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Collection Summary
Identifier
UA 53.32
Title
Geoffrey and Sue Grant Papers
Creator
Grant, Geoffrey W.; Grant, Sue S.
Dates
1982-2001
Extent
1.96 linear feet (1 document case, 1 small document case, 1 oversize box)
Language
English
Repository
South Dakota State University Archives and Special Collections, Hilton M. Briggs Library, Brookings, South Dakota.
Access note
This collection is open to researchers without restrictions. The materials in the Archives do not circulate and may be used in-house only.
Preferred Citation
Name of item. Geoffrey and Sue Grant Papers. UA 53.32. South Dakota State University Archives and Special Collections, Hilton M. Briggs Library, Brookings, South Dakota.
Abstract
Geoffrey and Sue Grant were professors of rural sociology and English at South Dakota State University. This collections consists of material from their trips to China.
Biographical Note
Born July 13, 1941 in Evanston, Illinois, Geoffrey W. Grant began teaching in South Dakota State University’s Rural Sociology Department in 1977, becoming an Assistant Professor there in 1980.
In 1964, he received his B.S. in Sociology from Carroll College. From the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, he received his M.A in Sociology in 1969 and his Ph.D. in Sociology in 1980.
On June 29, 1964, he married Sue S. Grant; later Sue worked for South Dakota State University. They had one child, Jeremy Grant, born November 12, 1971. In 1985, Jeremy was living in Fairfield, Iowa.
Prior to teaching at SDSU, Dr. Grant was an instructor at University of Nebraska-Lincoln (1968-1970), an Assistant Professor at Parsons College in Fairfield, Iowa (1970-1972), and an Instructor at Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa (1972-1975).
During his time at SDSU, Dr. Grant’s responsibilities were 100% in teaching, including these areas of interest: social organization, social change, the family, juvenile delinquency, urban sociology, and sociology of work.
He made at least three extensive trips to China. First in 1979, as a member of a delegation of scholars, researchers and writers assembled by the Eisenhower Foundation for the Prevention of Violence, he was a guest of the Chinese Ministry of Justice for five weeks, touring criminal justice facilities and meeting with Judges, lawyers, etc., in five major Chinese cities.
The second trip in 1987, again with the Eisenhower Foundation, they visited five Chinese cities and met with criminal justice professional, except in Lhasa, Tibet, where they spent five days but with no professional meetings.
In the spring of 2001, Professor Grant was the SDSU faculty exchange professor to Yunnan Normal University in Kunming, China, the “City of Eternal Spring.” He taught two classes of junior composition and one senior class in tourism for the English Department. His wife, Sue Grant, taught three classes of English in a neighboring campus of YNU. The semester lasted from February to mid-July.
In 2003, as project of the Brookings Human Rights Committee, Dr. Grant conducted and reported on the “Brookings Human Rights Committee Survey of Discrimination, 2003,” which was to serve as a baseline for measuring trends, change, etc.
Contents Note
This collection includes printouts of 2001 emails from Geoffrey and Sue Grant to friends in USA, written while they were in Kunming, China, and recounting their experiences and views of life in Kunming and at Yunnan University. It also includes a CD-ROM with “Hundreds of .jpg pictures—Kunming, Beijing and Tibet” and the draft introduction (by Ronald J. Troyer of Drake University) to what would become the book “Social Control in the People’s Republic of China” (1989), which is in Box 2, File 28. One folder includes materials relating to the US and SD Departments of Transportation and to SD LTAP (Local Transportation Assistance Program).
Also included are printed materials relating to the Eisenhower Foundation sponsored trips to China, including correspondence, briefing package, journals, reports, descriptions of specific daily visits, detailing “important local officials”, participants, as well as interpreters, etc. The majority are dated 1987, but there is one each from 1983 and 1984. The two from 1988 and later include SDSU’s “China Exchange Program” and the book, “Social Control in the People’s Republic of China” (1989) with a chapter by Dr. Grant, “The Family and Social Control: Traditional and Modern.” Finally research will find approximately 49 oversize 19x13 color photographs of daily life in China (all that had labels stated 2001 Kunming).
Key Words
Grant, Geoffrey W.
Grant, Sue S.
