Clellan Stearns Ford (27 July 1909 – 4 November 1972) was an American anthropologist, best known as Professor of Anthropology at Yale University, and as co-author of the 1951 book Patterns of Sexual Behavior.
[1] In 1935, Ford spent a year in the Fiji Islands conducting ethnographic field research.
[1] The following year, he joined the Institute of Human Relations at Yale, where he co-founded the Cross-Cultural Survey.
Naval Reserve, and helped prepare military handbooks on the Pacific islands occupied by Japanese forces.
As director of the Cross-Cultural Survey, he expanded the organization and renamed it the Human Relations Area Files.