List of women anthropologists

This is a list of women anthropologists.

Name  | Description  | Birth  | Death  | Image

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Adeline Masquelier | American anthropologist  | 1960  |  |
Adrienne L. Kaeppler | American anthropologist  | 1935  |  |
Agnes Conway | British archaeologist and historian  | 1885  | 1950  |
Agnès Humbert | French art historian  | 1894-10-12  | 1963-09-19  |
Aihwa Ong | Malaysian sociocultural anthropologist  | 1950-02-01  |  |
Aileen Fox | English archaeologist  | 1907-07-29  | 2005-11-21  |
Alana Cordy-Collins | American archaeologist specializing in Peruvian prehistory  | 1944-06-05  | 2015-08-16  |
Alanah Woody | American anthropologist  | 1956-03-24  | 2007-07-19  |
Alba Zaluar | Brazilian anthropologist  | 1942-06-02  | 2019-12-19  |
Aleksandra Dunin-Wąsowicz | Polish archaeologist  | 1932-06-10  | 2015-07-22  |
Alessandra Melucco Vaccaro | Italian classical scholar  | 1940-04-04  | 2000-08-29  |
Alette Schreiner | Norwegian researcher  | 1874-05-18  | 1957-12-26  |
Alexandra David-Néel | Belgian-French anarchist, Buddhist, explorer, spiritualist, writer  | 1868-10-24  | 1969-09-08  |
Alice Beck Kehoe | American anthropologist  | 1934  |  |
Alice Cunningham Fletcher | American ethnologist  | 1838-03-15  | 1923-04-06  |
Alice E. Gillington | British author, poet and gypsy folklorist  | 1863  | 1934-05-22  |
Alice G. Dewey | American anthropologist  | 1928-12-04  | 2017-06-11  |
Alice Kober | American classical scholar and archaeologist  | 1906-12-23  | 1950-05-16  |
Alice Mossie Brues | American physical anthropologist  | 1913-10-09  | 2007-01-14  |
Alice Roberts | English physician, anatomist, physical anthropologist, television presenter, author  | 1973-05-19  |  |
Alicia P. Magos | Filipino anthropologist  |  |  |
Alison Galloway | American forensic anthropologist  |  |  |
Alison Spedding | British anthropologist  | 1962-01-22  |  |
Alison Wylie | British-Canadian philosopher of science and archaeologist  | 1954  |  |
Alla Ter-Sarkisiants | Russian anthropologist, historian and ethnographer of Armenia  |  |  |
Amalia Signorelli | Italian cultural anthropologist  | 1934-08-06  | 2017-10-25  |
Amanda Adams | American author and archaeologist  | 1976-09-12  |  |
Amber Case | American cyborg anthropologist  |  |  |
Amelia Edwards | British novelist, journalist, traveller and Egyptologist  | 1831-06-07  | 1892-04-15  |
Amélie Kuhrt | British historian  | 1944  |  |
Ana María Groot | Colombian historian, archaeologist and anthropologist  | 1952-08-29  |  |
Angana P. Chatterji | Indian anthropologist, activist, and feminist historian  | 1966-11  |  |
Aninhalli Vasavi | Indian anthropologist  | 1958-12-20  |  |
Anita Álvarez de Williams | American anthropologist, photographer and historian  | 1931  |  |
Anita Brenner | Mexican writer  | 1905-08-13  | 1974-12-01  |
Ann Dunham | American anthropologist, mother of Barack Obama | 1942-11-29  | 1995-11-07  |
Ann Fienup-Riordan | American cultural anthropologist  | 1948-10-13  |  |
Ann Peoples | American anthropologist and camp manager, McMurdo Station |  |  |
Anna Curtenius Roosevelt | American archaeologist  | 1946  |  |
Anna Czekanowska-Kuklińska | Polish musicologist and ethnographer  | 1929-06-25  |  |
Anna Lomax Wood | American anthropologist and public folklorist  | 1944-11-20  |  |
Anna Lou Dehavenon | American urban anthropologist  | 1926-11-24  | 2012-02-07  |
Anna Maria Bietti Sestieri | Italian archaeologist  | 1942-12-07  | 2023-07-02  |
Anna Maria Di Sciullo | Canadian linguist  |  |  |
Anna Pujol Puigvehi | Spanish archaeologist and historian  | 1947-08-16  |  |
Anna Sadurska | Polish Classical scholar  | 1924  | 2004  |
Anna Tsing | American anthropologist  | 1952  |  |
Annah Robinson Watson | American author and folklorist  | 1848  | 1930  |
Annamaria Orla-Bukowska | Polish social anthropologist  |  |  |
Anne Allison | American cultural anthropologist  |  |  |
Anne Chapman | American anthropologist  | 1922-11-28  | 2010-06-12  |
Anne Dambricourt-Malassé | French paleoanthropologist  | 1959  |  |
Anne Johnson | British archaeologist  | 1951-08-28  |  |
Anne Macaulay | British musicologist  | 1924-03-11  | 1998  |
Anne Salmond | New Zealand anthropologist, environmentalist and writer  | 1945-11-16  |  |
Anne Stine Ingstad | Norwegian archaeologist  | 1918-02-11  | 1997-11-06  |
Anne Walbank Buckland | British anthropologist, ethnologist, and travel writer  | 1832  | 1899  |
Anne Zeller | American physical anthropologist, specializing in primates  |  |  |
Annemarie Mol | Dutch ethnographer and philosopher  | 1958-09-13  |  |
Annette Laming-Emperaire | French archeologist  | 1917-10-22  | 1977  |
Annette Weiner | American anthropologist  | 1933-02-14  | 1997-12-07  |
Annie Brisset | Canadian linguist  |  |  |
Annie Marion MacLean | early American sociologist  | 1869  | 1934  |
Annie York | elder of the Nlaka'pamux, ethnobotany contributor  | 1904  | 1991  |
Antonia Arslan | Italian writer/academic of Armenian origins  | 1938  |  |
Antonia Mills | Canadian anthropologist  |  |  |
Aud Talle | Norwegian anthropologist  | 1944  | 2011-08-16  |
Audrey Butt Colson | Social anthropologist  | 1926  |  |
Audrey Meaney | Archaeologist  | 1931  | 2021  |
Audrey Richards | Anthropologist  | 1899-07-08  | 1984-06-29  |
Audrey Smedley | American anthropologist  | 1930  | 2020  |
Bambi Schieffelin | American linguist  | 1945  |  |
Barbara Freire-Marreco | English anthropologist and folklorist  | 1879  | 1967  |
Barbara Harrell-Bond | British academic  | 1932  | 2018  |
Barbara J. Heath | American archaeologist  | 1960-12-27  |  |
Barbara Myerhoff | American filmmaker and anthropologist  | 1935-02-16  | 1985-01-07  |
Barbara Rylko-Bauer | American anthropologist  | 1950  |  |
Barbara Smuts | American anthropologist  |  |  |
Beatrice Blackwood | Anthropologist  | 1889-05-03  | 1975-01-29  |
Beatrice Blyth Whiting | American anthropologist  | 1914-04-14  | 2003-09-29  |
Beatrice De Cardi | Archaeologist  | 1914-06-05  | 2016-07-05  |
Beatrice Medicine | American anthropologist  | 1923-08-01  | 2005  |
Berit Wallenberg | Swedish anthropologist and archaeologist  | 1902  | 1995  |
Bertha P. Dutton | American anthropologist, archaeologist, ethnologist  | 1903  | 1994  |
Bertha Parker Pallan | archaeologist  | 1907-08-30  | 1978-10-08  |
Bertha Phillpotts | British academic  | 1877  | 1932  |
Beryl Esembe | Sociologist/Anthropologist/Philanthropist, Christian  | 1972-07-10  |  |
Betsy Bryan | American Egyptologist  | 1949  |  |
Bettina Hauge | Danish anthropologist  | 1964  |  |
Betty Meggers | Archaeologist  | 1921-12-05  | 2012-07-02  |
Bianca Williams | Black American cultural anthropologist  | 1980  |  |
Birgit Zotz | Austrian writer and anthropologist  | 1979-08-07  |  |
Birgitta Hoffmann | British archaeologist  | 1969-05-18  |  |
