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s lye and work rejlect a profound integration ofart, litmature, social activism, and science. This article presents some ofthe highlights ofhis academic development and professional contributions. We have considered his early czaakmic rlevelopment within the contexts of the f m a t i v e years of Amm'can physical anthrqbology, Howard University Medical School, and the social issues in Amm'can society that influtlnced Cobb. His awoaches to teaching, anatomical and anthrapologzctil research, and medicine are unique, and yet ure closely reasoned and creative rejlections of the mujor cuwents of academe and the broadersociety with which he dealt. Imbued with a sense ofsocial responsibility, Cobb's applied anthropology involved the accumulation ofextensive data on the one hand, and the f m a t i o n o j organizations for social activism on the other. It 'IUCLS directed toward solving problems of health care and racism. His work thereb served to balance the widespread distortion and neglect of medical and racial problems f m i n g Afio-Amm'crL between 1930 and the present day. He was alro a principal builder o j bhck medical and scientzjic institutions, and he preserved the record ojhis cozi~orkm ' contributions through itis many biographies. This work rqbresents no more than a sketch of his rich und prolzjic career (during which he produced more than 1,lOOpublications); the emphasis ofthis biographical study has been to ascertain the circumstances and attitudes that helped mold the first Afrc-American Ph.D. in physical anthropology.

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