Melville J. Herskovits, American anthropologist and academic (b. 1895)
Melville Jean Herskovits (September 10, 1895 – February 25, 1963) was an Hungarian-German anthropologist who helped establish African and African-American studies in American academia. He is known for exploring the cultural continuity from African cultures as expressed in African-American communities. He worked with his wife Frances (Shapiro) Herskovits, also an anthropologist, in the field in South America, the Caribbean and Africa. They jointly wrote several books and monographs.