List of women anthropologists

This is a list of women anthropologists.

Name	Description	Birth	Death	Image
Adeline Masquelier	American anthropologist	1960
Adrienne L. Kaeppler	American anthropologist	1935
Agnes Conway	British archaeologist and historian	1885	1950
Agnès Humbert	French art historian	1894-10-12	1963-09-19
Aihwa Ong	Malaysian sociocultural anthropologist	1950-02-01
Aileen Fox	English archaeologist	1907-07-29	2005-11-21
Alana Cordy-Collins	American archaeologist specializing in Peruvian prehistory	1944-06-05	2015-08-16
Alanah Woody	American anthropologist	1956-03-24	2007-07-19
Alba Zaluar	Brazilian anthropologist	1942-06-02	2019-12-19
Aleksandra Dunin-Wąsowicz	Polish archaeologist	1932-06-10	2015-07-22
Alessandra Melucco Vaccaro	Italian classical scholar	1940-04-04	2000-08-29
Alette Schreiner	Norwegian researcher	1874-05-18	1957-12-26
Alexandra David-Néel	Belgian-French anarchist, Buddhist, explorer, spiritualist, writer	1868-10-24	1969-09-08
Alice Beck Kehoe	American anthropologist	1934
Alice Cunningham Fletcher	American ethnologist	1838-03-15	1923-04-06
Alice E. Gillington	British author, poet and gypsy folklorist	1863	1934-05-22
Alice G. Dewey	American anthropologist	1928-12-04	2017-06-11
Alice Kober	American classical scholar and archaeologist	1906-12-23	1950-05-16
Alice Mossie Brues	American physical anthropologist	1913-10-09	2007-01-14
Alice Roberts	English physician, anatomist, physical anthropologist, television presenter, author	1973-05-19
Alicia P. Magos	Filipino anthropologist
Alison Galloway	American forensic anthropologist
Alison Spedding	British anthropologist	1962-01-22
Alison Wylie	British-Canadian philosopher of science and archaeologist	1954
Alla Ter-Sarkisiants	Russian anthropologist, historian and ethnographer of Armenia
Amalia Signorelli	Italian cultural anthropologist	1934-08-06	2017-10-25
Amanda Adams	American author and archaeologist	1976-09-12
Amber Case	American cyborg anthropologist
Amelia Edwards	British novelist, journalist, traveller and Egyptologist	1831-06-07	1892-04-15
Amélie Kuhrt	British historian	1944
Ana María Groot	Colombian historian, archaeologist and anthropologist	1952-08-29
Angana P. Chatterji	Indian anthropologist, activist, and feminist historian	1966-11
Aninhalli Vasavi	Indian anthropologist	1958-12-20
Anita Álvarez de Williams	American anthropologist, photographer and historian	1931
Anita Brenner	Mexican writer	1905-08-13	1974-12-01
Ann Dunham	American anthropologist, mother of Barack Obama	1942-11-29	1995-11-07
Ann Fienup-Riordan	American cultural anthropologist	1948-10-13
Ann Peoples	American anthropologist and camp manager, McMurdo Station
Anna Curtenius Roosevelt	American archaeologist	1946
Anna Czekanowska-Kuklińska	Polish musicologist and ethnographer	1929-06-25
Anna Lomax Wood	American anthropologist and public folklorist	1944-11-20
Anna Lou Dehavenon	American urban anthropologist	1926-11-24	2012-02-07
Anna Maria Bietti Sestieri	Italian archaeologist	1942-12-07	2023-07-02
Anna Maria Di Sciullo	Canadian linguist
Anna Pujol Puigvehi	Spanish archaeologist and historian	1947-08-16
Anna Sadurska	Polish Classical scholar	1924	2004
Anna Tsing	American anthropologist	1952
Annah Robinson Watson	American author and folklorist	1848	1930
Annamaria Orla-Bukowska	Polish social anthropologist
Anne Allison	American cultural anthropologist
Anne Chapman	American anthropologist	1922-11-28	2010-06-12
Anne Dambricourt-Malassé	French paleoanthropologist	1959
Anne Johnson	British archaeologist	1951-08-28
Anne Macaulay	British musicologist	1924-03-11	1998
Anne Salmond	New Zealand anthropologist, environmentalist and writer	1945-11-16
Anne Stine Ingstad	Norwegian archaeologist	1918-02-11	1997-11-06
Anne Walbank Buckland	British anthropologist, ethnologist, and travel writer	1832	1899
Anne Zeller	American physical anthropologist, specializing in primates
Annemarie Mol	Dutch ethnographer and philosopher	1958-09-13
Annette Laming-Emperaire	French archeologist	1917-10-22	1977
Annette Weiner	American anthropologist	1933-02-14	1997-12-07
Annie Brisset	Canadian linguist
Annie Marion MacLean	early American sociologist	1869	1934
Annie York	elder of the Nlaka'pamux, ethnobotany contributor	1904	1991
Antonia Arslan	Italian writer/academic of Armenian origins	1938
Antonia Mills	Canadian anthropologist
Aud Talle	Norwegian anthropologist	1944	2011-08-16
Audrey Butt Colson	Social anthropologist	1926
Audrey Meaney	Archaeologist	1931	2021
Audrey Richards	Anthropologist	1899-07-08	1984-06-29
Audrey Smedley	American anthropologist	1930	2020
Bambi Schieffelin	American linguist	1945
Barbara Freire-Marreco	English anthropologist and folklorist	1879	1967
Barbara Harrell-Bond	British academic	1932	2018
Barbara J. Heath	American archaeologist	1960-12-27
Barbara Myerhoff	American filmmaker and anthropologist	1935-02-16	1985-01-07
Barbara Rylko-Bauer	American anthropologist	1950
Barbara Smuts	American anthropologist
Beatrice Blackwood	Anthropologist	1889-05-03	1975-01-29
Beatrice Blyth Whiting	American anthropologist	1914-04-14	2003-09-29
Beatrice De Cardi	Archaeologist	1914-06-05	2016-07-05
Beatrice Medicine	American anthropologist	1923-08-01	2005
Berit Wallenberg	Swedish anthropologist and archaeologist	1902	1995
Bertha P. Dutton	American anthropologist, archaeologist, ethnologist	1903	1994
Bertha Parker Pallan	archaeologist	1907-08-30	1978-10-08
Bertha Phillpotts	British academic	1877	1932
Beryl Esembe	Sociologist/Anthropologist/Philanthropist, Christian	1972-07-10
Betsy Bryan	American Egyptologist	1949
Bettina Hauge	Danish anthropologist	1964
Betty Meggers	Archaeologist	1921-12-05	2012-07-02
Bianca Williams	Black American cultural anthropologist	1980
Birgit Zotz	Austrian writer and anthropologist	1979-08-07
Birgitta Hoffmann	British archaeologist	1969-05-18
Birutė Galdikas	primatologist, conservationist, and ethologist	1946-05-10
Blanche Wheeler Williams	Archeologist and teacher	1870-01-09	1936-12-09
Bonnie Nardi	American academic
Brackette Williams	American anthropologist	1955
Bridget Allchin	English archaeologist, specializing in South Asian archaeology	1927	2017
Brigitte Bönisch-Brednich	German anthropologist
Brit Solli	Norwegian archaeologist	1959
Brunilde Sismondo Ridgway	Italian art historian	1929
Butet Manurung	anthropologist or education activist	1972-02-21
C.H.E. Haspels	Archeologist	1894-09-15	1980-12-25
Camilla Wedgwood	British anthropologist	1901-03-25	1955-05-17
Carenza Lewis	British archaeologist	1963
Carla Obermeyer
Carmel Schrire	anthropology and author	1941-05-15
Carmen Baroja	Spanish writer and ethnologist	1883	1950-06-04
Carmen Guarini	Argentine anthropologist, teacher, film maker	1953-01-18
Carobeth Laird	Ethnologist	1895-07-20	1983-08-05
Carol Breckenridge	American anthropologist	1942	2009
Carol Delaney	American anthropologist	1940-12-12
Carol J. Greenhouse	American anthropologist	1950-01-04
Carol Laderman	Medical anthropologist and writer	1932-10-25	2010-07-06
Carol Meyers	American archaeologist	1942
Carol R. Ember	American cultural anthropologist	1943-07-07
Carole C. Noon	American primatologist	1949-07-14	2009-05-02
Caroline Furness Jayne	American ethnologist	1873	1909
Caroline Humphrey	British academic, anthropologist	1943-09-01
Caroline Malone	British archaeologist	1957
Caroline Moser	British sociologist and anthropologist.
