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List of the most influential female people in Education,

#501

Kate Pahl

#175764

Overall Influence

Kate Heron Pahl is Professor of Literacies and Head of Education and Social Research Institute at Manchester Metropolitan University. Her work draws on arts and humanities methodologies to co-produce knowledge with community partners and the intersections between arts methodologies and community cohesion. Her publications have drawn on literary theory, New Literacy Studies and social anthropology.

#502

Sherry Farrell Racette

#131211

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (74 years)

Sherry Farrell Racette is a Métis-Canadian feminist scholar, author, curator, and artist. She is best known for her contributions to Indigenous and Canadian art histories. She is currently an associate professor of Visual Arts at the University of Regina.

#503

Deborah Adetuni Egunyomi

#174545

Overall Influence

Deborah Adetunbi Egunyomi is a professor of Continuing and Non-Formal Education at the University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria, where she previously served as the Head of the Adult Education Department. She was a member of the Visitation Panel set up by Ekiti state government to reposition the College of Health Science and Technology, Ijero-Ekiti.

#504

Jacinta Duncan

#105454

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

Jacinta Duncan is an Australian science educator who grew up on marginal farming land in the Millewa area in the top North West of Victoria. Working alongside her father, Duncan learned animal husbandry, and how to crop wheat and barley while her mother, a primary school teacher, taught her music, French and took her to learn ballet. Duncan says "the importance of an inquisitive mind and a robust education has always been at the forefront of my life".

#505

Catherine Karkov

#92404

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (70 years)

Catherine E. Karkov is professor of History of Art and head of the School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies at the University of Leeds. Her research centres on early medieval art, especially Anglo-Saxon art, and she has published three monographs. Her first concerns Anglo-Saxon art; the second one on the relation between text and image in Anglo-Saxon literature; and the third on how Anglo-Saxon writers imagined England as a place, how Anglo-Saxon England is understood by modern audiences, and the "fraught history of 'Anglo-Saxon' studies".

#506

Elmira Mangum

#80269

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (73 years)

Elmira Mangum is an American educator and retired university administrator, who served as President of Florida A&M University from 2014 to 2017. She was the 11th President of FAMU and the first woman to permanently hold the position in the 128-year history of the university. She served as President until March 2017, but was on administrative leave from September 2016 to March 2017.

#507

Audrey Niffenegger

Audrey Niffenegger

#28556

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (63 years)

Audrey Niffenegger is an American writer, artist and academic. Her debut novel, The Time Traveler's Wife, published in 2003, was a bestseller. Biography Audrey Niffenegger was born in 1963 in South Haven, Michigan. Then she moved to Evanston, Illinois and has since spent a majority of her life in Chicago. Niffenegger started writing books when she was six years old. Niffenegger completed her undergraduate degree at the Art Institute of Chicago where she worked on becoming a visual artist. After completing her undergraduate degree, she got her M.F.A at Northwestern University. Niffenegger is ...

#508

Jane Stallings

#178668

Overall Influence

1929 - 2016 (87 years)

Jane Ainel Smith Stallings was an American educational researcher and academic. She was the 1994–95 president of the American Educational Research Association and the first female to become a dean at Texas A&M University.

#509

Nicole M. Joseph

#74172

Overall Influence

Nicole Michelle Joseph is an American mathematician and scholar of mathematics education whose research particularly focuses on the experiences of African-American girls and women in mathematics, on the effects of white supremacist reactions to their work in mathematics, and on the "intersectional nature of educational inequity". She is an associate professor of mathematics education, in the Department of Teaching and Learning of the Vanderbilt Peabody College of Education and Human Development.

#510

Bárbara M. Brizuela

#72852

Overall Influence

Bárbara M. Brizuela is an American mathematics educator, and an associate professor education at Tufts University. Education and career Brizuela was born in the United States, though raised in Argentina and Venezuela. She has an Ed.D from Harvard University where she studied under Eleanor Duckworth. Prior to that, she received a Master of Arts, General Studies in Education from Tufts and a Licenciada en Ciencias Pedagógicas and Licenciada en Psicopedagogía degrees from the Universidad de Belgrano. She was a Spencer Fellow at the Harvard Graduate School of Education from 1997 until 2000 and a Roy E.

