Keur, Dorothy (1904–1989)

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Keur, Dorothy (1904–1989)

American cultural anthropologist. Name variations: Dorothy Louise Strouse Keur. Born Dorothy Louise Strouse on Feb 13, 1904, in New York, NY; died Mar 22, 1989; graduate of Hunter College, 1925; Columbia University, AM, 1928, Ph.D., 1941; m. John Y. Keur, 1928.

Studied under Leslie Spier, Edward Sapir, and Franz Boas at Columbia; performed archaeological work at Big Bead Mesa (northeast of Santa Fe, NM) and fieldwork in Gobernador area; became known for Navajo archaeology; appointed assistant professor (1940), associate professor (1947), and professor (1957) at Hunter College; with husband, conducted fieldwork at village of Anderen in the Netherlands (1951–52) and published The Deeply Rooted (1955); with husband, studied Dutch Windward Islands of St. Maarten, Saba, and St. Eustatius (beginning 1956), and published Windward Children (1960); served as secretary-treasurer (1947–49) and president (1955) of American Ethnological Society; coauthored oral-history project with Ruth Staunton, Jerkline to Jeep: A Brief History of the Upper Boulder (1975).

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