Philosophy
Harriet Boyd-Hawes
October 11th, 1871 to March 31st, 1945
Distinguished Women of Past and Present...
Harriet Boyd Hawes was the first archeologist to discover and excavate a Minoan settlement. She was born October 11, 1871 in Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A. and graduated from Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts in 1882 (1892?). After working as a teacher for four years, she started graduate work at the American School of Classical Studies in Athens, Greece. During her stay in Greece she also served as a volunteer nurse in Thessaly during the Greco-Turkish War. She asked her professors to be allowed to participate in the school's archeological fieldwork, but instead she was being encouraged to become an academic librarian. Frustrated by lack of support, she took the remainder of her fellowship and went on her own in search of archeological remains on the island of Crete. This was a very brave move, since Crete was just emerging from the war and was far from being safe.
In 1900, she returned to the United States and started teaching Greek and Greek archeology at Smith College. Between 1901 and 1904, while on leave of absence from Smith, she returned to Crete where she discovered and excavated a Minoan town at Gournia, dating to the Early Bronze Age, over 3,000 years ago. She was the first woman to direct a major field project, her crew consisted of over 100 workers. In 1902, she described her discovery during a national lecture tour and was the first woman to speak before the Archeological Institute of America. The report of her findings was published in 1908 by the American Exploration Society. She excavated many more Bronze and Iron Age settlements in the Aegean and became a recognized authority on the area. In 1910, Smith college bestowed on her an honorary degree.
In 1917, Hawes went to Corfu with supplies for soldiers wounded in World War I. After her return home, she continued her support for the war effort by giving fund-raising lectures on behalf of the Smith College Relief Unit. Between 1920 and her retirement in 1936, she lectured at Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts on pre-Christian art.
Harriet Boyd Hawes died March 31, 1945 in Washington, D.C. In 1992, her daughter, Mary Allsebrook, published Born to Rebel: the Life of Harriet Boyd Hawes. The book was edited by Annie Allsebrook, Harriet Boyd Hawes' granddaughter.
Harriet Boyd-Hawes [Wikipedia]
Harriet Boyd was the first woman to lead an archaeological excavation in the Aegean. At a time when few women travelled on their own, she discovered, excavated and published an account of the Minoan town of Gournia in Crete. She was the first woman to lecture to the Archaeological Instituite of America - ten times in fourteen days in January 1902. While prominent as a lecturer and teacher, archaeology was only a part of her life: in 1897 she was nursing with the Red Cross in the Greco-Turkish war, in 1915 she was nursing Serbian typhoid victims on Corfu, and by 1917 she was in Northern France setting up a rehabilitation centre within sound of the front. While the past and its arts were her profession, the present and the future were her passionate interest - whether local social problems in her home town of Boston or international affairs which took her to lunch with Mrs Roosevelt at the White House. Mary Allsebrook's light-hearted and extremely readable account of her mother's extraordinary experiences shows Harriet Boyd to be truly one of America's pioneers.
Breaking Ground: Pioneering Women Archaeologists
by
Getzel M. Cohen and Martha Sharp Joukowsky (Editors)
Breaking Ground examines the lives of twelve pioneer archaeologists -- women such as Jane Dieulafoy, Gertrude Bell, and Dorothy Garrod, for example -- in the early days of the discipline, tracing their paths from education in the classics to travel and exploration and ultimately to international recognition in the field. The intended readership for this book is broad: it will include those interested in the history of archaeology, European social history as well as gender studies. But the interest inherent in these biographies will reach well beyond defined disciplines and subdisciplines -- for the life of each one of these exciting and accomplished individuals is an adventure story in itself.
[Getzel M. Cohen is Professor of Classics and History at the University of Cincinnati. Martha Sharp Joukowsky is Professor of Old World Archaeology and Art at Brown University.]
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Philosophy
Harriet Boyd-Hawes...significant woman archaeologist
Harriet Boyd-Hawes October 11th, 1871 to March 31st, 1945
Distinguished Women of Past and Present...
