- Grace de Laguna
Grace de Laguna (1878-1978) was an American philosopher who taught at
Bryn Mawr College inPennsylvania .Grace Mead Andrus, as she was born, was of
Connecticut ancestry, her father Wallace R. Andrus, having served in the 17th Connecticut Volunteers in the Civil War; he was later a land agent for theNorthern Pacific Railway . Her mother was Annis Mead. She was raised in theOregon Territory .She attended the
Sage School of Philosophy atCornell University , where she received her Ph.D. and metTheodore de Laguna , an instructor there, whom she married.Grace and Theodore both taught philosophy for many years at Bryn Mawr, starting in 1907. She became chair of philosophy at Bryn Mawr after Theodore's death in 1930.
In the 1940s, she accompanied her daughter, the anthropologist
Frederica de Laguna , on anthropological field trips inArizona and among theSalish people of the Pacific Northwest.Bibliography
* de Laguna, Frederica (2004) "Becoming an Anthropologist: My Debt to European and Other Scholars Who Influenced Me." In: "Coming to Shore: Northwest Coast Ethnology, Traditions, and Visions," ed. by Marie Mauzé, Michael E. Harkin, and Sergei Kan, pp. 23-52. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.
* de Laguna, Grace (1966) "On Existence and the Human World." New Haven: Yale University Press.
* Stearns, Isabel S., 'Grace Andrus de Laguna 1878-1978', "Proceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association" 51:5 (1978), 577-578
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