{"value"=>"<p>Born in 1935, Jean Frances Herskovits travelled with her parents to Brazil for their 1941-1942 field research there. Her experiences in Bahia became the basis for her 1951 honorable-mention <span class=\"title\">Atlantic Monthly</span>short story \"Magic or Medicine\". A Professor of African history, Ms. Herskovits received her Bachelor of Arts degree from Swarthmore College in 1956, and her PhD. From Oxford University in England in 1960, writing her dissertation on freed slaves who returned to Africa and the Lagos Colony. Ms. Herskovits has taught at Brown University, Swarthmore College, and The City College of New York from 1961-1977. Since 1977 she has been a professor of history at the State University of New York at Purchase, NY. An author of numerous books on African foreign policy, mainly Nigeria, Ms. Herskovits maintains ties to the areas of her parent's field work through correspondence and trips. This series contains college term papers, a published book review, a bound copy of her dissertation <span class=\"title\">Liberated Africans and the History of the Lagos Colony</span>, and a card file index to her dissertation.</p>"}