Caroline Wilkinson	British anthropologist	1965-10-27
Carolyn Fluehr-Lobban	American archaeologist and anthropologist
Carolyn Hamilton
Carolyn M. Heighway	British archaeologist	1943
Carolyn Sargent	Medical anthropologist
Caterina Magni	Italian-born French archaeologist and anthropologist	1966
Catharine McClellan	American anthropologist	1921-03-01	2009-03-03
Catherine Berndt	Australian anthropologist	1918-05-08	1994-05-12
Catherine L. Besteman	American anthropologist
Catherine Lutz	American anthropologist	1952
Catherine Morgan		1961-10-09
Catherine Namono	Ugandan archaeologist
Catherine S. Fowler	American anthropologist
Cathrine Hasse	Danish anthropologist	1956
Cathy Small	American anthropologist	1949
Cezaria Jędrzejewiczowa	Polish scientist and art historian	1885-08-02	1967-02-28
Chantal Boulanger	French anthropologist	1957-01-04	2004-12-27
Charlotte Booth	British archaeologist and Egyptologist	1975-04-06
Charlotte Gower Chapman	American ethnologist	1902	1982
Charlotte Lewis	character from the American mystery fiction television series Lost	1971-07-02
Charlotte Roberts	bioarchaeologist	1957
Charlotte Viall Wiser	American anthropologist	1892	1981
Chie Nakane	Japanese anthropologist	1926-11-30
Christen A. Smith	Associate professor of anthropology and African and African diaspora studies
Christian Maclagan	British antiquary and archaeologist	1811	1901
Christiane Desroches Noblecourt	French Egyptologist	1913-11-17	2011-06-23
Christine Niederberger Betton	French archaeologist		2001
Chuni Kotal	Indian Dalit anthropologist	1965	1992
Cindy Cruz	American ethnographer
Claire Barratt	Industrial archaeologist, steam engineer and television presenter	1974
Claire Smith	Australian archaeologist	1957-07-15
Clara Passafari	Argentine anthropologist	1930-03-20	1994
Clare Selgin Wolfowitz	American anthropologist	1945-11
Clarisa Hardy	Argentinian-born Chilean politician, anthropologist and psychologist	1945-12-15
Claudia Roden	British writer	1936
Claudia Zaslavsky	American ethnomathematician	1917-01-12	2006-01-13
Clea Koff	Anthropologist	1972
Clémence Royer	French philosopher	1830-04-21	1902-02-06
Clementina Panella	Archaeologist
Cleo Odzer	American writer and anthropologist	1950-04-06	2001-03-26
Constance Cox	Canadian interpreter	1881	1960
Constance Goddard DuBois	Ethnographer		1934
Constanza Ceruti	Argentinian anthropologist	1973-01-06
Cora DuBois	anthropologist, academic	1903-10-26	1991-04-07
Courtney Angela Brkic	American anthropologist and writer	1972
Cristina Rémond	Canadian public servant	1980
Cynthia Beall	American anthropologist	1949
Cynthia Irwin-Williams	Archaeologist	1936-04-14	1990-06-15
Daisy Bates	Irish Australian journalist known for her work with Aboriginal People	1859-10-16	1951-04-18
Danielle Stordeur	Archaeologist	1944
Danijela Stefanović	Serbian Egyptologist
Daphne Berdahl	American anthropologist	1964-06-14	2007-10-05
Daria Khaltourina	Sociologist and Anthropologist	1979-01-04
Dawn Atkins	Anthropologist	1962-02-13
Dawn Prince-Hughes	American scientist	1964-01-31
Dean Falk	American anthropologist	1944-06-25
Débora Diniz	Brazilian anthropologist	1970
Deborah Fouts	American anthropologist
Deborah Hyde	British anthropologist and editor-in-chief	1965
Deborah M. Pearsall	American paleoethnobotany	1950
Denise Schmandt-Besserat	Professor of Art and Archaeology	1933-08-10
Dia Cha	American anthropologist	1962
Dian Fossey	American zoologist, gorilla researcher	1932-01-16	1985-12-27 1985-12-26
Diana Kirkbride	British archaeologist	1915-10-22	1997-08-13
Diane Barwick	Canadian anthropologist	1938	1986
Diane Bell	Australian writer and anthropologist	1943-06-11
Diane Massam	Canadian linguist
Diane Zaino Chase	American archaeologist	1953
Dina Lévi-Strauss	French anthropologist	1911-02-01	1999-02-25
Dolores Piperno	archaeologist
Donna Gerdts	American linguist
Dorinne K. Kondo	Anthropologist
Doris Bartholomew	American linguist	1930
Doris Zemurray Stone	American Mesoamericanist	1909-11-19	1994-10-21
Dorothea Bate	Welsh palaeontologist and archaeozoologist	1878-11-08	1951-01-13
Dorothea Bleek	German anthropologist and philologist	1873-03-26	1948-06-27
Dorothy Burr Thompson	American archaeologist	1900-08-19	2001-05-10
Dorothy D. Lee	American anthropologist	1905	1975-04
Dorothy E. Smith	Canadian anthropologist	1926-07-06
Dorothy Garrod	First female Professor at Cambridge	1892-05-05 1892-04-05	1968-12-18
Dorothy Jean Ray	Anthropologist	1919-10-10	2007-12-12
Dorothy King	American self-described archaeologist and historian	1975
Dorothy Way Eggan	American anthropologist	1901	1965
Dounia Bouzar	French anthropologist, writer and educator	1964
E. S. Drower	British cultural anthropologist	1879-12-01	1972-01-27
Edith Durham	British artist	1863-12-08	1944-11-15
Edith Porada	American art historian	1912-08-22	1994-03-24
Edith Turner	anthropologist	1921-06-17	2016-06-18
Eilat Mazar	Eilat Mazar is an Israeli archaeologist, specializing in Jerusalem and Phoenician archeology.	1956-09-10
Eileen Krige	South African anthropologist	1905	1995
Eleanor Leacock	anthropologist	1922	1987
Eleanor Myers	English archaeologist	1925	1996
Eleanor Robson	British academic	1969
Elena Berezovich	Russian linguist	1966-01-02
Elena Efimovna Kuzmina	Russian archaeologist	1931-04-13	2013-10-17
Eliane Karp	First Lady of Peru	1953-09-24
Elinor Ochs	American anthropologist	1944-10-22
Elisabeth Croll	Croll [née Sprackett], Elisabeth Joan [Lisa] (1944–2007), Sinologist and anthropologist	1944-09-21	2007-10-03
Elizabeth	American anthropologist
Elizabeth Brumfiel	Archaeologist	1945-03-10	2012-01-01
