was survived by his wife, three sons, a daughter, five grandchildren, and five great-grandchildren. At the time of Kniffen's death, the flag on campus was flown at half-mast. A professorship was established in his name in 1991 entitled the "Fred B. Kniffen Professorship". In 1994, a wing of the Geosciences Building on Louisiana State University's campus was named the "Fred B. Kniffen" wing. During the past sixty years, over thirty festschrifts, dedications, and tributes have been made in his honor. Awards and honors 1922: Phi Beta Kappa 1929: Scholar, Southwest Laboratory of Anthropology 1938 – 1939: Rosenwalk Fellow, Europe 1959 – 1962: Councillor, Association of American Geographers 1961 – 1963: Consultant, College Geography Committee, Association of American Geographers 1963: Chairman, Publications Committee, Association of American Geographers 1964 – 1965: Honorary President, Association of American Geographers 1966 – 1967: Distinguished Professor, Louisiana State University Foundation 1967: Boyd Professor, Louisiana State University 1982: First Annual Award, Louisiana Folklore Society List of Key Works and Publications Culture Worlds (1951). New York: Macmillan. (with Richard J. Russell). Culture Worlds (1961). New York: Macmillan. (with Richard J. Russell and Evelyn Pruitt). Folk Housing: Key to Diffusion (1965). Annals of the Association of American Geographers 55: 549 – 577. The Indians of Louisiana (1966). 2nd ed. Gretna, Louisiana: Pelican Publishing Company. Why Folk Housing? (1965). Annals of the Association of American Geographers 65: 59 – 63. Louisiana: Its Land and People (1968). Louisiana State University Press. See also Berkeley School of Latin Americanist Geography Carl O. Sauer Alfred L. Kroeber Geography Cultural Geography List of Geographers External links List of Fred B. Kniffen's Awards and Publications List of Fred B. Kniffen's Papers (LSU Libraries) References American geographers 20th-century American geologists University of Michigan alumni Cultural geographers Louisiana State University faculty 1900 births 1993 deaths 20th-century American anthropologists 20th-century geographers