100 Notable alumni of
Bryn Mawr College
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Bryn Mawr College is 421st in the world, 168th in North America, and 156th in the United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 100 notable alumni from Bryn Mawr College sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Katharine Hepburn
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- actorfilm actorstage actortelevision actorautobiographer
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Katharine Houghton Hepburn was an American actress whose career as a Hollywood leading lady spanned six decades. She was known for her headstrong independence, spirited personality, and outspokenness, cultivating a screen persona that matched this public image, and regularly playing strong-willed, sophisticated women. She worked in a varied range of genres, from screwball comedy to literary drama, which earned her various accolades, including four Academy Awards for Best Actress—a record for any performer.
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Daniel Dae Kim
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- voice actortelevision directorvideo game actorfilm producerfilm actor
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Daniel Dae Kim is an American actor. He portrayed Jin-Soo Kwon in Lost, Chin Ho Kelly in Hawaii Five-0, Gavin Park in Angel, and Ben Daimio in Hellboy. He also provided the voice of Chief Benja in the animated film Raya and the Last Dragon (2021) and Johnny Gat in the Saints Row video game series. He runs production company 3AD, which produced the television series The Good Doctor.
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Maggie Siff
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- film actortelevision actorstage actoractor
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Maggie Siff is an American actress. Her most notable television roles have included department store heiress Rachel Menken Katz on the AMC drama Mad Men, Dr. Tara Knowles on the FX drama Sons of Anarchy for which she was twice nominated for the Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Drama Series, and psychiatrist Wendy Rhoades on the Showtime series Billions.
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Tsuda Umeko
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- women's rights activistteacher
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Tsuda Umeko was a Japanese educator who founded Tsuda University. She was the daughter of Tsuda Sen, an agricultural scientist, and at the age of 7, she became Japan's first female exchange student, traveling to the U.S. on the same ship as the Iwakura Mission.
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Martha Gellhorn
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- war correspondentwriternovelistjournalist
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Martha Ellis Gellhorn was an American novelist, travel writer, and journalist who is considered one of the great war correspondents of the 20th century. She reported on virtually every major world conflict that took place during her 60-year career.
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Nettie Stevens
- Enrolled in Bryn Mawr College
- In 1903 graduated with Doctor of Philosophy
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- zoologistlibrariangeneticistbiologist
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Nettie Maria Stevens was an American geneticist who discovered sex chromosomes. In 1905, soon after the rediscovery of Mendel's paper on genetics in 1900, she observed that male mealworms produced two kinds of sperm, one with a large chromosome and one with a small chromosome. When the sperm with the large chromosome fertilized eggs, they produced female offspring, and when the sperm with the small chromosome fertilized eggs, they produced male offspring. The pair of sex chromosomes that she studied later became known as the X and Y chromosomes.
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Margaret Hoover
- Enrolled in Bryn Mawr College
- Graduated with Bachelor of Arts
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- punditpoliticianpolitical advisermedia personality
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Margaret Claire Hoover is an American political commentator, political strategist, media personality, author, and great-granddaughter of Herbert Hoover, the 31st U.S. president. She is author of the book American Individualism: How a New Generation of Conservatives Can Save the Republican Party, published by Crown Forum in 2011. Hoover hosts PBS's reboot of the conservative interview show Firing Line.
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Hadley Richardson
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Elizabeth Hadley Richardson was the first wife of American author Ernest Hemingway. The two married in 1921 after a courtship of less than a year, and moved to Paris within months of being married. In Paris, Hemingway pursued a writing career, and through him Richardson met other expatriate American and British writers.
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William Kennedy Smith
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- physician
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William Kennedy Smith is an American physician and a member of the Kennedy family who founded an organization focused on land mines and the rehabilitation of landmine victims. He is known for being charged with rape in a nationally publicized 1991 trial that ended with his acquittal.
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Bess Armstrong
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- stage actorfilm actortelevision actor
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Elizabeth Key "Bess" Armstrong is an American actress. She is known for her roles in the films The Four Seasons (1981), High Road to China (1983), Jaws 3-D (1983), and Nothing in Common (1986). Armstrong also starred in the ABC drama series My So-Called Life and had lead roles in a number of made-for-television films.
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Lisa Oz
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- presenteractorradio personalitymanufacturerscreenwriter
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Lisa Oz is an American author and radio and television personality who has been an occasional co-host of The Dr. Oz Show. She has appeared on the Oprah and Friends XM radio telecasts. Oz has authored or co-authored several books, including the You: The Owner's Manual series, and is host of The Lisa Oz Show.