Birutė Galdikas | primatologist, conservationist, and ethologist  | 1946-05-10  |  |
Blanche Wheeler Williams | Archeologist and teacher  | 1870-01-09  | 1936-12-09  |
Bonnie Nardi | American academic  |  |  |
Brackette Williams | American anthropologist  | 1955  |  |
Bridget Allchin | English archaeologist, specializing in South Asian archaeology  | 1927  | 2017  |
Brigitte Bönisch-Brednich | German anthropologist  |  |  |
Brit Solli | Norwegian archaeologist  | 1959  |  |
Brunilde Sismondo Ridgway | Italian art historian  | 1929  |  |
Butet Manurung | anthropologist or education activist  | 1972-02-21  |  |
C.H.E. Haspels | Archeologist  | 1894-09-15  | 1980-12-25  |
Camilla Wedgwood | British anthropologist  | 1901-03-25  | 1955-05-17  |
Carenza Lewis | British archaeologist  | 1963  |  |
Carla Obermeyer |  |  |  |
Carmel Schrire | anthropology and author  | 1941-05-15  |  |
Carmen Baroja | Spanish writer and ethnologist  | 1883  | 1950-06-04  |
Carmen Guarini | Argentine anthropologist, teacher, film maker  | 1953-01-18  |  |
Carobeth Laird | Ethnologist  | 1895-07-20  | 1983-08-05  |
Carol Breckenridge | American anthropologist  | 1942  | 2009  |
Carol Delaney | American anthropologist  | 1940-12-12  |  |
Carol J. Greenhouse | American anthropologist  | 1950-01-04  |  |
Carol Laderman | Medical anthropologist and writer  | 1932-10-25  | 2010-07-06  |
Carol Meyers | American archaeologist  | 1942  |  |
Carol R. Ember | American cultural anthropologist  | 1943-07-07  |  |
Carole C. Noon | American primatologist  | 1949-07-14  | 2009-05-02  |
Caroline Furness Jayne | American ethnologist  | 1873  | 1909  |
Caroline Humphrey | British academic, anthropologist  | 1943-09-01  |  |
Caroline Malone | British archaeologist  | 1957  |  |
Caroline Moser | British sociologist and anthropologist.  |  |  |
Caroline Wilkinson | British anthropologist  | 1965-10-27  |  |
Carolyn Fluehr-Lobban | American archaeologist and anthropologist  |  |  |
Carolyn Hamilton |  |  |  |
Carolyn M. Heighway | British archaeologist  | 1943  |  |
Carolyn Sargent | Medical anthropologist  |  |  |
Caterina Magni | Italian-born French archaeologist and anthropologist  | 1966  |  |
Catharine McClellan | American anthropologist  | 1921-03-01  | 2009-03-03  |
Catherine Berndt | Australian anthropologist  | 1918-05-08  | 1994-05-12  |
Catherine L. Besteman | American anthropologist  |  |  |
Catherine Lutz | American anthropologist  | 1952  |  |
Catherine Morgan |  | 1961-10-09  |  |
Catherine Namono | Ugandan archaeologist  |  |  |
Catherine S. Fowler | American anthropologist  |  |  |
Cathrine Hasse | Danish anthropologist  | 1956  |  |
Cathy Small | American anthropologist  | 1949  |  |
Cezaria Jędrzejewiczowa | Polish scientist and art historian  | 1885-08-02  | 1967-02-28  |
Chantal Boulanger | French anthropologist  | 1957-01-04  | 2004-12-27  |
Charlotte Booth | British archaeologist and Egyptologist  | 1975-04-06  |  |
Charlotte Gower Chapman | American ethnologist  | 1902  | 1982  |
Charlotte Lewis | character from the American mystery fiction television series Lost  | 1971-07-02  |  |
Charlotte Roberts | bioarchaeologist  | 1957  |  |
Charlotte Viall Wiser | American anthropologist  | 1892  | 1981  |
Chie Nakane | Japanese anthropologist  | 1926-11-30  |  |
Christen A. Smith | Associate professor of anthropology and African and African diaspora studies  |  |  |
Christian Maclagan | British antiquary and archaeologist  | 1811  | 1901  |
Christiane Desroches Noblecourt | French Egyptologist  | 1913-11-17  | 2011-06-23  |
Christine Niederberger Betton | French archaeologist  |  | 2001  |
Chuni Kotal | Indian Dalit anthropologist  | 1965  | 1992  |
Cindy Cruz | American ethnographer  |  |  |
Claire Barratt | Industrial archaeologist, steam engineer and television presenter  | 1974  |  |
Claire Smith | Australian archaeologist  | 1957-07-15  |  |
Clara Passafari | Argentine anthropologist  | 1930-03-20  | 1994  |
Clare Selgin Wolfowitz | American anthropologist  | 1945-11  |  |
Clarisa Hardy | Argentinian-born Chilean politician, anthropologist and psychologist  | 1945-12-15  |  |
Claudia Roden | British writer  | 1936  |  |
Claudia Zaslavsky | American ethnomathematician  | 1917-01-12  | 2006-01-13  |
Clea Koff | Anthropologist  | 1972  |  |
Clémence Royer | French philosopher  | 1830-04-21  | 1902-02-06  |
Clementina Panella | Archaeologist  |  |  |
Cleo Odzer | American writer and anthropologist  | 1950-04-06  | 2001-03-26  |
Constance Cox | Canadian interpreter  | 1881  | 1960  |
Constance Goddard DuBois | Ethnographer  |  | 1934  |
Constanza Ceruti | Argentinian anthropologist  | 1973-01-06  |  |
Cora DuBois | anthropologist, academic  | 1903-10-26  | 1991-04-07  |
Courtney Angela Brkic | American anthropologist and writer  | 1972  |

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Cristina Rémond | Canadian public servant  | 1980  |  |
Cynthia Beall | American anthropologist  | 1949  |  |
Cynthia Irwin-Williams | Archaeologist  | 1936-04-14  | 1990-06-15  |
Daisy Bates | Irish Australian journalist known for her work with Aboriginal People  | 1859-10-16  | 1951-04-18  |
Danielle Stordeur | Archaeologist  | 1944  |  |
Danijela Stefanović | Serbian Egyptologist  |  |  |
Daphne Berdahl | American anthropologist  | 1964-06-14  | 2007-10-05  |
Daria Khaltourina | Sociologist and Anthropologist  | 1979-01-04  |  |
Dawn Atkins | Anthropologist  | 1962-02-13  |  |
Dawn Prince-Hughes | American scientist  | 1964-01-31  |  |
Dean Falk | American anthropologist  | 1944-06-25  |  |
Débora Diniz | Brazilian anthropologist  | 1970  |  |
Deborah Fouts | American anthropologist  |  |  |
Deborah Hyde | British anthropologist and editor-in-chief  | 1965  |  |
Deborah M. Pearsall | American paleoethnobotany  | 1950  |  |
Denise Schmandt-Besserat | Professor of Art and Archaeology  | 1933-08-10  |  |
Dia Cha | American anthropologist  | 1962  |  |
Dian Fossey | American zoologist, gorilla researcher  | 1932-01-16  | 1985-12-27
1985-12-26  |
Diana Kirkbride | British archaeologist  | 1915-10-22  | 1997-08-13  |
Diane Barwick | Canadian anthropologist  | 1938  | 1986  |
Diane Bell | Australian writer and anthropologist  | 1943-06-11  |  |
Diane Massam | Canadian linguist  |  |  |
Diane Zaino Chase | American archaeologist  | 1953  |  |
Dina Lévi-Strauss | French anthropologist  | 1911-02-01  | 1999-02-25  |
Dolores Piperno | archaeologist  |  |  |
Donna Gerdts | American linguist  |  |  |
Dorinne K. Kondo | Anthropologist  |  |  |
Doris Bartholomew | American linguist  | 1930  |  |
Doris Zemurray Stone | American Mesoamericanist  | 1909-11-19  | 1994-10-21  |
Dorothea Bate | Welsh palaeontologist and archaeozoologist  | 1878-11-08  | 1951-01-13  |
Dorothea Bleek | German anthropologist and philologist  | 1873-03-26  | 1948-06-27  |
Dorothy Burr Thompson | American archaeologist  | 1900-08-19  | 2001-05-10  |
Dorothy D. Lee | American anthropologist  | 1905  | 1975-04  |