Elizabeth Burgos	Venezuelan anthropologist	1941
Elizabeth Colson	US social anthropologist	1917-06-15	2016-07
Elizabeth Cowper	Canadian linguist	1952
Elizabeth Fentress	American archaeologist	1948-10-30
Elizabeth French	British archaeologist	1931	2021
Elizabeth Grant	Australian architect and anthropologist	1963
Elizabeth Jacobs	American anthropologist	1903	1983-05-21
Elizabeth Kapu'uwailani Lindsey	American actress	1956-04-17
Elisabeth Krämer-Bannow	German ethnologist	1874-09-29	1945-01-09
Elizabeth Marshall Thomas	American anthropologist and author	1931-09-13
Elizabeth Mertz	American anthropologist
Elizabeth Spillius	Anthropologist	1924-03-03	2016-07-04
Elizabeth Thomas	American Egyptologist	1907-03-29	1986-11-28
Elizabeth Warnock Fernea	American anthropologist, writer and filmmaker	1927-10-21	2008-12-02
Elizabeth Wayland Barber	Archaeologist	1940-12-02
Ella Cara Deloria	Yankton Dakota Author	1889-01-31	1971-02-12
Ella Sophia Armitage	English historian	1841-03-03	1931-03-20
Ellen Dissanayake	American anthropologist
Elli Köngäs-Maranda	Canadian anthropologist	1932-01-11	1982-11-01
Elsie Clews Parsons	American anthropologist	1875-11-27	1941-12-19
Emeline Hill Richardson	American archaeologist	1910-06-06	1999-08-29
Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney	Japanese-born anthropologist	1934
Emiliana Cruz	American anthropologist
Emilie Demant Hatt	Danish artist	1873-01-21	1958-12-04
Emily Martin	Anthropologist	1944-11-07
Emily Vermeule	American archaeologist	1928-08-11	2001-02-06
Erica Lehrer	American anthropologist	1969
Erika Bourguignon	American anthropologist and university teacher (1924-2015)	1924-02-18	2015-02-15
Erika Simon	German classical archaeologist	1927-06-27
Erminie Wheeler-Voegelin	American anthropologist	1903-04-02	1988-07-10
Erminnie A. Smith	American anthropologist and folklorist	1836	1886-06-09
Erna Gunther	American anthropologist	1896 1896-11-09	1982
Ernestine Friedl	American anthropologist	1920	2015-10-12
Eslanda Goode Robeson	American anthropologist, author, actor and civil rights activist	1896-12-12	1965-12-13
Estelle Lazer	Australian archaeologist
Esther Boise Van Deman	American archaeologist	1862-10-01	1937-05-03
Esther de Pommery	Swiss activist
Esther Hermitte	Argentine anthropologist	1921	1990
Esther Newton	Anthropologist	1940
Esther Schiff Goldfrank	American anthropologist	1896	1997-04-23
Ethel Alpenfels	American anthropologist	1907	1981
Ethel Bristowe		1862	1952
Eugenie Scott	Anthropologist	1945-10-24
Eugenie Sellers Strong	British archaeologist and art historian	1860-03-25	1943-09-16
Eva Justin	German psychologist	1909-08-23	1966-09-11
Éva Pócs	Hungarian anthropologist, historian, ethnographer	1936
Eva Verbitsky Hunt	Argentine anthropologist	1934	1980
Evelyn Byrd Harrison	American art historian	1920-06-05	2012-11-03
Ewa Klonowski	Polish anthropologist	1946
Fadwa El Guindi	Egyptian-American anthropologist	1941
Faina Petryakova	Ukrainian ethnographer	1931	2002
Fatimah Jackson	American biological anthropologist
Faye Ginsburg	American anthropologist
Faye V. Harrison	American anthropologist
Felicitas Goodman	American linguist and anthropologist	1914-01-30	2005-03-30
Fiona Caroline Graham	Australian anthropologist	1961-09-16	2023-01-26
Florence Connolly Shipek	American anthropologist and ethnohistorian	1918-12-11	2003-01-09
Florence Hawley	Anthropologist	1906-09-17	1991
Florinda Donner	American writer and anthropologist	1944-02-15
France Martineau	Linguist	1960
France Winddance Twine	American ethnographer	1960
Frances D'Souza, Baroness D'Souza	British academic, life peer	1944-04-18
Frances Densmore	American anthropologist	1867-05-21	1957-06-05
Frances J. White	American anthropologist
Frances Toor	American author		1956
Francine Saillant	Canadian anthropologist	1953
Françoise Claustre	French archaeologist	1937-02-08	2006-09-03
Françoise Henry	Art historian	1902 1902-06	1982 1982-02-10
Françoise Héritier	French anthropologist	1933-11-15
Françoise Pommaret	French Tibetologist	1954
Freda Ahenakew	Author	1932-02-11	2011-04-08
Frederica de Laguna	American ethnologist, anthropologist, and archaeologist	1906-10-03	2004-10-06
Frédérique Apffel-Marglin	Professor emerita/Anthropology
Fuambai Ahmadu	American anthropologist
Gabriella Coleman	Internet anthropologist	1973
Gail M. Kelly	American anthropologist	1933-02-09	2005-08-17
Galia Sabar	Israeli professor of African studies	1963
Halyna Lozko	Ukrainian ethnologist	1952-02-03
Galina Starovoytova	Russian academic and politician	1946-05-17	1998-11-20
Gayatri Reddy	Anthropologist, professor of gender studies	1982-06-23
Gayle J. Fritz	American paleoethnobotanist
Gayle Rubin	American cultural anthropologist, activist, and feminist	1949
Gene Weltfish	American anthropologist and historian	1902-08-07	1980-08-02
Genevieve Bell	Australian anthropologist
Georgina Born	Musician, academic, anthropologist	1955-11-15
Geraldine Finlayson	Gibraltarian historian
Geraldine Harris	British Egyptologist	1951
Germaine Dieterlen	French anthropologist	1903-05-15	1999-11-13
Germaine Tillion	French anthropologist	1907-05-30	2008-04-18 2008-04-19
Gertrud Pätsch	German ethnologist and philologist	1910-01-22	1994-12-14
Gertrude Bell	English writer, traveller, political officer, administrator, archaeologist and spy	1868-07-14	1926-07-12
Gertrude Blom	Swiss Mesoamericanists	1901-07-07	1993-12-23
Gertrude Caton–Thompson	British archaeologist	1888-02-01	1985-04-18
Gertrude M. Godden	British academic