#511

Arlene Mosel

#106419

Overall Influence

1921 - 1996 (75 years)

Arlene Tichy Mosel was an American children's librarian who wrote the text for two award-winning children's picture books illustrated by Blair Lent Tikki Tikki Tembo won the annual Boston Globe–Horn Book Award and Lent won the annual Caldecott Medal for The Funny Little Woman.

#512

Mary Mackey

#37570

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (81 years)

Mary Lou Mackey is an American novelist, poet, and academic. She is the author of eight collections of poetry and fourteen novels, including the New York Times best-seller A Grand Passion and The Village of Bones, The Year The Horses Came, The Horses At The Gate, and The Fires of Spring, four sweeping historical novels that take as their subject the earth-centered, Goddess-worshiping cultures of Neolithic Europe. In 2012, her sixth collection of poetry, Sugar Zone, won a PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Award. Another collection, The Jaguars That Prowl Our Dreams: New and Selected Poems ...

#513

Barbara G. Lane

#168633

Overall Influence

1941 - Present (85 years)

Barbara Greenhouse Lane was an art historian, and chair of the art department in the graduate studies and research program at Queens College, City University of New York. She was a scholar of the Northern Renaissance, early Netherlandish painting, and medieval art.

#514

Bobbie Hunter

#74805

Overall Influence

Roberta Kathleen Hunter is a New Zealand education academic of Cook Islands Māori descent and as of 2019 is a full professor at the Massey University. She specialises in mathematics education. Academic career After a 2002 MSc titled 'Constructing decimal concepts in an inquiry classroom' and a 2007 PhD titled 'Teachers developing communities of mathematical inquiry ' at the Massey University, Hunter joined the staff, rising to full professor.

#515

Virginia Spate

#114036

Overall Influence

1937 - 2022 (85 years)

Virginia Margaret Spate was a British-born Australian art historian and academic. Spate was born in the United Kingdom in 1937. She lived in Burma as a child until her family was evacuated during the Pacific War. In 1951, she settled in Australia, where she studied a Bachelor of Arts degree in history and fine arts at the University of Melbourne, graduating in 1961. She studied and lectured in art history at the University of Cambridge, receiving a Master of Arts. She then received a PhD from Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania, United States.

#516

Jenny Harper

#103036

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

Jenny Gwynndd Harper is a New Zealand academic and museum professional. She was most recently the director of Christchurch Art Gallery. Early life and education Born in Geraldine on 27 April 1950, Harper was educated at Villa Maria College, Christchurch. She completed a Bachelor of Arts at the University of Canterbury in 1972, a Diploma of Secondary Teaching at Christchurch Teachers' College in 1976, and a Master of Arts in religious studies at the University of Canterbury in 1977. Her master's thesis was titled The Relationship between Iconography and Mythology with Reference to the Hindu God, Siva.

#517

Annabel Gallop

#80490

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

Annabel Teh Gallop is a specialist in Southeast Asia, and is Head of the Southeast Asia Section at the British Library. Early life Gallop was born 5 August 1961 in Winchester, the daughter of Christopher Hugh Gallop and Teh Siok Lay. She attended Sufri Bolkiah English School in Tutong, Brunei, Wadhurst College, and Cranbrook School. She received her BSc from the University of Bristol in 1982. She then studied at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London where she received her MA in 1985 and PhD in 2002.

#518

Inger Mewburn

#157233

Overall Influence

1970 - Present (56 years)

Inger Mewburn is a Professor and Director of Research Training at the Australian National University, Canberra, Australia. She has published on academic identity, writing, and digital scholarship. She is known as "The Thesis Whisperer" on social media, and has been named as an "Australian social media influencer in higher education." Mewburn uses social media to provide commentary on researching student experiences , researching student supervision, and post-doctoral employment pathways.

#519

Annette Schavan

#144439

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (71 years)

Annette Schavan is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union . She was the Federal Minister of Education and Research in the government of Chancellor Angela Merkel from 2005 to 2013, when she resigned following the revocation of her doctorate due to plagiarism. From 2014 until 2018 she served as the German Ambassador to the Holy See. From April 2018, she also briefly served as first German Ambassador to the Sovereign Military Order of Malta.

