# List of members of the National Academy of Sciences (Anthropology)

This list is a subsection of the List of members of the National Academy of Sciences, which includes approximately 2,000 members and 350 foreign associates of the United States National Academy of Sciences, each of whom is affiliated with one of 31 disciplinary sections. Members are listed under their primary subsection and each person's name, primary institution, and election year are given.

## Anthropology

| Name | Institution | Year |
| Robert McCormick Adams (d. 2018) | University of California, San Diego | 1970 |
| Susan Alberts | Duke University | 2019 |
| William F. Albright (d. 1971) | Johns Hopkins University | 1955 |
| Jeanne Altmann | Princeton University | 2003 |
| Juan Luis Arsuaga | Universidad Complutense de Madrid | 2002 |
| Scott Atran | ARTIS International | 2022 |
| Paul T. Baker (d. 2007) | Pennsylvania State University | 1980 |
| Ofer Bar-Yosef (d. 2020) | Harvard University | 2001 |
| Cynthia Beall | Case Western Reserve University | 1996 |
| Anna K. Behrensmeyer | Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History | 2020 |
| Brent Berlin | University of Georgia | 1980 |
| H. Russell Bernard | Arizona State University | 2010 |
| Monique Borgerhoff Mulder | Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology | 2022 |
| Victoria Bricker | Tulane University | 1991 |
| Alison S. Brooks | George Washington University | 2020 |
| James Allison Brown | Northwestern University | 2013 |
| Jane Buikstra | Arizona State University | 1987 |
| Robert Carneiro (d. 2020) | American Museum of Natural History | 1999 |
| Napoleon Chagnon (d. 2019) | University of Missouri | 2012 |
| Kwang-chih Chang (d. 2001) | Harvard University | 1979 |
| Dorothy Cheney (d. 2018) | University of Pennsylvania | 2015 |
| J. Desmond Clark (d. 2002) | University of California, Berkeley | 1986 |
| Michael Coe (d. 2019) | Yale University | 1986 |
| Elizabeth Colson (d. 2016) | University of California, Berkeley | 1977 |
| Harold Conklin (d. 2016) | Yale University | 1976 |
| Linda S. Cordell (d. 2013) | University of Colorado | 2006 |
| Patricia Crown | University of New Mexico | 2014 |
| Roy D'Andrade (d. 2016) | University of Connecticut | 1998 |
| Frans de Waal (d. 2024) | Emory University | 2004 |
| Anthony Di Fiore | University of Texas at Austin | 2021 |
| Robert Drennan | University of Pittsburgh | 2004 |
| William Dressler | University of Alabama | 2023 |
| Timothy K. Earle | Northwestern University | 2023 |
| Fred Eggan (d. 1991) | University of Chicago | 1963 |
| Peter T. Ellison | Harvard University | 2006 |
| Kent Flannery | University of Michigan | 1978 |
| George M. Foster (d. 2006) | University of California, Berkeley | 1976 |
| Catherine S. Fowler | University of Nevada, Reno | 2011 |
| Charles Frake | University at Buffalo | 1986 |
| George Frison (d. 2020) | University of Wyoming | 1997 |
| Victoria Fromkin (d. 2000) | University of California, Los Angeles | 1996 |
| Stanley Garn (d. 2007) | University of Michigan | 1976 |
| Ralph Garruto | Binghamton University | 1997 |
| Clifford Geertz (d. 2006) | Institute for Advanced Study | 1973 |
| Diane Gifford-Gonzalez | University of California, Santa Cruz | 2024 |
| Melvyn Goldstein | Case Western Reserve University | 2009 |
| Ward Goodenough (d. 2013) | University of Pennsylvania | 1971 |
| Morris Goodman (d. 2010) | Wayne State University | 2002 |
| Jack Goody | University of Cambridge | 2004 |
| R. C. Green (d. 2009) | University of Auckland | 1984 |
| Joseph Greenberg (d. 2001) | Stanford University | 1965 |
| Donald K. Grayson | University of Washington | 2011 |
| James Bennett Griffin (d. 1997) | University of Michigan | 1968 |
| Jane Guyer (d. 2024) | Johns Hopkins University | 2008 |
| Mary Haas (d. 1996) | University of California, Berkeley | 1978 |
| Kenneth L. Hale (d. 2001) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 1990 |
| Raymond Hames | University of Nebraska–Lincoln | 2020 |
| Eugene A. Hammel | University of California, Berkeley | 1983 |
| Henry Harpending (d. 2016) | University of Utah | 1996 |
| Emil Haury (d. 1992) | University of Arizona | 1956 |
| Kristen Hawkes | University of Utah | 2002 |
| Henry M. Hoenigswald (d. 2003) | University of Pennsylvania | 1988 |
| Frank Hole | Yale University | 1981 |
| Ralph Holloway | Columbia University | 2015 |
| F. Clark Howell (d. 2007) | University of California, Berkeley | 1972 |
| William W. Howells (d. 2005) | Harvard University | 1967 |
| Sarah Hrdy | University of California, Davis | 1990 |
| Frederick S. Hulse (d. 1990) | University of Arizona | 1974 |
| Judith Irvine | University of Michigan | 2016 |