Gillian Cowlishaw	New Zealand-born anthropologist who researches Aboriginal Australian culture and people	1934-12-19
Gina Athena Ulysse	a Haitian-American anthropologist, feminist, poet, performance artist and activist
Ginette Aumassip
Gisela Bleibtreu-Ehrenberg	German ethnologe, sociologe, writer	1929-08-02
Gisela Richter	British art historian and archaeologist	1882-08-14	1972-12-24
Gladys Reichard	American anthropologist	1893-07-17	1955-07-25
Gladys Tantaquidgeon	Native American anthropologist, Medicine Woman, author	1899-06-15	2005-11-01
Grace Crowfoot	British archaeologist	1877	1957
Grete Mostny	Austrian anthropologist and archaeologist (1914-1991)	1914-09-17	1991-12-15
Gudrun Corvinus	German archaeologist	1931-12-14	2006-01-01
Guillemette Andreu	French Egyptologist and archaeologist	1948-08-03
Halet Çambel	Fencer, archaeologist	1916-08-27	2014-01-12
Halleh Ghorashi	Anthropologist	1962-07-30
Hallgerður Gísladóttir	Ethnologist and poet	1952-09-28	2007-02-01
Hannah Landecker	author and Associate Professor of Sociology at UCLA
Hannah Marie Wormington	American archaeologist	1914-09-05	1994-05-31
Harriet Boyd-Hawes	American archaeologist	1871-10-11	1945-03-31
Harriet Cosgrove	American archaeologist	1887	1970
Heather Botting	Canadian anthropologist	1948
Heather Burke	Australian archaeologist
Heather Horst	American anthropologist
Heather Hurst	American archaeologist	1976
Heather Levi	American anthropologist
Heather McKillop	Canadian-American Mesoamericanists	1953
Heather Pringle	Canadian non-fiction author and journalist
Heleen Sancisi Weerdenburg	Dutch archaeologist and historian	1944-05-23	2000-05-28
Helen Codere	cultural anthropologist	1917-09-10	2009-06-05
Helen Fisher	Canadian anthropologist	1947
Helen Geake	Archaeologist	1967
Helen Leach	New Zealand anthropologist	1945
Helen Perlstein Pollard	American academic	1946
Helena Hamerow	British archaeologist	1971-09-18
Helena Wulff	Anthropologist	1954-02-07
Helene Hagan	American anthropologist	1939
Helene J. Kantor	American archaeologist	1919-07-15	1993-01-13
Henrietta Moore	British social anthropologist	1957-05-18
Henriette Mertz	American lawyer and history researcher	1898	1985
Hermine Hartleben	German Egyptologist	1846-06-02	1919-07-18
Hilary du Cros	Australian archaeologist
Hilda Kuper	South African anthropologist	1911-08-23	1992-04-23
Hilda Lockhart Lorimer		1873	1954
Hilda Petrie	British Egyptologist	1871-06-08	1956-11-23
Hilde Danielsen	Cocial anthropologist	1971
Hilde Frafjord Johnson	Norwegian diplomat and politician	1963-08-29
Hilma Granqvist	Finnish anthropologist	1890	1972
Homa Hoodfar	Iranian anthropologist	1950
Honor Frost	Underwater archaeologist	1917-10-28	2010-09-12
Hortense Powdermaker	American anthropologist	1900-12-24	1970-06-15
Huguette Dagenais	French-Canadian anthropologist	1943
Ida Halpern	ethnomusicologist	1910-07-17	1987-02-07
Ilse Schwidetzky	German anthropologist	1907-09-06	1997-03-18
Ineke van Wetering	Dutch anthropologist	1934-10-17	2011-10-18
Ingeborg Scheibler	German art historian, archaeologist and anthropologist	1929-08-31
Ingrid Rüütel	First Lady of Estonia	1935-11-03
Irawati Karve	Indian anthropologist and sociologist	1905-12-15	1970-08-11
Irit Ziffer	Israeli archaeologist and art historian	1954
Irma McClaurin	American anthropologist
Isabella Abbott	Educator, ethnobotanist	1919-06-20	2010-10-28
Jacqueline Roumeguere-Eberhardt	French anthropologist	1927-11-27	2006-03-29
Jacquetta Hawkes	British archaeologist	1910-08-05	1996-03-18
Jacqui Wood	British archaeologist	1950-01-04
Jane C. Goodale	American anthropologist	1926	2008
Jane Dieulafoy	French anthropologist	1851-06-29 1851-06-20	1916-05-25
Jane Ellen Buikstra	American anthropologist	1945
Jane Goodall	British primatologist, ethologist, and anthropologist	1934-04-03
Jane I. Guyer	British anthropologist	1943-12-31
Jane MacLaren Walsh	American anthropologist
Janet Bennion	American anthropologist	1964-10-02
Janet D. Spector	American archaeologist	1944-10-21	2011-09-13
Janet Davidson	New Zealand archaeologist
Janet Roitman	American anthropologist
Janice Boddy	Canadian anthropologist
Janine R. Wedel	Scholar on international policy	1957-10-09
Jean Briggs		1929-05-28	2016-07-27
Jean Comaroff	American anthropologist
Jean Lave	American anthropologist
Jean Schensul	American anthropologist
Jeanne Arnold	American archaeologist
Jeanne Guillemin	American anthropologist	1943-03-06	2019-11-15
Jennifer Moody	American archaeologist
Jessica Greenberg	Anthropologist
Jill Pruetz	American anthropologist and primatologist
Jill Rosemary Dias	Anglo-Portuguese anthropologist and historian
Jo Anne Van Tilburg	American archaeologist
Joan Breton Connelly	archaeologist and academic	1954
Joan du Plat Taylor	British archaeologist	1906-06-26	1983-05-21
Joan Halifax	American Zen Buddhist roshi, anthropologist, ecologist, and civil rights activist	1942
Joan Lee Tu	Linguist	1981
Joan M. Tenenbaum	American academic	1945
Joan Metge	New Zealand anthropologist, academic, educator	1930-02-21
Joann Kealiinohomoku	American anthropologist	1930-05-20	2015
Jocelyne Dakhlia	French historian, anthropologist and academic	1959
Jocelyn Toynbee	British archaeologist and art historian	1897-03-03	1985-12-31
Johanna Mestorf	German prehistoric archaeologist and Professor	1828-04-17	1909-07-20
Johnnetta B. Cole	American anthropologist	1936-10-19
Jolan Babus	Hungarian ethnographer and teacher	1917-10-17	1967-05-05
Jorun Solheim	Anthropologist	1944-11-18
Jovita González	American writer	1904-01-18	1983
Joyce Marcus	American archaeologist	1948
Joyce Tyldesley	British archaeologist and Egyptologist	1960-02-25
