Thelma Garcia Buchholdt
Thelma Garcia Buchholdt became the first Filipinx American legislator in the U.S. when she was elected to the Alaska House of Representatives in 1974.
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Frances Prindle Taft
Influential arts educator and Cleveland civic leader
Sibylle Mertens-Schaaffhausen
Considered to be the first female archaeologist in Germany
Amalie Buchheim
Museum’s custos and may be considered the first female archaeologist in a paid position in Germany.
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.
Julie Schlemm
German archaeologist
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
Elizabeth Fox-Genovese
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.