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Michelle Zauner
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- composersingerguitaristwriterrock musician
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Michelle Chongmi Zauner is an American musician, singer, songwriter, and author, known as the lead vocalist of the indie pop band Japanese Breakfast. Her 2021 memoir, Crying in H Mart, spent 60 weeks on The New York Times hardcover non-fiction bestseller list. In 2022, Time named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world under the category Innovators on their annual list.
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Drew Gilpin Faust
- Enrolled in Bryn Mawr College
- Graduated with Bachelor of Arts in study of history
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- historianuniversity teacher
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Catharine Drew Gilpin Faust is an American historian who served as the 28th president of Harvard University, the first woman in that role. She was Harvard's first president since 1672 without an undergraduate or graduate degree from Harvard and the first to have been raised in the South. Faust is also the founding dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. She has been ranked among the world's most powerful women by Forbes, including as the 33rd most powerful in 2014.
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A. S. Byatt
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- poetliterary criticwriterprose writeruniversity teacher
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Dame Antonia Susan Duffy, known professionally by her former married name, A. S. Byatt, was an English critic, novelist, poet and short-story writer. Her books have been translated into more than thirty languages.
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Ana Botín
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- businesspersonbankereconomist
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Ana Patricia Botín-Sanz de Sautuola O'Shea is a Spanish banker who has been the executive chairman of Santander Group since 2014.
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Angela Kane
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- diplomatpolitician
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Angela Kane is a German diplomat and was formerly the UN High Representative for Disarmament Affairs and Under-Secretary-General for Management in the United Nations.
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H.D
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- writerautobiographerpoetactor
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Hilda Doolittle was an American modernist poet, novelist, and memoirist who wrote under the name H.D. throughout her life. Her career began in 1911 after she moved to London and co-founded the avant-garde Imagist group of poets with American expatriate poet and critic Ezra Pound. During this early period, her minimalist free verse poems depicting Classical motifs drew international attention. Eventually distancing herself from the Imagist movement, she experimented with a wider variety of forms, including fiction, memoir, and verse drama. Reflecting the trauma she experienced in London during the Blitz, H.D.'s poetic style from World War II until her death pivoted towards complex long poems on esoteric and pacifist themes.
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Katharine Martha Houghton Hepburn
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- suffragist
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Katharine Martha Houghton Hepburn was an American feminist social reformer and a leader of the suffrage movement in the United States. Hepburn served as president of the Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association before joining the National Woman's Party. In 1923 Hepburn formed the Connecticut Branch of the American Birth Control League with two of her friends, Mrs. George Day and Mrs. M. Toscan Bennett. She was the mother and namesake of actress Katharine Hepburn and the grandmother and namesake of actress Katharine Houghton.
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Ann Harding
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- stage actorfilm actortelevision actor
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Ann Harding was an American theatre, motion picture, radio, and television actress. Harding was a regular on Broadway and on tour in the 1920s. In the 1930s Harding, was one of the first actresses to gain fame in the new medium of "talking pictures," and she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress in 1931 for her work in Holiday.
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Carolyn Goodman
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- anthropologistpolitician
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Carolyn Goodman is an American politician who served as mayor of Las Vegas, Nevada, from 2011 until 2024. She is the second female mayor of Las Vegas and is married to former mayor and attorney Oscar Goodman. She is the founder, president and trustee emerita of The Meadows School.
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Susy Clemens
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- writerbiographerliterary critic
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Olivia Susan Clemens was the second child and eldest daughter of Samuel Clemens, who wrote under the pen name Mark Twain, and his wife Olivia Langdon Clemens. She inspired some of her father's works, at 13 wrote her own biography of him, which he later published in his autobiography, and acted as a literary critic. Her father was heartbroken when she died of spinal meningitis at age 24.
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Grace Lee Boggs
- Enrolled in Bryn Mawr College
- In 1940 graduated with Doctor of Philosophy
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- politiciannon-fiction writeractivistcivil rights advocateeditor
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Grace Lee Boggs was an American author, social activist, philosopher, and feminist. She is known for her years of political collaboration with C. L. R. James and Raya Dunayevskaya in the 1940s and 1950s. In the 1960s, she and James Boggs, her husband of some forty years, took their own political direction. By 1998, she had written four books, including an autobiography. In 2011, still active at the age of 95, she wrote a fifth book, The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century, with Scott Kurashige and published by the University of California Press. She is regarded as a key figure in the Asian American, Black Power, and Civil Rights movements.
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Marianne Moore
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- translatorpoetliterary criticessayistwriter
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Marianne Craig Moore was an American modernist poet, critic, translator, and editor. Her poetry is noted for its formal innovation, precise diction, irony, and wit. In 1968, she was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature by Nobel Committee member Erik Lindegren.
