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Filed in In Memoriam, Uncategorized on December 18, 2020
Leith Mullings, a leading anthropologist who spent much of her career at the City University of New York, died on December 12. She was 75 years old and had suffered from cancer.
A native of Jamaica, Professor Mullings came to the United States at the age of 16 to study at Queens College of the City University of New York. She earned a bachelor’s degree in nursing at Cornell University. She went on to earn a master’s degree and a Ph.D. at the Univerity of Chicago.
Dr. Mullings began her academic career as a lecturer at Yale University. She was appointed an assistant professor of anthropology at Columbia University in 1975 and was promoted to associate professor in 1981. Two years later, she joined the faculty at the City University of New York. There she eventually became a distinguished professor of anthropology at the City University of New York’s Graduate Center.
Remembering Distinguished Professor Leith Mullings, Pioneering Anthropologist Committed to Social Justice
The Graduate Center community is deeply saddened by the death of Distinguished Professor Emerita
Leith Mullings (Anthropology), whose scholarship focused on inequality, its consequences, and resistance to it in the United States and other regions of the world and who was committed to addressing timely social issues and “empowering communities through knowledge.” Mullings died on December 13th from cancer that was recently diagnosed.
Professor
Jeff Maskovsky (GC/Queens, Anthropology), executive officer of The Graduate Center’s Ph.D. Program in Anthropology called Mullings, who retired in 2016, “irreplaceable.”
“It was a deep honor to have worked with Leith, and her death is a heartbreaking loss to The Graduate Center, the discipline of anthropology, our program, and to me personally,” he said. “Leith was a pioneer in Black feminist studies in anthro
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“The Department of East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies is enormously proud of this accomplishment by one of its faculty members; it is a very meaningful prize, one of the most important in the field of anthropology of East Asia,” he said.
“This prestigious achievement is a further indication of the vitality and creativity of the research being carried out by my colleagues, which places our department among the top in the nation for the quality and originality of its research output,” he said.
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