- Attended Joliet Jr. College, Joliet IL
- 1926-1936 Ph.B (bachelor of philosophy); University of Chicago
- Dance anthropology, theater, Africa, Caribbean, and intercultural communication
- Founder and director of the Institute for Intercultural Communication
- Selected Publications: Island Possessed (1969), A Touch of Innocence (1959), Dances of Haiti (1947), Journey to Accompong (1946)