Thomas Poffenberger

Thomas Poffenberger (Also Thomas Millard) was born in 1921 in Pittsburgh, PA. He was at Michigan State University in 1941 and served four years in the US Navy during WWII. He returned to Michigan State where he earned a doctorate degree. He was on the faculty at Oregon State University from 1950 to 1953 and a professor at the Univrsity of California at Davis from 1953 to 1961. From 1961 to 1969 he and his family were in India where he was Visiting Professor at the University of Baroda, Gujarat State and consultant with the Indian government for the Ford Foundation. After a year as Senior Fellow at the East West Center, University of Hawaii, he joined the University of Michigan where he is Professor Emeritus, School of Public Health and School of Education. His research and teaching has been in the area of social psychology (See: www.thomaspoffenberger.com).