Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Anthropologists

Australia

 * Maila Stivens

Bolivia

 * Clala López Beltrán Dr.Clara López Beltrán (María Clala López Beltrán)

China

 * Narengeril 娜仁格日勒 (China)
 * Sarangerel 薩仁格日勒 (China)
 * Jianxin Wang 王建新 (China)
 * Xiaohua Deng 邓晓华 (鄧暁華) (China）
 * Cao Dafeng 曹 大峰 (China)
 * Zhenyan Huang 黄貞燕 (Taiwan)
 * Jane Suhchuan Tsay 蔡素娟 (Taiwan)

Japan

 * Kimijima Hisako
 * Hara Mariko
 * Michiko Takaki (1930-2014) - Economic and linguistic anthropologist focused on Northern Luzon. Contributed to the Kalinga Ethnoarchaeological Project, incorrectly identified as male. Obit

United States

 * Deborah Bolnick
 * Ann Kindrick Fischer
 * Susan MacKinnon
 * Laura Thompson (anthropologist), (b. 1905)
 * Nathalie Woodbury (b. 1918)
 * Carole D. Yawney (d. 2005) - Rastafarian scholar. Developed the Certificate of Anti-Racist Research and Practice at Atkinson.
 * Virginia Yans-McLaughlin (b. 1943) - Immigrant Studies scholar. Served as historical advisor to the Ellis Island Museum.    Wikidata item
 * Felicia Harben Trager (1930-1972) - Linguist specializing in Pueblo languages. Obit  Husband
 * Mary Shepherd Slusser (1918-2017) - Archaeologist focused on Nepalese art and culture. Oversaw creation of Patan Museum. Memoir Obit        Wikidata item
 * Molly Geiger Schuchat (1928-2020) - Anthropologist, professor, and playwright. Editor of AAA’s Anthropology News. Obit
 * Paula Glicksman Rubel (1933-2018) - Anthropologist and professor. President of Association of Senior Anthropologists 2012-2014. Obit     Wikidata item
 * Helen Clark Rountree (b. 1944) - Leading researcher on Native Americans of Virginia. President og American Society for Ethnohistory 1993-1994.       Wikidata item
 * Barbara Honeyman Heath Roll (1910-1998) - Leading authority on somatotyping. Accompanied Margaret Mead on field expeditions. Obit        Referenced in Somatotype and constitutional psychology and William Herbert Sheldon.
 * Madeleine Richeport-Haley (b. 1940) - Prolific anthropologist filmmaker.          Husband
 * Jeanne Porterfield (1923-2010) - Visual anthropologist and extensive travel filmographer. Obit
 * Dorothy Long Pond (1900-1987) - Archaeologist specialized in Algeria. Wrote memoir on experience in male-dominated fieldwork.         Husband.
 * Dolores Newton - Anthropologist working with Kirkati Indians in Brazil.       Husband.
 * Sarah Sprague Metcalf (1858-1939) - Anthropologist who conducted fieldwork among the Bagobo in the Phillipines. Sister of Elizabeth H. Metcalf.
 * Betty Thompson Messenger (1924-2020) - Folklorist who conducted fieldwork in Nigeria and Northern Ireland. Obit
 * Joan P. Mencher (b. 1930) - Anthropologist who conducted fieldwork in southern India. Founded The Second Chance Foundation.        Wikidata item
 * Martha Royce Blaine (b. 1932) - Historian and archivist who conducted fieldwork among the Pawnee. Former Chief Curator of Museums and Chief Archivist for the Indian Archives Division at the Oklahoma History Society.      Wikidata item
 * Loretta Fowler (b. 1940) - Anthropologist who conducted fieldwork in the Great Plains. Contributed to the Handbook of North American Indians.    Wikidata item
 * Stephanie Damadio (1950-2023) - Forensic anthropologist who served as the National Curator for the Department of the Interior. Obit
 * Gwyneira Isaac (b. 1966) - Curator of North American Ethnology, the National Museum of Natural History at the Smithsonian Institution.       Wikidata item
 * Joanna Cohan Scherer (b. 1942) - Anthropologist Emerita at the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution. Won a class action and sex discrimination suit against the Department of Anthropology, paving the way for the hiring of the first woman curator at the National Museum of Natural History.        Wikidata item
 * Pamela C. Wintle - Founder and former Director of the Human Studies Film Archive, Smithsonian Institution.
 * Sabrina Bannister Sholts - Curator of Biological Anthropology at the National Museum of Natural History and a World Economic Forum Young Scientist.        Wikidata item
 * Suzanne Ripley (1936-2008) - Pioneering primatologist who worked with nonhuman primates, associated with the National Zoological Park. Founder of the Primate Research Center in Sri Lanka. Obit      Wikidata
 * Mary Jo Arnoldi - Curator of African Ethnology at the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution.      Wikidata
 * Margaret “Maggie” Ruth Dittemore - Anthropologist and Librarian in the John Wesley Powell Library of Anthropology at the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution.
 * Bethune Millen Gibson - Anthropologist and founder of the Anthropological Conservation Lab at the National Museum of Natural History Museum, Smithsonian Institution.
 * Deborah A. Hull-Walski - Anthropologist and Collections Manager, Education Collections at the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution.
 * Johanna Rose Humphrey (b. June 22, 1953) - Data Manager for the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution.   Pictured Member of Smithsonian Institution Women’s Council 1989 Thanked First husband Collected two bird specimens Second husband
 * P. Ann Kaupp - Head of the Anthropology Outreach Office of the Department of Anthropology at the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution. She founded the department newsletter Anthropolog, produced an online bibliography on American Indians for K-12 students, and served as the managing editor of AnthroNotes. Mentioned
 * Miriam B. Ketchum - Second Librarian of the Bureau of American Ethnology.
 * Margaret Contant Blaker (28 May 1924 - 23 July 2008) - Archivist, founder, and first director of the National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution.
