Elisabeth Jane Tooker (August 2, 1927 – January 13, 2005) was an American anthropologist and a leading historian on the Iroquois nations in north-eastern United States.
[1] Her PhD dissertation was titled Ritual, Power and the Supernatural: A Comparative Study of Indian Religions in Southwestern United States.
[2] Before completing her degree at Radcliffe, Tooker was employed as a Teaching Fellow at Harvard from 1956-1957, and in 1957, she accepted a position as Instructor at the State University of New York at Buffalo.
She did field research with Seneca people in Tonawanda, New York, and published on topics including Iroquois religion.
Her extensive involvement in anthropology has earned recognition as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.