Blanca Wiethüchter
Blanca Wiethüchter is considered one of Bolivia’s most comprehensive contemporary poets, having published continuously since 1975.
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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.
Adelyn Dohme Breeskin
First woman to direct a major American art museum (Baltimore Museum of Art)
Aenne Liebreich
Academic specialist in medieval Burgundian sculpture, particularly Claus Sluter, as well as medieval painting and illumination and costume studies.