Mary Ritter Beard
Prominent American historian, author, and women’s suffrage activist.
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Mary Sidney
Mary Herbert, Countess of Pembroke, was a distinguished Englishwoman known for her poetry and literary support.
Hannah Adams
American author renowned for her works on comparative religion and early United States history.
Ida Tarbell
American journalist, known as one of the leading muckrakers of the progressive era.
Mary Hamilton Swindler
American archaeologist, classical art scholar, author, and professor
Helen Maybury Roe
Irish librarian and antiquary
Katharine Coman
Influential American social activist and educator.
Nechama Leibowitz
In 1930, she earned her doctorate from the University of Marburg with her thesis on “Techniques in the Translations of German-Jewish Biblical Translations.” That same year, in 1930, she immigrated to Mandate Palestine. For the next twenty-five years, she taught at a religious Zionist teachers’ seminar.
Regina Jonas
Regina Jonas’s studies at the Hochschule für die Wissenschaft des Judentums led her to write a thesis titled “Can a Woman Be a Rabbi According to Halachic Sources?” Despite protests, she received her semicha on December 27, 1935.
María Isidra de Guzmán y de la Cerda
The first Spanish woman to earn a Doctor of Philosophy degree.