Consisting of minutes, correspondence with deans, presidents, faculty and students, and reports, this series documents Diamond’s role as chair of the Anthropology Department in the New School's Graduate Faculty of Political and Social Science. From the time Diamond established Anthropology as an independent department from Sociology in 1970, he conceived of the program as a "critical and transformational enterprise." The department's curricular structure, he wrote in 1983, was intentionally "creatively antithetical to the conventional definitions and uses of academic anthropology." Of note in this series are documents relating to the evaluation of the department as part of a larger accreditation review by New York State begun in 1978. Materials here also relate to Diamond’s employment, including an episode that led to his transition from chair to distinguished professor of anthropology and the humanities in 1983, in the Ira Katznelson file.