Editing Carleton S. Coon (section)

== Academic career ==
After obtaining his PhD, Coon returned to Harvard as a lecturer and later a professor. In 1931 he published his dissertation as the "definitive monograph" of the Rif Berber;<ref name="Schmeck" /> studied [[Albanians]] from 1920 to 1930; traveled to [[Ethiopia]] in 1933; and in worked in Arabia, North Africa and the [[Balkans]] from 1925 to 1939.

Coon left Harvard to take up a position at the [[University of Pennsylvania]] in 1948.{{Citation needed|date=October 2020}} Throughout the 1950s he produced academic papers, as well as many popular books for the general reader, the most notable being ''The Story of Man'' (1954).{{Citation needed|date=October 2020}} During his years at Penn in the 1950s, he sometimes appeared on the television program called ''What in the World?'', a game-show produced by the [[University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology|Penn Museum]], and hosted by its director, [[Froelich Rainey]], in which a panel of experts tried to identify an object in the museum's collection.{{Citation needed|date=October 2020}}

He was awarded the Legion of Merit for his wartime services and the Viking Medal in Physical Anthropology in 1952. He was also named a Membre D'Honneur of the Association de la Libération française du 8 novembre 1942.<ref name="Schmeck" /> From 1948 to the early 1960s, he was the Curator of Ethnology at the University Museum of Philadelphia.<ref name="Howells1989" />