Ruth Behar

Anthropologist Ruth Behar contributes to the arts and sciences through her ethnographic research and writing on Spain, Mexico, and Cuba, and as a memoirist (of the immigrant experience), poet, novelist, teacher, and public speaker. Born in Havana and raised in New York, she is the author of seven books and has co-edited four additional volumes, as well as numerous articles and essays. Among her many honors and awards, she was the first Latina to win a MacArthur “Genius” grant. She is the Victor Haim Perera Collegiate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Michigan, where she has taught since 1989.