Judith Becker	Ethnomusicologist	1932-09-03
Judith Berman	American writer	1958
Judith E. Glaser	American businesswoman
Judith Lynne Hanna	American anthropologist	1936
Judith Shapiro	American acthropologist	1942-01-24
Judy Birmingham	Australian archaeologist
Julia Averkieva	Soviet anthropologist	1907	1980
Julia Elena Fortún	Bolivian historian	1929-10-09	2016-12-05
Juliet Morrow	American archaeologist
June Helm	anthropologist	1924-09-13	2004-02-05
June Nash	American anthropologist	1927	2019
K. Aslihan Yener	Turkish archaeologist
Karen Boswall	Filmmaker
Karen Ho	American anthropologist
Karen Mc Carthy Brown	American anthropologist	1942	2015-03-04
Karen Nakamura	American academic	1970-10-23
Karen Ramey Burns	forensic anthropologist		2012-01-07
Kari Bruwelheide	American anthropologist	1967-03-16
Karla Poewe	American acthropologist	1941-01-27
Karolyn Smardz Frost	Historian
Käte Bosse-Griffiths	Welsh-German Egyptologist	1910-06-16 1910-07-16	1998-04-04
Kate Fox	British anthropologist
Katharina C. Rebay	Austrian archaeologist	1977-12-16
Katharina Galor	Israeli woman archaeologist	1966
Katharine Elizabeth Dopp	American anthropologist	1863-03-01	1944-03-14
Katharine Luomala	American anthropologist	1907-09-10	1992
Katherine Dunham	Dancer, choreographer, songwriter, activist	1909-06-22	2006-05-21
Katherine Routledge	British archaeologist	1866-08-11	1935-12-13
Kathleen Gough	British anthropologist	1925-08-16	1990-09-08
Kathleen Kenyon	British archaeologist	1906-01-05	1978-08-24
Kathleen M. Adams	American anthropologist
Kathleen Musante DeWalt	American anthropologist
Kathleen O'Neal Gear	American writer	1954
Kathrine S. French	American anthropologist	1922-06-05	2006-06-14
Kathryn Woolard	American linguistic anthropologist	1950
Katherine Ann Dettwyler	American anthropologist	1955
Kathy Reichs	American writer, anthropologist, forensic anthropologist	1948-07-07
Katrina Karkazis	anthropologist, bioethicist
Katy Gardner	British writer	1964
Katya Gibel Mevorach	American anthropologist	1952-06-18
Kay Warren	American anthropologist	1947-02-10
Keewaydinoquay Peschel	American Ethnobiologist	1919	1999
Kelly Dixon	American archaeologist
Kim Yeshi	French-American anthropologist and tibetologist	1966
Kira Hall	American linguist and anthropologist	1962-10-10
Kirsten Hastrup	Danish anthropologist	1948-2-20
Kris L. Hardin	American anthropologist	1953-03-07	2012-08-21
Kristen Gremillion	American anthropologist	1958-11-17
Kristen R. Ghodsee	American ethnographer and a Professor of Gender and Women's Studies at Bowdoin College	1970-04-26
Kristina Killgrove	American anthropologist, bioarchaeologist, writer	1977-03-10
L. Taylor Hansen	American writer	1897-11-30	1976-05
Lady Hester Stanhope	British archaeologist	1776	1839
Laura Bohannan	Cultural anthropologist	1922	2002-03-19
Laura Nader	American anthropologist	1930
Laurette Séjourné	French-Mexican scholar in ancient American cultures	1911-10-19	2003-05-25
LaVerne Jeanne	American linguist
Layla AbdelRahim	Canadian comparatist anthropologist and author
Lee Ann Newsom	American anthropologist
Leela Dube	Indian anthropologist	1923-03-27	2012-05-20
Leila Badre	Archaeologist	1943-02-20
Leith Mullings	American anthropologist
Lélia Gonzalez	Brazilian activist	1935-02-01	1994-07-10
Lesley Gill	American anthropologist
Leslie Milne	British anthropologist	1860	1932
Leslie Van Gelder	American archaeologist	1969
Leyla Neyzi	Turkish academic	1961-07-29
Lida Shaw King	American classical scholar and college dean	1868-09-15	1932-01-10
Lila Abu-Lughod	Anthropologist	1952-10-21
Lilian Hamilton Jeffery	British archaeologist, classical philologist and epigraphist	1915-01-05	1986-09-29
Lina Fruzzetti	American film director and anthropologist
Linda Braidwood	American archaeologist	1909-10-09	2003-01-15
Linda Dégh	Folklorist	1918-03-19	2014-08-20
Linda Fierz-David	German philologist	1891	1955
Linda L. Barnes	American anthropologist	1953
Linda L. Layne	American anthropologist	1955
Linda M. Hunt	Professor - Medical Anthropology
Lisa Curran	American tropical forester
Lisa Redfield Peattie	American anthropologist	1924
Lisa Rofel	American anthropologist
Lisbeth Haas	American historian and anthropologist
Lissant Bolton	Australian anthropologist and Keeper of Africa, Oceania and Americas at the British Museum	1954
Lívia Járóka	Hungarian politician	1974-10-06
Liza Dalby	American writer and anthropologist	1950
Lorna Marshall	American anthropologist	1898-09-14	2002-07-08
Lorraine Copeland	British archaeologist	1921	2013-04-27
Louise Burkhart	American academic	1958
Louise Lamphere	American anthropologist	1940
Louise Leakey	Kenyan paleontologist	1971-03-21
Lourdes Gutiérrez Nájera	Anthropologist
Lucy Goodison	British archaeologist
Lucy Mair	British anthropologist	1901-01-28	1986-04-01
Lucy Myers Wright Mitchell	American historian and writer on archaeology	1845-03-20	1888-03-10
Lucy Suchman	British sociologist
Lucy Taxis Shoe Meritt	American archaeologist	1906	2003-04-13
Luisa Accati	Historian, anthropologist, feminist	1942
Luisa Maffi	American anthropologist
Lydia Cabrera	Afro-Cuban poet	1900-05-20	1991-09-19
Lydia T. Black	Ukrainian American anthropologist	1925-12-16	2007-03-12
Lydia White	Canadian linguist
Lyla Pinch Brock	Canadian Egyptologist
Lyn Miles	American anthropologist	1944-08-05
Lynne P. Sullivan	American archaeologist	1952-12-25
Mabel Cook Cole	American anthropologist	1880-04-18	1977-11
Mabel Lang	American archaeologist	1917-11-12	2010-07-21
Madawi al-Rasheed	Saudi Arabian academic	1962
