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On the other hand, it was within academic archaeology that women first broke the glass ceiling at a number of British universities. Dorothy Garrod was the first woman to hold a chair (in any subject) at either the University of Cambridge or the University of Oxford, having been appointed Disney Professor of Archaeology at Cambridge in 1939. [27]
Hetty Goldman (December 19, 1881 – May 4, 1972) was an American archaeologist. She was the first woman faculty member at the Institute for Advanced Study [ 1 ] and one of the first female archaeologists to undertake excavations in Greece and the Middle East .
All women placed in this category should also be categorized under the appropriate category in Category:Archaeologists by nationality and Category:Archaeologists by subfield and any other categories as necessary.
Margaret Simpson grew up in Edinburgh, within a family of medics.She was the daughter of George Freeland Barbour Simpson, a Scottish physician, and Caroline Elizabeth Barbour, the granddaughter of Sir Alexander Russell Simpson (1838-1916), and the great-great niece of Sir James Young Simpson (1811-1870).
Dorothy Annie Elizabeth Garrod, CBE, FBA (5 May 1892 – 18 December 1968) was an English archaeologist who specialised in the Palaeolithic period. She held the position of Disney Professor of Archaeology at the University of Cambridge from 1939 to 1952, and was the first woman to hold a chair at either Oxford or Cambridge.
Cunnington was named a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 1948 Birthday Honours [13] for services to archaeology, the first woman archaeologist to receive the honour. However, she had limited mobility since 1947, and had developed Alzheimer's disease , so she never knew of the accolade.
Amidst much speculation, the team opened it to find a message from another archaeologist digging at the site—200 years ago. The archaeologist was the first to explore the ancient location, and ...
Stephanie Mary Dalley FSA (née Page; March 1943) is a British Assyriologist and scholar of the Ancient Near East.Prior to her retirement, she was a teaching Fellow at the Oriental Institute, Oxford.