School of Natural Sciences subseries of the Files by School series of the Records of the Office of the Director spans 1947-1987, which includes years during which initiatives in the natural sciences fell under the umbrella of the School of Mathematics. (The School of Natural Sciences was established in late 1965.) These administrative materials include correspondence, budgets, and various initiatives of the School (e.g., the Oppenheimer Lectures) and of individual School faculty (e.g., John Bahcall’s involvement in the Space Telescope Science Institute, which spearheaded development of the Hubble Space Telescope).
  Box Folder

Correspondence, 1966-1976 

 1 1

Correspondence, 1977-1980 

 1 2

Correspondence, 1981 

 1 3

Correspondence, 1982-1983 

 1 4

Correspondence, 1984-1987 

 1 5

Budget, 1965-1974 

 1 6

Budget, 1974-1985 

 1 7

Members Reports, 1984-1987, 1982-1987 

 2 1

Members Departure Information, 1979-1982 

 2 2

Computer, 1980-1984, 1979-1984 

 2 3

Computer: Manuals, 1975, 1980 

 2 4

Computer: Pamphlets and Manuals, 1979-1980 and undated 

 2 5

Children's Computer, 1981 

 2 6

Use of Institute for Advanced Study and Princeton University Computers, 1967-1973, 1966-1973 

 2 7

Adler-Workshop on Induced Gravitation and related topics, Italy - October 1983, 1983 

 2 8

Weinberg, Steven - Candidate - Faculty, 1979 

 2 9

Fusion Institute, 1979 

 2 10

A Brief History of the Years 1960-1970 by M. Goldberger, undated 

 2 11

Requests for Housing, 1976-1978 

 3 1

Office Space, 1982-1986 

 3 2

includes Office Space in Building E, probably early 1980s 

Minutes and Agenda, 1985-1986 

 3 3

Minutes and Agenda, 1967-1983 

 3 4

Oppenheimer Lectures, 1976-1977, 1976-1977 

 3 5

Oppenheimer Lectures, 1977-1978, 1977 

 3 6

Oppenheimer Lectures: Gell-Mann, Murray, October 1974, 1974-1975 

 3 7

Oppenheimer Lectures: Salpeter, Edwin E., 1975, 1975 

 3 8

Oppenheimer Lectures: Sagdeev, Roald Z., 1976, 1976 

 3 9

Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) - Miscellaneous, 1966 

 3 10

Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) - Proposals, 1966 

 3 11

National Science Foundation (NSF) - Miscellaneous, 1985-1986 

 3 12

National Science Foundation (NSF) - Miscellaneous, 1967-1969 

 3 13

Visiting Committee, 1980-1981 

 3 14

Visiting Committee, 1980 

 3 15

List of Publications - Faculty and Members, 1966-1978 

 4 1

Correspondence Regarding Publication (reprints and preprints, etc.), 1966-1968 

 4

Russian Visitors, 1976 

 4 2

Seminars, 1978-1979 

 4 3

Seminars, 1979-1980 

 4 4

Seminars, 1980-1981 

 4 5

Institute for Theoretical Physics, 1977 

 4 6

International Astronomical Union (I.A.U.) Colloquium: Dynamics of Star Clusters, 1984, 1983-1984 

