Leadership Roles and Honors
- 1887—Accepted a position as Assistant Editor of Science in New York.
- 1889—Appointed as the head of a newly-created department of anthropology. His adjunct was L. Farrand.
- 1896—Became assistant curator at the American Museum of Natural History, under F.W. Putnam. This was combined with a lecturing position at Columbia University.
- 1900—Elected to the National Academy of Sciences in April.
- 1901—Appointed Honorary Philologist of Bureau of American Ethnology.
- 1908—Became editor of The Journal of American Folklore.
- 1910-Helped create the International School of American Archaeology and Ethnology in Mexico
- 1910—Elected president of the New York Academy of Sciences.
- 1917-Founded the International Journal of American Linguistics
- 1917-Edited the Publications of the American Ethnological Society
- 1931—Elected president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
- 1936—Became "emeritus in residence" at Columbia University in 1936. Became "emeritus" in 1938.
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