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Elaine Showalter
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- sociologistliterary criticuniversity teacherwriterjournalist
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Elaine Showalter is an American literary critic, feminist, and writer on cultural and social issues. She influenced feminist literary criticism in the United States academia, developing the concept and practice of gynocritics, a term describing the study of "women as writers".
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Nina Jankowicz
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- academicwriter
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Nina Jankowicz is an American researcher and writer. She is the author of How to Lose the Information War (2020), on Russian use of disinformation as geopolitical strategy, and How to Be a Woman Online (2022), a handbook for fighting against online harassment of women. She briefly served as executive director of the newly created United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS)'s Disinformation Governance Board, resigning from the position amid the dissolution of the board by DHS in May 2022.
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Carol D. Leonnig
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- 1966-.. (age 59)
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- journalist
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Carol Duhurst Leonnig is an American investigative journalist. She has been a staff writer at The Washington Post since 2000, and was part of a team of national security reporters that won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for reporting that revealed the NSA's expanded spying on Americans. Leonnig also received Pulitzer Prizes for National Reporting in 2015 and 2018.
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Sarah Jones
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- writerstage actorfilm directoractor
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Sarah Jones is an American playwright, actress, and poet.
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Anna Louise Strong
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- activisttrade unionistwriterpeace activistjournalist
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Anna Louise Strong was an American journalist and activist, best known for her reporting on and support for communist movements in the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China. She wrote over 30 books and varied articles.
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Edith Hamilton
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- pedagoguehistorianmythographerclassical scholarwriter
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Edith Hamilton was an American educator and internationally known author who was one of the most renowned classicists of her era in the United States. A graduate of Bryn Mawr College, she also studied in Germany at the University of Leipzig and the University of Munich. Hamilton began her career as an educator and head of the Bryn Mawr School, a private college preparatory school for girls in Baltimore, Maryland; however, Hamilton is best known for her essays and best-selling books on ancient Greek and Roman civilizations.
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Lee McGeorge Durrell
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- naturalist
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Lee McGeorge Durrell MBE is an American naturalist, author, zookeeper, and television presenter. She is best known for her work at the Jersey Zoological Park in the British Channel Island of Jersey with her late husband, Gerald Durrell, and for co-authoring books with him.
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Tony Thurmond
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- politician
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Tony Krajewski Thurmond is an American politician and educator, serving as the 28th California State Superintendent of Public Instruction since 2019. Thurmond was narrowly elected Superintendent of Public Instruction in 2018 over his opponent, Marshall Tuck, and reelected in 2022. A member of the Democratic Party, he represented the 15th Assembly district from 2014 to 2018, encompassing the northern East Bay.
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Emily Greene Balch
- Enrolled in Bryn Mawr College
- Studied in 1889
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- trade unionisteconomistjournalistpedagogueuniversity teacher
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Emily Greene Balch was an American economist, sociologist and pacifist. Balch combined an academic career at Wellesley College with a long-standing interest in social issues such as poverty, child labor, and immigration, as well as settlement work to uplift poor immigrants and reduce juvenile delinquency.
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Lilli Hornig
- Enrolled in Bryn Mawr College
- In 1942 graduated with bachelor's degree in chemistry
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- essayistchemistscientist
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Lilli Hornig was a scientist who worked on the Manhattan Project, as well as a feminist activist.
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Elizabeth Gray Vining
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- librarianwriterchildren's writernovelist
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Elizabeth Janet Gray Vining was an American professional librarian and author who tutored Emperor Akihito of Japan in English while he was crown prince. She was also a noted author, whose children's book Adam of the Road received the Newbery Medal in 1943.
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Salima Ikram
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- egyptologistlinguistarchaeologistactoranthropologist
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Salima Ikram is a Pakistani professor of Egyptology at the American University in Cairo, a participant in many Egyptian archaeological projects, the author of several books on Egyptian archaeology, a contributor to various magazines and a guest on pertinent television programs.
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Betsy Hodges
- Enrolled in Bryn Mawr College
- Studied in 1987-1991
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Elizabeth A. Hodges is an American politician who served as the 47th Mayor of Minneapolis from 2014 to 2018. A member of the Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party (DFL), she represented Ward 13 on the Minneapolis City Council from 2006 January 2014.
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Paula Vogel
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- writeruniversity teacherplaywright
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Paula Vogel is an American playwright. She is known for her provocative explorations of complex social and political issues. Much of her work delves into themes of psychological trauma, abuse, and the complexities of human relationships. She has received the Pulitzer Prize as well as nominations for two Tony Awards. In 2013 she was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame.
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Barbara Marx Hubbard
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- writeropinion journalist
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Barbara Marx Hubbard, American futurist, author, and public speaker. She is credited with The Wheel of Co-Creation 2.0 and concepts of "The Synergy Engine" and the "birthing" of humanity.
