Vera Dourmashkin Rubin (August 6, 1911 – February 7, 1985) was an anthropologist and the founder and first director of the Research Institute for the Study of Man.
Rubin went on to study anthropology at Columbia University with Ruth Benedict, Margaret Mead, and Julian Steward, who served as her graduate advisor.
[4][5] Rubin purchased the building for the headquarters at 162 East 78th Street in New York City, which also housed the Library for Caribbean Research (LCR).
[1] In 2016, the American Orthopsychiatric Association became the Global Alliance for Behavioral Health and Social Justice.
Shortly before her death in 1985, Rubin received an honorary doctorate of philosophy from the University of the West Indies.