Remembering Nancy Munn, Emerita Professor of Anthropology

Nancy Munn — remembered as “a scholar’s scholar” — was an Emerita Professor of Anthropology at the University of Chicago and a renowned expert on the commingling of space and time. Munn passed away on January 20, 2020. A memorial will be held Monday, April 24. A key figure in the development of symbolic anthropology, she was among the first scholars to bring phenomenology to bear on anthropological analysis, according to an obituary published in American Anthropologist.

By Sarah Steimer