Harriet Boyd Hawes was the first archeologist to discover and excavate a Minoan settlement. She was born October 11, 1871 in Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A. and graduated from Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts in 1882 (1892?). After working as a teacher for four years, she started graduate work at the American School of Classical Studies in Athens, Greece. During her stay in Greece she also served as a volunteer nurse in Thessaly during the Greco-Turkish War. She asked her professors to be allowed to participate in the school's archeological fieldwork, but instead she was being encouraged to become an academic librarian. Frustrated by lack of support, she took the remainder of her fellowship and went on her own in search of archeological remains on the island of Crete. This was a very brave move, since Crete was just emerging from the war and was far from being safe.
In 1900, she returned to the United States and started teaching Greek and Greek archeology at Smith College. Between 1901 and 1904, while on leave of absence from Smith, she returned to Crete where she discovered and excavated a Minoan town at Gournia, dating to the Early Bronze Age, over 3,000 years ago. She was the first woman to direct a major field project, her crew consisted of over 100 workers. In 1902, she described her discovery during a national lecture tour and was the first woman to speak before the Archeological Institute of America. The report of her findings was published in 1908 by the American Exploration Society. She excavated many more Bronze and Iron Age settlements in the Aegean and became a recognized authority on the area. In 1910, Smith college bestowed on her an honorary degree.
In 1917, Hawes went to Corfu with supplies for soldiers wounded in World War I. After her return home, she continued her support for the war effort by giving fund-raising lectures on behalf of the Smith College Relief Unit. Between 1920 and her retirement in 1936, she lectured at Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts on pre-Christian art.
Harriet Boyd Hawes died March 31, 1945 in Washington, D.C. In 1992, her daughter, Mary Allsebrook, published Born to Rebel: the Life of Harriet Boyd Hawes. The book was edited by Annie Allsebrook, Harriet Boyd Hawes' granddaughter.
Harriet Boyd-Hawes [Wikipedia]
Born to Rebel: The Life of Harriet Boyd Hawes
by
Mary Allsebrook
by
Mary Allsebrook
Harriet Boyd was the first woman to lead an archaeological excavation in the Aegean. At a time when few women travelled on their own, she discovered, excavated and published an account of the Minoan town of Gournia in Crete. She was the first woman to lecture to the Archaeological Instituite of America - ten times in fourteen days in January 1902. While prominent as a lecturer and teacher, archaeology was only a part of her life: in 1897 she was nursing with the Red Cross in the Greco-Turkish war, in 1915 she was nursing Serbian typhoid victims on Corfu, and by 1917 she was in Northern France setting up a rehabilitation centre within sound of the front. While the past and its arts were her profession, the present and the future were her passionate interest - whether local social problems in her home town of Boston or international affairs which took her to lunch with Mrs Roosevelt at the White House. Mary Allsebrook's light-hearted and extremely readable account of her mother's extraordinary experiences shows Harriet Boyd to be truly one of America's pioneers.
ISBN-13: 978-1-84217-041-0
ISBN-10: 1-84217-041-4
ISBN-10: 1-84217-041-4
Breaking Ground: Pioneering Women Archaeologistsby
Getzel M. Cohen and Martha Sharp Joukowsky (Editors)
Breaking Ground examines the lives of twelve pioneer archaeologists -- women such as Jane Dieulafoy, Gertrude Bell, and Dorothy Garrod, for example -- in the early days of the discipline, tracing their paths from education in the classics to travel and exploration and ultimately to international recognition in the field. The intended readership for this book is broad: it will include those interested in the history of archaeology, European social history as well as gender studies. But the interest inherent in these biographies will reach well beyond defined disciplines and subdisciplines -- for the life of each one of these exciting and accomplished individuals is an adventure story in itself.
[Getzel M. Cohen is Professor of Classics and History at the University of Cincinnati. Martha Sharp Joukowsky is Professor of Old World Archaeology and Art at Brown University.]
ISBN-10: 0472113720
ISBN-13: 978-0472113729
ISBN-13: 978-0472113729
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Florence Bascom July 14th, 1862 to June 18th, 1945 Geological Society of America's magazine... Bascom was the first woman hired by the U.S. Geological Survey (1896), the first woman to present a paper before the Geological Society of Washington (1901),...
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Mary Anning May 21st, 1799 to March 9th, 1847 She is credited with the first discovery of an ichthyosaur skeleton and a fantastic collector of Jurassic era marine fossils. University of California Museum of Paleontology... Despite the fact that Mary...
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