Demographic Destinies
DEMOGRAPHIC DESTINIES Interviews with Presidents of the Population Association of America Interview with Joseph J. Spengler PAA President in 1956-57 This series of interviews with Past PAA Presidents was initiated by Anders Lunde (PAA Historian, 1973 to 1982) And continued by Jean van der Tak (PAA Historian, 1982 to 1994) And then by John R. Weeks (PAA Historian, 1994 to present) With the collaboration of the following members of the PAA History Committee: David Heer (2004 to 2007), Paul Demeny (2004 to 2012), Dennis Hodgson (2004 to present), Deborah McFarlane (2004 to 2018), Karen Hardee (2010 to present), Emily Merchant (2016 to present), and Win Brown (2018 to present) JOSEPH J. SPENGLER This was a joint interview of Joseph Spengler, C. Horace Hamilton, and Clyde Kiser conducted by Harry Rosenberg at the Carolina Population Center, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, December 15, 1976. CAREER HIGHLIGHTS Joseph J. Spengler, PAA President in 1956-57 (No. 20), was born in 1902 in Piqua, Ohio, and died in 1991 in Durham, North Carolina. He received all of his degrees in economics and all from Ohio State University: the A.B. in 1926, M.A. in 1929, and Ph.D. in 1930. He was Assistant and then Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Arizona in 1930-32 and 1933-34, interspersed by a year (1932-33) at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina. He returned to Duke in 1934 and remained there until his retirement, as Professor of Economics and eventually Director of Graduate Studies. His many publications in population economics dealt with such themes as the history of population and economic theories, migration policy, changing rates of fertility, and the concept of optimum population.
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