Alexander Dalin History Honor Society Summary

I nominate Alexander Dallin for the name of the local chapter of the History Honor Society. Alexander Dallin was a political scientist and historian who expanded the field of Soviet and European studies greatly, involving himself in the field greatly. As a part of the Harvard Project on the Soviet Social System, he interviewed people who either voluntarily emigrated out of the Soviet Union or were pushed out by political situations there to better assess and comprehend the procedures and traits of the system of the Soviet Union according to what the people he interviewed told him. Dallin also served as the president of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, which he helped to re-energize, and the Western Slavic Association. He, with an interest in rekindling interest in the social sciences in post-Soviet Russia, helped to establish the European University at Saint Petersburg. Through all of these actions and in all of these positions, Dallin advanced the known knowledge concerning the field of Soviet and European studies, one of the many fields of historical study. Therefore, Alexander Dallin is an appropriate name for the local chapter of the local
Marvin Harris was an anthropologist who played a significant role in the development of cultural materialism. He was the first to propose this theory, saying, among many things, that the primary means by which a society takes advantage of its environment can be found in the society’s infrastructure: Technology, work patterns, and population characteristics. Using this theory, he provided possible explanations for seemingly incomprehensible aspects of different cultures. This helped those who studied of history greatly, offering an alternative way to view aspects of cultures, a key aspect of history. Therefore, Marvin Harris is an appropriate name for the local chapter of the History Honor