Betty Reid Soskin
Civil rights activist, musician, and pioneering businesswoman.
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Takamure Itsue
Japanese poet, activist-writer, feminist, anarchist, ethnologist, and historian
Dora Mayer
Self-taught researcher, writer, sociologist, journalist, social activist.
Edith Simcox
British philosopher, writer, trade union activist, and feminist.
Jadwiga Szeptycka
Polish archeologist and ethnographer, writer and social activist
Myrna Mack
Myrna Mack Chang was a respected Guatemalan anthropologist who was stabbed to death in 1990 by members of the Guatemalan military due to her criticism of the government’s treatment of the indigenous Maya and human rights abuses.
Olive Pink
It was art that led her to her second passion, anthropology and the welfare of Aboriginal people.
Lucy Philip Mair
Lucy Philip Mair was a well-known anthropologist; she is far less known for her significant contributions to the history of the discipline of International Relations.
Joan Isabel Faulkner-Blake
Her interest in history led to the collection of taped reminiscences from Māori and early European settlers. From this material she made several radio series on the early pioneers of Taranaki, the Māori traditions and legends of the mountains Egmont (Taranaki), Ngauruhoe, Tongariro and Ruapehu, and on the national parks of New Zealand.
Eslanda Robeson
A staunch opponent of injustice, Eslanda found her intellectual community and political point of view in New York, where she was located in history on the eve of the Harlem Renaissance and the end of the Bolshevik revolution.