Madeleine Colani	French archaeologist	1866 1866-08-13	1943
Madeleine Pelletier	physician, psychiatrist, feminist, socialist	1874-05-18	1939-12-29
Madeline Kneberg Lewis	American anthropologist	1903	1996
Mai Yamani	Saudi Arabian anthropologist	1956
Makaziwe Mandela	daughter of Nelson Mandela and Evelyn Ntoko	1954
Makereti Papakura	Tuhourangi woman of mana, guide, ethnographer	1873	1930
Malathi de Alwis	Feminist scholar/activist:International Centre for Ethnic Studies/Colombo/Sri Lanka
Malika Zeghal	American academic	1965
Marcela Lagarde	Mexican academic, author, researcher, anthropologist, feminist activist and politician	1948-12-30
Marcia C. Inhorn	American medical anthropologist	1957
Marcia Langton	Aboriginal scholar and activist	1951-10-31
Marcia Theophilo	Brazilian poet	1941
Margaret B. Blackman	American anthropologist	1944
Margaret Bender	American anthropologist
Margaret Conkey	American archaeologist	1943
Margaret Elizabeth Ashley-Towle	American archaeologist	1902-01-12	1985-11-02
Margaret Hasluck	British scholar	1885-06-18	1948-10-18
Margaret Lantis	U.S. Anthropologist	1906-09-01	2006-09-08
Margaret Lock	anthropologist	1936
Margaret Mead	American anthropologist	1901-12-16	1978-11-15
Margaret Murray	British Egyptologist	1863-07-13	1963-11-13
Margaret Rule	British archaeologist	1928-09-27	2015-04-09
Margarete Bieber	Art historian	1879 1879-07-31	1978 1978-02-25
Margarethe Lenore Selenka	German academic	1860	1923
Margherita Guarducci	Italian archaeologist and epigraphist	1902-12-20	1999-09-02
Margrét Hermanns-Auðardóttir	Icelandic archaeologist
Marguerite Dupire	French ethnologist	1920-10-12	2015-03-04
Mari Lyn Salvador	Anthropologist	1943
Maria Czaplicka	Polish anthropologist	1884-10-25	1921-05-27
Marianne Nøhr Larsen	Danish anthropologist	1963-03-26
María Elisa Velázquez Gutiérrez	Mexican anthropologist
Maria Fadiman	Botanist	1969-07-04
Maria Reiche	Peruvian archaeologist	1903-05-15	1998-06-08
Maria Teschler-Nicola	Austrian human biologist, anthropologist and ethnologist	1950
Marianne Gullestad	Norwegian anthropologist	1946-03-28	2008-03-10
Marie-Claire Foblets	anthropologist, lawyer, professor	1959-11-04
Marie-Françoise Guédon	Canadian anthropologist
Marie-Lucie Tarpent	Canadian linguist
Marija Gimbutas	Lithuanian-American archaeologist	1921-01-23	1994-02-02
Marija Makarovič	Ethnologist	1930-08-15
Marika Moisseeff	French anthropologist and psychiatrist
Marilyn Houlberg	American anthropologist and photographer		2012-06-30
Marilyn Ivy	American anthropologist
Marilyn Strathern	British anthropologist	1941-03-06
Marina Cunin	social anthropologist
Marion Elizabeth Blake	American classical scholar	1892-03-23	1961-09-11
Mariza Corrêa	Brazilian anthropologist	1945-12-01	2016-12-27
Marjan Mashkour	Iranian archaeologist
Marjorie F. Lambert	American anthropologist and archaeologist	1908-06-13	2006-12-16
Marjorie Halpin	American-Canadian anthropologist	1937	2000
Marjorie Shostak	American anthropologist	1945-05-11	1996-10-06
Marta Lamas	Argentinian anthropologist	1947
Marta Turok	Mexican anthropologist	1952
Martha Crago	Canadian linguist
Martha Kaplan	American anthropologist	1957
Martha Rhoads Bell	American archaeologist	1941-04-27	1991-11-12
Martha Warren Beckwith	American folklorist and ethnographer	1871-01-19	1959-01-28
Martine Franck	Belgian photographer	1938-04-02	2012-08-16
Mary Albright
Mary Ann Ochota	British broadcaster and anthropologist	1981-05-08
Mary Cabot Wheelwright	American anthropologist		1958-07-29
Mary Catherine Bateson	American anthropologist	1939-12-08
Mary Catherine Ferguson	Irish writer and archaeologist	1823	1905
Mary Doria Russell	American novelist	1950-08-19
Mary Douglas	British anthropologist	1921-03-25	2007-05-16
Mary Frere	English author	1845-08-11	1911-03-02
Mary Hamilton Swindler	archaeologist	1884-01-01	1967-01-16
Mary Leakey	British paleoanthropologist	1913-02-06	1996-12-09
Mary Lindsay Elmendorf	American applied anthropologist	1917	2017
Mary Lou Ridinger	American archaeologist	1945
Mary-Russell Ferrell Colton	American artist, author, educator	1889-03-25	1971-07-26
Matilda Coxe Stevenson	Ethnologist	1849-05-12	1915-06-24
Maud Cunnington	British archaeologist	1869-09-24	1951-02-28
Maud Oakes	American ethnologist	1903	1990
Maxine Margolis	American anthropologist
Maya Haïdar Boustani	Archaeologist
Meave Leakey	Archiologist	1942-07-28
Melba Padilla Maggay	writer and social anthropologist	1950-09-10
Mercedes Doretti	Argentine anthropologist	1959
Mercedes Fernández-Martorell	Spanish writer and anthropologist	1948-11-25
Meredith Small	American anthropologist	1950-11-20
Merrill Swain	language scholar
Merryl Wyn Davies	Welsh Muslim scholar	1948-06-23
Micaela Portilla	Spanish anthropologist	1922-07-30	2005-10-08
Michelle Rosaldo	American anthropologist	1944	1981
Mildred Trotter	American anthropologist	1899-02-03	1991-08-23
Mildred Mott Wedel	American archaeologist, anthropologist, and ethnohistorian of the Great Plains	1912-09-07	1995-09-04
Minou Tavárez Mirabal	Congresswoman	1956-08-31
Miranda Aldhouse-Green	British archaeologist and academic	1947-07-24
Mireya Mayor	American anthropologist	1973
Miriam Tildesley	Tildesley, Miriam Louise (1883–1979), anthropologist	1883-07-01	1979-01-31
Miriyam Aouragh	Dutch anthropologist	1972-11-18
Miyako Inoue	American linguistic anthropologist	1962
Mizuko Ito	Japanese cultural anthropologist	1968-07-22
Mona Bhan	cultural anthropologist
Mónica Pellecer Alecio	Guatemalan archaeologist
Monica Wilson	South African anthropologist	1908-01-03	1982-10-26
Montgomery McFate	Anthropologist	1966-01-08