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Rosabeth Moss Kanter
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- university teacherwritereconomistsociologist
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Rosabeth Moss Kanter is an American sociologist who is a professor of business at Harvard Business School. She co-founded the Harvard University Advanced Leadership Initiative and served as Director and Founding Chair from 2008 to 2018. She was the top-ranking woman—No. 11 overall—in a 2002 study of Top Business Intellectuals by citation in several sources. She was named one of the "50 most powerful women in Boston" by Boston Magazine and named one of "125 women who changed our world" over the past 125 years by Good Housekeeping magazine in May 2010.
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Alys Pearsall Smith
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- writer
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Alyssa Whitall "Alys" Pearsall Smith was an American-born British Quaker relief organiser and the first wife of Bertrand Russell. She chaired the society that created an innovative school for mothers in 1907.
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Katharine Burr Blodgett
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- inventorphysicistchemist
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Katharine Burr Blodgett was an American physicist and chemist known for her work on surface chemistry, in particular her invention of "invisible" or nonreflective glass while working at General Electric. She was the first woman to be awarded a PhD in physics from the University of Cambridge, in 1926.
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Ada Palmer
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- authornovelistwriterhistorianscience fiction writer
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Ada Palmer is an American historian and writer and winner of the 2017 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. Her first novel, Too Like the Lightning, was published in May 2016. The work has been well received by critics and was a finalist for the Hugo Award for Best Novel.
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Alice Rivlin
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- university teachereconomist
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Alice Mitchell Rivlin was an American economist and budget official. She served as the 16th vice chair of the Federal Reserve from 1996 to 1999. Before her appointment to the Federal Reserve, Rivlin was named director of the Office of Management and Budget in the Clinton administration from 1994 to 1996. Prior to that, she was instrumental in the establishment of the Congressional Budget Office and became its founding director from 1975 to 1983. A member of the Democratic Party, Rivlin was the first woman to hold either of those posts.
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Jeannette Piccard
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- balloonistAnglican priest
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Jeannette Ridlon Piccard was an American high-altitude balloonist, and in later life an Episcopal priest. She held the women's altitude record for nearly three decades, and according to several contemporaneous accounts was regarded as the first woman in space.
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Katharine Sergeant Angell White
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- writereditor
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Katharine Sergeant Angell White was an American writer and the fiction editor for The New Yorker magazine from 1925 to 1960. In her obituary, printed in The New Yorker in 1977, William Shawn wrote, "More than any other editor except Harold Ross himself, Katharine White gave The New Yorker its shape, and set it on its course."
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Anna-Michelle Asimakopoulou
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- politicianeconomistjurist
- Biography
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Anna-Misel Asimakopoulou is a Greek lawyer and politician who was elected as a Member of the European Parliament in 2019.
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Harriet Brooks
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- nuclear physicistphysicist
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Harriet Brooks was the first Canadian female nuclear physicist. She is most famous for her research in radioactivity. She discovered atomic recoil, and transmutation of elements in radioactive decay. Ernest Rutherford, who guided her graduate work, regarded her as comparable to Marie Curie in the calibre of her aptitude. She was among the first persons to discover radon and to try to determine its atomic mass.
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Helen Taft Manning
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- historianjudge
- Biography
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Helen Herron Taft Manning was an American historian who was dean and acting president of Bryn Mawr College. She was the middle child and only daughter of U.S. President William Howard Taft and his wife Helen Herron.
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Cornelia Otis Skinner
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- stage actorbiographerplaywrightscreenwriterwriter
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Cornelia Otis Skinner was an American writer and actress.
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Allyson Schwartz
- Enrolled in Bryn Mawr College
- In 1972 graduated with Master of Social Work
- Occupations
- social workerpolitician
- Biography
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Allyson Schwartz is an American Democratic Party politician who represented parts of Montgomery County and Northeast Philadelphia in the United States House of Representatives from 2005 to 2015 and Northeast and Northwest Philadelphia in the Pennsylvania Senate from 1991 to 2005. She has finished second in a statewide Democratic Party primary twice: for United States Senate in 2000 and for Governor in 2014.
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Mary Elizabeth Taylor
- Born in
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United States - Occupations
- politician
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Mary Elizabeth Taylor is an American political aide who served as the Assistant Secretary of State for Legislative Affairs from 2018 to 2020. She resigned on June 18, 2020 in protest of the handling of the George Floyd protests by President Donald Trump. She previously served in the Trump White House as the Deputy Director of Legislative Affairs of Nominations.