Dorothy E. Smith | Canadian anthropologist  | 1926-07-06  |  |
Dorothy Garrod | First female Professor at Cambridge  | 1892-05-05
1892-04-05  | 1968-12-18  |
Dorothy Jean Ray | Anthropologist  | 1919-10-10  | 2007-12-12  |
Dorothy King | American self-described archaeologist and historian  | 1975  |  |
Dorothy Way Eggan | American anthropologist  | 1901  | 1965  |
Dounia Bouzar | French anthropologist, writer and educator  | 1964  |  |
E. S. Drower | British cultural anthropologist  | 1879-12-01  | 1972-01-27  |
Edith Durham | British artist  | 1863-12-08  | 1944-11-15  |
Edith Porada | American art historian  | 1912-08-22  | 1994-03-24  |
Edith Turner | anthropologist  | 1921-06-17  | 2016-06-18  |
Eilat Mazar | Eilat Mazar is an Israeli archaeologist, specializing in Jerusalem and Phoenician archeology.  | 1956-09-10  |  |
Eileen Krige | South African anthropologist  | 1905  | 1995  |
Eleanor Leacock | anthropologist  | 1922  | 1987  |
Eleanor Myers | English archaeologist  | 1925  | 1996  |
Eleanor Robson | British academic  | 1969  |  |
Elena Berezovich | Russian linguist  | 1966-01-02  |  |
Elena Efimovna Kuzmina | Russian archaeologist  | 1931-04-13  | 2013-10-17  |
Eliane Karp | First Lady of Peru  | 1953-09-24  |  |
Elinor Ochs | American anthropologist  | 1944-10-22  |  |
Elisabeth Croll | Croll [née Sprackett], Elisabeth Joan [Lisa] (1944–2007), Sinologist and anthropologist  | 1944-09-21  | 2007-10-03  |
Elizabeth | American anthropologist  |  |  |
Elizabeth Brumfiel | Archaeologist  | 1945-03-10  | 2012-01-01  |
Elizabeth Burgos | Venezuelan anthropologist  | 1941  |  |
Elizabeth Colson | US social anthropologist  | 1917-06-15  | 2016-07  |
Elizabeth Cowper | Canadian linguist  | 1952  |  |
Elizabeth Fentress | American archaeologist  | 1948-10-30  |  |
Elizabeth French | British archaeologist  | 1931  | 2021  |
Elizabeth Grant | Australian architect and anthropologist  | 1963  |  |
Elizabeth Jacobs | American anthropologist  | 1903  | 1983-05-21  |
Elizabeth Kapu'uwailani Lindsey | American actress  | 1956-04-17  |  |
Elisabeth Krämer-Bannow | German ethnologist  | 1874-09-29  | 1945-01-09  |
Elizabeth Marshall Thomas | American anthropologist and author  | 1931-09-13  |  |
Elizabeth Mertz | American anthropologist  |  |  |
Elizabeth Spillius | Anthropologist  | 1924-03-03  | 2016-07-04  |
Elizabeth Thomas | American Egyptologist  | 1907-03-29  | 1986-11-28  |
Elizabeth Warnock Fernea | American anthropologist, writer and filmmaker  | 1927-10-21  | 2008-12-02  |
Elizabeth Wayland Barber | Archaeologist  | 1940-12-02  |  |
Ella Cara Deloria | Yankton Dakota Author  | 1889-01-31  | 1971-02-12  |
Ella Sophia Armitage | English historian  | 1841-03-03  | 1931-03-20  |
Ellen Dissanayake | American anthropologist  |  |  |
Elli Köngäs-Maranda | Canadian anthropologist  | 1932-01-11  | 1982-11-01  |
Elsie Clews Parsons | American anthropologist  | 1875-11-27  | 1941-12-19  |
Emeline Hill Richardson | American archaeologist  | 1910-06-06  | 1999-08-29  |
Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney | Japanese-born anthropologist  | 1934  |  |
Emiliana Cruz | American anthropologist  |  |  |
Emilie Demant Hatt | Danish artist  | 1873-01-21  | 1958-12-04  |
Emily Martin | Anthropologist  | 1944-11-07  |  |
Emily Vermeule | American archaeologist  | 1928-08-11  | 2001-02-06  |
Erica Lehrer | American anthropologist  | 1969  |  |
Erika Bourguignon | American anthropologist and university teacher (1924-2015)  | 1924-02-18  | 2015-02-15  |
Erika Simon | German classical archaeologist  | 1927-06-27  |  |
Erminie Wheeler-Voegelin | American anthropologist  | 1903-04-02  | 1988-07-10  |
Erminnie A. Smith | American anthropologist and folklorist  | 1836  | 1886-06-09  |
Erna Gunther | American anthropologist  | 1896
1896-11-09  | 1982  |
Ernestine Friedl | American anthropologist  | 1920  | 2015-10-12  |
Eslanda Goode Robeson | American anthropologist, author, actor and civil rights activist  | 1896-12-12  | 1965-12-13  |
Estelle Lazer | Australian archaeologist  |  |  |
Esther Boise Van Deman | American archaeologist  | 1862-10-01  | 1937-05-03  |
Esther de Pommery | Swiss activist  |  |  |
Esther Hermitte | Argentine anthropologist  | 1921  | 1990  |
Esther Newton | Anthropologist  | 1940  |  |
Esther Schiff Goldfrank | American anthropologist  | 1896  | 1997-04-23  |
Ethel Alpenfels | American anthropologist  | 1907  | 1981  |
Ethel Bristowe |  | 1862  | 1952  |
Eugenie Scott | Anthropologist  | 1945-10-24  |  |
Eugenie Sellers Strong | British archaeologist and art historian  | 1860-03-25  | 1943-09-16  |
Eva Justin | German psychologist  | 1909-08-23  | 1966-09-11  |
Éva Pócs | Hungarian anthropologist, historian, ethnographer  | 1936  |  |
Eva Verbitsky Hunt | Argentine anthropologist  | 1934  | 1980  |
Evelyn Byrd Harrison | American art historian  | 1920-06-05  | 2012-11-03  |
Ewa Klonowski | Polish anthropologist  | 1946  |  |
Fadwa El Guindi | Egyptian-American anthropologist  | 1941  |  |
Faina Petryakova | Ukrainian ethnographer  | 1931  | 2002  |
Fatimah Jackson | American biological anthropologist  |  |  |
Faye Ginsburg | American anthropologist  |  |  |
Faye V. Harrison | American anthropologist  |  |  |
Felicitas Goodman | American linguist and anthropologist  | 1914-01-30  | 2005-03-30  |
Fiona Caroline Graham | Australian anthropologist  | 1961-09-16  | 2023-01-26  |
Florence Connolly Shipek | American anthropologist and ethnohistorian  | 1918-12-11  | 2003-01-09  |
Florence Hawley | Anthropologist  | 1906-09-17  | 1991  |
Florinda Donner | American writer and anthropologist  | 1944-02-15  |  |
France Martineau | Linguist  | 1960  |  |
France Winddance Twine | American ethnographer  | 1960  |  |
Frances D'Souza, Baroness D'Souza | British academic, life peer  | 1944-04-18  |  |
Frances Densmore | American anthropologist  | 1867-05-21  | 1957-06-05  |
Frances J. White | American anthropologist  |  |  |
Frances Toor | American author  |  | 1956  |
Francine Saillant | Canadian anthropologist  | 1953  |  |
Françoise Claustre | French archaeologist  | 1937-02-08  | 2006-09-03  |
Françoise Henry | Art historian  | 1902
1902-06  | 1982
1982-02-10  |
Françoise Héritier | French anthropologist  | 1933-11-15  |  |
Françoise Pommaret | French Tibetologist  | 1954  |  |
Freda Ahenakew | Author  | 1932-02-11  | 2011-04-08  |
Frederica de Laguna | American ethnologist, anthropologist, and archaeologist  | 1906-10-03  | 2004-10-06  |
Frédérique Apffel-Marglin | Professor emerita/Anthropology  |  |  |
Fuambai Ahmadu | American anthropologist  |  |  |
Gabriella Coleman | Internet anthropologist  | 1973  |  |
Gail M. Kelly | American anthropologist  | 1933-02-09  | 2005-08-17  |
Galia Sabar | Israeli professor of African studies  | 1963  |  |
Halyna Lozko | Ukrainian ethnologist  | 1952-02-03  |  |
Galina Starovoytova | Russian academic and politician  | 1946-05-17  | 1998-11-20  |
