Author, linguist, and cultural anthropologist. She was the daughter of two pioneering anthropologists, Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson. Dr. Bateson married Dr. J. Barkev Kassarjian in 1960; they had a daughter, Sevanne Margaret, and a son who died in infancy, Martin.
Dr. Bateson attended the Brearley School and Harvard University (then Radcliffe College) before taking her doctorate in Middle Eastern languages and linguistics from Harvard in 1963. After graduation, she spent a number of years teaching in the Philippines and Iran before becoming a dean at Amherst College. She was acting president there for a short time before a male-dominated faculty committee removed her from the position in a controversial ruling.
After leaving Amherst, she taught at universities including Northeastern, Harvard, Spelman College, and George Mason University, where she was in residence one semester a year from 1989-2004. She was also in demand for speeches and presentations, and became a prominent voice for tolerance, inclusion, and equality. Near the end of her life, she was a visiting scholar at the Sloan Center for Aging and Work at Boston College.
Among her many books were the best-selling "Composing a Life", which became a touchstone for women struggling to balance work, family, and personal interests; and "With a Daughter's Eye", an autobiography detailing her relationship with her famous parents. Her last book, "Love Across Difference", which she was writing at the time of her death, will be published posthumously by Farrar, Straus & Giroux .
Dr. Bateson attended the Brearley School and Harvard University (then Radcliffe College) before taking her doctorate in Middle Eastern languages and linguistics from Harvard in 1963. After graduation, she spent a number of years teaching in the Philippines and Iran before becoming a dean at Amherst College. She was acting president there for a short time before a male-dominated faculty committee removed her from the position in a controversial ruling.
After leaving Amherst, she taught at universities including Northeastern, Harvard, Spelman College, and George Mason University, where she was in residence one semester a year from 1989-2004. She was also in demand for speeches and presentations, and became a prominent voice for tolerance, inclusion, and equality. Near the end of her life, she was a visiting scholar at the Sloan Center for Aging and Work at Boston College.
Among her many books were the best-selling "Composing a Life", which became a touchstone for women struggling to balance work, family, and personal interests; and "With a Daughter's Eye", an autobiography detailing her relationship with her famous parents. Her last book, "Love Across Difference", which she was writing at the time of her death, will be published posthumously by Farrar, Straus & Giroux .
Author, linguist, and cultural anthropologist. She was the daughter of two pioneering anthropologists, Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson. Dr. Bateson married Dr. J. Barkev Kassarjian in 1960; they had a daughter, Sevanne Margaret, and a son who died in infancy, Martin.
Dr. Bateson attended the Brearley School and Harvard University (then Radcliffe College) before taking her doctorate in Middle Eastern languages and linguistics from Harvard in 1963. After graduation, she spent a number of years teaching in the Philippines and Iran before becoming a dean at Amherst College. She was acting president there for a short time before a male-dominated faculty committee removed her from the position in a controversial ruling.
After leaving Amherst, she taught at universities including Northeastern, Harvard, Spelman College, and George Mason University, where she was in residence one semester a year from 1989-2004. She was also in demand for speeches and presentations, and became a prominent voice for tolerance, inclusion, and equality. Near the end of her life, she was a visiting scholar at the Sloan Center for Aging and Work at Boston College.
Among her many books were the best-selling "Composing a Life", which became a touchstone for women struggling to balance work, family, and personal interests; and "With a Daughter's Eye", an autobiography detailing her relationship with her famous parents. Her last book, "Love Across Difference", which she was writing at the time of her death, will be published posthumously by Farrar, Straus & Giroux .
Dr. Bateson attended the Brearley School and Harvard University (then Radcliffe College) before taking her doctorate in Middle Eastern languages and linguistics from Harvard in 1963. After graduation, she spent a number of years teaching in the Philippines and Iran before becoming a dean at Amherst College. She was acting president there for a short time before a male-dominated faculty committee removed her from the position in a controversial ruling.
After leaving Amherst, she taught at universities including Northeastern, Harvard, Spelman College, and George Mason University, where she was in residence one semester a year from 1989-2004. She was also in demand for speeches and presentations, and became a prominent voice for tolerance, inclusion, and equality. Near the end of her life, she was a visiting scholar at the Sloan Center for Aging and Work at Boston College.
Among her many books were the best-selling "Composing a Life", which became a touchstone for women struggling to balance work, family, and personal interests; and "With a Daughter's Eye", an autobiography detailing her relationship with her famous parents. Her last book, "Love Across Difference", which she was writing at the time of her death, will be published posthumously by Farrar, Straus & Giroux .
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