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Rosemarie Said Zahlan
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- writerjournalisthistorian
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Rosemarie Janet Said Zahlan was a Palestinian-American historian and writer on the Arab states of the Persian Gulf based in London. She was a sister of Edward Said. In addition to her books, she also wrote for the Financial Times, the Middle East Journal, the International Journal of Middle East Studies and the Encyclopedia of Islam.
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Genevieve Bell
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- anthropologistuniversity teacher
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Genevieve Bell AO FTSE FAHA FASSA is the Vice-Chancellor of the Australian National University and an Australian cultural anthropologist. She is best known for her work at the intersection of cultural practice research and technological development, and for being an industry pioneer of the user experience field. Bell was the inaugural director of the Autonomy, Agency and Assurance Innovation Institute (3Ai), which was co-founded by the Australian National University (ANU) and CSIRO’s Data61, and a Distinguished Professor of the ANU College of Engineering, Computing and Cybernetics. From 2021 to December 2023, she was the inaugural Director of the new ANU School of Cybernetics. She also holds the university's Florence Violet McKenzie Chair, and is the first SRI International Engelbart Distinguished Fellow. She is widely published, and holds 13 patents.
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Zvezdelina Stankova
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- mathematician
- Biography
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Zvezdelina Entcheva Stankova is an American mathematician who is a professor of mathematics at Mills College and a teaching professor at the University of California, Berkeley, the founder of the Berkeley Math Circle, and an expert in the combinatorial enumeration of permutations with forbidden patterns.
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Beryl Howell
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- lawyerjudge
- Biography
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Beryl Alaine Howell is an American lawyer and jurist who serves as a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. She was district's chief judge from 2016 to 2023. As chief judge, she supervised federal grand juries in the District, including for the Mueller special counsel investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections and investigations into attempts to overturn the 2020 United States presidential election.
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Elizabeth Fox-Genovese
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- historianuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Elizabeth Ann Fox-Genovese was an American historian best known for her works on women and society in the Antebellum South. A Marxist early on in her career, she later converted to Roman Catholicism and became a primary voice of the conservative women's movement. She was awarded the National Humanities Medal in 2003.
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Ellen Kushner
- Occupations
- radio personalitychildren's writernovelisteditor
- Biography
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Ellen Kushner is an American writer of fantasy novels. From 1996 until 2010, she was the host of the radio program Sound & Spirit, produced by WGBH in Boston and distributed by Public Radio International.
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Ray Strachey
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- politiciansecretarynovelistwomen's rights activistbiographer
- Biography
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Ray Strachey was a British feminist politician, artist and writer.
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Olga Taussky-Todd
- Enrolled in Bryn Mawr College
- Studied in 1933-1934
- Occupations
- mathematicianuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Olga Taussky-Todd was an Austrian and later Czech-American mathematician. She published more than 300 research papers on algebraic number theory, integral matrices, and matrices in algebra and analysis.
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Frances Wolf
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- visual artist
- Biography
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Frances Donnelly Wolf is an American artist, oil painter and advocate for the arts. She served as the 45th First Lady of Pennsylvania during the tenure of her husband, Governor Tom Wolf, from January 2015 until January 2023.
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Bettina Warburg
- Occupations
- psychiatristpsychoanalyst
- Biography
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Bettina Warburg was a psychiatrist and a member of the Warburg family banking dynasty.
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Dorothy Kunhardt
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- writerchildren's writerhistorian
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Dorothy Kunhardt was an American children's-book author, best known for the baby book Pat the Bunny. She was also a historian and writer about the life of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln.
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Jessica B. Harris
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- writercookbook writeracademic
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Jessica B. Harris is an American culinary historian, college professor, cookbook author and journalist. She is professor emerita at Queens College, City University of New York, where she taught for 50 years, and is also the author of 15 books, including cookbooks, non-fiction food writing and memoir. She has twice won James Beard Foundation Awards, including for Lifetime Achievement in 2020, and her book High on the Hog was adapted in 2021 as a four-part Netflix series by the same name.
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Hanna Holborn Gray
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- university teacherhistorianeducator
- Biography
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Hanna Holborn Gray is an American historian of Renaissance and Reformation political thought and Professor of History Emerita at the University of Chicago. She served as president of the University of Chicago, from 1978 to 1993, having earlier served as president pro tempore of Yale University in 1977–1978. At both schools, she was the first woman to hold their highest executive office. When named to the post in Chicago, she became one of the first women in the United States to hold the full presidency of a major university.
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Eleanor Lansing Dulles
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- diplomateconomist
- Biography
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Eleanor Lansing Dulles was an American writer, professor, and United States government employee. Her background in economics and her familiarity with European affairs enabled her to fill a number of important State Department positions.
