Jean Harslett
Australian historian, naturalist and environmentalist
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Adela Fernández
Mexican educator and writer whose work included 14 books of literature, poetry, anthropology and Mexican history, two short experimental films and many plays.
Katharine Du Pre Lumpkin
Sociologist, activist, teacher, and writer, Katharine Du Pre Lumpkin spent a lifetime studying and combating economic and racial oppression. She is best known for her autobiography, The Making of a Southerner (1947).
Lydia Parrish
In the 1950’s, Lydia Parrish made recordings of traditional songs of the Gullah Geechee culture that are now part of the Margaret Davis Cate Collection at Fort Frederica National Monument.
Helen Matthews Lewis
In her dual role as academic and social activist, Lewis helped found the discipline of Appalachian Studies and served for several decades as one of its most influential leaders.
Margaret Roper
1500s learned Englishwoman and daughter of Sir Thomas More
Elena Cornaro Piscopia
1600s Italian scholar, one of the first women to receive an academic degree from a university and the first to receive a Doctor of Philosophy
C Mildred Thompson
Prominent American historian, educator, and feminist who made a name for herself not only in academic circles but also in both Democratic politics and international affairs.
Gertrude van Rensselaer Wickham
American journalist and local historian
Sheelagh Harbison
Irish medieval historian