# List of black anthropologists

This is a list of black anthropologists.
| Name | Description | Birth date | Death date |
| Aimee Cox | American cultural anthropologist, Dancer | | |
| Alexandra Jones | American archaeologist | 1977 | |
| Arthur Fauset | American cultural anthropologist | January 20, 1899 | September 2, 1983 |
| Ashanté M. Reese | American cultural anthropologist | | |
| Bertin M. Louis, Jr. | American cultural anthropologist | | |
| Bianca Williams | American cultural anthropologist | 1980 | |
| Caroline Bond Day | American cultural anthropologist | November 18, 1889 | May 5, 1948 |
| Carolyn Rouse | American cultural anthropologist | c. 1965 | |
| Charles Preston Warren | American cultural anthropologist | 1921 | 1987 |
| Chelsea R. Carter | American cultural and medical anthropologist | | |
| Cheryl R. Rodriguez | American cultural anthropologist | | |
| Christen A. Smith | American cultural anthropologist | | |
| Duana Fullwiley | American cultural anthropologist | | |
| Deandre Miles-Hercules | American linguistic anthropologist | 1996 | |
| Deborah A. Thomas | American cultural anthropologist, dancer | 1966 | |
| Delmos Jones | American cultural anthropologist | 1936 | 1999 |
| Donna Auston | American cultural anthropologist | | |
| Edmund T. Gordon | American cultural anthropologist | | |
| Fatimah Jackson | American biological anthropologist | | |
| Faye V. Harrison | American cultural anthropologist | November 25, 1951 | |
| Gina Athena Ulysse | Haitian-American cultural anthropologist | | |
| Glenn Jordan | American cultural anthropologist | April 5, 1936 | |
| Ira E. Harrison | American medical and applied anthropologist | June 1, 1933 | April 27, 2020 |
| John Langston Gwaltney | American cultural anthropologist | September 25, 1928 | August 29, 1998 |
| John L. Jackson Jr. | American cultural anthropologist | | |
| John Wesley Gilbert | American cultural anthropologist | July 6, 1863 | November 18, 1923 |
| Johnnetta Cole | American cultural anthropologist | October 19, 1936 | |
| Kamari Maxine Clarke | Canadian, American cultural anthropologist | April 3, 1966 | |
| Katherine Dunham | American cultural anthropologist, dancer | June 22, 1909 | May 21, 2006 |
| Laurence Ralph | American cultural anthropologist | | |
| Leith Mullings | American cultural anthropologist | April 8, 1945 | December 13, 2020 |
| Maureen Mahon | American cultural anthropologist | | |
| Michael Blakey | American anthropologist | February 23, 1953 | |
| Michael Ralph | American cultural anthropologist | | |
| Rachel J. Watkins | American biocultural anthropologist | | |
| Riché J. Daniel Barnes | American cultural anthropologist | | |
| Ryan Jobson | American cultural anthropologist | | |
| Jemima Pierre | Haitian-American sociocultural anthropologist | | |
| Savannah Shange | American cultural anthropologist | | |
| Shanti Parikh | American cultural and medical anthropologist | | |
| Solange Ashby | American archaeologist, Egyptologist | | |
| Theresa A. Singleton | American archaeologist | April 15, 1952 | |
| Vera Mae Green | American cultural anthropologist | September 6, 1928 | January 16, 1982 |
| Whitney Battle-Baptiste | American archaeologist | | |
| William Montague Cobb | American archaeologist | October 12, 1904 | November 20, 1990 |
| Willie Baber | American cultural anthropologist | | |
| Yolanda T. Moses | American cultural anthropologist | 1946 | |
| Zora Neale Hurston | American folklorist, novelist, short story writer | January 7, 1891 | January 28, 1960 |