In Memoriam: June 2026

Kay B. Warren *74, an anthropology professor who served as founding director of the Program in Women’s Studies, died April 16 at age 79. Warren was among the University’s early doctoral students in anthropology and returned to Princeton to join the faculty in 1982. Women’s studies (now gender and sexuality studies) was a much-anticipated addition, created partly in response to student advocacy, and her appointment to head the program was front-page news in The Daily Princetonian. In addition to leading women’s studies for six years, Warren conducted ethnographic field work in South America and published several books about Indigenous communities. She chaired the Department of Anthropology from 1994 until her departure from Princeton in 1998 and continued teaching at Harvard and Brown before retiring in 2017.