Ella Cara Deloria
Collaborated on research the linguistics of Native American languages, translate the recorded Indigenous languages in 19th century texts, and provide valuable insights into the nuances of her culture.
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Dr Dorothy Cross
Dorothy Cross (1906-1972) was an American anthropologist and educator that specialized in pre-contact Native American sites in New Jersey, and the first female New Jersey State Archaeologist.
Dr Johnnetta Betsch Cole
A scholar, anthropologist, and academic pace-setter, Johnnetta Betsch Cole’s pioneering work about the on-going contributions of Afro-Latin, Caribbean, and African communities have advanced American understanding of Black culture and the necessity and power of racial inclusion in the US.
Florence Hawley Ellis
Florence Hawley Ellis broke new ground in archeology through use of dendrochronology, statistical analysis, chemical analysis, ethnohistory, and ethnoarcheology — often, all together.
Margaret Mead
American anthropologist
Maila Stivens
Maila Stivens is an anthropologist who has written extensively on gender, ‘family’, human rights, and latterly childhood in both Australia and Asia.
Katherine Dunham
Katherine Dunham (1909–2006) studied the African-based dances and rituals of the Caribbean area and based many choreographic works on that research.
Ene-Margit Tiit
Ene-Margit Tiit is an Estonian mathematician who was the first president of the Estonian Statistical Society.
Pearl Primus
Dancer, choreographer and anthropologist
Maud Cuney Hare
Concert pianist, composer, teacher, lecturer, and author; director and founder of the Allied Arts Center and author of Negro Musicians and Their Music, a comprehensive survey of African-American music, as well as an arts critic and specialist in Creole music.