Cora Du Bois

Cora Du Bois
Jeanne Taylor, Gérard Du Bois, and Cora Du Bois (1980)
Born	Cora Alice Du Bois (1903-10-26)October 26, 1903 New Jersey, US
Died	April 7, 1991(1991-04-07) (aged 87) Brookline, Massachusetts, US
Nationality	American
Education	Barnard College, Columbia University, University of California, Berkeley
Occupation	Anthropologist
Known for	Culture and personality studies and psychological anthropology
Notable work	Wintu Ethnography (1935) The Feather Cult of the Middle Columbia (1938) The 1870 Ghost Dance (1939) The People of Alor (1944) Social Forces in Southeast Asia (1949)
Title	President, American Anthropological Association (1968–69) President, Association for Asian Studies (1969–70)
Partner	Jeanne Taylor
Awards	Exceptional Civilian Service Award Order of the Crown of Thailand

Cora Alice Du Bois (October 26, 1903 – April 7, 1991)^[1] was an American cultural anthropologist and a key figure in culture and personality studies and in psychological anthropology more generally. She was Samuel Zemurray Jr. and Doris Zemurray Stone-Radcliffe Professor at Radcliffe College from 1954. After retirement from Radcliffe, she was Professor-at-large at Cornell University (1971–1976) and for one term at the University of California, San Diego (1976).^[1]

She was elected Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1955,^[2] president of the American Anthropological Association in 1968–1969, and of the Association for Asian Studies in 1969–1970, the first woman to be allowed that honor.^[3]