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Vera Dourmashkin Rubin (August 6, 1911 – February 7, 1985) was an American anthropologist and founder and director of the Research Institute for the Study of Man.

Early life and education
Vera Rubin was born in Moscow on August 6, 1911 to her father Elias and mother Jennie Frankel Dourmashkin, who died in childbirth. She emigrated to the United States and was raised by her father, an aunt, and an extended family in the Lower East Side neighborhood of New York City. She attended college at New York University, graduating in 1930 with a B.A. in French Literature. She married Samuel Rubin and had two children, Reed and Cora.

When her children reached high school, Rubin reentered academia, initially to become a psychiatrist, but quickly developed an interest in anthropology. Enrolled in graduate school at Columbia University, Rubin took courses with Ruth Benedict, Margaret Mead, and worked closely with Julian Steward, who was the main advisor for her doctoral research. According to Saunders, her dissertation, Fifty Years in Rootville: A Study in the Dynamics of Acculturation of An Italian Immigrant Group in a Rurban Community, "approached acculturation as a historical process and differed from much of the earlier literature concentrating on a sector of industrial society." She received her doctorate from Columbia University in 1952.