Maureen Wall
Irish historian
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Emily Anderson
Irish academic, code breaker, musicologist and translator
Martha Putney
African-American Women’s Army Corps officer during World War II
Margaret Mead
American anthropologist
Lydia Nadejena
Russian émigré, historian of Russian medieval art, writer, and educator
Maila Stivens
Maila Stivens is an anthropologist who has written extensively on gender, ‘family’, human rights, and latterly childhood in both Australia and Asia.
Dr Anne Hagopian
Anne Hagopian van Buren (1927-2008) did computing work at the Harvard Observatory from c.1945-c.1950 as an undergraduate student in astronomy at Radcliffe College.
Hongyi He
Hongyi He is a Chinese papercut artist recognized as a “master of folk arts and crafts” by UNESCO.
Annie Kriegel
During WWII, Annie Kriegel joined a Communist Resistance group at age fifteen because no other groups would admit a member so young.
Pearl Primus
Dancer, choreographer and anthropologist