Mary Louise Defender Wilson
Dakotah Sioux/Hidatsa storyteller, historian and educator
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Darlene Clark Hine
“When I decided to become a historian,” recalls Darlene Clark Hine, “the last group I intended to study was black women.” That these words come from arguably the most influential scholar of African-American women’s history reflects the intertwined evolution of a career and field of study shaped by a struggle for recognition and legitimacy.
Annette Gordon-Reed
No historian has done more to recover the stories of enslaved African-Americans than Annette Gordon-Reed, whose 2008 book The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family won the 2009 Pulitzer Prize in History, as well as wide acclaim.
Anita Leslie
Irish biographer
Maureen Wall
Irish historian
Emily Anderson
Irish academic, code breaker, musicologist and translator
Martha Putney
African-American Women’s Army Corps officer during World War II
Lydia Nadejena
Russian émigré, historian of Russian medieval art, writer, and educator
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.
Annie Kriegel
During WWII, Annie Kriegel joined a Communist Resistance group at age fifteen because no other groups would admit a member so young.