June Nash

Seven years after completing her doctoral dissertation at the University of Chicago, about a Mexican community of Mayan heritage, June Nash conducted fieldwork on the effects of a 1967 massacre of tin miners by the CIA-backed Bolivian army. The experience convinced her that anthropologists should “study up”—apply their methodologies to the institutions that shape the global economy. Nash is a distinguished professor emerita at the City University of New York, where she began teaching in 1972.