June Nash

June C. Nash (born 1927) is a social and feminist anthropologist and Distinguished Professor Emerita at the City University of New York (CUNY). She has conducted extensive field work throughout the United States and Latin America, most notably in Bolivia, Mexico and Guatemala. She has also been a part of feminist and working class social movements such as that of the Zapatistas in Mexico.

Nash graduated with a Bachelor's degree in economics from Barnard College in New York City. After graduation, she worked for a year in Washington D.C. as a statistician before deciding to travel to Mexico. She first spent some time in Acapulco, but decided to travel to the mountains of Chiapas, Mexico where she worked alongside the American Friends Service Committee on various projects in Maya communities.

With a new interest in Maya peoples, Nash returned to the United States to pursue graduate studies, ultimately receiving both her M.A. and Ph.D. from the Department of Anthropology at the University of Chicago in 1960. Her dissertation "Social relations in Amatenango del Valle: an Activity Analysis" detailed the social conditions of this town in Chiapas, Mexico.

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