Linguistics Archives - Infinite Women

Catherine Aucella

Executive Director of the US’s National Security Agency.

Harriette Shelton Williams Dover

Native American activist who helped revive traditional dances, the Lushootseed language, and tribal appreciation for a proud past and was the second female elected to the Tulalip Tribes’ Board of Directors and first Tribal Council Chairwoman

Miriam-Rose Ungunmerr-Baumann

Aboriginal Australian painter and educator

Angelina Noble

Aboriginal Australian translator and missionary

Vi Hilbert

Vi Hilbert, a member of the Upper Skagit tribe, had as her life’s work to preserve the Lushootseed (Puget Salish) language and culture.

Major Charlotte Gower Chapman

American anthropologist and the second female officer to join the US Marine Corps, commissioned with the rank of Captain in 1943.

Flora Botton Beja

Greek researcher and academic

Dr Blanca Monserrat Zuñiga Zarate

Literature and language professor

Irma Xóchitl

Irma Xóchitl is an anthropologist and linguist, author of the books Nahuatocaitl. Apellidos nahuas de Puebla, senderos hacia nuestra cultura originaria (2018) and Mah timomachtiah nahuatlahtolli ican totoca. Aprendamos náhuatl con nuestros apellidos (2021).

Ruth Wilson

Ruth Wilson was hired by the NSA in 1918 as a Spanish linguist for the first peacetime cryptologic service MI-8 better known as the “American Black Chamber.”