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Howard's work focused on the play of children, including playground songs, chants, rhymes, and even insults, and she is one of, if not the, first person to earn a Ph.D. for the study of children's "folk jingles," as Howard called them. For her work with children's folklore and her use of folklore in
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Howard was born
Dorothy Gray Mills in July 1902, in Texas. She married James Howard in 1925, and the couple had two children. After her retirement, Howard lived in Roswell, New Mexico, from 1969. Eventually, due to failing health, Howard moved to Greenfield, Massachusetts, where she died in 1996 at
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Howard began her career as a schoolteacher in 1920 at the age of seventeen when she took over for a fourth grade teacher who passed away suddenly in a nearby community. Following her graduation from North Texas State
Teacher's College in 1923, she worked as a teacher, and eventually principal, in
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education, she has been described as a pioneer in the field by scholars and scholarly organizations, including the
American Folklore Society and The Anthropological Association for the Study of Play. Her Australian research collection was eventually donated to
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Australian children as part of a postdoctoral Fulbright Fellowship. She was the first person to ever undertake such documentation of Australian children's folklore in a systematic way.
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Howard published extensively, including articles for the general public such as a piece in
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Grider, Sylvia Ann (1994). "Dorothy Howard: Pioneer Collector of Children's Folklore".
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