June C. Nash
Distinguished Professor of Anthropology, Emerita

June C. Nash is Distinguished Professor of Anthropology, Emerita, City College and the CUNY Graduate School and University Center. Her undergraduate degree was earned at Barnard College and her M.A. and Ph. D. in Anthropology are from the University of Chicago. Prof. Nash has been a visiting professor at SUNY Albany and Quito, Ecuador and held a distinguished visiting chair at the American University in Cairo and the University of Colorado.

Her major publications include: In the Eyes of the Ancestors: Belief and Behavior in a Maya community (1970); We Eat the Mines and the Mines Eat Us: Dependency and Exploitation in Bolivian Tin Mining Communities (1979); From Tank Town to High-Tech: The Clash of Community and Industrial Cycles (1989); and Crafts in the World Market: The Impact of International Exchange on Middle American Artisans (1993). She has published numerous articles in major Anthropology journals, and has been involved in making two films, “I Spent My Life in the Mines” and “Community and Industrial Cycles.”

She served as Associate Editor of Urban Anthropology and has been president of the Society of Feminist Anthropology and the Society of Latin Americanists. She has also been a Fellow at the Bellaggio Center of the Rockefeller Foundation, and received the 1992 Conrad Arensberg Award from the society for the Anthropology of Work. She has received grants from the National Science Foundation, the National Institute for Mental Health, the Social Science Research Council, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Research Foundation of the City University of New York, and the MacArthur Foundation.