John G. Wofford '57 has been named Associate Director of the Kennedy Institute.

Since the beginning of January, Wofford, who was an Institute Fellow last fall, has been assisting Richard E. Neustadt, Director of the Institute.

In his new post, he will also help Adam Yarmolinsky '43, professor of Law in developing a program in Urban Legal Studies at the Law School.

"We are studying how to incorporate in the law school curriculum the problems of large-scale movement into cities as these come to the attention of lawyers," Wofford explained.

Before coming to Harvard last fall, Wofford worked in the Community Action Program of the U.S. Office of Economic Opportunity as assistant to then-Deputy Director Frederick O. Hayes '49.

While with the government, Wofford and Hayes were in charge of establishing regional community action offices. They also developed the criteria for awarding community action grants and set up new programs across the country.

More Appointments

Other faculty appointments, effective July 1, are:

* Albert M. Craig, professor of Japanese History, who has been on the Harvard faculty since 1959.

* Richard J. Herrnstien, professor of Psychology. He is an experimental psychologist who first demonstrated the ability of pigeons to read photographs.

* John E. Murdoch, professor of History of Science. Chairman of the Department of the History of Science. Murdoch also serves on an advisory panel of the National Science Foundation.

* Steven Williams, professor of Anthropology. He will continue as Curator of North American Archaeology in the Peabody Museum.