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Johanna Mestorf

The first female museum director in a prehistoric collection connected to the University of Kiel.

Marie von Mecklenburg-Schwerin

Austro-Hungarian aristocrat known for her archaeological excavations in Slovenia and Austria in the early 1900s.

Elvira Fölzer

The first female archaeologist in Germany awarded a PhD, which was also the only way to finish a study program in archaeology at that time.

Louise Dupin

1700s French philosopher

Writer, historian, and lecturer, Elizabeth Fox-Genovese is a pioneer in the field of women’s studies, having shaped Emory University’s Institution of Women’s Studies as its first director from 1986 to 1991.

Sarah Ann Brock

Sarah Ann Brock, a writer who often published under the pseudonym Virginia Madison, published numerous editorials, historical articles, reviews, essays, letters, travel sketches, short stories, biographies, and translations in her career.

Virginia Moore

Poet, biographer, and scholar, perhaps best known for her work Virginia Is a State of Mind (1942), which has been described as the “biography of a state.”

Pat Johnson

Pat Finley Johnson is a pillar to the community of Pocahontas, Arkansas, where she supports community fellowship, traditional knowledge, and Black culture and heritage.