Professor of art and art history. Consultant to National Endowment for the Humanities. Correspondence, administrative records.

Articles, clippings, correspondence, lectures, photographs, etc.

Professor of psychology, University of Iowa, from 1923 until 1964. Designed tests to measure artistic aptitude, and audience response. Correspondence, photographs, lectures.

Poet (numerous books from Worn Earth, 1932), editor of the O. Henry Prize Stories, 1954-1959, director of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, 1941-1967, and co-founder and director of the International Writers' Program, 1967-1976 at the University of Iowa. Literary manuscripts, correspondence, subject files, and student works documenting his career as a writer and teacher.

University of Iowa lecturer in political science, specializing in Oriental politics, 1921-1945.