Bio: (1903-1991) American anthropologist. She studied at Barnard College, where her teacher was Boas. She completed her master's studies at Columbia University and enrolled in her doctoral studies in 1928 at Berkeley University. At Berkeley, her professor was Robert Lowie, who sent her in 1929 to investigate the Wintu tribe in California. Her doctoral thesis, Vintu Ethnography, which she defended in 1932 and was published in 1935, resulted from this research. In 1935, Du Bois received a grant to research how psychiatric skills could be applied to professional anthropologists, and she conducted the research at the Boston Psychopathic Hospital. The following year, together with Abram Kardiner, Du Bois began giving lectures that combined Freudian psychology and ethnology. In 1938, Du Bois went to research the Arctic Alor people, who were known for suffering from "arctic hysteria", and the fruit of this research was a monograph that was published in 1944. This book sought to explain the development of the individual from birth to maturity and also dealt with the psychology of religion. In her research, Du Bois used projective tests such as Rorschach and free association. Du Bois taught at Lorenz College in the period 1939-1942, then from 1942-1954 she worked for the World Health Organization. During World War II, she also worked for the US Army as an analyst for the Indonesian sector. She also taught at Harvard (1954-1969) and Cornell (1970-1975).

Main works

 Wintu Ethnography (1935);

 The Feather Cult of the Middle Columbia (1938);

  The 1870 Ghost Dance (1939);

 The People of Alor: A Social-Psychological Study of an East Indian Island (1944);

 Social Forces in Southeast Asia (1959).