津田塾大学
A native of Japan, born in Kobe 1934. Ohnuki-Tierney received a B.A. degree from Tsuda College in Tokyo and came to the United States on a Fulbright Scholarship. Her interest in anthropology began when someone told her that she was making too many “cultural” mistakes and should take a course in anthropology. In 1968, she received her Ph.D. in Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.