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Stirling was president of the Anthropological Society of Washington in 1934-1935 and vice president of the American Anthropological Association in 1935–36. He received the National Geographic Society's Franklyn L. Burr Award for meritorious service in 1939, 1941 (shared with his wife Marion) and 1958. He was also on the Ethnographic Board, which was the Smithsonian’s effort to make its scientific research available to the military agencies during World War II.
After his retirement, Stirling was a Smithsonian research associate, a National Park Service collaborator, and member of the National Geographic Committee on Research and Exploration.
Stirling died in early 1975, aged 78, after a period of illness associated with cancer.
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