Sally Falk Moore facts for kids
Sally Falk Moore (January 18, 1924 – May 2, 2021) was a legal anthropologist and professor emerita at Harvard University. She did her major fieldwork in Tanzania and published extensively on cross-cultural, comparative legal theory.
Moore was trained as a lawyer at Columbia Law school and, after working on Wall Street, became a staff attorney at the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg during the investigation of Nazi war criminals. She then returned to the US and received her PhD in anthropology from Columbia University in 1957. She was chair of the anthropology section of the joint department of sociology and anthropology at the University of Southern California (1963–1977, 1969–1972) and a professor at University of California at Los Angeles (1977–1981) and Yale University (1975–1976) before she joined the Harvard University faculty in 1981. She was dean of the Graduate School at Harvard from 1985 to 1989. In 2010 she was appointed affiliated professor of international legal studies at Harvard Law School.
Some awards
- Ansley Prize, Columbia University 1957
- Mogan Lectures, University of Rochester, 1981
- Barnard College, Medal of Distinction 1987
- Guggenheim, 1995–1996
- Huxley Memorial Medalist and Lecturer for 1999, by the Royal Anthropological Institute in London. She was only the second woman so honored. [1]
- Harry J. Kalven, Jr. Prize, 2005 [2]
- Elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 2005
Notable students
- Craig Calhoun, appointed future director of the London School of Economics and Political Science from September 2012 on.
See also
In Spanish: Sally Falk Moore para niños
