Harry Estill Moore

Harry Estill Moore (January 4, 1897 - July 19, 1966) was an American professor and sociologist at the University of Texas at Austin.

Early life and education Moore was born in Bethany, Louisiana, on January 4, 1897, to James Francis and Mary Ellen Pace.

After graduating from high school, Moore worked for a newspaper in Shreveport, Louisiana. He then served in World War I, during which time he contracted tuberculosis.

Moore entered college in 1920 and earned a bachelor's degree in journalism in 1927 and a master's degree in sociology in 1934 from the University of Texas. They earned doctoral degrees simultaneously in 1937 in sociology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Career Moore was a professor of sociology at the University of Texas from 1937 to 1966, during which time he produced a number of publications in the field, including most notably An Introduction to Sociology, a textbook he co-authored with Earnest R. Groves in 1941. In the later years of his career, he authored several books on disaster studies, including Tornadoes over Texas (1958), Before the Wind (1963), and And the Winds Blew (1964). He also served as chairman of the Social Welfare Studies Committee at the University of Texas during the last year of his life. Students whose primary research interest is the human experience in crises are eligible to apply for an unrestricted, one-time $20,000 award to support the completion of their dissertations.

Death Moore died due to complications from a heart attack at St. David's Hospital in Austin, Texas on July 19, 1966, at 69 years old.