Jay Ruby (October 25, 1935 – February 23, 2022) was an American scholar who was a professor in the Department of Anthropology at Temple University until his retirement in 2003.
[2] As an archaeologist, Ruby conducted excavations in the American Southwest, West Mexico and the Republic of the Sudan.
As an ethnographer of visual culture, he conducted long term participant-observation in Central Pennsylvania and Oak Park, a suburb of Chicago.
Larry Gross, USC and Ruby edited enhanced ebook, The Complete Sol Worth.
In the fall of 2008, Ruby began a study of Bohemian Southern California that resulted in three books (see below).