Graduate in sociology and anthropology from Harvard University.

• Carol has done cross-cultural study on marriage, family, war and peace, and tumble groups, all with her now husband Melvin Ember whom she married in 1970.
• She taught at Hunter College in New York from 1970 to 1996, and has served as President of the Society of Cross-Cultural study.
• Carol is at present Director of the Summer Institutes in Comparative Anthropological Research, and is also Executive Director at the Human Relations Area Files at Yale University. source:Carol Ember