Introduction

This finding aid was digitized with funds generously provided by the Smithsonian Institution Women's Committee.

Descriptive Entry

The papers of Gordon Gordh consist of correspondence and some subject files documenting Gordh's career at the USDA. Most of the material concerns the identification of specimens and also includes some reviews and corrections of professional papers sent to Gordh for comment.

Historical Note

Gordon Gordh (1945- ) received his B.A. from the University of Colorado in 1967, his M.A. from the University of Kansas in 1972, and his Ph.D. from the University of California, Riverside in 1974. Gordh accepted a position in 1974 as a Research Entomologist at the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), Systematic Entomology Laboratory, located at the National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C. He remained with the USDA until 1977, studying parasitic Hymenoptera from the super-family Chalcidoidea. In 1977, Gordh resigned from the Systematic Entomology Laboratory to take a job as Assistant Professor of Entomology at the University of California, Riverside.