Smith, Jonathan Z. (Personal Name)

His Map is ... 1978: t.p. (Jonathan Z. Smith)

Taborblog, viewed January 2, 2018 December 31, 2017 (Jonathan Z. Smith has died; passed away on December 30, 2017; obert O. Anderson Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of the Humanities at the University of Chicago; received his PhD from Yale, in Religious Studies, in 1969; author of numerous works, including Map Is Not Territory, Imagining Religion, and To Take Place; editor of The HarperCollins Dictionary of Religion; joined the faculty of the University of Chicago in 1968 and remained there his entire career. From 1973 to 1982 he assumed administrative responsibilities as associate dean and then dean of the college) https://jamestabor.com/jonathan-z-smith-has-died/

Ancestry library edition, viewed January 2, 2018 U.S. Public Records index, 1950-1993, volume 1 (Jonathan Zittell Smith; birth: 21 Nov 1938; address: Chicaog, IL)

Wikipedia, viewed January 2, 2017 (Jonathan Z. Smith; Jonathan Zittell Smith (J.Z. Smith); grew up in Manhattan; graduated from Haverford College in 1960 with a B.A. in philosophy; Bachelor of Divinity from Yale Divinity School and a Ph.D. in the history of religions from Yale University in 1969; positions at Dartmouth College and UC Santa Barbara, [before] he began teaching at the University of Chicago; served as Dean of the College from 1977-1982)

Ancestry library edition, viewed January 2, 2017 1940 United States Federal Census (Jonathan Smith; age: 6 months; birthplace New York; home in 1940: New York, Kings, New York)