Howard W. Odum

Howard W. Odum
Howard W. Odum
Born	Howard Washington Odum; May 24, 1884; Bethlehem, Georgia, U.S.
Died	November 8, 1954 (aged 70); Chapel Hill, North Carolina, U.S.
Nationality	American
Alma mater	Emory University; Clark University; Columbia University;
Children	Eugene Odum; Howard T. Odum;
	Scientific career
Fields	Sociology
Institutions	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill;
Doctoral advisor	Franklin Henry Giddings
Doctoral students	Guy Benton Johnson; Margaret Jarman Hagood;

Howard Washington Odum (May 24, 1884 – November 8, 1954) was an American sociologist and author who researched African-American life and folklore. Beginning in 1920, he served as a faculty member at the University of North Carolina, founding the university press, the journal Social Forces, and what is now the Howard W. Odum Institute for Research in Social Science, all in the 1920s. He also founded the university's School of Public Welfare, one of the first in the Southeast. With doctorates in psychology and sociology, he wrote extensively across academic disciplines, influencing several fields and publishing three novels in addition to 20 scholarly texts. He was white.

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