Ernestine Friedl

Ernestine Friedl (August 13, 1920 – October 12, 2015) was an American anthropologist, author, and professor.[1][2] She served as the president of both the American Ethnological Society (1967) and the American Anthropological Association (1974–1975). Friedl was also the first Dean of Arts and Sciences and Trinity College at Duke University, and was a James B. Duke Professor Emerita. A building on Duke's campus, housing the departments of African and African American Studies, Cultural Anthropology, the Latino/Latina Studies program, and Literature was named in her honor in 2008.[3] Her major interests included gender roles, rural life in modern Greece, and the St. Croix Chippewa Indians of Wisconsin.

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