Floyd Matson, bio-bibliography

Floyd Matson, bio-bibliography

(back) (contents) (next)
Floyd Matson Bio-Bibliography

Floyd Matson is the author or editor of eleven books in the fields of history
and the social sciences. Two of his books were written in collaboration with
Jacobus tenBroek, the founder of the National Federation of the Blind; one of
those books, Hope Deferred: Public Welfare and the Blind (1959), has acquired
the stature of a classic text within the organized blind movement. The other
collaboration, Prejudice, War and the Constitution (1954), won the Woodrow Wilson
Award of the American Political Science Association. Matson's books which have
been translated into German, Spanish, Italian, and Japanese editions include The Broken Image (1964), The Idea of Man (1976), The Human Connection (1979),
and The Dehumanization of Man (1983). Matson is Professor of American Studies
at the University of Hawaii, where he has taught since 1965. Prior to that
he was on the faculty of the University of California, Berkeley, where he also
earned his Ph.D. in political science. He has lectured widely abroad (including
England, Italy, Canada, the Netherlands, Taiwan, and South Korea), and in 1988
he delivered a series of broadcast lectures on American culture to a nationwide
television audience in Japan. Among the honors he has received is the Distinguished
Humanist Award of the American Humanist Association. He is a past president
of the Association for Humanistic Psychology and serves on the editorial boards
of three professional journals.

(back) (contents) (next)