from Covington, LA
1915
Died:2005
Historian • Minister
She met her future husband Brian Simon while he was studying at Trinity College, Cambridge.
cite journal In the 1950s, she and her husband Brian investigated, described and publicized the views of Alexander Luria and Lev Vygotsky, founders of cultural-historical psychology in the then Soviet Union.
It was said of Brian that " his partnership with Joan Simon cannot be extracted from Brian’s work as a whole ".