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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

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.

Virginia Moore

Poet, biographer, and scholar, perhaps best known for her work Virginia Is a State of Mind (1942), which has been described as the “biography of a state.”

Ada Ramsay

Canadian schoolteacher, author, and historian

Larissa Behrendt

Indigenous Australian activist, filmmaker, academic, lawyer and writer

Julia Pardoe

1800s UK author

bell hooks

As a leading Black intellectual, hooks pushed the feminist movement beyond the preserve of the white and middle-class, encouraging Black and working class perspectives on gender inequality.