Daniel F. McCall

Daniel F. McCall, a voracious reader with broad scholarly interests and a steel-trap memory, helped create the anthropology department and build the African Studies Center into a cutting-edge interdisciplinary program in three decades at Boston University (BU). McCall (CAS’49), was a College of Arts & Sciences Professor Emeritus of Anthro­pology. After a tough Depression-era child­hood and a stint in the U.S. Coast Guard during World War II, McCall earned his degree from BU on the G.I. Bill. He later enrolled …