Muazzez İlmiye Çığ	Turkish female sumerologist	1914-06-20	2024-11-17
Muhibbe Darga	Turkish archaeologist	1921-06-13
Myra Shackley	British archaeologist	1949
Myrna Gopnik	Canadian psychologist and linguist
Myrna Mack	Guatemalan anthropologist	1949-10-24	1990-09-11
Nadia Abu El Haj	Academic	1962
Nancy Abelmann	American anthropologist	1959
Nancy Dupree	American archaeologist	1927
Nancy Oestreich Lurie	American anthropologist	1924-01-29
Nancy Romero-Daza
Nancy Scheper-Hughes	American anthropologist	1944
Nancy Turner	Canadian ethnobiologist	1947
Natalia Polosmak	Russian archaeologist	1956-09-12
Natalie Curtis	American ethnomusicologist	1875-04-26	1921-10-23
Nathalie Beaux-Grimal	French Egyptologist	1960
Nathalie Luca	French anthropologist	1966
Niara Sudarkasa	American anthropologist	1938-08-14
Nicky Milner	British archaeologist
Nicole Loraux	French historian	1943-04-26	2003-04-06
Nicolette Bethel	Bahamian anthropologist
Niède Guidon	Brazilian archaeologist	1933-03-12
Nina Etkin	American anthropologist	1948-06-13	2009-01-26
Nina Frances Layard	British writer and archaeologist	1853	1935
Nina Gagen-Torn	Russian writer and historian	1900-12-02	1986-06-04
Nina Jablonski	anthropologist and palaeobiologist, known for her research into the evolution of skin color in humans	1953-08-20
Nita Kumar	American anthropologist
Nora Ahlberg	Professor	1952
Norma Mendoza-Denton	sociolinguist and anthropologist	1968
Odette du Puigaudeau	French ethnologist	1894-07-20	1991-07-19
Odille Morison	Canadian linguist	1855-07-17
Olga F. Linares	Panamanian–American academic anthropologist and archaeologist	1936-11-10	2014-12-02
Olga Najera-Ramirez	American anthropologist
Olive Pink	Australian botanical illustrator, anthropologist, gardener, and activist for aboriginal rights	1884-03-17	1975-07-06
Olivia Harris	Social anthropologist	1948-08-26	2009-04-09
Orly Goldwasser	Israeli Egyptologist
Paloma Gay y Blasco	Social anthropologist
Pamela Erickson	Medical anthropologist	1951-04-12
Patricia Alice Shaw	Canadian linguist
Patricia Barchas	Anthropologist and behavioral neurobiologist		1993-07-06
Patricia Birley	British archaeologist	1948-06-27
Patricia Sawin	American anthropologist
Patricia Wright	American primatologist	1944-09-10
Patricia Zavella	anthropologist and professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz
Patty Jo Watson	anthropologist
Pauline Turner Strong	American anthropologist
Pearl Primus	American dancer and choreographer	1919-11-29	1994-10-29
Penelope Wilson	British Egyptologist
Penny Wolin	American photographer	1953-06-05
Phyllis Kaberry	Australian anthropologist	1910-09-17	1977-10-31
Phyllis Morse	American archaeologist	1934
Phyllis Williams Lehmann	American archaeologist	1912-11-12	2004-09-29
Pirkko-Liisa Lehtosalo-Hilander	Finnish archaeologist
Polly Hill	British social anthropologist	1914-07-14	2005-08-21
Polly Schaafsma	American archaeologist
Priscilla Reining	American anthropologist	1923-03-11	2007-07-19
Prudence Hero Napier	British zoologist		1997-06-06
Rae Bridgman	Canadian writer
Raquel Brailowsky	Puerto Rican anthropologist
Rayna Rapp	professor of anthropology at New York University, specializing in gender, reproduction, health and culture, science and technology
Rebecca Grinter	American computer scientist
Regina Bendix	Swiss academic	1958-05-31
Regna Darnell	Canadian anthropologist
Regula Tschumi	Swiss ethnologist	1957
Reina Torres de Araúz	Argentinian anthropologist	1932-10-30	1982-02-26
Renée Friedman	American Egyptologist
Rhoda Bubendey Métraux	Anthropologist	1914	2003
Riane Eisler	Austrian sociologist	1931-07-22
Rita El Khayat	Moroccan anthropologist	1944
Rita P. Wright	American anthropologist
Rivke Jaffe	Dutch anthropologist and professor	1978
Roberta Gilchrist	British archaeologist	1965
Rosalind Moss	British Egyptologist	1890-09-21	1990-04-22
Rose Mary Allen	Curaçaoan anthropologist
Rose Oldfield Hayes	American anthropologist
Rosemary Cramp	British archaeologist
Rosemary Firth	Anthropologist	1912	2001-07-09
Ruth Amiran	Israeli archaeologist	1914-12-08	2005-12-14
Ruth Behar	Jewish Cuban American writer	1956-11-12
Ruth Benedict	American anthropologist and folklorist	1887	1947
Ruth Bunzel	American anthropologist	1898-04-18	1990-01-14
Ruth Cardoso	Brazilian anthropologist	1930-09-19	2008-06-24
Ruth Cernea	American anthropologist	1934	2009
Ruth DeEtte Simpson	American archaeologist	1918-05-06	2000-01-19
Ruth Hill Useem	American sociologist	1915-05-31	2003-09-10
Ruth Landes	American anthropologist	1908-10-08	1991-02-11
Ruth Sawtell Wallis	American academic and physical anthropologist	1895-03-15	1978-01-21
Ruth Shady	Peruvian anthropologist	1946-12-24
Ruth Tringham	British archaeologist	1940-10-14
Ruth Underhill	American anthropologist	1883-08-22	1984-08-15
S. Lochlann Jain	American anthropologist
Saba Mahmood	American anthropologist	1962
Sabina Magliocco	American folklorist	1959-12-30
Sabine Gaudzinski-Windheuser	German anthropologist, paleontologist, archaeologist and prehistorian	1965-06-25
Sada Mire	Somalian archaeologist	1977
Saddeka Arebi	Anthropologist, author		2007-07
Safi Faye	Ethnologist and film director	1943-11-22
Salima Ikram	Pakistani Egyptologist	1965
Sally Falk Moore	American anthropologist	1924
Sally Larsen	American artist	1954
Sally Price	American anthropologist	1943-09-16
Samar Minallah	Anthropologist and Documentary filmmaker.	1970
Sandra Morgen	American anthropologist	1950-03-31	2016-09-29
Sara C. Bisel	American archaeologist and anthropologist	1932-05-13	1996-02-04