Gayatri Reddy | Anthropologist, professor of gender studies  | 1982-06-23  |  |
Gayle J. Fritz | American paleoethnobotanist  |  |  |
Gayle Rubin | American cultural anthropologist, activist, and feminist  | 1949  |  |
Gene Weltfish | American anthropologist and historian  | 1902-08-07  | 1980-08-02  |
Genevieve Bell | Australian anthropologist  |  |  |
Georgina Born | Musician, academic, anthropologist  | 1955-11-15  |  |
Geraldine Finlayson | Gibraltarian historian  |  |  |
Geraldine Harris | British Egyptologist  | 1951  |  |
Germaine Dieterlen | French anthropologist  | 1903-05-15  | 1999-11-13  |
Germaine Tillion | French anthropologist  | 1907-05-30  | 2008-04-18
2008-04-19  |
Gertrud Pätsch | German ethnologist and philologist  | 1910-01-22  | 1994-12-14  |
Gertrude Bell | English writer, traveller, political officer, administrator, archaeologist and spy  | 1868-07-14  | 1926-07-12  |
Gertrude Blom | Swiss Mesoamericanists  | 1901-07-07  | 1993-12-23  |
Gertrude Caton–Thompson | British archaeologist  | 1888-02-01  | 1985-04-18  |
Gertrude M. Godden | British academic  |  |  |
Gillian Cowlishaw | New Zealand-born anthropologist who researches Aboriginal Australian culture and people  | 1934-12-19  |  |
Gina Athena Ulysse | a Haitian-American anthropologist, feminist, poet, performance artist and activist  |  |  |
Ginette Aumassip |  |  |  |
Gisela Bleibtreu-Ehrenberg | German ethnologue, sociologue, writer  | 1929-08-02  | 2025-02-12  |
Gisela Richter | British art historian and archaeologist  | 1882-08-14  | 1972-12-24  |
Gladys Reichard | American anthropologist  | 1893-07-17  | 1955-07-25  |
Gladys Tantaquidgeon | Native American anthropologist, Medicine Woman, author  | 1899-06-15  | 2005-11-01  |
Grace Crowfoot | British archaeologist  | 1877  | 1957  |
Grete Mostny | Austrian anthropologist and archaeologist (1914-1991)  | 1914-09-17  | 1991-12-15  |
Gudrun Corvinus | German archaeologist  | 1931-12-14  | 2006-01-01  |
Guillemette Andreu | French Egyptologist and archaeologist  | 1948-08-03  |  |
Halet Çambel | Fencer, archaeologist  | 1916-08-27  | 2014-01-12  |
Halleh Ghorashi | Anthropologist  | 1962-07-30  |  |
Hallgerður Gísladóttir | Ethnologist and poet  | 1952-09-28  | 2007-02-01  |
Hannah Landecker | author and Associate Professor of Sociology at UCLA  |  |  |
Hannah Marie Wormington | American archaeologist  | 1914-09-05  | 1994-05-31  |
Harriet Boyd-Hawes | American archaeologist  | 1871-10-11  | 1945-03-31  |
Harriet Cosgrove | American archaeologist  | 1887  | 1970  |
Heather Botting | Canadian anthropologist  | 1948  |  |
Heather Burke | Australian archaeologist  |  |  |
Heather Horst | American anthropologist  |  |  |
Heather Hurst | American archaeologist  | 1976  |  |
Heather Levi | American anthropologist  |  |  |
Heather McKillop | Canadian-American Mesoamericanists  | 1953  |  |
Heather Pringle | Canadian non-fiction author and journalist  |  |  |
Heleen Sancisi Weerdenburg | Dutch archaeologist and historian  | 1944-05-23  | 2000-05-28  |
Helen Codere | cultural anthropologist  | 1917-09-10  | 2009-06-05  |
Helen Fisher | Canadian anthropologist  | 1947  |  |
Helen Geake | Archaeologist  | 1967  |  |
Helen Leach | New Zealand anthropologist  | 1945  |  |
Helen Perlstein Pollard | American academic  | 1946  |  |
Helena Hamerow | British archaeologist  | 1971-09-18  |  |
Helena Wulff | Anthropologist  | 1954-02-07  |  |
Helene Hagan | American anthropologist  | 1939  |  |
Helene J. Kantor | American archaeologist  | 1919-07-15  | 1993-01-13  |
Henrietta Moore | British social anthropologist  | 1957-05-18  |  |
Henriette Mertz | American lawyer and history researcher  | 1898  | 1985  |
Hermine Hartleben | German Egyptologist  | 1846-06-02  | 1919-07-18  |
Hilary du Cros | Australian archaeologist  |  |  |
Hilda Kuper | South African anthropologist  | 1911-08-23  | 1992-04-23  |
Hilda Lockhart Lorimer |  | 1873  | 1954  |
Hilda Petrie | British Egyptologist  | 1871-06-08  | 1956-11-23  |
Hilde Danielsen | Social anthropologist  | 1971  |  |
Hilde Frafjord Johnson | Norwegian diplomat and politician  | 1963-08-29  |  |
Hilma Granqvist | Finnish anthropologist  | 1890  | 1972  |
Homa Hoodfar | Iranian anthropologist  | 1950  |  |
Honor Frost | Underwater archaeologist  | 1917-10-28  | 2010-09-12  |
Hortense Powdermaker | American anthropologist  | 1900-12-24  | 1970-06-15  |
Huguette Dagenais | French-Canadian anthropologist  | 1943  |  |
Ida Halpern | ethnomusicologist  | 1910-07-17  | 1987-02-07  |
Ilse Schwidetzky | German anthropologist  | 1907-09-06  | 1997-03-18  |
Ineke van Wetering | Dutch anthropologist  | 1934-10-17  | 2011-10-18  |
Ingeborg Scheibler | German art historian, archaeologist and anthropologist  | 1929-08-31  |  |
Ingrid Rüütel | First Lady of Estonia  | 1935-11-03  |  |
Irawati Karve | Indian anthropologist and sociologist  | 1905-12-15  | 1970-08-11  |
Irit Ziffer | Israeli archaeologist and art historian  | 1954  |  |
Irma McClaurin | American anthropologist  |  |  |
Isabella Abbott | Educator, ethnobotanist  | 1919-06-20  | 2010-10-28  |
Jacqueline Roumeguere-Eberhardt | French anthropologist  | 1927-11-27  | 2006-03-29  |
Jacquetta Hawkes | British archaeologist  | 1910-08-05  | 1996-03-18  |
Jacqui Wood | British archaeologist  | 1950-01-04  |  |
Jane C. Goodale | American anthropologist  | 1926  | 2008  |
Jane Dieulafoy | French anthropologist  | 1851-06-29
1851-06-20  | 1916-05-25  |
Jane Ellen Buikstra | American anthropologist  | 1945  |  |
Jane Goodall | British primatologist, ethologist, and anthropologist  | 1934-04-03  |  |
Jane I. Guyer | British anthropologist  | 1943-12-31  |  |
Jane MacLaren Walsh | American anthropologist  |  |  |
Janet Bennion | American anthropologist  | 1964-10-02  |  |
Janet D. Spector | American archaeologist  | 1944-10-21  | 2011-09-13  |
Janet Davidson | New Zealand archaeologist  |  |  |
Janet Roitman | American anthropologist  |  |  |
Janice Boddy | Canadian anthropologist  |  |  |
Janine R. Wedel | Scholar on international policy  | 1957-10-09  |  |
Jean Briggs |  | 1929-05-28  | 2016-07-27  |
Jean Comaroff | American anthropologist  |  |  |
Jean Lave | American anthropologist  |  |  |
Jean Schensul | American anthropologist  |  |  |
Jeanne Arnold | American archaeologist  |  |  |
Jeanne Guillemin | American anthropologist  | 1943-03-06  | 2019-11-15  |
Jennifer Moody | American archaeologist  |  |  |
Jessica Greenberg | Anthropologist  |  |  |
Jill Pruetz | American anthropologist and primatologist  |  |  |
Jill Rosemary Dias | Anglo-Portuguese anthropologist and historian  |  |  |
Jo Anne Van Tilburg | American archaeologist  |  |  |
Joan Breton Connelly | archaeologist and academic  | 1954  |  |
Joan du Plat Taylor | British archaeologist  | 1906-06-26  | 1983-05-21  |
Joan Halifax | American Zen Buddhist roshi, anthropologist, ecologist, and civil rights activist  | 1942  |  |