Container List
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Series | Box | Folder | Description | Date |
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Crime Prevention China Trip Papers | 1 | 4 | All China Women's Federation | 1987 |
Crime Prevention China Trip Papers | 1 | 5 | Anding Psychiatric Hospital | 1987 |
Crime Prevention China Trip Papers | 1 | 6 | Children's Palace | 1987 |
Crime Prevention China Trip Papers | 1 | 27 | China Exchange Program | 1988, 1990-92, 1996 |
Crime Prevention China Trip Papers | 1 | 1 | China Trip Book Draft | 1982 |
Crime Prevention China Trip Papers | 1 | 7 | Crime and Justice Delegation Journal | 1987 |
Crime Prevention China Trip Papers | 1 | 2 | Crime Prevention Delegation Roster of Delegates | 1983 |
Crime Prevention China Trip Papers | 1 | 8 | Department of Justice | 1987 |
Crime Prevention China Trip Papers | 1 | 9 | Economic Crime | 1987 |
Crime Prevention China Trip Papers | 2 | 1 | E-Mail Evidence | 2001 |
Crime Prevention China Trip Papers | 1 | 10 | Guangdong Juvenile Delinquent Reformatory | 1987 |
Crime Prevention China Trip Papers | 1 | 11 | Guangzhou Schedule | 1987 |
Crime Prevention China Trip Papers | 1 | 12 | Harbin Measuring and Cutting Tool Works | 1987 |
Crime Prevention China Trip Papers | 1 | 13 | Harbin Prison - New Life Value Factory | 1987 |
Crime Prevention China Trip Papers | 1 | 28 | History of Department of Rural Sociology - SDSU | 1988 |
Crime Prevention China Trip Papers | 2 | 2 | Introduction | Undated |
Crime Prevention China Trip Papers | 2 | 3 | Kunming, Beijing, and Tibet Pictures CD | Undated |
Crime Prevention China Trip Papers | 1 | 14 | Meeting on Crime in the Philippines - National Police Commission | 1987 |
Crime Prevention China Trip Papers | 1 | 15 | Meeting with Judges and Lawyers on Economic Crime | 1987 |
Crime Prevention China Trip Papers | 1 | 16 | Ministry of Justice | 1987 |
Crime Prevention China Trip Papers | 1 | 17 | Ministry of Justice - Legal Education | 1987 |
Crime Prevention China Trip Papers | 1 | 18 | Ministry of Justice - Public Security | 1987 |
Crime Prevention China Trip Papers | 1 | 19 | Ministry of Public Security | 1987 |
Crime Prevention China Trip Papers | 1 | 20 | New Bilibid Prison | 1987 |
Crime Prevention China Trip Papers | 1 | 21 | Philippines Constabulary/Integrated National Police | 1987 |
Crime Prevention China Trip Papers | 1 | 22 | Professional Delegation on Crime and Justice | 1987 |
Crime Prevention China Trip Papers | 1 | 23 | Shanghai Law Institute | 1987 |
Crime Prevention China Trip Papers | 1 | 29 | Social Control in the People's Republic of China | 1989 |
Crime Prevention China Trip Papers | 2 | 4 | South Dakota Transportation Technology Transfer Service | Undated |
Crime Prevention China Trip Papers | 1 | 3 | Tibet Book Section | 1984, 1987 |
Crime Prevention China Trip Papers | 1 | 24 | WuSung Neighborhood | 1987 |
Crime Prevention China Trip Papers | 1 | 25 | Yang Pu District - People's Court Visit | 1987 |
Crime Prevention China Trip Papers | 1 | 26 | Zhabei Work Study School | 1987 |
Grant China Trip Pictures - Oversized | 3 | 38 | Art Gallery | 2001 |
Grant China Trip Pictures - Oversized | 3 | 19 | Bacon and Sausage for Sale | 2001 |
Grant China Trip Pictures - Oversized | 3 | 46 | Balloon Seller at Kunming Zoo | 2001 |
Grant China Trip Pictures - Oversized | 3 | 16 | Best Friends | 2001 |
Grant China Trip Pictures - Oversized | 3 | 4 | Bicycle Repairman Catches a Nap | 2001 |
Grant China Trip Pictures - Oversized | 3 | 49 | Bicycling to the Vegetable Market | 2001 |
Grant China Trip Pictures - Oversized | 3 | 29 | Breaktime | 2001 |
Grant China Trip Pictures - Oversized | 3 | 28 | Buying Bananas | 2001 |
Grant China Trip Pictures - Oversized | 3 | 31 | Corner News Stand | 2001 |
Grant China Trip Pictures - Oversized | 3 | 6 | Dong Fong Lu Market | 2001 |
Grant China Trip Pictures - Oversized | 3 | 32 | Enjoying a Smoke | 2001 |
Grant China Trip Pictures - Oversized | 3 | 33 | Enjoying Lunch | 2001 |
Grant China Trip Pictures - Oversized | 3 | 27 | Family Outing | 2001 |
Grant China Trip Pictures - Oversized | 3 | 47 | Family Portrait in Early February | 2001 |