Sara Yorke Stevenson	American archaeologist and Egyptologist	1847-02-19	1921-11-14
Sarah Blaffer Hrdy	American anthropologist and primatologist	1946-07-11
Sarah F. Maclaren	Italian sociologist and anthropologist	1964-06-04
Sarah Franklin	American anthropologist	1960-11-09
Sarah Green	Social anthropologist	1961-03-09
Sarah J. Mahler	Anthropologist	1959-09-08
Sarah Milledge Nelson	American archaeologist	1931
Sarah Parcak	American archaeologist and Egyptologist	1979
Selma Al-Radi	Iraqi archaeologist	1939-07-23	2010-10-07
Seodi White	Malawian lawyer, activist, feminist, anthropologist
Setha Low	American anthropologist	1948-03-14
Shana Poplack	Canadian linguist
Shannon Lee Dawdy	American anthropologist and archaeologist
Sharada Srinivasan	Indian academic
Sharon Claydon	Australian politician	1964-04-26
Sheila Kitzinger	British activist	1929-03-29	2015-04-11
Shelly Errington	American photographer
Shereen Ratnagar	Indian archaeologist
Sherry Ortner	American anthropologist	1941-09-19
Shirley Heath	American linguist and anthropologist	1939-07-26
Sidney Robertson Cowell	American ethnographer	1903	1995
Signithia Fordham	American anthropologist
Smadar Lavie	Israeli anthropologist
Sohini Ray	Indian anthropologist	1966-08-25
Solveig Nordström	Archaeologist	1923
Sondra Hale	American anthropologist
Sonia Álvarez Leguizamón	Argentinian anthropologist	1954-01-16
Sonia Mary Cole	British anthropologist	1918	1982
Sophie Bledsoe Aberle	American anthropologist, physician and nutritionist	1896-07-21	1996-10
Stine Rossel	Danish archaeologist	1975	2007-10-20
Suad Joseph	American anthropologist	1943-09-06
Sue Black	Forensic anthropologist	1961-05-07
Sue Hamilton	British archaeologist
Sue Hendrickson	American paleontologist and archeologist	1949-12-02
Sue Savage-Rumbaugh	psychologist	1946
Sula Benet	Polish anthropologist	1903	1982
Sumaya bint El Hassan	Jordanian princess	1971-05-14
Susan Cachel	American anthropologist
Susan D. Gillespie	American Mesoamericanist	1952
Susan E. Alcock	Archaeologist
Susan Gal	Anthropologist and linguist	1949
Susan Hirsch	Legal anthropologist
Susan Irene Rotroff	American archaeologist
Susan Kane	American archaeologist
Susan M. Ervin-Tripp	American linguist	1927-06-27
Susan Visvanathan	Sociologist and Fiction Writer	1957
Susana Pinilla	Peruvian anthropologist	1954
Susanne Bickel	French Egyptologist	1960
Susanne Osthoff	German archaeologist	1962-03-07
Susanne Schröter	German anthropologist	1957-09-24
Suzanna W. Miles	American Mayanist	1922	1966
Svetlana Pletneva	Russian historian and archaeologist	1926-04-20	2008-11-20
Sydel Silverman	American anthropologist, writer, educator, and administrator	1933
Sylvia Leith-Ross	English anthropologist and writer	1884	1980
Sylvia M. Broadbent	American anthropologist	1932	2015-07-30
Taisha Abelar	Author and anthropologist	1944	1998-04-29
Tamasin Ramsay	Australian actress	1967
Tanya Luhrmann	American anthropologist	1959
Tatiana Proskouriakoff	American Mayanist scholar	1909-01-23	1985-08-30
Temperance "Bones" Brennan	fictional human	1976
Teresa Giménez Barbat	Anthropologist	1955
Teresa Porzecanski	Uruguayan anthropologist	1945
Theodora Kroeber	American anthropologist	1897-03-24	1979-07-04
Theresa Goell	American archaeologist	1901-07-17	1985-12-18
Tullia Magrini	Italian anthropologist	1950-04-15	2005-07-24
Unni Wikan	Norwegian anthropologist	1944-11-18
Ursula Cowgill	American biologist and anthropologist	1927-11-09
Ursula Graham Bower	British anthropologist	1914-05-15	1988-11-12
Ursula McConnel	Australian anthropologist	1888-10-27	1957-11-06
Uzma Z. Rizvi	American anthropologist and archeologist of Ancient Near East studies	1973
Val Curtis	British scientist
Veena Das	Indian anthropologist	1945
Vera Grabe	Colombian politician and anthropologist	1951
Véréna Paravel	French anthropologist and artist	1971-04-21
Veronica Seton-Williams	Australian anthropologist and archaeologist (1910-1992)	1910-04-20	1992-05-29
Vibha Tripathi	Indian archaeologist	1948
Victoria Wyatt	American art histotrian	1956-08-03
Vilma Sindona Eichholz	Canadian linguist and Esperantist	1926	1995-07-15
Viola Garfield	American anthropologist	1899-12-05	1983-11-25
Virginia Abernethy	Professor	1934
Virginia Grace	American archaeologist	1901	1994-05-22
Virginia Gutiérrez de Pineda		1921-11-04	1999-09-02
Virginia R. Domínguez	American anthropologist	1952
Vronwy Hankey	British archaeologist	1916-09-05	1998-05-11
Wendy Ashmore	American archaeologist
Wendy Fonarow	American anthropologist
Wendy Orent	American anthropologist
Wendy Rose	anthropologist, poet, painter	1948-05-07
Wilhelmina Feemster Jashemski	American archaeologist	1910-07-10	2007-12-24
Winifred Brunton	British and South African artist and Egyptologist	1880-05-06	1959-01-29
Winifred Lamb	British art historian	1894 1894-11-02	1963 1963-09-16
Yeda Pessoa de Castro	Brazilian ethnolinguist	1937
Yolanda Murphy	American anthropologist	1925
Zagorka Golubović	Yugoslav/Serbian sociologist	1930-03-08
Zainab Bahrani	Iraqi archaeologist	1962-08-29
Zakia Zouanat	Moroccan anthropologist (1957-2012)	1957	2012-08-30
Zalpa Bersanova	Russian writer
Zeineb Benzina	Tunisian anthropologist and archaeologist
Zelia Nuttall	American archaeologist and anthropologist	1857-09-06	1933-04-12
Ziba Mir-Hosseini	Iranian anthropologist	1952-04-03
Zora Neale Hurston	American folklorist, novelist, short story writer	1891-01-07	1960-01-28
Zsófia Torma	Hungarian archaeologist	1832-09-26	1899-11-14

See also

• List of anthropologists
• Lists of women scientists
• Lists of women in STEM fields
• Lists of women by occupation