Month: April 2010

Beaver Alumna Honored for Life’s Work as Photo-Historian

Photographer Carol Beckwith ’63 is the recipient of the 2010 Wings WorldQuest Women in Discovery Lifetime Achievement Award. She shares the award, which will be presented on April 15 in New York City, with her longtime creative partner Angela Fisher.

For more than three decades, the two women have documented tribal cultures across Africa, together publishing fourteen books including their acclaimed double volume African Ceremonies (1999), which won a United Nations Award for Excellence.