Hetty
Goldman, A.B. 1903
(Greek
and English): pioneering archaeologist
Hetty
Goldman
(1881-1972), an archaeologist, majored in Greek and English at Bryn
Mawr. Her first published article brought her the Charles Eliot Norton
Fellowship to attend the American School of Classical Studies at Athens,
the first such award to a woman.
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In the 1920s, she
supervised the Colophon site in Ionia for the Fogg Museum: "Villagers
in the 50s still remembered with awe the energetic woman who ran the
project." She was one of the pioneers in the investigation of pre-Greek
and earliest Greek peoples and contined to supervise major excavations
until WW II.During the War she went to Princeton, NJ, where she became
the first woman professor at the Institute for Advanced Study. In 1966
she received the Gold Medal of the American Institute of Archaeology
for Distinguished Archaeological Achievement.
From Bryn Mawr
Alumnae Bulletin (Winter 1981), in turn adapted from Barbara Sicherman
and Carol Hurd Green (edd.), Notable American Women: The Modern Period
(Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard Univ. Press, 1980).
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