 * Greta Hansen - Head of Conservation, Anthropology Conservation Laboraotry, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution.
 * Priscilla Raschun Linn - Anthropologist and first curator for a diplomacy museum at the U.S. Department of State.
 * Dorothy T. Lippert - Archaeologist and Reparations Case Officer, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution. Choctaw.
 * Cindy Ott - Author of Pumpkin: The Curious History of an American Icon.
 * Briana Lee Pobiner (b.1975) - Anthropologist and science educator.                    Wikidata item
 * Gabriela Perez Baez - Linguist, academic expert in indigenous languages and language revitalization, and former Curator of Linguistics at the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution.
 * Ruth Rouvier - Linguist and former Program Manager for Recovering Voices at the Smithsonian Institution. Native American Scholars Initiative Engagement Coordinator for the American Philosophical Society Library and Museum.
 * Laura “Laurie” Burgess - Associate Chair of the Department of Anthropology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution.          Wikidata item
 * Paula Molloy - NAGPRA public affairs officer for the National Parks Services National Center for Cultural Resource.
 * Mary Elizabeth Ruwell - Former Director of the National Anthropological Archives, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution.
 * Carmelita Shea Ryan - Specialist in US Indian Affairs at the National Archive and former Director of the National Anthropological Archives, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution. Obit
 * Mae W. Tucker - First archivist of the Bureau of American Ethnology.
 * Frances Sellman Gaither Nichols (b.1869) - First editorial assistant for the Bureau of American Ethnology.
 * Diana E. Marsh (b.1986) - Anthropologist and archivist.            Wikidata item
 * Ann Marie "Amy" Zaharlick - Cultural and linguistic anthropologist who conducted fieldwork with the Picuris language. Former director of the Native American Teacher Education Program and Associate Director of the Multicultural Education Program at the University of Albuquerque in New Mexico.    Cited
 * Virginia Heyer Young (1926-2014) - Anthropologist and author of Ruth Benedict: Beyond Relativity, Beyond Pattern.    Husband
 * Mary Wren Bivins (1946-2009) - Anthropologist and expert in Hausa culture
 * Denise Bambi Kraus - Chief of the Office of Native Affairs at the Federal Communications Commission. Former National Tribal Affairs Advisor at the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Tlingit.
 * Janet Hoskins - Anthropologist and ethnographic filmmaker. President of the Society for the Anthropology of Religion from 2011-2013.
 * Corinne Kratz - Professor of Anthropology and African Studies Emerita at Emory University and Emory Director for the African Critical Inquiry Program.
 * Deanna Marie Paniataaq Kingston (1964-2011) - Anthropologist, arctic social science scholar, and founding editor of The Polar Journal. A descendant of the King Island (Inupiaq) Native Community.    Obit
 * Bennetta Jules-Rosette (b. 1948) - Anthropologist and Director of the African and African-American Studies Research Center at University of California San Diego.           Wikidata Item
 * Allison Peters Jablonko (b. 1943) - Visual anthropologist and establishing member of the Society for Visual Anthropology.
 * Kaja Finker (b. 1935) - Anthropologist and Holocaust Survivor.
 * Susan Fanshel - Award-winning documentary filmmaker and editor. Recipient of two Emmy awards.
 * Louise Allison Cort - Curator Emerita for Ceramics at the National Museum of Asian Art, Smithsonian Institution.       [ Wikidata Item
 * Naomi Hawes Bishop - Anthropologist and daughter of Bess Lomax Hawes. Wikidata item
 * Karen Kramer - Ethnographic documentary filmmaker. Teaches at the New School for Social Research in Greenwich Village.
 * Maxine R. Kleindienst - Paleoanthropologist who worked in sub-Saharan Africa. Professor Emerita, Department of Anthropology, University of Toronto.        Wikidata Item
 * Barbara Kerewsky-Halpern (1931-2000) - Linguistic and medical anthropologist.
 * Diane Kitchen - Experimental ethnographic filmmaker. Managed UWM’s Cinema Arts Archive from 1995 to 2011.
 * Yvonne Payne Daniels (b.1942) - Anthropologist and expert in dance studies and Caribbean and African diaspora studies. Film producer.
 * Valerie Fennell - Anthropologist specializing in age and gender relations among elder communities in South Carolina.
 * Carol Zane Jolles (b.1940) - Arctic ethnography. Emerita Research Professor for the Department of Anthropology, University of Washington.
 * Flora Edouwaye S. Kaplan (1930-2021) - Anthropologist and founding director (1978-99) of the Museum Studies Program, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, New York University.
 * Patricia “Patsy” Wood Asch (b.1935) - Anthropologist, documentarian and filmmaker. She collaborated with her husband Timothy Asch on several films including The Ax Fight and A Balinese Trance Séance, contributing research and participating in editing, directing, and producing.           Referenced as Patsy Asch in List of Timothy Asch films.
 * Lina Lee Brock (1945-1991) - Anthropologist and specialist on the Tuareg people of Niger.
 * Leslie Ann Brownrigg (1905-1974) - Archaeologist and ethnobiologist who conducted fieldwork on Andean and Amazonian culture and biology.    Wikidata Item
 * Riva Berleant-Schiller - Anthropologist and specialist in plantation systems and peasant systems in land use and tenure in Carribean societies. Professor emerita of anthropology at the University of Connecticut.    Wikidata Item

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