Her father, a Christian pastor and writer, won a Nobel Peace Prize in 1946; her mother was a teacher.

[1] Her older brother, John Livingstone Mott, received the Kaisar-i‐Hind silver medal in 1931, for his work with the YMCA in India.

[4] Soon after graduating from college, Mott went to India to work with her brother, who was a missionary among cotton mill workers.

[5] She helped establish a school and a small hospital,[6] and set up a training program for social workers in Nagpur.

[17] There are 13 folders of photographs and other materials related to Irene and Vivian Bose's studies of the Rabari people in the Walter Fairservis Papers at Penn Libraries.