Gillin, John P(hilip) (1907–1973)

US anthropologist. He directed a pioneering field study of southern American culture (1946), did extensive fieldwork in Central and South America, and contributed to the US government's Latin America policy. Gillin founded the anthropology PhD program at the University of North Carolina (1946–59) and the anthropology department at the University of Pittsburgh (1959–72). He was born in Waterloo, Iowa.