Dr Frederica de Laguna
Dr. Frederica “Freddy” de Laguna was an influential archeologist and anthropologist who worked extensively throughout Alaska.
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Cora Du Bois
Cora Du Bois became interested in anthropology while earning a M.A. in history from Columbia University. Cora then traveled to the American Southwest to pursue further research in anthropology—studying several Native American tribes in Northern California and the Pacific Northwest. She later joined the OSS, the precursor to the modern CIA.
Florida Ruffin Ridley
While Florida Ruffin Ridley followed in the footsteps of her mother, Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin, she paved her own way as a writer, activist, and community leader.
Betty Reid Soskin
Civil rights activist, musician, and pioneering businesswoman.
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.