HISTORICAL FACULTY · JOINED 1991 · RETIRED 2018
Dr. Miriam Halpern
Former Chair, Human Systems Program
Professor Emerita of Anthropology and Documentary Systems
Documentary provenance, witness memory, institutional recordkeeping, and long-duration cultural archives.
STATUSEMERITAYEARS1952–
HISTORICAL PROFILE
Miriam Halpern established much of Wyman’s modern work on documentary systems and institutional memory. Her research treated disagreement among records as evidence to be preserved and explained rather than automatically normalized away.
AREA
Human Systems & Culture
EDUCATION
Ph.D., Anthropology — University of Michigan
B.A., History — Brandeis University