Ruth Sawtell Wallis (15 March 1895 – 21 January 1978) was an American academic and physical anthropologist.
She then attended the school's graduate program in anthropology, traveling to Europe on a science fellowship to do research.
[2] Upon her return to the United States, Wallis switched to the anthropology program at Columbia University under Franz Boas.
[1] She helped create an ethnography of the Micmac in Nova Scotia in the 1950s,[2] and studied other native peoples in both Canada and the United States.
After moving to Connecticut with her family, Ruth became a sociology lecturer at Annhurst College in 1956; she eventually became a full professor before retiring in 1974.