Women's History Month #10
Contribution: A cultural anthropologist and writer best known for her studies and publications on the subject.
Age: 76 (1901 - 1978)
Mini Bio:
Margaret Mead was an American cultural anthropologist and writer. Mead did her undergraduate work at Barnard College, where she met Franz Boas, who she went on to do her anthropology Ph.D. at Columbia University. She became a curator of ethnology at the American Museum of Natural History, where she published the bestselling book, Coming of Age in Samoa.
