Margaret Mead (December 16, 1901 - November 15, 1978) She earned her bachelor's degree at Barnard College in New York City and her M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Columbia University. Mead served as President of the AAAS in 1975.

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Hortense Powdermaker (December 24, 1900 - June 16, 1970) was an American anthropologist best known for her ethnographic studies of African Americans in rural America and of Hollywood.

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Ruth Benedict  (June 5, 1887 - September 17, 1948) was an American anthropologist and folklorist.
She was born in New York City, attended Vassar College and graduated in 1909. After studying anthropology at the New School of Social Research under Elsie Clews Parsons, she entered graduate studies at Columbia University in 1921, where she studied under Franz Boas. She received her PhD and joined the faculty in 1923.

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Zora Neale Hurston, (January 7, 1891 - January 28, 1960) was an influential author of African-American literature and anthropologist, She attended Barnard College. She was a student of Franz Boas, the father of American anthropology,

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Mary Leakey. (6 February 1913 - 9 December 1996) was a British paleoanthropologist who discovered the first fossilised Proconsul skull, an extinct ape which is now believed to be ancestral to humans. She also discovered the robust Zinjanthropus skull at Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania, eastern Africa. For much of her career she worked with her husband, Louis Leakey,

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Michelle Rosaldo (1944 in New York City - 1981 in Philippines) was a social, linguistic, and psychological anthropologist famous for her studies of the Ilongot people in the Philippines and for her pioneering role in women's studies and the anthropology of gender.

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Louise Lamphere (born 1940) is an American anthropologist who has been a distinguished professor of anthropology at the University of New Mexico since 2001. She was a faculty member at UNM from 1976-1979 and again from 1986-2009, when she became a professor emeritus. She received her PHD from Harvard.

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Gayle S. Rubin (born 1949) is an American cultural anthropologist best known as an activist and theorist of sex and gender politics. She has written on a range of subjects including feminism, sadomasochism, prostitution, pedophilia, pornography and lesbian literature, as well as anthropological studies and histories of sexual subcultures, especially focused in urban contexts. She is an associate professor of anthropology, women's studies, and comparative literature at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.

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Henrietta Moore (born 18 May 1957) is a British social anthropologist. She is the director of the Institute for Global Prosperity at University College, London (UCL), part of the Bartlett, UCL's Faculty of the Built Environment.
Moore graduated from Durham University with an upper second in Archaeology and Anthropology in 1979. She continued her studies at Newnham College, Cambridge, completing a PhD in 1983.

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Marilyn Strathern (born 6 March 1941) is a British anthropologist, who has worked largely with the Mount Hagen people of Papua New Guinea and dealt with issues in the UK of reproductive technologies. She was William Wyse Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Cambridge from 1993 to 2008, and Mistress of Girton College, Cambridge from 1998 to 2009.

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Rayna Rapp (1946)
is a professor and associate chair of anthropology at New York University, specializing in gender and health; the politics of reproduction; science, technology, and genetics; and disability in the United States and Europe. She has contributed over 80 published works to the field of anthropology, independently, as a co-author, editor, and forward-writing
She served on the Executive Board of the American Anthropological Association from 2012-2015.

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Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935) Writer, commercial artist, magazine editor, lecturer and social reformer
As a delegate, she represented California in 1896 at both the National American Woman Suffrage Association convention in Washington, D.C. and the International Socialist and Labor Congress in London.

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Anna Julia Cooper (August 10, 1858 - February 27, 1964) was an American author, educator, sociologist, speaker, Black Liberation activist, and one of the most prominent African-American scholars in United States history. Upon receiving her PhD in history from the University of Paris-Sorbonnein 1924, Cooper became the fourth African-American woman to earn a doctoral degree.

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Ida Bell Wells-Barnett (July 16, 1862 - March 25, 1931), more commonly known as Ida B. Wells, was an African-American investigative journalist, educator, and an early leader in the Civil Rights Movement. She was one of the founders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). She was born a slave.

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Patricia Hill Collins. (born May 1, 1948) is a Distinguished University Professor of Sociology at the University of Maryland, College Park.  She is also the former head of the Department of African-American Studies at the University of Cincinnati, and a past President of the American Sociological Association Council. Collins was the 100th president of the ASA and the first African-American woman to hold this position.

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Elsie Clews Parsons, 1875-1941
she graduated from Barnard in 1896 and earned a doctorate in education from Columbia in 1899. Seven years later, this rabble-rouser published a "radical" book advocating for straightforward sex ed and discussions of premarital sex and "trial marriages."

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Phyllis Kaberry, 1910-1977
After graduating from the University of Sydney, Kaberry wrote her 1934 master's thesis on the aboriginal people of the islands off Australia, including New Guinea, Fiji and the Solomon Islands.
She was involved in groundbreaking research on indigenous women in Australia and Nigeria, Cameroon.
She studied in London with Bronislaw Malinowski. . She served as vice president of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland and joined the University College, London staff,

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Mary Douglas (1921-2007)
She was a British anthropologist whose interest lay with comparative religion, and is known for her writings on symbolism and culture. Her reputation was established by her book 'Purity and Danger' (1966) which analyses ideas of ritual purity and impurity within different societies, and is considered a key text in social anthropology.

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Nancy Scheper-Hughes (1944)
She is an American anthropologist known for her writing on the anthropology of the body, hunger, illness, medicine, psychiatry, mental illness, social suffering, violence and genocide. In 2009 her investigation of an international ring of organ sellers based in New York, New Jersey and Israel led to a number of arrests by the FBI.