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Dr Vanessa Northington Gamble

Dr. Vanessa Northington Gamble is a physician and historian of medicine.

Erica O’Donnell

Irish art historian and WWII espionage officer

Esther Seligson

Esther Seligson was a writer and poet with an interest in Jewish philosophy, theater, and history.

Blanca Wiethüchter

Blanca Wiethüchter is considered one of Bolivia’s most comprehensive contemporary poets, having published continuously since 1975.

In addition to running the Trading Post in Kotzebue, Alaska, Ruth was influential in local politics and an avid historian, naturalist, and adventurer. She earned a degree in Biology and was one of University of Alaska Fairbanks’ first Inupiaq graduates. Ruth and her family were a critical support for the Archaelogical work conducted in Kobuk Valley National Park by Louis Giddings and Doug Anderson. She had a passion for history and the heritage of the Iñupiat.

Agnes Mongan

First woman museum curator at Harvard University’s Fogg Art Museum

Anna Brownell Jameson

Irish-English writer, feminist, and art historian

Dawn Langley Simmons

One of the first individuals to receive gender-affirming surgery in the United States, Simmons was also well-known in Charleston society for her marriage to John Paul Simmons. Theirs was reportedly the first documented interracial marriage in South Carolina.