[2] Thomas also served as a physical anthropologist for the Field Museum on an anthropological expedition to the Near East collecting anthropomorphic data and conducting anthropometry research.
Thomas was also listed in the 1931 copy of the Michiganensian, indicating that she was still affiliated with the university after having completed her MA while she was working to catalog manuscripts in the Yahuda collection.
[1] In 1934, Thomas participated in an anthropological expedition to the Near East that was sponsored by the Field Museum,[3] to gather comparative[13] anthropometric data from ethnic groups in and around Iraq.
[1] In April 1934, members of the Field Museum expedition were guests of Sheik Falih as-Saihud of the Al bu Muhammad in Lower Iraq.
[3] Winifred Smeaton Thomas served as a physical anthropologist and specialist on folklore and tattooing on the expedition, working alongside other expedition members, including Henry Field, Assistant Curator and Curator of Physical Anthropology at the Field Museum from 1926 to 1942; Richard Martin, Lady Drowser, S. Y. Showket, Khedoory Muallim, and Yusuf Lazar, a collector of zoological and botanical specimens.
[3] After the Field Museum expedition, Thomas remained in Baghdad to continue her research and taught an English class in 1934 and 1935 at the Central High School for Girls.
[2] In her two publications, Thomas described her observations of male and female separation during her time living with the Jawdat family as well as the duties of Iraqi women of different socioeconomic classes.
"[14] Thomas also worked to dispel the western belief of "rich and influential Moslems [sic] as living in the midst of luxurious well-stocked harems," noting how very few families are polygamous.
[1] Thomas also taught a World Literature class at Stephens College in 1952-1953 and served as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Missouri from 1960 to 1962.