Joan Lee Tu  | Linguist  | 1981  |  |
Joan M. Tenenbaum | American academic  | 1945  |  |
Joan Metge | New Zealand anthropologist, academic, educator  | 1930-02-21  |  |
Joann Kealiinohomoku | American anthropologist  | 1930-05-20  | 2015  |
Jocelyne Dakhlia | French historian, anthropologist and academic  | 1959  |  |
Jocelyn Toynbee | British archaeologist and art historian  | 1897-03-03  | 1985-12-31  |
Johanna Mestorf | German prehistoric archaeologist and Professor  | 1828-04-17  | 1909-07-20  |
Johnnetta B. Cole | American anthropologist  | 1936-10-19  |  |
Jolan Babus | Hungarian ethnographer and teacher  | 1917-10-17  | 1967-05-05  |
Jorun Solheim | Anthropologist  | 1944-11-18  |  |
Jovita González | American writer  | 1904-01-18  | 1983  |
Joyce Marcus | American archaeologist  | 1948  |  |
Joyce Tyldesley | British archaeologist and Egyptologist  | 1960-02-25  |  |
Judith Becker | Ethnomusicologist  | 1932-09-03  |  |
Judith Berman | American writer  | 1958  |  |
Judith E. Glaser | American businesswoman  |  |  |
Judith Lynne Hanna | American anthropologist  | 1936  |  |
Judith Shapiro | American anthropologist  | 1942-01-24  |  |
Judy Birmingham | Australian archaeologist  |  |  |
Julia Averkieva | Soviet anthropologist  | 1907  | 1980  |
Julia Elena Fortún | Bolivian historian  | 1929-10-09  | 2016-12-05  |
Juliet Morrow | American archaeologist  |  |  |
June Helm | anthropologist  | 1924-09-13  | 2004-02-05  |
June Nash | American anthropologist  | 1927  | 2019  |
K. Aslihan Yener | Turkish archaeologist  |  |  |
Karen Boswall | Filmmaker  |  |  |
Karen Ho | American anthropologist  |  |  |
Karen Mc Carthy Brown | American anthropologist  | 1942  | 2015-03-04  |
Karen Nakamura | American academic  | 1970-10-23  |  |
Karen Ramey Burns | forensic anthropologist  |  | 2012-01-07  |
Kari Bruwelheide | American anthropologist  | 1967-03-16  |  |
Karla Poewe | American anthropologist  | 1941-01-27  |  |
Karolyn Smardz Frost | Historian  |  |  |
Käte Bosse-Griffiths | Welsh-German Egyptologist  | 1910-06-16
1910-07-16  | 1998-04-04  |
Kate Fox | British anthropologist  |  |  |
Katharina C. Rebay | Austrian archaeologist  | 1977-12-16  |  |
Katharina Galor | Israeli woman archaeologist  | 1966  |  |
Katharine Elizabeth Dopp | American anthropologist  | 1863-03-01  | 1944-03-14  |
Katharine Luomala | American anthropologist  | 1907-09-10  | 1992  |
Katherine Dunham | Dancer, choreographer, songwriter, activist  | 1909-06-22  | 2006-05-21  |
Katherine Routledge | British archaeologist  | 1866-08-11  | 1935-12-13  |
Kathleen Gough | British anthropologist  | 1925-08-16  | 1990-09-08  |
Kathleen Kenyon | British archaeologist  | 1906-01-05  | 1978-08-24  |
Kathleen M. Adams | American anthropologist  |  |  |
Kathleen Musante DeWalt | American anthropologist  |  |  |
Kathleen O'Neal Gear | American writer  | 1954  |  |
Kathrine S. French | American anthropologist  | 1922-06-05  | 2006-06-14  |
Kathryn Woolard | American linguistic anthropologist  | 1950  |  |
Katherine Ann Dettwyler | American anthropologist  | 1955  |  |
Kathy Reichs | American writer, anthropologist, forensic anthropologist  | 1948-07-07  |  |
Katrina Karkazis | anthropologist, bioethicist  |  |  |
Katy Gardner | British writer  | 1964  |  |
Katya Gibel Mevorach | American anthropologist  | 1952-06-18  |  |
Kay Warren | American anthropologist  | 1947-02-10  |  |
Keewaydinoquay Peschel | American Ethnobiologist  | 1919  | 1999  |
Kelly Dixon | American archaeologist  |  |  |
Kim Yeshi | French-American anthropologist and tibetologist  | 1966  |  |
Kira Hall | American linguist and anthropologist  | 1962-10-10  |  |
Kirsten Hastrup | Danish anthropologist  | 1948-2-20  |  |
Kris L. Hardin | American anthropologist  | 1953-03-07  | 2012-08-21  |
Kristen Gremillion | American anthropologist  | 1958-11-17  |  |
Kristen R. Ghodsee | American ethnographer and a Professor of Gender and Women's Studies at Bowdoin College  | 1970-04-26  |  |
Kristina Killgrove | American anthropologist, bioarchaeologist, writer  | 1977-03-10  |  |
L. Taylor Hansen | American writer  | 1897-11-30  | 1976-05  |
Lady Hester Stanhope | British archaeologist  | 1776  | 1839  |
Laura Bohannan | Cultural anthropologist  | 1922  | 2002-03-19  |
Laura Nader | American anthropologist  | 1930  |  |
Laurette Séjourné | French-Mexican scholar in ancient American cultures  | 1911-10-19  | 2003-05-25  |
LaVerne Jeanne | American linguist  |  |  |
Layla AbdelRahim | Canadian comparatist anthropologist and author  |  |  |
Lee Ann Newsom | American anthropologist  |  |  |
Leela Dube | Indian anthropologist  | 1923-03-27  | 2012-05-20  |
Leila Badre | Archaeologist  | 1943-02-20  |  |
Leith Mullings | American anthropologist  |  |  |
Lélia Gonzalez | Brazilian activist  | 1935-02-01  | 1994-07-10  |
Lesley Gill | American anthropologist  |  |  |
Leslie Milne | British anthropologist  | 1860  | 1932  |
Leslie Van Gelder | American archaeologist  | 1969  |  |
Leyla Neyzi | Turkish academic  | 1961-07-29  |  |
Lida Shaw King | American classical scholar and college dean  | 1868-09-15  | 1932-01-10  |
Lila Abu-Lughod | Anthropologist  | 1952-10-21  |  |
Lilian Hamilton Jeffery | British archaeologist, classical philologist and epigraphist  | 1915-01-05  | 1986-09-29  |
Lina Fruzzetti | American film director and anthropologist  |  |  |
Linda Braidwood | American archaeologist  | 1909-10-09  | 2003-01-15  |
Linda Dégh | Folklorist  | 1918-03-19  | 2014-08-20  |
Linda Fierz-David | German philologist  | 1891  | 1955  |
Linda L. Barnes | American anthropologist  | 1953  |  |
Linda L. Layne | American anthropologist  | 1955  |  |
Linda M. Hunt | Professor - Medical Anthropology  |  |  |
Lisa Curran | American tropical forester  |  |  |
Lisa Redfield Peattie | American anthropologist  | 1924  |  |
Lisa Rofel | American anthropologist  |  |  |
Lisbeth Haas | American historian and anthropologist  |  |  |
Lissant Bolton | Australian anthropologist and Keeper of Africa, Oceania and Americas at the British Museum | 1954  |  |
Lívia Járóka | Hungarian politician  | 1974-10-06  |  |
Liza Dalby | American writer and anthropologist  | 1950  |  |
Lorna Marshall | American anthropologist  | 1898-09-14  | 2002-07-08  |
Lorraine Copeland | British archaeologist  | 1921  | 2013-04-27  |
Louise Burkhart | American academic  | 1958  |  |
Louise Lamphere | American anthropologist  | 1940  |  |
Louise Leakey | Kenyan paleontologist  | 1971-03-21  |  |
Lourdes Gutiérrez Nájera | Anthropologist  |  |  |
Lucy Goodison | British archaeologist  |  |  |
Lucy Mair | British anthropologist  | 1901-01-28  | 1986-04-01  |
Lucy Myers Wright Mitchell | American historian and writer on archaeology  | 1845-03-20  | 1888-03-10  |
Lucy Suchman | British sociologist  |  |  |
Lucy Taxis Shoe Meritt | American archaeologist  | 1906  | 2003-04-13  |
Luisa Accati | Historian, anthropologist, feminist  | 1942  |  |
