Gil Schmerler

Gil Schmerler is on the Leadership faculty at the Bank Street College of Education in NYC. He has degrees from Amherst and Columbia, and was a teacher and administrator in NJ, MD, and NY. He is co-author of Not So Easy Going and author of many published articles.

 

GIl Schmerler

Henrietta Schmerler and the Murder That Put Anthropology on Trial

Henrietta Schmerler and the Murder That Put Anthropology on Trial

Henrietta, a brilliant anthropology doctoral student at Columbia, is raped and murdered on an Apache reservation in AZ in 1931. Her murderer is caught by the FBI after a dramatic search and is sentenced to life.