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Nina G. Jablonski
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- university teacherbiologistpaleoanthropologistanthropologistresearcher
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Nina Grace Jablonski is an American anthropologist and palaeobiologist, known for her research into the evolution of skin color in humans. She is engaged in public education about human evolution, human diversity, and racism. In 2021, she was elected to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and in 2009, she was elected to the American Philosophical Society. She is an Evan Pugh University Professor at The Pennsylvania State University, and the author of the books Skin: A Natural History, Living Color: The Biological and Social Meaning of Skin Color, and the co-author (with Sindiwe Magona and Lynn Fellman) of Skin We Are In.
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Nadia Abu El Haj
- Occupations
- academicanthropologist
- Biography
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Nadia Abu El-Haj is an American anthropologist at Barnard College and Columbia University.
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Sumana Shrestha
- Biography
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Sumana Shrestha is a Nepalese politician and former Minister of Education, Science and Technology. Since 2022, she has held the position of Member of the Federal Parliament in the House of Representatives of Nepal, representing Joint Secretary of the Rastriya Swatantra Party. Additionally, she is a member of the Education, Health, and Information Technology Committee of the House of Representatives. She holds the position of Central Committee member and serves as the chairperson of the Education Department and the Science, Communication, and Information Technology Department of the Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP).
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Eleanor Sayre
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- art historianuniversity teachercurator
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Eleanor Axson Sayre was an American curator, art historian, and a specialist on the works of Goya. She was the first woman to serve as departmental curator at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Working as curator of prints and drawings, she collected Goya's etchings from museums around the world to catalogue and create international exhibits. She was awarded a knighthood with the Lazo de Dama in the Order of Isabella the Catholic by Spain in 1975 and the Gold Medal of Merit in the Fine Arts in 1991.
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Shaun Gallagher
- Years
- 1948-.. (age 77)
- Occupations
- philosopher
- Biography
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Shaun Gallagher is an American philosopher known for his work on embodied cognition, social cognition, agency and the philosophy of psychopathology. Since 2011, he has held the Lillian and Morrie Moss Chair of Excellence in Philosophy at the University of Memphis and was awarded the Anneliese Maier Research Award by the Humboldt Foundation. Since 2014, he has been Professorial Fellow at the University of Wollongong in Australia. He has held visiting positions at University of Rome -Sapienza, University of Rome -Tre, Keble College, Oxford; Humboldt University, Berlin; Ruhr Universität, Bochum; Husserl Archives, ENS (Paris); École Normale Supérieure, Lyon; University of Copenhagen; and the Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge University. He is also known for his philosophical discussion on the effects of solitary confinement.
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Claire Giannini Hoffman
- Years
- 1904-1997 (aged 93)
- Occupations
- businessperson
- Biography
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Claire Giannini Hoffman was the first woman to serve on the boards of Bank of America and Sears, Roebuck & Company. She also was the only woman guest invited at international bank conference events for some two decades.
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Elaine Hammerstein
- Occupations
- actorfilm actor
- Biography
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Elaine Hammerstein was an American silent film and stage actress.
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Neda Ulaby
- Occupations
- journalistradio personality
- Biography
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Neda Ulaby is an American reporter for National Public Radio, covering arts, cultural trends and digital media. She lives in Washington, D.C.
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Ellis Avery
- Occupations
- writernovelist
- Biography
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Ellis Avery was an American writer. She won two Stonewall Book Awards (the only author to have done so), one in 2008 for her debut novel The Teahouse Fire and one in 2013 for her second novel The Last Nude. The Teahouse Fire also won a Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Debut Fiction and an Ohioana Library Fiction Award in 2007. She self-published her memoir, The Family Tooth, in 2015. Her final book, Tree of Cats, was independently published posthumously.
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Agnes Hsu-Tang
- Enrolled in Bryn Mawr College
- Graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- archaeologistart historian
- Biography
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Agnes Hsin Mei Hsu-Tang is a Taiwan-born American archaeologist and art historian. On October 19, 2021, she became the first person of Asian heritage to be elected board chair of one of the oldest historical institutions in America, the New-York Historical Society, founded in 1804. She is chairwoman of the New-York Historical Society board of trustees and Co-chair of The Met Museum's Objects Conservation Visiting Committee. She is a distinguished consulting scholar at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. Hsu-Tang works in cultural heritage protection and rescue and has advised UNESCO and the U.S. Cultural Property Advisory Committee during the Obama Administration. Hsu-Tang received IIE's Centennial Medal in 2019 for her longtime work in cultural protection and rescue. She co-founded the Hsu-Tang Library for Classical Chinese Literature at Oxford University, the Tang Center for Silk Road Studies at Berkeley, and the Tang Center for Early China at Columbia University.
