In memoriam: Jane Goodall, 91
October 1, 2025
World-renowned primatologist held adjunct faculty appointment for 13 years.
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Jane Goodall, shown in 2015 (Wikimedia Commons/Simon Fraser University - Communications & Marketing)
Dr. Jane Goodall, the renowned primatologist whose pioneering research with chimpanzees and their occupational behavior was so influential that she had been called the “Einstein of behavioral sciences,” has died. She was 91.
Goodall was the keynote speaker at the 1989 USC Occupational Science Symposium, a connection made possible thanks to the late USC Dornsife Professor Emeritus Granville “Zandy” Moore. Moore, an anthropologist, worked with then-Department Chair Dr. Florence Clark to support the Department’s efforts at establishing and legitimizing the young research discipline of occupational science.
Moore and Clark helped bring Goodall to USC, and she held a joint faculty appointment as Distinguished Adjunct Professor of Anthropology and Occupational Therapy from 1990 to 2003. About her USC faculty appointment, Goodall remarked in 1990 that “It’s an unusual kind of association with, hopefully, unusual kinds of benefits.”
From left to right, then-Department Chair Dr. Florence Clark, Goodall, and USC Dean of Social Sciences Dr. C. Sylvester Whitaker, in 1988 (USC Chan Archives)
1990 article in the Daily Trojan newspaper about Goodall’s faculty appointment (USC Libraries)
Jane Goodall in a 1995 Trojan Family Magazine advertisement for the USC Annual Fund (USC Libraries)
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