National University of Mongolia
Humphrey received her BA in Social Anthropology from Girton College, Cambridge. Her PhD, completed in 1973, was entitled "Magical Drawings in the Religion of the Buryat". She received the Rivers Memorial Medal in 1999, and, in 2003, an Honorary Doctorate from the National University of Mongolia. Humphrey was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by the University of Bolton in 2017 for her outstanding Contribution to the field of Anthropology.