Howard Stein: An Intellectual Odyssey

Howard F. Stein was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1946. He received both his BA with a major in Historical Musicology and a minor in Anthropology (1967) and his PhD in Medical and Psychological Anthropology (1972) from the University of Pittsburgh. He taught in the Department of Psychiatry at Meharry Medical College in Nashville, Tennessee, from 1972-1978. Stein is currently Professor, Department of Family and Preventive Medicine, College of Medicine, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, where he has taught behavioral sciences since 1978. He has held numerous visiting professorships including in the Department of Psychiatry, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, in the early 1980s, when he began collaborating with Vamik Volkan and Maurice Apprey, and in the Department of Family Medicine, University of North Carolina, in the mid-1980s. Stein has been a member of the International Psychohistorical Association (IPA) and of the editorial board of the Journal of Psychohistory for over 20 years. He has published many psychohistorical articles in the Journal, The Psychohistory Review, and Clio’s Psyche. Among the many awards Stein has received are the 1998 “Recognition Award” from the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine, a career-recognition award for outstanding contribution to the teaching of family medicine to residents and medical students, and the 1999 “Omer C. Stewart Memorial Award” of the High Plains Society for Applied Anthropology, of which he is currently President.