Philip Morris Hauser was born September 27, 1909. He attended the University of Chicago and received a Bachelor's degree in 1929.[2] He was studying at Chicago at the time of the rise of the Chicago School of Sociology.[1][2]
Career
In 1932, Hauser was first named as an instructor at the University of Chicago, a position which he retained throughout the course of his graduate studies.[2] In 1933 he was awarded a Master's degree from that institution, followed by a Ph.D. in Sociology in 1938.[2] From 1934 to 1937, Hauser went on leave to serve as a researcher for the Federal Emergency Relief Administration.[2] Hauser worked at the United States Census Bureau from 1938 to 1947, first as Assistant Chief Statistician for Population then taking on the role of Deputy Director in 1946.[2] In 1944 he was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association.[3] In 1947, Hauser returned to the University of Chicago as a professor of sociology.[2] He also remained as acting director of the Census Bureau from 1949 to 1950.[2] Hauser was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1965,[4] the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1972,[5] and the United States National Academy of Sciences in 1976.[6] Hauser was the founder of the Population Research Center at the University of Chicago, over which he served as director for some 30 years.[2] During the course of his career there he helped train approximately 100 future PhDs, in addition to a large number of other graduate students.[2]
Death
Hauser died on December 13, 1994. He was 85 years old at the time of his death.
Publications
"Differential Mortality in the United States: A Study in Socioeconomic Epidemiology." With E. Kitagawa. 1973.
Philip Houser, "Urbanization: An Overview", The Study of Urbanization. Philip Hauser & Leo Schnore (Comps.), John Wiley and J. Sons. Inc. 1963.
