{"id":17916,"date":"2012-10-03T10:41:24","date_gmt":"2012-10-03T14:41:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/?p=17916"},"modified":"2012-10-03T10:41:24","modified_gmt":"2012-10-03T14:41:24","slug":"new-department-of-psychology-collection-at-arb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/2012\/10\/new-department-of-psychology-collection-at-arb\/","title":{"rendered":"New Department of Psychology Collection at ARB"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Suzanne Maggard<\/em><\/p>\n

The Archives and Rare Books Library recently received a new collection from UC\u2019s psychology department containing records from 1967 until 2011.\u00a0 The collection includes information on faculty and graduate students, annual reports, and accreditation documentation and supplements the very small number of items that the archives already held related to the history of the psychology department.\u00a0 This new collection is now available for research by faculty, student, staff, and the public.<\/p>\n

\"Wayland<\/a>

Wayland R. Benedict<\/p><\/div>\n

The psychology department has a long history at UC.\u00a0 Wayland Richardson Benedict taught the first psychology courses at UC starting in 1876 as part of the philosophy department.\u00a0 Courses like Empirical Psychology covering topics in sensation, content, strength and tone of sensation continued to be offered until a separate Department of Experimental Psychology and Pedagogy was created in the Spring of 1901.\u00a0 The Psychology Department endured quite a bit of instability in its early years and the first three department heads stayed for only a short time. Charles H. Judd left the University of Cincinnati after only one year. Margaret Floy Washburn, who took his place, expanded the course offerings with classes like folk psychology, history and systems of psychology, and developmental and educational psychology, but also left UC after only a year. Her replacement, John Willis Slaughter added courses in comparative psychology and a graduate offering in the psychology of morality, art and religion, but his one-year contract was not renewed.<\/p>\n

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It was not until Burtis Burr Breese became department head in 1904 that consistency came to the department.\u00a0 Breese served on the faculty for the next 30 years and watched the department grow from three rooms on the second floor of McMicken Hall to four full-time faculty members, two lecturers and 17 courses.\u00a0 Breese was also there when Emma Kohnky earned the first graduate degree in psychology at UC in 1909 and in 1922, when Charles Diserens was awarded UC’s first PhD in psychology.<\/p>\n

With the retirement of Breese in 1937, Arthur Gilbert Bills became head of the Department of Psychology. Arthur Bills was responsible for developing one of the first clinical training programs.\u00a0 During his tenure as head, 20 doctoral degrees were awarded and the department grew to eight full time faculty.\u00a0 In 1961, Wesley Allinsmith took over as department head, and Arthur Bills retired in 1963.<\/p>\n

\"Venus<\/a>

Venus Bluestein<\/p><\/div>\n

This collection of psychology records begins shortly after that time. \u00a0\u00a0CVs and newsclippings in the collection provide a glimpse at the accomplishments and research interests of faculty members in the department.\u00a0\u00a0 For example the collection contains information on Venus W. Bluestein, who got my attention with her name alone.\u00a0 Dr. Bluestein was appointed as an assistant professor in the department of psychology in 1965 and was instrumental in the development of UC\u2019s school psychology program.\u00a0\u00a0 The collection also holds files on Howard Lyman, Anthony Grasha,\u00a0and Bill Dember.\u00a0 \u00a0The collection contains records of grants received by the department and annual reports which provide highlights of events throughout the years.\u00a0 Learn more about the collection by viewing the finding aid online at:\u00a0 http:\/\/rave.ohiolink.edu\/archives\/ead\/OhCiUAR0342<\/a> or by contacting the Archives and Rare Books Library at 513-556-1959 or archives@ucmail.uc.ed<\/a>u<\/a>. \u00a0Much of the information for this post was gathered from the following article on the Psychology Department’s website which provides even more detail on the department’s history: \u00a0http:\/\/www.artsci.uc.edu\/collegedepts\/psychology\/about\/history.aspx<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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