Department Member, History / Paleontology
About
• Managing director of The Granger Papers Project, an independent archives and research project involving American paleontologist Walter Granger (1872-1941) and his wife Anna Granger (1874-1952).
• Holds a JD from the University at Buffalo (SUNY) and is a nonpracticing member of the DC Bar.
• Granger Project website at: http://users.rcn.com/granger.nh.ultranet/
• 1790 US Census Project at: http://users.rcn.com/granger.nh.ultranet/Project1790FUSC.html
• Other publications at: http://www.scribd.com/people/view/7068472-granger-nh-ultranet4204
• Currently working on a book about the Grangers and the Central Asiatic Expeditions from 1921-1930 to China and Mongolia. Walter Granger was especially known for his fossil hunting expeditions in the American West, the Fayum of Egypt (1907), Zhoukoudian (1921), and the Yangtze and Gobi basins (Central Asiatic Expeditions, 1921-1930). He made major contributions to the study of vertebrate paleontology and evolution, as well as to the dinosaur and mammal fossil collections held at the American Museum of Natural History.
Anna Granger spent nearly a decade in China during the Central Asiatic Expeditions. She was a horticulturist and anthropologist doing her own fieldwork under often under difficult conditions –– she traveled three times by train, boat and foot to Walter's remote wintertime fieldwork sites in the Yangtze basin, more than once encountering bandits, renegade troops and battling warlords. Following this, she published three articles in the American Museum's Natural History magazine.
The Granger Papers Project is a family collection of primary source materials. The material includes the Grangers' personal expedition diaries, letters and photographs, postcards and memorabilia, and a small quantity of newsclippings, third party letters, family records and other items.
Contact Information
http://users.rcn.com/granger.nh.ultranet/index.shtml