Grant China Trip Pictures - Oversized | 3 | 37 | Friend with Green Slippers | 2001 |
Grant China Trip Pictures - Oversized | 3 | 8 | Full Service Bicycle Shop | 2001 |
Grant China Trip Pictures - Oversized | 3 | 1 | Gate to Green Lake Park | 2001 |
Grant China Trip Pictures - Oversized | 3 | 22 | Golden Lilies: A Women with Bound Feet | 2001 |
Grant China Trip Pictures - Oversized | 3 | 25 | Guarding a University Doorway | 2001 |
Grant China Trip Pictures - Oversized | 3 | 44 | Just Waiting | 2001 |
Grant China Trip Pictures - Oversized | 3 | 12 | Keeping the Catch Alive | 2001 |
Grant China Trip Pictures - Oversized | 3 | 43 | Kindergarten Dining | 2001 |
Grant China Trip Pictures - Oversized | 3 | 11 | Kunming Street Musician | 2001 |
Grant China Trip Pictures - Oversized | 3 | 15 | Letting Birds Talk at Bird Park | 2001 |
Grant China Trip Pictures - Oversized | 3 | 5 | Load of Computer Monitors Being Delivered | 2001 |
Grant China Trip Pictures - Oversized | 3 | 9 | Mah Jong Game Draws Onlookers | 2001 |
Grant China Trip Pictures - Oversized | 3 | 17 | Mah Jong in Green Lake Park | 2001 |
Grant China Trip Pictures - Oversized | 3 | 18 | Making Dumplings | 2001 |
Grant China Trip Pictures - Oversized | 3 | 2 | Making Pizza | 2001 |
Grant China Trip Pictures - Oversized | 3 | 45 | Scaling Fish | 2001 |
Grant China Trip Pictures - Oversized | 3 | 10 | Seagulls Wintering in Green Lake Park | 2001 |
Grant China Trip Pictures - Oversized | 3 | 36 | Selling Fruit | 2001 |
Grant China Trip Pictures - Oversized | 3 | 34 | Selling Vegetables | 2001 |
Grant China Trip Pictures - Oversized | 3 | 7 | Selling Vegetables and Watermelons | 2001 |
Grant China Trip Pictures - Oversized | 3 | 42 | So Many Kinds of Rice | 2001 |
Grant China Trip Pictures - Oversized | 3 | 48 | Street Market | 2001 |
Grant China Trip Pictures - Oversized | 3 | 40 | Student Laundromat | 2001 |
Grant China Trip Pictures - Oversized | 3 | 3 | Taking Home the Groceries | 2001 |
Grant China Trip Pictures - Oversized | 3 | 14 | To Work in Kunming | 2001 |
Grant China Trip Pictures - Oversized | 3 | 20 | Tomatoes and Cabbage | 2001 |
Grant China Trip Pictures - Oversized | 3 | 35 | Typical Classroom | 2001 |
Grant China Trip Pictures - Oversized | 3 | 13 | Unnamed | 2001 |
Grant China Trip Pictures - Oversized | 3 | 21 | Unnamed | 2001 |
Grant China Trip Pictures - Oversized | 3 | 23 | Unnamed | 2001 |
Grant China Trip Pictures - Oversized | 3 | 30 | Unnamed | 2001 |
Grant China Trip Pictures - Oversized | 3 | 41 | Unnamed | 2001 |
Grant China Trip Pictures - Oversized | 3 | 24 | View from a Classroom Window | 2001 |
Grant China Trip Pictures - Oversized | 3 | 39 | Watching the Street | 2001 |
Grant China Trip Pictures - Oversized | 3 | 26 | Zhou Comes Visiting | 2001 |
Administrative Information
Conditions Governing Access
This collection is open to researchers without restrictions. The materials in the Archives do not circulate and may be used in-house only.
Researchers conducting extensive research are asked to make an advance appointment to access archival material. Please call or e-mail prior to visiting the collection and indicate as much detail as possible about a particular topic and intended use.
South Dakota State University supports access to the materials, published and unpublished, in its collections. Nonetheless, access to some items may be restricted as a result of their fragile condition or by contractual agreements with donors.
Copyright note
Copyright restrictions apply in different ways to different materials. Many of the documents and other historical materials in the Archives are in the public domain and may be reproduced and used in any way. There are other materials in the Archive carrying a copyright interest and must be used according to the provisions of Title 17 of the U.S. Code. The Archive issues a warning concerning copyright restrictions to every researcher who requests copies of documents. Although the copyright law is under constant redefinition in the courts, it is ultimately the responsibility of the researcher to properly use copyrighted material.