Carol F. Jopling

Carol Farrington Jopling ( – ) was an anthropologist, librarian, and chief librarian of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute between 1981 and 1984.

Personal life Carol F. Jopling was born on in Louisville to Elizabeth Farrington and her husband. She had one brother, Robert K. Farrington.

Education Jopling graduated from Vassar College in 1938 with a bachelor's degree in Art history. as a part of her doctorate from the University of Massachusetts in anthropology, which she received In 1973.

Career From 1960 to 1961, Jopling worked as a librarian at the University of Maryland. Her work contributed to the cataloguing and preservation of visual anthropological records, including photographs and field documentation.

She edited the anthology Art and Aesthetics in Primitive Societies (1971), which brought together foundational texts on cross-cultural aesthetic theory and visual analysis. Later, her book Puerto Rican Houses in Sociohistorical Perspective (1988) examined vernacular architecture through a sociohistorical lens and received the Allen Noble Book Award from the Pioneer America Society in 1989.

Her research materials, photographs, and field notes are preserved in the Smithsonian Institution's National Anthropological Archives.

Awards and honors Carol F. Jopling's book Puerto Rican Houses in Sociohistorical Perspective (1988) won the 1989 Allen Noble Book award for best edited book from the International Society for Landscape, Place, & Material Culture.