Dennison J Nash, 87, professor emeritus of anthropology and sociology at the University of Connecticut, passed away on March 20, 2012, after a brief illness. He was born July 2, 1924, in Newark, NJ. After World War II service he received his BA from St Lawrence University, his MA from Washington University in St Louis, and his PhD from the University of Pennsylvania. His doctorate was in sociology, but he persistently retained a close collegial and scholarly relationship with anthropology, and became primarily identified as an anthropologist during his academic career. Twice in the 1970s he served as acting head of anthropology.
Dennison Nash
His primary research interest was focused on what he once called ?various kinds of outsiders or marginal people.? These included composers at first, then studies of various populations of ?strangers? including American enclaves abroad?????which eventually led him into his interest in the anthropology of tourism. He was an associate editor and contributor to Annals of Tourism Research. In 1996 he published Anthropology of Tourism (Pergamon Press). His most recent book is The Anthropology of Tourism: Anthropology and Sociological Beginnings (Emerald Group Publishing Limited), a collection of essays he edited in 2007. Some of his other publications in tourism research include A Community in Limbo: An Anthropological Study of an American Community Abroad (Indiana University Press), ?Tourism as an Anthropological Subject? (Current Anthropology 22) and ?Anthropology and Tourism? (with V Smith in Annals of Tourism Research 15[1]).
He also was involved in the study of religion and ethnographic field methodology. And with a much more general focus he authored A Little Anthropology (Prentice-Hall, 1989), reflecting his abiding interest in the teaching of introductory anthropology.
He was always an insightful, dedicated and entirely congenial colleague. He conscientiously spent most of his time in his campus office until his most recent health problems, always dispensing affable anecdotes and insights. He will be sorely missed by his colleagues at Connecticut and by his many friends and colleagues in this country and abroad. (Sally McBrearty)
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