Wanda “Carole” Cain ’84

Wanda “Carole” Cain ’84, of Spokane, Wash.; Sept. 18. She earned her PhD in anthropology from UNC Chapel Hill in 1995. She was an accomplished academic researcher in anthropology and conducted ethnographic work with Appalachian people. From 1989 to 1991, she studied societal norms around the mentally ill in Costa Rica and El Salvador and undertook an immersive assignment with an isolated island tribe in Panama where she worked without a shared language. She authored Wandering the Streets Without Direction and contributed to papers published in major medical and anthropological journals. From 1989 to 1992, she courageously battled cancer while conducting her fieldwork in Central America during her cancer treatment. She is survived by her father, Mack Cain.