Erica O’Donnell
Irish art historian and WWII espionage officer
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Esther Seligson
Esther Seligson was a writer and poet with an interest in Jewish philosophy, theater, and history.
Blanca Wiethüchter
Blanca Wiethüchter is considered one of Bolivia’s most comprehensive contemporary poets, having published continuously since 1975.
Ruth Sandvik
In addition to running the Trading Post in Kotzebue, Alaska, Ruth was influential in local politics and an avid historian, naturalist, and adventurer. She earned a degree in Biology and was one of University of Alaska Fairbanks’ first Inupiaq graduates. Ruth and her family were a critical support for the Archaelogical work conducted in Kobuk Valley National Park by Louis Giddings and Doug Anderson. She had a passion for history and the heritage of the Iñupiat.
Agnes Mongan
First woman museum curator at Harvard University’s Fogg Art Museum
Anna Brownell Jameson
Irish-English writer, feminist, and art historian
Dawn Langley Simmons
One of the first individuals to receive gender-affirming surgery in the United States, Simmons was also well-known in Charleston society for her marriage to John Paul Simmons. Theirs was reportedly the first documented interracial marriage in South Carolina.
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.