 4 7

Order out of Chaos (Piet Hut), 1986 

 4 8

Stellar Dynamics of Galaxies and Globular Clusters (NASA), 1987 

 4 9

Work of the School, 1980-1983, 1979-1983 and undated 

 4 10

Work of the School, 1974-1979, 1974-1981 and undated 

 4 11

Rosenbluth, Marshall, 1987 

 4 12

Natural Sciences - Miscellaneous, 1966-1975 

 5 1

Physics Preprint Library, 1964-1966 

 5 2

Physics/Math - Annual List of Preprints, 1953-1963 

 5 3

Physics/Math - Lists of Members, 1955-1967, 1955-1966 

 5 4

Physics/Astrophysics, 1957-1966 

 5 5

Physics/Natural Sciences - Budgets, 1947-1974 

 5 6

Physics - Visitor's Fund, 1956-1957 and 1967 

 5 7

Physics - Mailing Lists, 1955-1963 and undated 

 5 8

Physics - Faculty, 1962-1963 and undated 

 5 9

Physics - Faculty Meetings, Memos, 1962-1967 

 5 10

Physics - Miscellaneous, 1947-1973 

 5 11

Visitors in Physics - 1947 to date, 1947-1954 

Physics - Memos to Faculty, 1951-1961 

 5 12

Physics - Adler, Dashen, Gell-Mann, Goldberger, 1965-1969 

 5 13

Physics - material for letters, 1961-1965 

 5 14

Physics - Faculty Meetings, Notices, Agenda, 1960-1963 

 5 15

Physics - Members Lists, 1959-1965 and undated 

 5 16

Physics - Astrophysics, 1963-1964 

 6 1

Physics - Biophysics, 1961-1962 and undated 

 6 2

Correspondence with Francis Crick

Physics - Bibliography Project, 1960 and undated 

 6 3

Space Telescope Science Institute

April 1974-January 1979 (1 of 3), 1977-1979 

 6 4

April 1974-January 1979 (2 of 3), 1977 

 6 5

April 1974-January 1979 (3 of 3), 1974-1977 

 6 6

January 1979-September 1979 (1 of 3), 1979 

 7 1

January 1979-September 1979 (2 of 3), 1979 

 7 2

January 1979-September 1979 (3 of 3), 

 7 3

October 1979-January 1981 (1 of 3), 1977-1981 and undated 

 7 4

October 1979-January 1981 (2 of 3), 1979-1980 and undated 

 7 5

October 1979-January 1981 (3 of 3), 1979-1980 

 7 6

School of Social Science

Scope and Contents note

The School of Social Science subseries of the Files by School series of the Records of the Office of the Director spans the years 1948-1989. These administrative folders include memoranda, correspondence, budgets, materials relating to visiting scholars (e.g., Member Reports), Faculty searches, and various activities of the School and of individual School Faculty. Some of these materials predate the establishment of the School of Social Science in 1973, including those related to explorations in the field of psychology undertaken during J. Robert Oppenheimer's tenure.
  Box Folder

