Series VI are Katherine D. Dunham's papers related to her Master of Planning thesis on mess housing, which was a continuation of her father's research. It includes her field notebooks, sketches and maps of mess housing, research material, and surveys similar to those conducted by her father. Katherine's thesis was concerned with female workers' housing, but the surveys present here almost entirely report on males.
Box 6 Folder 2 Notebooks, 1991, 1993-1994
Includes Katherine Dunham's notebooks on field research in Bangladesh for her dissertation. (4 items)
Box 6 Folder 3 Surveys, 1994
Included are surveys of single-men living in mess houses. Surveys include sketches of the messes. The survey is based on Daniel Dunham's previous research into mess housing, and according to Katherine Dunham, she considered her work an extension of his. Whereas her father had focused on single male housing, Katherine Dunham stated her research, part of her Fulbright, focused on female housing, though surveys of females are not present here.
Box 6 Folder 4 Sketches and Maps, circa 1994
Included are maps of Dhaka with annotations locating messes and architectural sketches of mess housing.
Box 6 Folder 5 Research Material, circa 1994
Included are research materials on female housing in Bangladesh, including excerpts from Rosaline Costa, a book No Better Option? Industrial women Workers in Bangladesh by Hameeda Hossain, Roushan Jahan, and Salma Sobhan. (4 items)