ABSTRACT
Kingsley Davis's first academic position, as a newly minted Ph.D., was as assistant professor of sociology at Clark University. Clark University is located in Worcester, Massachusetts, some forty-five miles west of Boston. Kingsley Davis's stay at Clark University was marked by his marriage to Jane Quinn on August 20, 1936. In this marriage, which lasted about eighteen years, his first two children, Jo Ann and Jeff, were born His sojourn at Clark University was also marked by the appearance of two significant scholarly articles. The first of these, "Structural Analysis of Kinship," of which W. Lloyd Warner was the second author, appeared in the American Anthropologist, Vol. 39, No. 2. The second significant article published by Kingsley Davis in 1937 was "Reproductive Institutions and the Pressure for Population," Sociological Review, Vol. 29, No. 3. He became the not only department chairman but also an associate professor at Pennsylvania State University.