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Helen Flanders Dunbar
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- psychiatristphysician
- Biography
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Helen Flanders Dunbar — later known as H. Flanders Dunbar — is an important early figure in U.S. psychosomatic medicine and psychobiology, as well as being an important advocate of physicians and clergy co-operating in their efforts to care for the sick. She viewed the patient as a combination of the psyche and soma, body and soul. Both needed to be treated in order to treat a patient efficiently. Dunbar received degrees in mathematics, psychology, theology, philosophy, and medicine. Dunbar founded the American Psychosomatic Society in 1942 and was the first editor of its journal. In addition to running several other committees committed to treating the whole patient, Dunbar wrote and distributed information for public health, involving child development and advocating for mental health care after World War II.
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Joan Slonczewski
- Occupations
- writerbiologistnovelistscience fiction writeruniversity teacher
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Joan Lyn Slonczewski is an American microbiologist at Kenyon College and a science fiction writer who explores biology and space travel. Their books have twice earned the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel: A Door into Ocean (1987) and The Highest Frontier (2011). With John W. Foster and Erik Zinser, they coauthor the textbook, Microbiology: An Evolving Science (W. W. Norton) now in its fifth edition.
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Bess Lomax Hawes
- Occupations
- musicianhistorianarts administratorfolklorist
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Bess Lomax Hawes was an American folk musician, folklorist, and researcher. She was the daughter of John Avery Lomax and Bess Bauman-Brown Lomax, and the sister of Alan Lomax and John Lomax Jr.
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Mary Jobe Akeley
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- mountaineeracademicwriterexplorerphotographer
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Mary Jobe Akeley was an American explorer, author, mountaineer, and photographer. She undertook expeditions in the Canadian Rockies and in the Belgian Congo. She worked at the American Museum of Natural History creating exhibits featuring taxidermy animals in realistic natural settings. Akeley worked on behalf of conservation efforts, including her advocating for the creation of game preserves. She founded Camp Mystic, an outdoor camp for girls.
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Fern Hunt
- Enrolled in Bryn Mawr College
- In 1969 graduated with Bachelor of Arts in mathematics
- Occupations
- mathematician
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Fern Yvette Hunt is an African American mathematician known for her work in applied mathematics and mathematical biology. She currently works as a researcher at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, where she conducts research on the ergodic theory of dynamical systems.
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Nina Garsoyan
- Enrolled in Bryn Mawr College
- Studied in 1939-1943
- Occupations
- orientalistarmenologisthistorian
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Nina G. Garsoïan FBA was a French-born American historian specializing in Armenian and Byzantine history. In 1969 she became the first female historian to get tenure at Columbia University and, subsequently, became the first holder of Gevork M. Avedissian Chair in Armenian History and Civilization at Columbia. From 1977 to 1979, she served as dean of the Graduate School of Princeton University.
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Margaret Levi
- Years
- 1947-.. (age 78)
- Occupations
- university teacherpolitical scientistacademic
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Margaret Levi is an American political scientist and author, known for her work in comparative political economy, labor politics, and democratic theory, notably on the origins and effects of trustworthy government.
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Vivien A. Schmidt
- Years
- 1949-.. (age 76)
- Occupations
- political scientistinternational relations scholar
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Vivien A. Schmidt is an American academic of political science and international relations. At Boston University, she is the Jean Monnet Chair of European Integration Professor of International Relations in the Pardee School of Global Studies, and Professor of Political Science. She is known for her work on political economy, policy analysis, democratic theory, and new institutionalism. She is a 2018 recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and has been named a Chevalier in the French Legion of Honor.
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Emily Kimbrough
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- writerjournalistnovelist
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Emily Kimbrough was an American author and journalist.
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Esther Lape
- Years
- 1881-1981 (aged 100)
- Occupations
- journalistsuffragistteacher
- Biography
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Esther Everett Lape was a well-known American peace activist and journalist. She wrote in support of immigration and workers' rights, and between the world wars, she was a vocal advocate for the US participation in the World Court. Lape was associated with the Women's Trade Union League and was one of the founders of the League of Women Voters.
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Margaret Ayer Barnes
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- screenwriternovelistshort story writerwriterplaywright
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Margaret Ayer Barnes was an American playwright, novelist, and short-story writer. She was awarded the Pulitzer Prize.
