Mary Catherine Bateson is the recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award in Positive Aging from Fielding Graduate University. Dr. Bateson, the daughter of Margaret Mead, is the Clarence H. Robinson Professor Emerita in Anthropology and English at George Mason University. For the past five years she has been a visiting scholar at the Center of Aging & Work/Workplace Flexibility at Boston College. Her latest book is Composing a Further Life: The Age of Active Wisdom (Knopf, 2010).
Professor Bateson has also taught at Harvard University and Northeastern University. She is a graduate of Radcliffe College and holds a Ph.D. from Harvard University.