Born: 1897, Russia
Died: 1972
Country most active: United States
Also known as: Frances Shapiro
The following is excerpted from Infinite Women creator Allison Tyra’s book Uncredited: Women’s Overlooked, Misattributed, and Stolen Work.
Anthropologist Frances Herskovits and her husband collaborated so closely that it is almost impossible to distinguish who did what research. The couple would each write half of the chapters in their prolific output on African, Afro-Caribbean and African-American culture, and then each would edit the half the other wrote. Although Melville Herskovits did credit Frances for her work, her contributions were never recognised by the larger anthropology community, even after his death.