Mary Catherine Bateson

Noted cultural anthropologist and linguist, Mary Catherine Bateson received her B.A. at Radcliffe (1960) and earned her Ph.D. from Harvard (1963). Currently the Clarence Robinson Professor in Anthropology and English at George Mason University in Fairfax, VA., Bateson has also taught in the US at Harvard, Northeastern University, and Amherst College, and abroad at Ateneo de Manila University and Damavand College in Tehran. She is the author of several books, including With a Daughters Eye: A memoir of Margret Mead and Gregory Bateson (1984), Angels Fear: Towards an Epistemology of the Sacred (with Gregory Bateson, 1987), Thinking AIDS (with Richard Goldsby, 1988), Composing a life (1990) and Peripheral Visions: Learning Along the Way (1994). Bateson is the current President of New York's Institute for Intercultural Studies.