Charlotte DeMonte Phelps papers, 1955-2013

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Summary

Creator:
Phelps, Charlotte
Abstract:
Charlotte Demonte Phelps (born 1933) is a professor emerita of economics at Temple University. This collection primarily documents her professional life through her correspondence, writings, research, and professional and faculty activities. It was acquired as part of the Economists' Papers Archive.
Extent:
6.5 Linear Feet (12 boxes.)
Language:
Material in English.
Collection ID:
RL.10178

Background

Scope and content:

Most of this collection is comprised of material related to Phelps' academic endeavors. Her correspondence primarily addresses colleagues across the field of economics. Her teaching material is from a number of her most-taught courses and includes student papers Phelps deemed excellent and worthy of saving. Her writings includes her honor's thesis, dissertation, and a number of published articles. Unpublished works such as conference papers can be found in a compilation of materials prepared for a promotion and tenure committee, along with further correspondence, both of which are housed in the Professional Service series. Also present are a number of conference programs and proceedings attended by her that attest to her involvement in her field. The Personal series deals mainly with her marriage to Edmund Phelps, including a marriage license, photographs, and series of letters following their divorce. Also included are a number of photographs with colleagues and a scrapbook of photographs.

Biographical / historical:

Charlotte Demonte Phelps (born 1933) is white American academic and research economist who was born in East Orange, New Jersy. She graduated with an AB in economics, magna cum laude, from Radcliffe College in 1955 and a PhD in economics from Yale University in 1961. She was an instructor at Connecticut College in 1961 and a research assistant at the Cowles Foundation for Economic Research from 1963-1965 before joining the faculty of Temple University in 1967, where she remained until her retirement in 2000. After retiring, she devoted herself full-time to research. She was married to economist Edmund Phelps, recipient of the 2006 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, from 1957-1969.

Acquisition information:
The Charlotte DeMonte Phelps papers were received by the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book and Manuscript Library as gifts in 2014 and 2018.
Processing information:

Processed by Janice Hansen, November 2014; Jonathan Cogliano, June 2018.

Accessions described in this collection guide: 2014-0149 and 2018-0047.

Arrangement:

This Charlotte DeMonte Phelps papers are arranged into six series: Correspondence, Teaching, Writings and Research, Professonal Service, Personal, and Audiovisual Material.

Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Subjects

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Subjects:
Economics -- Study and teaching -- United States
Economists -- United States -- Correspondence
Women economists -- United States
Names:
Economists' Papers Archive
Temple University -- Faculty
Phelps, Charlotte
Phelps, Edmund S.

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[Identification of item], Charlotte DeMonte Phelps papers, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Duke University.