Mirra komarovsky biography

American sociologist

Mirra Komarovsky (February 5, – January 30, ), was an American pioneer in the sociology of gender.^[2]

Early years

Born to Mendel and Anna Komarovsky (née Steinberg)^[1] in a privileged Jewish family in the Russian Empire, her family fled the country after the Russian Revolution.

Komarovsky's parents were Zionists and landowning Jews in Akkerman, Russia, until tsarist police drove them from their home. They moved initially to Baku (in what is now Azerbaijan) and then to Wichita, Kansas after the Bolshevik Revolution, when Mirra was In Baku, Komarovsky lived a solidly middle-class lifestyle; she was homeschooled by private tutors and learned Russian, English, Hebrew, and French, as well as playing the piano.

Life in the United States

Once in the United States, she graduated from Wichita High School within a year and in ,^[3] she was admitted to Barnard College as part of the class of One of her professors