David P. Barrows

David Prescott Barrows (1873–1954) was an American anthropologist, educator and university administrator. After a doctorate in anthropology at Chicago he went to the Philippines in 1900 under the American administration, headed the Bureau of Non-Christian Tribes and then served as director of education, building the public school system for which he wrote A History of the Philippines. Returning to the University of California at Berkeley, he was dean, professor of political science and, from 1919 to 1923, president of the university. He also served as a major general in the California National Guard and wrote on Berber North Africa and on American policy in the Pacific.