Lydia Nadejena
Russian émigré, historian of Russian medieval art, writer, and educator
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Maila Stivens
Maila Stivens is an anthropologist who has written extensively on gender, ‘family’, human rights, and latterly childhood in both Australia and Asia.
Dr Anne Hagopian
Anne Hagopian van Buren (1927-2008) did computing work at the Harvard Observatory from c.1945-c.1950 as an undergraduate student in astronomy at Radcliffe College.
Hongyi He
Hongyi He is a Chinese papercut artist recognized as a “master of folk arts and crafts” by UNESCO.
Annie Kriegel
During WWII, Annie Kriegel joined a Communist Resistance group at age fifteen because no other groups would admit a member so young.
Pearl Primus
Dancer, choreographer and anthropologist
Marjorie Drake Ross
Specialist on the decorative arts and author of The Book of Boston series, helped to acquire appropriate objects for the Gibson House and directed the cataloging of the collection.
Pat Kelly
President of the Boston Culinary Historians and editor of their newsletter for over 20 years.
Amanda Houston
Amanda Houston (1926–1995), a Roxbury activist, founded programs for social change, directed ABCD’s New Careers Program, and taught in Black Studies programs.
Dorothy Vaughan
The first African-American female supervisor of the NACA, advancing to become an expert in digital computers and their applications in NASA programs.