Lydia T. Black
{{Short description|American anthropologist (1925–2007)}}
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| birth_date = December 16, 1925
| birth_place = Kyiv, Soviet Union
| death_date = {{death date and age|2007|3|12|1925|12|16}}
| death_place = Kodiak, Alaska
| resting_place = Kodiak City Cemetery
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| alma_mater = Brandeis University (B.A., M.A., 1971)
University of Massachusetts Amherst (Ph.D., 1973)
| occupation = Anthropologist, professor, translator
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| notable_works = Russians in Tlingit America
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Lydia T. Black ({{Langx|ru|Лидия Сергеевна Блэк|translit=Lidiya Sergeyevna Blek}}; December 16, 1925 – March 12, 2007) was an American anthropologist.{{cite web|url=http://13c4.wordpress.com/2007/03/12/dr-lydia-black-1925-2007/ |title=Lydia T. Black 1925 to 2007 | Biocultural Science & Management |publisher=13c4.wordpress.com |date=March 12, 2007 |access-date=2012-07-10 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120317085007/http://13c4.wordpress.com/2007/03/12/dr-lydia-black-1925-2007/ |archive-date=March 17, 2012 }}
She won an American Book Award for Russians in Tlingit America: The Battles of Sitka, 1802 And 1804. She also received a Historian of the Year award from the Alaska Historical Society.{{cite web | url=http://alaskahistoricalsociety.org/about-ahs/awards/historian-of-the-year/ | title=James H. Ducker Historian of the Year - Alaska Historical Society | date=7 February 2014 }}
Life
She grew up in Kyiv. Her father was executed in 1933, and her mother died of tuberculosis in 1941. During World War II, she was sent to a German forced labor camp. After the war, in Munich, she was a janitor. She was enlisted by the Americans as a translator, at the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration displaced children's camp, since she could speak six languages.
She married Igor Black, and immigrated in 1950.{{cite web|url=http://theelderlies.wordpress.com/2007/03/14/lydia-t-black-1925-to-2007/ |title=Dr. Lydia T. Black « O\'Folks |publisher=Theelderlies.wordpress.com |date=March 14, 2007 |access-date=2012-07-10}}
She graduated from Brandeis University with a B.A., and M.A. in 1971, and University of Massachusetts Amherst with a Ph.D. in 1973.
She taught at Providence College beginning in 1973. She taught at the University of Alaska Fairbanks from 1984 to 1998. She worked translating and cataloging the Russian archives of Saint Herman's Orthodox Theological Seminary, earning the Cross of St. Herman.{{Cite web |url=http://www.kodiakdailymirror.com/?pid=19&id=4480] |title=Kodiak Daily Mirror |access-date=2012-07-10 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050123035657/http://www.kodiakdailymirror.com/?pid=19 |archive-date=2005-01-23 |url-status=dead }}
In April 2001, she, along with fellow anthropologist and historian and close colleague Richard Pierce, historians Barbara Sweetland Smith, John Middleton-Tidwell, and Viktor Petrov (posthumous), was decorated by the Russian Federation with the Order of Friendship Medal, which they received at the Russian consulate in San Francisco.{{cite web|url=http://dlib.eastview.com/browse/doc/3554807 |title=МЫ ВО ВЛАСТИ НАУКИ. На Аляске сохранилась русская "территория" |publisher=Obschaia Gazeta |date=2001-05-08 |access-date=2012-07-10|language=ru}}
She is buried at Kodiak City Cemetery.{{cite web|url=http://www.kodiakdailymirror.com/?pid=19&id=4480 |title=Daily newspaper of Kodiak, Alaska |publisher=Kodiak Daily Mirror |access-date=2012-07-10}}
Family
She married Igor A. Black (died 1969), an engineer for NASA contractors; they had four daughters.{{cite web |author=Alice and Pat Petrivelli |url=http://www.aleutcorp.com/newsletter/march2007/lydiablack.htm |title=Tribute to Dr. Lydia T. Black |publisher=The Aleut Corporation |date=March 2007 |access-date=2012-07-10 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120317085006/http://www.aleutcorp.com/newsletter/march2007/lydiablack.htm |archive-date=2012-03-17 }}
Works
- {{cite book| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NSRxrDm0JYYC&q=Lydia+T.+Black| title=Russians in Alaska, 1732-1867 | publisher= University of Alaska Press| year= 2004| isbn= 978-1-889963-04-4 }}
- {{cite book| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yFa4anGH6U0C&q=Russians+in+Tlingit+America%3A+The+Battles+of+Sitka%2C+1802+And+1804| title=Russians in Tlingit America|editor= Nora Dauenhauer|editor-link= Nora Dauenhauer|editor2=Richard Dauenhauer|editor2-link=Richard Dauenhauer|editor3=Lydia Black | publisher= University of Washington Press| year= 2008| isbn= 978-0-295-98601-2 }}
- {{cite book| title=The journals of Iakov Netsvetov: the Yukon years, 1845-1863| translator=Lydia T. Black| publisher= The Limestone Press| year= 1984| isbn= 978-0-919642-01-0 | title-link=Jacob Netsvetov}}
References
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External links
- [http://13c4.wordpress.com/2007/03/12/dr-lydia-black-documents/ Dr Lydia Black documents]
{{Alaska Women's Hall of Fame}}
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Category:American women anthropologists
Category:People from Kodiak, Alaska
Category:Soviet emigrants to the United States
Category:University of Alaska Fairbanks faculty
Category:20th-century American women scientists
Category:American Book Award winners
Category:20th-century American anthropologists