Programs and proposals (Alpha Fund), 1984-1987, 1986-1987 and undated 

 1 1

Joint Proposal-SS/HS: "Religion and Society", 1987 

 1 2

Memos, 1981-1987 

 1 3

Memos, 1978-1981 

 1 4

Finances and budget, 1977-1986 

 1 5

Finances and budget, 1967-1977 

 1 6

Budget, 1966-1967, 1967 

 1 7

Faculty appointments, 1979 

 1 8

Faculty Committee Assignments, 1984-1985 

 1 9

Member forwarding addresses, 1986, 1983 and 1986 

 1 10

Visiting Committee Report, 1984-1985 

 1 11

Visiting Committee (correspondence), January 18-19, 1985, 1982-1985 

 1 12

Visiting Committee binder, 1984-1985, 1985 

 1 13

Member reports, 1968-1969, 1969 

 2 1

Member reports, 1969-1970, 1970 

 2 2

Member reports (Information Processing), 1970-1971, 1971 

 2 3

Member reports (Social Change), 1970-1971, 1971 

 2 4

Member reports (Information Processing), 1971-1972, 1972 

 2 5

Member reports (Social Change), 1971-1972, 1972 

 2 6

Member reports, 1972-1973, 1972-1973 

 2 7

Member reports, 1973-1974, 1974-1975 

 2 8

Member reports, 1974-1975, 1974-1975 

 2 9

Member reports (Linguistics), 1974-1975, 1975 and undated 

 2 10

Member reports, 1975-1976, 1976 

 2 11

Member reports, 1976-1977, 1976-1977 

 2 12

Member reports, 1977-1978, 1978 

 2 13

Member reports, 1978-1979, 1979 

 2 14

Member reports, 1979-1980, 1980 

 2 15

Member reports, 1980-1981, 1981-1982 

 2 16

Member reports, 1981-1982, 1982 

 2 17

Member reports, 1982-1983, 1983 

 2 18

Member reports, 1983-1984, 1983-1984 

 3 1

Member reports, 1984-1985, 1985 

 3 2

List of Members, 1969-1987 (Academic years: 1968-1969 - 1987-1988), undated 

 3 3

Seminar notices, 1969-1972, 1969 and undated 

 3 4

Seminars (Social and Economic History), 1972-1973, 1972-1973 and undated 

 3 5

Luncheon seminar-current interests, 1973-1977, 1973-1977 

 3 6

Seminars (special topics), 1973-1974, 1973-1974 

 3 7

Thursday Lunch Group, 1973-1974, 1973-1974 and undated 

 3 8

Seminars (Thought and Language), 1974, undated 

 3 9

Seminars, 1974-1975, 1974-1975 and undated 

 3 10

Seminars (Latin American), 1974-1975, 1974-1975 and undated 

 3 11

Seminars (on the Methodology of the Social Sciences), 1974-1975, 1974-1975 and undated 

 3 12

Seminars, 1975-1976, 1975-1976 

 3 13

Seminar (Sociology of Science), 1976-1977, 1976-1977 

 3 14

Luncheon seminars, 1976-1977, 1976-1977 and undated 

 3 15

Luncheon seminars, 1977-1978, 1977-1978 and undated 

 3 16

Luncheon seminars, 1978-1979, 1978-1979 and undated 

 3 17

Luncheon seminars, 1979-1980, 1979-1980 

 3 18

Seminars, 1980-1981, 1981 and undated 

 3 19

Seminars, 1981-1982, 1981 and undated 

 3 20

Seminars, 1981-1989, undated 

 4 1

Seminars, 1982-1983, undated 

 4 2

Cognitive Science Seminars, 1982-1983, 1983 and undated 

 4 3

Seminars, 1983-1984, undated 

 4 4

Seminars, 1984-1985, undated 

 4 5

Seminars, 1985-1986, 1985-1986 

 4 6

Background materials on School of Social Sciences, 1965-1969 

 4 7

Development of School of Social Science, 1966-1969 

 4 8

Work of the School of Social Science, 1978-1990, 1979-1982 and undated 

 4 9

Appendix J - designation of School of Social Science, undated 

 4 10

Prof. Wm. J. McGuire, University of California, San Diego (Silvan Tompkins), 1967-1968 

 4 11

Extra copies of press release (Carnegie / Russell Sage), 1967 

 4 12

Program in Human and Social Information Processing, 1972 

 4 13

Interpretive Social Science Proposal, 1984-1987, 1983 

 4 14

Professorial search (Lepenies, Wolf), 1983-1984 

 4 15

Professorial search, 1983-1985 

 4 16

Psychology Program at the Institute for Advanced Study (for Dr. Kaysen), 1949-1961, 1948-1966 

 5 1

Earlier versions - Program description, 1970-1972 

 5 2

Condensed program description, 1972 

 5 3

Culpeper Foundaton, 1985 

 5 4

General Correspondence, 1977-1978, undated 

 5 5

General Correspondence, 1975-1976, 1975 and undated 

 5 6

General Correspondence (Social Change), 1974-1975, 1973 and undated 

 5 7

Fall Dinner, October 3, 1973, 1973 

 5 8

Correspondence re. new School of Social Science, 1967-1972 

 5 9

Fundraising (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft), 1970 

 5 10

Maison des Sciences de l'Homme (Clemens Heller), 1974 

 5 11

Personnel, 1970 and undated 

 5 12

Newsweek article (April 6, 1970), 1970 

 5 13

New academic building (West Building), 1970 and undated 

 5 14

Hand drawn diagram of room assignments for the 1972-1973 academic year, undated 

Historical Data Archive (Theodore Rabb), 1969 and undated 

 5 15

Use of Institute services, 1977-1978 

 5 16

Requests for housing, 1976-1978 and undated 

 5 17

Annual report to Russell Sage (and Carnegie), 1969-1972 

 5 18

Publications of SSS Members, 1969-1970, undated 

 5 19

Publications of SSS Members, 1970-1971, 1972 and undated 

 5 20

Publications of Members (National Science Foundation grants), 1970-1971 - 1974-1975, undated 

 5 21

Publications of SSS Members, 1971-1972, undated

 5 22

A New Program in the Social Sciences: Needs and Opportunities, 1968-1970 

 5 23

IAS Conference, September 15, 1970 (transcript of conference held to collect views about what an IAS School of Social Science might do), 1970, 1997

 5 24

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