Alice Dewey
Alice Dewey | |
|---|---|
| Born | Alice Greeley Dewey December 4, 1928 Wichita, Kansas, U.S. |
| Died | June 11, 2017 (aged 88) Honolulu, Hawaii, U.S. |
| Relatives | John Dewey (grandfather) |
| Academic background | |
| Education | Radcliffe College (BA, MA, PhD) |
| Thesis | Modjokuto Study: The Market (1959) |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Anthropology |
| Institutions | University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa |
| Doctoral students | Ann Dunham |
Alice Greeley Dewey (December 4, 1928 – June 11, 2017) was an American anthropologist who studied Javanese society. She was a professor of anthropology at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa from 1962 until her retirement in 2005. Among her doctoral students was Ann Dunham, the mother of President Barack Obama.