Scholar Archives - Page 10 of 27

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.”

Agnes Mongan

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

Anna Brownell Jameson

Irish-English writer, feminist, and art historian

Kate Graham Cook

James Cook and Kate Graham first discovered the fossil deposits later to become known as Agate Fossil Beds.

Betty Reid Soskin

Civil rights activist, musician, and pioneering businesswoman.

Katharine Lee Bates was a professor and writer best remembered as the author of the lyrics to the song “America the Beautiful.” She shared a home for almost three decades with her companion, fellow academic and social reformer Katharine Coman.

Marianne Roland Michel

Scholar and catalogues raisonnés compiler; dealer of eighteenth-century French art; director of the Galerie Cailleux from 1982-1996

Aleida Betsy Loosjes-Terpstra

Modernist art historian

Ada Louise Huxtable

Architectural historian and first permanent architecture critic for the New York Times.

Adelyn Dohme Breeskin

First woman to direct a major American art museum (Baltimore Museum of Art)