Identity area
Type of entity
Person
Authorized form of name
Smythe, Dallas Walker
Parallel form(s) of name
Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules
- Smythe, Dallas Walker, 1907-1992
Other form(s) of name
- Dallas Smythe
- Dallas Walker Smythe
- Dallas W. Smythe
- Smythe, Dallas W.
Identifiers for corporate bodies
Description area
Dates of existence
1907-1992
History
Sociologist and economist Dallas Walker Smythe was born in Regina, Saskatchewan, and moved to the United States in 1918. He was a life-long pacifist. In the late 1930's, he became a civil servant in Washington, D.C. In 1948, he joined the new Institute of Communications Research at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. It is from here, he writes to Merton and Merton responds. (Source: Gourlie, Michael; Caitlin Webster; Frances Fournier; and Enid Britt. "Dallas Smythe fonds". Jan. 1998. Website of Simon Fraser University Archives. Accessed, 9 May 2006: Bellarmine University Library. ‹http://www.sfu.ca/archives/F-16/F-16fonds.html›.)