Anne Coffin Hanson
Manet and Futurism scholar; first female full-professor in at Yale University.
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Marisa Volpi
Italian writer, art critic, curator, professor
Dr Balbina Martínez Caviró
Spanish professor, historian, and academic who concentrated in research regarding Mudejar art, ceramics, and the city of Toledo at large (La Virgen del Prado y la cerámica de Talavera de la Reina, La loza dorada).
María Luisa Dehesa
María Luisa Dehesa Gómez Farías is considered the first woman in Mexico and Latin America to earn a diploma in architecture (1933–1937). She was also the first woman to obtain a license to practice architecture in Mexico (c. 1939).
Isabel Thorne
English midwife and one of the Edinburgh Seven
Dr Mary Adamson Anderson Marshall
Scottish physician and one of the Edinburgh Seven
Adolphine Fletcher Terry
Adolphine Fletcher Terry was a civic-minded woman from a prominent Little Rock, Arkansas family who used her position to improve schools and libraries, start a juvenile court system, provide affordable housing, promote the education of women and women’s rights, and challenge the racism of the Old South.
Carolyn Jean Green
In May 1966, Carolyn Jean Green was one of the first two African American students to graduate from what is now Ouachita Baptist University (OBU).
Hana El-Hebshi
Libyan architect
Gertie Yolanda Besosa Silva
Considered the first Puerto Rican woman to earn a diploma in architecture (1945), she was also the first Puerto Rican woman to obtain a license to practice architecture and work as a professional architect in Puerto Rico (1945).