Luisa Maffi | American anthropologist  |  |  |
Lydia Cabrera | Afro-Cuban poet  | 1900-05-20  | 1991-09-19  |
Lydia T. Black | Ukrainian American anthropologist  | 1925-12-16  | 2007-03-12  |
Lydia White | Canadian linguist  |  |  |
Lyla Pinch Brock | Canadian Egyptologist  |  |  |
Lyn Miles | American anthropologist  | 1944-08-05  |  |
Lynne P. Sullivan | American archaeologist  | 1952-12-25  |  |
Mabel Cook Cole | American anthropologist  | 1880-04-18  | 1977-11  |
Mabel Lang | American archaeologist  | 1917-11-12  | 2010-07-21  |
Madawi al-Rasheed | Saudi Arabian academic  | 1962  |  |
Madeleine Colani | French archaeologist  | 1866
1866-08-13  | 1943  |
Madeleine Pelletier | physician, psychiatrist, feminist, socialist  | 1874-05-18  | 1939-12-29  |
Madeline Kneberg Lewis | American anthropologist  | 1903  | 1996  |
Mai Yamani | Saudi Arabian anthropologist  | 1956  |  |
Makaziwe Mandela | daughter of Nelson Mandela and Evelyn Ntoko  | 1954  |  |
Makereti Papakura | Tuhourangi woman of mana, guide, ethnographer  | 1873  | 1930  |
Malathi de Alwis | Feminist scholar/activist:International Centre for Ethnic Studies/Colombo/Sri Lanka  |  |  |
Malika Zeghal | American academic  | 1965  |  |
Marcela Lagarde | Mexican academic, author, researcher, anthropologist, feminist activist and politician  | 1948-12-30  |  |
Marcia C. Inhorn | American medical anthropologist  | 1957  |  |
Marcia Langton | Aboriginal scholar and activist  | 1951-10-31  |  |
Marcia Theophilo | Brazilian poet  | 1941  |  |
Margaret B. Blackman | American anthropologist  | 1944  |  |
Margaret Bender | American anthropologist  |  |  |
Margaret Conkey | American archaeologist  | 1943  |  |
Margaret Elizabeth Ashley-Towle | American archaeologist  | 1902-01-12  | 1985-11-02  |
Margaret Hasluck | British scholar  | 1885-06-18  | 1948-10-18  |
Margaret Lantis | U.S. Anthropologist  | 1906-09-01  | 2006-09-08  |
Margaret Lock | anthropologist  | 1936  |  |
Margaret Mead | American anthropologist  | 1901-12-16  | 1978-11-15  |
Margaret Murray | British Egyptologist  | 1863-07-13  | 1963-11-13  |
Margaret Rule | British archaeologist  | 1928-09-27  | 2015-04-09  |
Margarete Bieber | Art historian  | 1879
1879-07-31  | 1978
1978-02-25  |
Margarethe Lenore Selenka | German academic  | 1860  | 1923  |
Margherita Guarducci | Italian archaeologist and epigraphist  | 1902-12-20  | 1999-09-02  |
Margrét Hermanns-Auðardóttir | Icelandic archaeologist  |  |  |
Marguerite Dupire | French ethnologist  | 1920-10-12  | 2015-03-04  |
Mari Lyn Salvador | Anthropologist  | 1943  |  |
Maria Czaplicka | Polish anthropologist  | 1884-10-25  | 1921-05-27  |
Marianne Nøhr Larsen | Danish anthropologist  | 1963-03-26  |  |
María Elisa Velázquez Gutiérrez | Mexican anthropologist  |  |  |
Maria Fadiman | Botanist  | 1969-07-04  |  |
Maria Reiche | Peruvian archaeologist  | 1903-05-15  | 1998-06-08  |
Maria Teschler-Nicola | Austrian human biologist, anthropologist and ethnologist  | 1950  |  |
Marianne Gullestad | Norwegian anthropologist  | 1946-03-28  | 2008-03-10  |
Marie-Claire Foblets | anthropologist, lawyer, professor  | 1959-11-04  |  |
Marie-Françoise Guédon | Canadian anthropologist  |  |  |
Marie-Lucie Tarpent | Canadian linguist  |  |  |
Marija Gimbutas | Lithuanian-American archaeologist  | 1921-01-23  | 1994-02-02  |
Marija Makarovič | Ethnologist  | 1930-08-15  |  |
Marika Moisseeff | French anthropologist and psychiatrist  |  |  |
Marilyn Houlberg | American anthropologist and photographer  |  | 2012-06-30  |
Marilyn Ivy | American anthropologist  |  |  |
Marilyn Strathern | British anthropologist  | 1941-03-06  |  |
Marina Cunin | social anthropologist  |  |  |
Marion Elizabeth Blake | American classical scholar  | 1892-03-23  | 1961-09-11  |
Mariza Corrêa | Brazilian anthropologist  | 1945-12-01  | 2016-12-27  |
Marjan Mashkour | Iranian archaeologist  |  |  |
Marjorie F. Lambert | American anthropologist and archaeologist  | 1908-06-13  | 2006-12-16  |
Marjorie Halpin | American-Canadian anthropologist  | 1937  | 2000  |
Marjorie Shostak | American anthropologist  | 1945-05-11  | 1996-10-06  |
Marta Lamas | Argentinian anthropologist  | 1947  |  |
Marta Turok | Mexican anthropologist  | 1952  |  |
Martha Crago | Canadian linguist  |  |  |
Martha Kaplan | American anthropologist  | 1957  |  |
Martha Rhoads Bell | American archaeologist  | 1941-04-27  | 1991-11-12  |
Martha Warren Beckwith | American folklorist and ethnographer  | 1871-01-19  | 1959-01-28  |
Martine Franck | Belgian photographer  | 1938-04-02  | 2012-08-16  |
Mary Albright |  |  |  |
Mary Ann Ochota | British broadcaster and anthropologist  | 1981-05-08  |  |
Mary Cabot Wheelwright | American anthropologist  |  | 1958-07-29  |
Mary Catherine Bateson | American anthropologist  | 1939-12-08  |  |
Mary Catherine Ferguson | Irish writer and archaeologist  | 1823  | 1905  |
Mary Doria Russell | American novelist  | 1950-08-19  |  |
Mary Douglas | British anthropologist  | 1921-03-25  | 2007-05-16  |
Mary Frere | English author  | 1845-08-11  | 1911-03-02  |
Mary Hamilton Swindler | archaeologist  | 1884-01-01  | 1967-01-16  |
Mary Leakey | British paleoanthropologist  | 1913-02-06  | 1996-12-09  |
Mary Lindsay Elmendorf | American applied anthropologist  | 1917  | 2017  |
Mary Lou Ridinger | American archaeologist  | 1945  |  |
Mary-Russell Ferrell Colton | American artist, author, educator  | 1889-03-25  | 1971-07-26  |
Matilda Coxe Stevenson | Ethnologist  | 1849-05-12  | 1915-06-24  |
Maud Cunnington | British archaeologist  | 1869-09-24  | 1951-02-28  |
Maud Oakes | American ethnologist  | 1903  | 1990  |
Maxine Margolis | American anthropologist  |  |  |
Maya Haïdar Boustani | Archaeologist  |  |  |
Meave Leakey | Archiologist  | 1942-07-28  |  |
Melba Padilla Maggay | writer and social anthropologist  | 1950-09-10  |  |
Mercedes Doretti | Argentine anthropologist  | 1959  |  |
Mercedes Fernández-Martorell | Spanish writer and anthropologist  | 1948-11-25  |  |
Meredith Small | American anthropologist  | 1950-11-20  |  |
Merrill Swain | language scholar  |  |  |
Merryl Wyn Davies | Welsh Muslim scholar  | 1948-06-23  |  |
Micaela Portilla | Spanish anthropologist  | 1922-07-30  | 2005-10-08  |
Michelle Rosaldo | American anthropologist  | 1944  | 1981  |
Mildred Trotter | American anthropologist  | 1899-02-03  | 1991-08-23  |
Mildred Mott Wedel | American archaeologist, anthropologist, and ethnohistorian of the Great Plains | 1912-09-07  | 1995-09-04  |
Minou Tavárez Mirabal | Congresswoman  | 1956-08-31  |  |
Miranda Aldhouse-Green | British archaeologist and academic  | 1947-07-24  |  |
Mireya Mayor | American anthropologist  | 1973  |  |
Miriam Tildesley | Tildesley, Miriam Louise (1883–1979), anthropologist  | 1883-07-01  | 1979-01-31  |
Miriyam Aouragh | Dutch anthropologist  | 1972-11-18  |  |
Miyako Inoue | American linguistic anthropologist  | 1962  |  |
