Finding aid for the Director’s Office: Member Files DO.MEMBERS
Summary Information

Repository

Shelby White and Leon Levy Archives Center

Title

Director's Office: Member Files

ID

DO.MEMBERS

Date [bulk]

Bulk, 1933-1989

Date [inclusive]

1933-2002

Extent

97.5 linear feet

Language

English

Preferred Citation note

The suggested citation for the material is "[item], Director’s Office: Member Files, Box [box number], From the Shelby White and Leon Levy Archives Center, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ, USA."

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Scope and Contents note

This series holds the files of IAS members maintained by the Director's Office. All current and past Schools of the Institute are represented by the scholars in the series. Contents of these files may include applications, letters of reference, invitation letters, and correspondence related to administrative matters such as travel and housing. In some cases there is correspondence related to a Member's activities after leaving the Institute.

The vast majority of the series concerns those who accepted the Institute invitations, but there are some declinations and, in a few cases, people who died before arriving at the Institute. Files may not reflect all visits by a person to the Institute, especially for those with additional visits that took place after 1989. Some files or portions of files pertain to visits to the Institute that were not Memberships, including for people who served as assistants to various Institute Faculty members and were offered academic term and summer visitorships.

The files of Members who later became IAS Faculty are kept with the Director's Office Faculty files.

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Administrative Information

Publication Information

Shelby White and Leon Levy Archives Center

Historical Studies-Social Science Library

Einstein Drive

Princeton

NJ, 08540

609-734-8375

archives@ias.edu

Revision Description

November 28, 2018

Conditions Governing Access note

Administrative records of the Institute are closed for 30 years from the date of creation. In addition, letters of recommendation are closed until the death of both the author and the subject of the recommendation.

Immediate Source of Acquisition note

While most materials in the series originated with the Office of the Director, in some cases files were generated by the individual scholar or other administrative departments at the Institute.

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Related Materials

Related Archival Materials note

While this series contains files for thousands of people who visited the Institute, it does not include files for everyone who came to the Institute as a Member. For the most part, the files of those who came to the Institute as Members originally and were later appointed to the Faculty were moved to the Director's Office Faculty files series, though there are some exceptions. Files for those who came to the Institute primarily as Visitors or Assistants are in the Director's Office Visitor and Assistant files series.

The files in this series were maintained by the Director's Office. The Institute's Schools also often kept separate files on their Members. These files are found in the record groups corresponding to an individual Member's School of affiliation.

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