GARRETT PARK, MD, June 25, 2021 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Marquis Who's Who, the world's premier publisher of biographical profiles, is proud to present Frederick Erickson, PhD, with the Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award. An accomplished listee, Dr. Erickson celebrates many years' experience in his professional network, and has been noted for achievements, leadership qualities, and the credentials and successes he has accrued in his field. As in all Marquis Who's Who biographical volumes, individuals profiled are selected on the basis of current reference value. Factors such as position, noteworthy accomplishments, visibility, and prominence in a field are all taken into account during the selection process.
Now a professor emeritus, Dr. Erickson was the inaugural George F. Kneller professor of anthropology of education at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) for more than a decade before retiring from his position in 2011. He also spent eight years as a professor of applied linguistics on campus between 2004 and 2011 and from 2000 through 2006 was the director of research at the Corinne A. Seeds University Elementary School, the laboratory school of UCLA. Dr Erickson has studied and taught courses in sociolinguistics, discourse analysis, inter-cultural communication, and ethnographic research methods. He was also a pioneer in video-based micro-ethnographic research on social interaction and received a grant from the Spencer Foundation in 2016 for a conference bringing together senior and junior scholars who use video in the study of social interaction. A website reporting on that conference can be found at www.learninghowtolookandlisten.com
Prior to his appointment at UCLA, Dr. Erickson served from 1986 to 1998 as a tenured professor of education at the University of Pennsylvania, where he was the director of the Center for Urban Ethnography and was the convenor of the annual Ethnography in Education Forum. He was also professor of education and medicine at Michigan State University in East Lansing from 1978 to 1986 and before that he taught in the Graduate School of Education at Harvard University and in the education department at the University of Illinois, Chicago, where his initial academic appointment began in 1968.
An award-winning writer, Dr. Erickson has contributed to various publications as a senior co-author, was the editor of the Anthropology and Education Quarterly between 1983 and 1986, and has written extensively in peer-reviewed journals on micro-ethnography of classroom and family interaction and on qualitative methods in social research. He also served on the editorial boards of various journals, including the American Educational Research Journal, the International Review of Qualitative Research, and Research on Language and Social Interaction. Dr. Erickson authored several books, including "Talk and Social Theory: Ecologies of Speaking and Listening in Everyday Life" through Polity Press in 2004, which won an Outstanding Book Award from the American Educational Research Association in 2005.
Dr. Erickson's decision to teach and do research as an anthropologist of education resulted from his concerns for social justice and for the improvement of educational experience for children. Taking part in inner city youth work and the civil rights movement in the early 1960's he volunteered with the Southern Christian Leadership Conference in Chicago, when Dr. Martin Luther King came there in SCLC's "Northern Initiative" in 1965.
In addition to his work in academia Dr. Erickson has been active in ordained ministry in the Episcopal Church for more than 45 years. He was ordained in 1975 as a permanent deacon in Boston at the Church of St. John the Evangelist. During his time at Michigan State University he assisted in the Episcopal chaplaincy there, and then as an assisting deacon at the Church of St. Martin in the Fields in Philadelphia and at the Church of St. Mary in Palms in Los Angeles. In the dioceses of Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Los Angeles he taught in programs of formation for deacons, and in 2006 he was appointed as the initial archdeacon for deacons in the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles. Upon his retirement as archdeacon he was made an honorary canon of that diocese and more recently while residing in the Washington DC area he assisted from 2013 to 2021 at the Church of the Ascension and St. Agnes in the Episcopal Diocese of Washington.
Dr. Erickson pursued an education at Northwestern University, initially in music and later in education and social science. He earned a Bachelor of Music degree in 1963, with a double major in composition and music history, followed by a Master of Music degree in music history in 1964. In 1969 he received the Doctor of Philosophy degree in education.
Elected as a member of the National Academy of Education, Dr. Erickson was also elected as a fellow of the American Educational Research Association, where he served as a divisional Vice President. He was also active in the Council on Anthropology and Education of the American Anthropological Association, serving as the Council's president from 1977-79.
Among numerous honors and awards, Dr. Erickson received fellowships from the Spencer Foundation and the Annenberg Institute of Public Policy, and research grants from the National Institute of Mental Health, the National Science Foundation, and the Ford Foundation, as well as a Fulbright visiting scholar award. He was a fellow in residence twice at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford, first in 1998-99 and again in 2006-07. Dr. Erickson was honored with a Spindler Award for Scholarly Contributions to Educational Anthropology from the American Anthropological Association in 1990. He has received several Lifetime Achievement Awards, including one from the American Educational Research Association in 2000. In 2017 he received the John J. Gumperz Award for Lifetime Achievement from the Language as a Social Process Special Interest Group of the American Educational Research Association. Additionally, in 2014 the Council on Anthropology and Education named its annual Outstanding Dissertation Award in his honor.
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