Overview: Cora Alice Du Bois (1903-1991), American anthropologist, educator, and author, was Zemurray Stone-Radcliffe Professor of Anthropology at Harvard University from 1954 to 1969. She was the first woman to receive tenure in Harvard’s Department of Anthropology, and the second woman to join the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. This collection contains correspondence, class materials, research and field notes, teaching files, and manuscript drafts of publications, lectures, and speeches documenting...

Scope and Contents: This series primarily consists of correspondence with students, colleagues, and professional associates, as well as friends and relatives, covering Du Bois’s early fieldwork and research interests, her teaching career, scholarship and publications, and activities after she retired from Harvard and Radcliffe. Du Bois’s outgoing letters are usually typed carbon copies. The bulk of the correspondence files are dated 1950-1985 and frequently contain drafts of papers, materials related...