Mizuko Ito | Japanese cultural anthropologist  | 1968-07-22  |  |
Mona Bhan | cultural anthropologist  |  |  |
Mónica Pellecer Alecio | Guatemalan archaeologist  |  |  |
Monica Wilson | South African anthropologist  | 1908-01-03  | 1982-10-26  |
Montgomery McFate | Anthropologist  | 1966-01-08  |  |
Muazzez İlmiye Çığ | Turkish female sumerologist  | 1914-06-20  | 2024-11-17  |
Muhibbe Darga | Turkish archaeologist  | 1921-06-13  |  |
Myra Shackley | British archaeologist  | 1949  |  |
Myrna Gopnik | Canadian psychologist and linguist  |  |  |
Myrna Mack | Guatemalan anthropologist  | 1949-10-24  | 1990-09-11  |
Nadia Abu El Haj | Academic  | 1962  |  |
Nancy Abelmann | American anthropologist  | 1959  |  |
Nancy Dupree | American archaeologist  | 1927  |  |
Nancy Oestreich Lurie | American anthropologist  | 1924-01-29  |  |
Nancy Romero-Daza |  |  |  |
Nancy Scheper-Hughes | American anthropologist  | 1944  |  |
Nancy Turner | Canadian ethnobiologist  | 1947  |  |
Natalia Polosmak | Russian archaeologist  | 1956-09-12  |  |
Natalie Curtis | American ethnomusicologist  | 1875-04-26  | 1921-10-23  |
Nathalie Beaux-Grimal | French Egyptologist  | 1960  |  |
Nathalie Luca | French anthropologist  | 1966  |  |
Niara Sudarkasa | American anthropologist  | 1938-08-14  |  |
Nicky Milner | British archaeologist  |  |  |
Nicole Loraux | French historian  | 1943-04-26  | 2003-04-06  |
Nicolette Bethel | Bahamian anthropologist  |  |  |
Niède Guidon | Brazilian archaeologist  | 1933-03-12  |  |
Nina Etkin | American anthropologist  | 1948-06-13  | 2009-01-26  |
Nina Frances Layard | British writer and archaeologist  | 1853  | 1935  |
Nina Gagen-Torn | Russian writer and historian  | 1900-12-02  | 1986-06-04  |
Nina Jablonski | anthropologist and palaeobiologist, known for her research into the evolution of skin color in humans  | 1953-08-20  |  |
Nita Kumar | American anthropologist  |  |  |
Nora Ahlberg | Professor  | 1952  |  |
Norma Mendoza-Denton | sociolinguist and anthropologist  | 1968  |  |
Odette du Puigaudeau | French ethnologist  | 1894-07-20  | 1991-07-19  |
Odille Morison | Canadian linguist  | 1855-07-17  |  |
Olga F. Linares | Panamanian–American academic anthropologist and archaeologist  | 1936-11-10  | 2014-12-02  |
Olga Najera-Ramirez | American anthropologist  |  |  |
Olive Pink | Australian botanical illustrator, anthropologist, gardener, and activist for aboriginal rights  | 1884-03-17  | 1975-07-06  |
Olivia Harris | Social anthropologist  | 1948-08-26  | 2009-04-09  |
Orly Goldwasser | Israeli Egyptologist  |  |  |
Paloma Gay y Blasco | Social anthropologist  |  |  |
Pamela Erickson | Medical anthropologist  | 1951-04-12  |  |
Patricia Alice Shaw | Canadian linguist  |  |  |
Patricia Barchas | Anthropologist and behavioral neurobiologist  |  | 1993-07-06  |
Patricia Birley | British archaeologist  | 1948-06-27  |
Patricia Tovar | Colombian/US Anthropologist  |  |
Patricia Sawin | American anthropologist  |  |  |
Patricia Wright | American primatologist  | 1944-09-10  |  |
Patricia Zavella | anthropologist and professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz  |  |  |
Patty Jo Watson | anthropologist  |  |  |
Pauline Turner Strong | American anthropologist  |  |  |
Pearl Primus | American dancer and choreographer  | 1919-11-29  | 1994-10-29  |
Penelope Wilson | British Egyptologist  |  |  |
Penny Wolin | American photographer  | 1953-06-05  |  |
Phyllis Kaberry | Australian anthropologist  | 1910-09-17  | 1977-10-31  |
Phyllis Morse | American archaeologist  | 1934  |  |
Phyllis Williams Lehmann | American archaeologist  | 1912-11-12  | 2004-09-29  |
Pirkko-Liisa Lehtosalo-Hilander | Finnish archaeologist  |  |  |
Polly Hill | British social anthropologist  | 1914-07-14  | 2005-08-21  |
Polly Schaafsma | American archaeologist  |  |  |
Priscilla Reining | American anthropologist  | 1923-03-11  | 2007-07-19  |
Prudence Hero Napier | British zoologist  |  | 1997-06-06  |
Rae Bridgman | Canadian writer  |  |  |
Raquel Brailowsky | Puerto Rican anthropologist  |  |  |
Rayna Rapp | professor of anthropology at New York University, specializing in gender, reproduction, health and culture, science and technology  |  |  |
Rebecca Grinter | American computer scientist  |  |  |
Regina Bendix | Swiss academic  | 1958-05-31  |  |
Regna Darnell | Canadian anthropologist  |  |  |
Regula Tschumi | Swiss ethnologist  | 1957  |  |
Reina Torres de Araúz | Argentinian anthropologist  | 1932-10-30  | 1982-02-26  |
Renée Friedman | American Egyptologist  |  |  |
Rhoda Bubendey Métraux | Anthropologist  | 1914  | 2003  |
Riane Eisler | Austrian sociologist  | 1931-07-22  |  |
Rita El Khayat | Moroccan anthropologist  | 1944  |  |
Rita P. Wright | American anthropologist  |  |  |
Rivke Jaffe | Dutch anthropologist and professor  | 1978  |  |
Roberta Gilchrist | British archaeologist  | 1965  |  |
Rosalind Moss | British Egyptologist  | 1890-09-21  | 1990-04-22  |
Rose Mary Allen | Curaçaoan anthropologist  |  |  |
Rose Oldfield Hayes | American anthropologist  |  |  |
Rosemary Cramp | British archaeologist  |  |  |
Rosemary Firth | Anthropologist  | 1912  | 2001-07-09  |
Ruth Amiran | Israeli archaeologist  | 1914-12-08  | 2005-12-14  |
Ruth Behar | Jewish Cuban American writer  | 1956-11-12  |  |
Ruth Benedict | American anthropologist and folklorist  | 1887  | 1947  |
Ruth Bunzel | American anthropologist  | 1898-04-18  | 1990-01-14  |
Ruth Cardoso | Brazilian anthropologist  | 1930-09-19  | 2008-06-24  |
Ruth Cernea | American anthropologist  | 1934  | 2009  |
Ruth DeEtte Simpson | American archaeologist  | 1918-05-06  | 2000-01-19  |
Ruth Hill Useem | American sociologist  | 1915-05-31  | 2003-09-10  |
Ruth Landes | American anthropologist  | 1908-10-08  | 1991-02-11  |
Ruth Sawtell Wallis | American academic and physical anthropologist  | 1895-03-15  | 1978-01-21  |
Ruth Shady | Peruvian anthropologist  | 1946-12-24  |  |
Ruth Tringham | British archaeologist  | 1940-10-14  |  |
Ruth Underhill | American anthropologist  | 1883-08-22  | 1984-08-15  |
S. Lochlann Jain | American anthropologist  |  |  |
Saba Mahmood | American anthropologist  | 1962  |  |
Sabina Magliocco | American folklorist  | 1959-12-30  |  |
Sabine Gaudzinski-Windheuser | German anthropologist, paleontologist, archaeologist and prehistorian  | 1965-06-25  |  |
Sada Mire | Somalian archaeologist  | 1977  |  |
Saddeka Arebi | Anthropologist, author  |  | 2007-07  |
Safi Faye | Ethnologist and film director  | 1943-11-22  |  |
Salima Ikram | Pakistani Egyptologist  | 1965  |  |
Sally Falk Moore | American anthropologist  | 1924  |  |
Sally Larsen | American artist  | 1954  |  |
Sally Price | American anthropologist  | 1943-09-16  |  |
Samar Minallah | Anthropologist and Documentary filmmaker.  | 1970  |  |
Sandra Morgen | American anthropologist  | 1950-03-31  | 2016-09-29  |
