Elsie Clews Parsons

Elsie Clews Parsons was an American anthropologist, sociologist, folklorist and feminist. She studied Native American peoples such as the Tewa and Hopi in Arizona, New Mexico and Mexico, and she helped found The New School. She edited the Journal of American Folklore from 1918 to 1941, led the American Folklore Society and the American Ethnological Society, and in 1941 became the first woman president of the American Anthropological Association.