Johanna Mestorf
The first female museum director in a prehistoric collection connected to the University of Kiel.
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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.
Sibylle Mertens-Schaaffhausen
Considered to be the first female archaeologist in Germany
Shelly C Lowe
Chair of the National Endowment for the Humanities
Dr MaryAnn Bin-Sallik
Professor MaryAnn Bin-Sallik was a proud Djaru Elder and the first Indigenous Australian woman to receive a doctorate, in 1989
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.
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.