DuBois, Cora (1903–1991)

US cultural anthropologist. She studied the American Indian peoples of northern California and Oregon while teaching at Berkeley. She was director of research for the Institute of International Education (1951–54) and taught at Radcliffe (1954–69).

She was born in New York City. After graduating from Barnard College graduate, she gained a PhD from the University of California at Berkeley in 1932. Fieldwork in Indonesia in the late 1930s led to her landmark culture and personality study, The People of Alor (1944).