Dalmas Taylor
Dalmas Taylor
(1933-1998)
Dalmas was a natural leader, a scholar, a wise and accomplished politician and administrator, a mentor and a teacher. Dalmas was born in Detroit, Michigan on September 9, 1933, to Robert and Phanada Taylor. After serving in the United States Army, Dalmas completed his bachelor of Science degree in chemistry in 1959 at Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. He began his formal training in psychology when he entered Howard University, from which he earned his master of science degree in 1961.
There he began his scientific and scholarly research on race and issues of social justice. His doctoral training, chaired by Dean Pruitt, was completed at the University of Delaware, from which he received a doctor of philosophy degree in 1965.
Taylor’s first position was with the Naval Medical Research Institute, where he joined Irwin Altman and Ladd Wheeler to study interpersonal dynamics in socially isolated conditions. Their mission was to study small groups in isolation and confinement, as might exist in submarines.
Dr. Taylor, whose research included group behavior and the roots of racism, was at Maryland from 1970 to 1986. He was the university's assistant vice chancellor for academic affairs, associate dean for graduate research, director of the Afro-American studies program and director of the graduate program in social psychology.
His books included "Eliminating Racism" and "Small Groups." He was completing a book on affirmative action.
Dr. Taylor was a native of Detroit and a graduate of Case Western Reserve University. He received a master's degree in psychology from Howard University and a doctorate in psychology from the University of Delaware. He served in the Army.
He was director of a fellowship program for minority students of the American Psychological Association. After leaving Maryland, he was a dean at Wayne State University, senior vice president and provost of the University of Vermont and provost and psychology professor at the University of Texas at Arlington.
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