Sara C. Bisel | American archaeologist and anthropologist  | 1932-05-13  | 1996-02-04  |
Sara Yorke Stevenson | American archaeologist and Egyptologist  | 1847-02-19  | 1921-11-14  |
Sarah Blaffer Hrdy | American anthropologist and primatologist  | 1946-07-11  |  |
Sarah F. Maclaren | Italian sociologist and anthropologist  | 1964-06-04  |  |
Sarah Franklin | American anthropologist  | 1960-11-09  |  |
Sarah Green | Social anthropologist  | 1961-03-09  |  |
Sarah Lamb (anthropologist) | American cultural anthropologist  | 1960  |  |
Sarah J. Mahler | Anthropologist  | 1959-09-08  |  |
Sarah Milledge Nelson | American archaeologist  | 1931  |  |
Sarah Parcak | American archaeologist and Egyptologist  | 1979  |  |
Selma Al-Radi | Iraqi archaeologist  | 1939-07-23  | 2010-10-07  |
Seodi White | Malawian lawyer, activist, feminist, anthropologist  |  |  |
Setha Low | American anthropologist  | 1948-03-14  |  |
Shana Poplack | Canadian linguist  |  |  |
Shannon Lee Dawdy | American anthropologist and archaeologist  |  |  |
Sharada Srinivasan | Indian academic  |  |  |
Sharon Claydon | Australian politician  | 1964-04-26  |  |
Sheila Kitzinger | British activist  | 1929-03-29  | 2015-04-11  |
Shelly Errington | American photographer  |  |  |
Shereen Ratnagar | Indian archaeologist  |  |  |
Sherry Ortner | American anthropologist  | 1941-09-19  |  |
Shirley Heath | American linguist and anthropologist  | 1939-07-26  |  |
Sidney Robertson Cowell | American ethnographer  | 1903  | 1995  |
Signithia Fordham | American anthropologist  |  |  |
Smadar Lavie | Israeli anthropologist  |  |  |
Sohini Ray | Indian anthropologist  | 1966-08-25  |  |
Solveig Nordström | Archaeologist  | 1923  |  |
Sondra Hale | American anthropologist  |  |  |
Sonia Álvarez Leguizamón | Argentinian anthropologist  | 1954-01-16  |  |
Sonia Mary Cole | British anthropologist  | 1918  | 1982  |
Sophie Bledsoe Aberle | American anthropologist, physician and nutritionist  | 1896-07-21  | 1996-10  |
Stine Rossel | Danish archaeologist  | 1975  | 2007-10-20  |
Suad Joseph | American anthropologist  | 1943-09-06  |  |
Sue Black | Forensic anthropologist  | 1961-05-07  |  |
Sue Hamilton | British archaeologist  |  |  |
Sue Hendrickson | American paleontologist and archeologist  | 1949-12-02  |  |
Sue Savage-Rumbaugh | psychologist  | 1946  |  |
Sula Benet | Polish anthropologist  | 1903  | 1982  |
Sumaya bint El Hassan | Jordanian princess  | 1971-05-14  |  |
Susan Cachel | American anthropologist  |  |  |
Susan D. Gillespie | American Mesoamericanist  | 1952  |  |
Susan E. Alcock | Archaeologist  |  |  |
Susan Gal | Anthropologist and linguist  | 1949  |  |
Susan Hirsch | Legal anthropologist  |  |  |
Susan Irene Rotroff | American archaeologist  |  |  |
Susan Kane | American archaeologist  |  |  |
Susan M. Ervin-Tripp | American linguist  | 1927-06-27  |  |
Susan Visvanathan | Sociologist and Fiction Writer  | 1957  |  |
Susana Pinilla | Peruvian anthropologist  | 1954  |  |
Susanne Bickel | French Egyptologist  | 1960  |  |
Susanne Osthoff | German archaeologist  | 1962-03-07  |  |
Susanne Schröter | German anthropologist  | 1957-09-24  |  |
Suzanna W. Miles | American Mayanist  | 1922  | 1966  |
Svetlana Pletneva | Russian historian and archaeologist  | 1926-04-20  | 2008-11-20  |
Sydel Silverman | American anthropologist, writer, educator, and administrator  | 1933  |  |
Sylvia Leith-Ross | English anthropologist and writer  | 1884  | 1980  |
Sylvia M. Broadbent | American anthropologist  | 1932  | 2015-07-30  |
Taisha Abelar | Author and anthropologist  | 1944  | 1998-04-29  |
Tamasin Ramsay | Australian actress  | 1967  |  |
Tanya Luhrmann | American anthropologist  | 1959  |  |
Tatiana Proskouriakoff | American Mayanist scholar  | 1909-01-23  | 1985-08-30  |
Temperance "Bones" Brennan | fictional human  | 1976  |  |
Teresa Giménez Barbat | Anthropologist  | 1955  |  |
Teresa Porzecanski | Uruguayan anthropologist  | 1945  |  |
Theodora Kroeber | American anthropologist  | 1897-03-24  | 1979-07-04  |
Theresa Goell | American archaeologist  | 1901-07-17  | 1985-12-18  |
Tina Lasisi | Biological anthropologist  |  |  |
Tullia Magrini | Italian anthropologist  | 1950-04-15  | 2005-07-24  |
Unni Wikan | Norwegian anthropologist  | 1944-11-18  |  |
Ursula Cowgill | American biologist and anthropologist  | 1927-11-09  |  |
Ursula Graham Bower | British anthropologist  | 1914-05-15  | 1988-11-12  |
Ursula McConnel | Australian anthropologist  | 1888-10-27  | 1957-11-06  |
Uzma Z. Rizvi | American anthropologist and archeologist of Ancient Near East studies | 1973  |  |
Val Curtis | British scientist  |  |  |
Veena Das | Indian anthropologist  | 1945  |  |
Vera Grabe | Colombian politician and anthropologist  | 1951  |  |
Véréna Paravel | French anthropologist and artist  | 1971-04-21  |  |
Veronica Seton-Williams | Australian anthropologist and archaeologist (1910-1992)  | 1910-04-20  | 1992-05-29  |
Vibha Tripathi | Indian archaeologist  | 1948  |  |
Victoria Wyatt | American art histotrian  | 1956-08-03  |  |
Vilma Sindona Eichholz | Canadian linguist and Esperantist  | 1926  | 1995-07-15  |
Viola Garfield | American anthropologist  | 1899-12-05  | 1983-11-25  |
Virginia Abernethy | Professor  | 1934  |  |
Virginia Grace | American archaeologist  | 1901  | 1994-05-22  |
Virginia Gutiérrez de Pineda |  | 1921-11-04  | 1999-09-02  |
Virginia R. Domínguez | American anthropologist  | 1952  |  |
Vronwy Hankey | British archaeologist  | 1916-09-05  | 1998-05-11  |
Wendy Ashmore | American archaeologist  |  |  |
Wendy Fonarow | American anthropologist  |  |  |
Wendy Orent | American anthropologist  |  |  |
Wendy Rose | anthropologist, poet, painter  | 1948-05-07  |  |
Wilhelmina Feemster Jashemski | American archaeologist  | 1910-07-10  | 2007-12-24  |
Winifred Brunton | British and South African artist and Egyptologist  | 1880-05-06  | 1959-01-29  |
Winifred Lamb | British art historian  | 1894
1894-11-02  | 1963
1963-09-16  |
Yeda Pessoa de Castro | Brazilian ethnolinguist  | 1937  |  |
Yolanda Murphy | American anthropologist  | 1925  |  |
Zagorka Golubović | Yugoslav/Serbian sociologist  | 1930-03-08  |  |
Zainab Bahrani | Iraqi archaeologist  | 1962-08-29  |  |
Zakia Zouanat | Moroccan anthropologist (1957-2012)  | 1957  | 2012-08-30  |
Zalpa Bersanova | Russian writer  |  |  |
Zeineb Benzina | Tunisian anthropologist and archaeologist  |  |  |
Zelia Nuttall | American archaeologist and anthropologist  | 1857-09-06  | 1933-04-12  |
Ziba Mir-Hosseini | Iranian anthropologist  | 1952-04-03  |  |
Zora Neale Hurston | American folklorist, novelist, short story writer  | 1891-01-07  | 1960-01-28  |
Zsófia Torma | Hungarian archaeologist  | 1832-09-26  | 1899-11-14  |

## See also

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* List of anthropologists
* Lists of women scientists
* Lists of women in STEM fields
* Lists of women by occupation