Phyllis Pray Bober (December 2, 1920 – May 30, 2002) was an American art historian, scholar, author and professor at Bryn Mawr College.
degree from New York University Institute of Fine Arts (NYU/IFA), studying under Karl Leo Heinrich Lehmann.
[2] Her dissertation was titled, Studies in Roman Provincial Sculpture (1946), her doctoral advisor was Karl Leo Heinrich Lehmann.
[2][5] After graduation she travelled with Harry Bober to Europe for the first time, visiting France, Belgium, and London.
[1] She enjoyed hosting large dinner parties and giving lectures that educated culinary history and recreated past historical cuisines.
[1] Bober was elected in 1995 to the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei in Rome, to the American Philosophical Society in 1999 and to the Dames d'Escoffier in 1995.