Wellesley Centers for Women 

Wellesley Centers for Women

Wellesley Centers for Women

Q & A with Sally Engle Merry

• Sally Engle Merry

Sally Engle Merry, a senior scholar at the Wellesley Centers for Women (WCW), is a professor of anthropology and the director of the Law and Society Program at New York University. Previously, at Wellesley College, she was Marion Butler McLean Professor in the History of Ideas and professor of anthropology. Her primary areas of research include the rule of law in various contexts of community life and the adaptation of international standards of human rights to life in local communities.