Ashley Montagu

Ashley Montagu
Montagu in 1958
Born	Israel Ehrenberg (1905-06-28)28 June 1905 London, United Kingdom
Died	26 November 1999(1999-11-26) (aged 94) Princeton, New Jersey, U.S.
Nationality	British
Citizenship	American
Alma mater	University College London London School of Economics Columbia University
Known for	Popularizing the term "ethnic group"
Scientific career
Fields	Anthropology

Montague Francis Ashley-Montagu (born Israel Ehrenberg; June 28, 1905 – November 26, 1999) was a British-American anthropologist who popularized the study of topics such as race and gender and their relation to politics and development.^[1] He was the rapporteur, in 1950, for the UNESCO "statement on race".

As a young man he changed his name from Ehrenberg to "Montague Francis Ashley-Montagu". After relocating to the United States he used the name "Ashley Montagu".

Montagu, who became a naturalized American citizen in 1940, taught and lectured at Harvard, Princeton, Rutgers, the University of California, Santa Barbara, and New York University.^[2] Forced out of his Rutgers position after the McCarthy hearings, he repositioned himself as a public intellectual in the 1950s and 1960s, appearing regularly on television shows and writing for magazines and newspapers. He authored over 60 books throughout this lifetime. In 1995, the American Humanist Association named him the Humanist of the Year.