Arthur J. Jelinek was born in Chicago, Illinois on July 19, 1928. In 1956 he got married and later had two children with his wife. Arthur started college at the University of New Mexico in 1948 where he received his Bachelor of Arts Degree in 1952. He then went to the University of Michigan where he received his Master of Arts Degree in 1955. Jelinek then received his Ph.D. in Anthropology also at the University of Michigan in 1960. Dr. Jelinek was an Assistant Professor at the University of Chicago from 1958 to 1961, he was a member of the fellowship at Logan Museum, Beloit College in 1957 and 1958. He became an Associate Professorof Anthropology at the University of Michigan in 1963. In 1967 he became a Professor. He was also the creator of the Archeology Museum of Anthropology at the University of Michigan from 1961 - 1967.
Arthur Jelinek was a member of the United States Marine Corps from 1946 - 1948. He was also a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Society of American Archeology and the International Association of Quaternary Research in Prehistoric Archeology.
Some of Dr. Jelineks' special interests and contributions are the transition from food collection to food production, primitive technology, relationships between cultures and their natural habits and Plaeistone vertebrate paleontology. Dr. Arthur J. Jelinek is still a Professor at the University of Michigan and has a residence in Tucson, Arizona.
American Men & Women of Science - 1973, Volume 2
Dr. Steven L. Kuhn; Archeology Professor at the University of Arizona
Written by: Mark Sanow