Jean Frances Herskovits (May 20, 1935 – February 5, 2019) was an American academic, who was research professor of history at the State University of New York at Purchase specializing in African (particularly Nigerian) history and politics.
[1] She received her Bachelor of Arts degree from Swarthmore College in 1956, and her PhD from Oxford University in 1960, writing her dissertation on freed slaves who returned to Africa and the Lagos Colony.
From 1998 to 2005, she was a director of United Bank for Africa, where she also chaired the Board of Trustees of the UBA Foundation.
[2] She wrote many articles about Nigeria in publications such as Foreign Policy and The New York Times.
[3] She was married to John Corry, a former reporter with The New York Times, with whom she had three daughters.