Albert Galloway Keller

Albert Galloway Keller (1874–1956) was a sociologist, author, and student and colleague of William Graham Sumner. Keller is best known as the editor of William Graham Sumner’s papers in many volumes published in the early 20th century by Yale University Press. He was scholar in his own right and wrote on German colonial policy, economic geography, and sociology. Keller came from Springfield, Ohio. He graduated from Yale College in 1896 and received his Ph.D. from Yale in 1899. He immediately joined the social science faculty at Yale and was appointed professor in 1907, succeeding his mentor, and taught at Yale until 1942. He was the first holder of the William Graham Sumner Chair of Political Science at Yale. Yale's eclectic approach to...