Elsie Clews Parsons [SEP] father
, and was elected the first female president of the American Anthropological Association (1941) right before her death.
She earned her bachelor's degree from Barnard College in 1896. She received her master’s degree (1897) and Ph.D. (1899) from Columbia University.
Every other year, the American Ethnological Society awards the "Elsie Clews Parsons Prize" for the best graduate student essay, in her honor.
Biography.
Parsons was the daughter of Henry Clews, a wealthy New York banker, and Lucy
Cape Verdean Creole
- Château de la Napoule
- History of feminism
- List of Barnard College people
- Zora Neale Hurston
- Mabel Dodge Luhan
- Margaret Mead
- Pueblo clown
- Taos Pueblo
External links.
- Elsie Clews Parsons Papers at the American Philosophical Society
- Elsie Clews Parsons, The Journal of a Feminist by Professor Catherine Lavender, City University of New York
- Elsie Clews Parsons, Minnesota State University, Mankato
- Stacy A. Cordery. "Review of Desley