Albert Galloway Keller

Albert Galloway Keller (1874 to 1956) was an American sociologist, author, and student and colleague of William Graham Sumner at Yale. He came from Springfield, Ohio, graduated from Yale College in 1896, took his doctorate at Yale University in 1899 and joined its social science faculty at once. He was made a professor in 1907, succeeding his mentor Sumner, taught at Yale until 1942 and was the first holder of the William Graham Sumner Chair of Political Science. He is best known as the editor of Sumner's papers, published by Yale University Press, and as co-author with Sumner of The Science of Society in 1927, but he was also a scholar in his own right who wrote on German colonial policy, economic geography and sociology; his books include Homeric Society of 1902, Colonization of 1908 and Societal Evolution of 1915. A Festschrift edited by George Peter Murdock, with essays by twenty-six scholars who had studied with him, marked his thirty years as a professor.