| Nina Jablonski | Penn State University Park | 2021 |
| Paul Kay | University of California, Berkeley | 1997 |
| Raymond C. Kelly | University of Michigan | 2004 |
| Patrick Kirch | University of California, Berkeley | 1990 |
| Timothy A. Kohler | Washington State University | 2022 |
| Conrad Kottak | University of Michigan | 2008 |
| Christopher W. Kuzawa | Northwestern University | 2018 |
| Clark Spencer Larsen | Ohio State University | 2016 |
| Miguel Leon-Portilla (d. 2019) | National Autonomous University of Mexico | 1995 |
| Claude Lévi-Strauss (d. 2009) | Collège de France | 1967 |
| Olga Linares (d. 2014) | Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute | 1992 |
| Floyd Lounsbury (d. 1998) | Yale University | 1969 |
| Owen Lovejoy | Kent State University | 2007 |
| Richard MacNeish (d. 2001) | Andover Foundation for Archaeological Research | 1974 |
| Linda Manzanilla | National Autonomous University of Mexico | 2003 |
| Joyce Marcus | University of Michigan | 1997 |
| Fiona Marshall | Washington University in St. Louis | 2017 |
| Thomas McDade | Northwestern University | 2021 |
| Margaret Mead (d. 1978) | University of Rhode Island | 1975 |
| David J. Meltzer | Southern Methodist University | 2009 |
| Rene Millon (d. 2016) | University of Rochester | 2001 |
| George R. Milner | Penn State University Park | 2019 |
| Craig Morris (d. 2006) | American Museum of Natural History | 1998 |
| Michael E. Moseley (d. 2024) | University of Florida | 2000 |
| Hallam L. Movius (d. 1987) | Harvard University | 1957 |
| George Murdock (d. 1985) | University of Pittsburgh | 1964 |
| Robert M. Netting (d. 1995) | University of Arizona | 1993 |
| James F. O'Connell | University of Utah | 2006 |
| Douglas Oliver (d. 2009) | Harvard University | 1979 |
| Dolores Piperno | Smithsonian Institution | 2005 |
| Stephen Plog | University of Virginia | 2006 |
| T. Douglas Price | University of Wisconsin–Madison | 2018 |
| Leopold Pospisil (d. 2021) | Yale University | 1984 |
| Anne E. Pusey | Duke University | 2022 |
| Elsa Redmond | American Museum of Natural History | 2014 |
| Colin Renfrew | University of Cambridge | 1996 |
| Torben C. Rick | Smithsonian Institution | 2023 |
| John Milton Roberts (d. 1990) | University of Pittsburgh | 1982 |
| A. Kimball Romney (d. 2023) | University of California, Irvine | 1995 |
| Benjamin Irving Rouse (d. 2006) | Yale University | 1962 |
| Jeremy Sabloff | University of Pennsylvania | 1994 |
| Marshall Sahlins (resigned) | University of Chicago | 1991 |
| Francisco Mauro Salzano (d. 2018) | Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul | 1999 |
| William Sanders (d. 2008) | Pennsylvania State University | 1985 |
| Daniel H. Sandweiss | University of Maine | 2024 |
| Romuald Schild (d. 2021) | Polish Academy of Sciences | 1998 |
| Robert Seyfarth | University of Pennsylvania | 2017 |
| Chet C. Sherwood | George Washington University | 2021 |
| Joan Silk | Arizona State University | 2022 |
| Elwyn Simons (d. 2016) | Duke University | 1981 |
| G. William Skinner (d. 2008) | University of California, Davis | 1980 |
| Bruce D. Smith | Smithsonian Institution | 2003 |
| Charles S. Spencer | American Museum of Natural History | 2007 |
| Melford Spiro (d. 2014) | University of California, San Diego | 1982 |
| Charles Stanish | University of California, Los Angeles | 2010 |
| Anne Stone | Arizona State University | 2016 |
| Mark Stoneking | Claude Bernard University Lyon 1 | 2020 |
| Karen B. Strier | University of Wisconsin–Madison | 2005 |
| Stanley Tambiah (d. 2014) | Harvard University | 1994 |
| David Hurst Thomas | American Museum of Natural History | 1989 |
| Sarah Tishkoff | University of Pennsylvania | 2017 |
| Erik Trinkaus | Washington University in St. Louis | 1996 |
| Jenny Tung | Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology | 2024 |
| Peter Ungar | University of Arkansas | 2024 |
| Evon Z. Vogt (d. 2004) | Harvard University | 1979 |
| Alan Walker (d. 2017) | Pennsylvania State University | 2003 |
| Anthony Wallace (d. 2015) | University of Pennsylvania | 1973 |
| Patty Jo Watson (d. 2024) | Washington University in St. Louis | 1988 |
| Waldo Rudolph Wedel (d. 1996) | Smithsonian Institution | 1965 |
| Fred Wendorf (d. 2015) | Southern Methodist University | 1987 |
| Tim White | University of California, Berkeley | 2000 |
| John Whiting (d. 1999) | Harvard University | 1987 |
| Pauline Wiessner | University of Utah | 2014 |
| Gordon Willey (d. 2002) | Harvard University | 1960 |
| Eric Wolf (d. 1999) | Lehman College | 1995 |
| Henry Wright | University of Michigan | 1994 |
| Douglas Yen (d. 2023) | Australian National University | 1985 |
| Melinda A. Zeder | National Museum of Natural History | 2012 |