Sally Falk Moore was born in the United States in 1924. She trained as a lawyer at Columbia Law school and after working on Wall Street in New York City, became a staff attorney at the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg during the investigation of Nazi war criminals. She then returned to the United States and received her PhD in anthropology from Columbia University in 1957.
Moore was chair of the anthropology section of the joint Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Southern California starting in 1963. She was a professor at University of California at Los Angeles from 1977 to 1981 and then at Yale University from 1975 to 1976 before she joining the Harvard University faculty in 1981. She was Dean of the Graduate School at Harvard from 1985 to 1989. In 2010, she was appointed Affiliated Professor of International Legal Studies at Harvard Law School.
Moore delivered the Beatty Lecture on March 15, 1989, titled ""Nationalism, Cultural Pluralism and the State".
Image:Â Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University
