Ruth L. Bunzel

Ruth L. Bunzel
Competition: US & Canada
Barnard College, Columbia University
As published in the Foundation’s Report for 1929–30:
Latin American Exchange Fellows, 1930
Fellow from the United States to Latin America:
Bunzel, Ruth L.: Appointed to make a study of Indian backgrounds of the Mexican Nation; an intensive study of one of the more primitive Mexican tribes, with special emphasis on the effects of the contact of cultures; tenure, twelve months from July 1, 1930.
Born April 18, 1898, in New York City. Education: Barnard College, A.B., 1918; Columbia University, Ph.D., 1927; University of Chicago, 1926–27; National University of Mexico, Summer of 1929. Fellow of the Social Science Research Council, 1927–29.
Research Assistant, Department of Anthropology, Columbia University, 1922–25; Lecturer, Barnard College, 1929–30.
Publications: “The Pueblo Porter,” 1929; “Zuni Ritual Poetry,” and “Zuni Katcinas,” in the 47th Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology, 1930.