Bernard Joseph Siegel (October 26, 1917–August 19, 2003) was an American cultural anthropologist who spent most of his career at Stanford University, where he helped establish its anthropology department.
[1] Siegel was a cultural anthropologist who primarily researched how people migrated from rural settings to more urban ones.
[4] In the late 1950s, Siegel received a grant from the National Science Foundation to establish an anthropology journal that published review articles surveying recent developments in the field.
[5] He is the namesake for the Bernard J. Siegel for Outstanding Achievement in Written Expression which is given to a PhD student in the Stanford University Department of Anthropology.
[7] Siegel was multilingual, speaking his native English as well as Portuguese, Italian, Spanish, French, German, Hebrew and Sumerian.