Nancy Lurie

Who is Nancy Lurie?

Nancy Oestreich Lurie is a distinguished American anthropologist who specializes in the study of North American Indian history and culture. She received her B. A. from the University of Wisconsin–Madison and graduated with an M.A. in Anthropology from the University of Chicago and a Ph.D. in Anthropology from Northwestern University. There she met her husband, historian Edward Lurie; they married in 1951 and divorced amicably in 1963. Lurie’s research specialties are ethnohistory, action anthropology and museology; her areal focus is on North American Indians, especially the Ho-Chunk and the Dogrib of the Canadian NWT; and the comparative study of territorial minorities.