Some Academic Ancestry of UGA Psychology Students

Wilhelm Wundt (1832-1920)

Medical Doctorate - 1856

 

One of Wundt's doctoral students, E.  B. Titchener, spent most of his career at Cornell University.

 

 

                      

                        Edward B. Titchener                                    See William T. James below.

                              (1867-1927)

                              Ph.D. 1892

 

Four Titchener students were important in developing experimental psychology at . . .

 

                                 

From left to right, Titchener's students who influenced the development of psychology at the University of Georgia were: Celestia S. Parrish (1853-1918; Ph.B. 1896), Ludwig R. Geissler (1879-1932; Ph.D. 1909), Austin S. Edwards  (1885-1976; Ph.D. 1912) and William T. James (1903-1998; following Titchener's death in 1927, James completed his Ph.D. at Cornell with H. P. Weld in 1929).   As indicated, Parrish earned a bachelor's degree with Titchener.  She completed additional graduate study elsewhere from Cornell, including at the University of Chicago, but it is unclear whether she earned any graduate degrees.  Nevertheless, she established the first psychology laboratory for teaching and research in the southeast (Randolph-Macon Woman's College, 1894) and there is circumstantial evidence that she was involved in establishing the first psychology laboratory at UGA (1902).   Links indicated above provide additional biographical information about Parrish, Edwards, and James.  Additional biographical information about Geissler will be provided in the near future.                                           

James and Edwards had connections with the person below who constructed this website and who, depending on the situation, may be standing before YOU at this time.  For example and among many other connections, Thomas took two classes with James and was inducted into Psi Chi by Edwards.

                                                           

                                                                                                   

                                                                                                  Roger K. Thomas

                                                                                  (1939-    )

                                                                                  Ph.D. 1965

 

 

                                                                                                  YOU!