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Karen Kornbluh
- Years
- 1963-.. (age 62)
- Occupations
- economist
- Biography
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Karen Kornbluh served as U.S. Ambassador to the OECD under President Barack Obama and as a senior official at the U.S. Department of the Treasury and Federal Communications Commission under President Bill Clinton. She is an expert on communications policy, international trade and issues affecting working families. Her profile in The New York Times focused on her efforts “Fighting for Economic Equality.” She is now Director of the Digital Innovation and Democracy Initiative at the German Marshall Fund of the United States, a think tank dedicated to promoting transatlantic cooperation, where she is also a Senior Fellow. She also currently serves as the Chairperson of the board of the Open Technology Fund. She was previously Executive Vice President of External Affairs at Nielsen, Senior Fellow for Digital Policy at the Council on Foreign Relations, and a presidentially-appointed member of the Broadcasting Board of Governors. She was a senior adviser to Barack Obama from the beginning of his Senate tenure throughout his 2008 presidential campaign.
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Layla AbdelRahim
- Enrolled in Bryn Mawr College
- Graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- anthropologistauthoranarchist
- Biography
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Layla AbdelRahim is a comparatist anthropologist and anarchoprimitivist author, whose works on narratives of civilization and wilderness have contributed to the fields of anthropology, literary and cultural studies, comparative literature, philosophy, animal studies, ecophilosophy, sociology, anarcho-primitivist thought, anarchism, epistemology, and critique of civilization, technology, and education. She attributes the collapse in the diversity of bio-systems and environmental degradation to monoculturalism and the civilized ontology that explains existence in terms of anthropocentric utilitarian functions.
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Joan Breton Connelly
- Years
- 1954-.. (age 71)
- Occupations
- professorarchaeologistclassical scholarart historiananthropologist
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Joan Breton Connelly is an American classical archaeologist and Professor of Classics and Art History at New York University. She is Director of the Yeronisos Island Excavations and Field School in Cyprus. Connelly was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship in 1996. She received the Archaeological Institute of America Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award in 2007 and held the Lillian Vernon Chair for Teaching Excellence at New York University from 2002 to 2004. She is an Honorary Citizen of the Municipality of Peyia, Republic of Cyprus.
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Sari Horwitz
- Occupations
- journalist
- Biography
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Sari Horwitz is a three-time Pulitzer Prize-winning member of The Washington Post's investigation unit. A reporter for The Washington Post since 1984, she has covered crime, homeland security, federal law enforcement, education, social services, and the U.S. Department of Justice.
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Alice Gerstenberg
- Occupations
- actorstage actornovelistwriterplaywright
- Biography
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Alice Erya Gerstenberg was an American playwright, actress, and activist best known for her experimental, feminist drama and her involvement with the Little Theatre Movement in Chicago.
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Margit Frenk
- Occupations
- translatorphilologistwriterhispanistuniversity teacher
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Margit Frenk Freund, sometimes known by her married name, Margit Frenk Alatorre (born 21 August 1925 in Hamburg), is a German-Mexican philologist, folklorist and translator. She has been an Academic Numerary of the Mexican Language Academy since 1993. She is also a Doctor Honoris Causa at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM).
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Lindsay Northover, Baroness Northover
- Years
- 1954-.. (age 71)
- Occupations
- politician
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Lindsay Patricia Northover, Baroness Northover, is a British academic, Liberal Democrat politician, member of the House of Lords, and former junior government minister.
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Julia Anna Gardner
- Enrolled in Bryn Mawr College
- Graduated with Master of Arts
- Graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- stratigrapherresearchergeologistmalacologistpaleontologist
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Julia Anna Gardner, was an American geologist who worked for the United States Geological Survey for 32 years. She was known worldwide for her work in stratigraphy and mollusc paleontology.
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Tae Keller
- Years
- 1993-.. (age 32)
- Occupations
- children's writer
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Tae Keller is an American children's book author. Her book, When You Trap a Tiger, won the 2021 Newbery Medal. The book tells the story of Lily and her relationship with her aging and ill Korean grandmother, and is inspired by Korean folktales. Keller is the youngest winner of the Newbery Medal.
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Frederica de Laguna
- Enrolled in Bryn Mawr College
- Studied in 1923-1927
- Occupations
- anthropologistarchaeologistmilitary officer
- Biography
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Frederica Annis Lopez de Leo de Laguna (October 3, 1906 – October 6, 2004) was an American ethnologist, anthropologist, and archaeologist influential for her work on Paleoindian and Alaska Native art and archaeology in the American northwest and Alaska.
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Jean Inness
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- actor
- Biography
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Jean Spurney Inness was an American film, stage and television actress. Inness played nurse Beatrice Fain in the American medical drama television series Dr. Kildare.
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Edna Fischel Gellhorn
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- suffragist
- Biography
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Edna Fischel Gellhorn was an American suffragist and reformer who helped found the League of Women Voters.
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Karin Stephen
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- psychoanalystphysician
- Biography
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Karin Stephen was a British psychoanalyst and psychologist.
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Margaret M. Morrow
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- lawyerjudge
- Biography
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Margaret Mary Morrow is a former United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Central District of California.