#520

Judy Margaret Parr

#129705

Overall Influence

Judith Margaret Parr is a New Zealand educational psychology academic. She is a full professor at the University of Auckland. Academic career After a secondary education at Matamata College and an undergraduate at the University of Auckland, Parr did a 1989 PhD at Australian National University titled "Revision in writing: cognitive and linguistic aspects". She then returned to Auckland and became a full professor in 2011.

#521

Ann Sumner

#154662

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

Ann Sumner is an art historian, exhibition curator, author and former museum director. She is currently Visiting Professor at Manchester Metropolitan University and Chair of the Methodist Modern Art Collection.

#522

Tova Ascher

#144172

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

Tova Ascher, also Tova Asher is an Israeli film director and film editor. She edited over 50 films. Biography Tova Ascher was born in Netanya. Her sister, , is also a film editor. After graduating from the Netanya High School, she moved to Tel Aviv, where she received a bachelor's degree in philosophy and sociology from Tel Aviv University. She is married to Yoni Ascher, a historian at the University of Haifa and they have two children, also involved in the film industry: a daughter and a son .

#523

Carol Taylor Fitz-Gibbon

#181049

Overall Influence

1938 - 2017 (79 years)

Carol Taylor Fitz-Gibbon was a British educational researcher and analyst. Fitz-Gibbon wrote several books on evaluation, educational data and quantifying attainment. She served as the Director of the Centre for Evaluation & Monitoring from 1989 to 2003.

#524

Judit Moschkovich

#98225

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (26 years)

Judit Nora Moschkovich is a professor in mathematics education and the learning sciences at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Moschkovich's research uses sociocultural approaches to study mathematical thinking and learning, mathematical discourse, and language issues in mathematics education. Her research has focused on the transition from arithmetic to algebraic thinking, mathematical discourse, and learning/teaching mathematics in classrooms with students who are bilingual, Latino/a, and/or learning English.

#525

Tarnya Cooper

#141423

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (59 years)

Tarnya Cooper is an art historian and author who is currently the National Trust's Curatorial & Collections Director. She has previously been the Chief Curator and Curatorial Director at the National Portrait Gallery, London.

#526

Pamela M. Lee

#90872

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (59 years)

Pamela M. Lee is an art historian and Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art at Yale University. Her research focuses on late modernism and contemporary art, particularly the relationship between aesthetics and politics.

#527

Lisa Urkevich

#112048

Overall Influence

Dr. Lisa Urkevich is a specialist in music and heritage of Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and the greater Arabian Peninsula, and has undertaken extensive additional scholarship on Northern European Renaissance music. She has served as a strategist and senior advisor on international enterprises. She is former professor of musicology and ethnomusicology, and founding division head of the arts and humanities, and founding chair of the music and drama department at the American University of Kuwait . Previously, she was a full-time professor at Boston University. Since 2017 she has been the general edito...

#528

Lynda Wiest

#75279

Overall Influence

Lynda R. Wiest is an American mathematics education researcher and professor at the University of Nevada, Reno. Research Wiest investigates mathematics education, educational equity, and teacher education.

#529

Leslie Cockburn

#95222

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (74 years)

Leslie Cockburn is an American investigative journalist, and filmmaker. Her investigative television segments have aired on CBS, NBC, PBS Frontline, and 60 Minutes. She has won an Emmy Award, The Hillman Prize, Alfred I. duPont–Columbia University Award, Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award, and the George Polk Award.

#530

Carla Rice

#107261

Overall Influence

Carla Rice is a Canadian educator, project director, consultant, speaker and author on women's body image issues. She is a Tier II Canadian Research Chair in care, gender and relationships in the College of Social and Applied Human Sciences at the University of Guelph in Ontario, Canada. This role includes the challenging of stereotypes through the investigation of ways that perceptions of women's bodies can be changed through images and stories.

#531

Peg Campbell

#176913

Overall Influence

Peg Campbell is a Canadian filmmaker. She is most noted for her short films It's a Party!, which was a Genie Award nominee for Best Live Action Short Drama at the 8th Genie Awards, and In Search of the Last Good Man, which won the same award at the 11th Genie Awards.

#532

Ferris Olin

#138245

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (78 years)

Ferris Olin is an American feminist scholar, curator, educator and librarian. Olin was born in Trenton, New Jersey, on June 27, 1948. She has been a Professor Art and Library Science in the Rutgers University School of Arts and Sciences since 1976. With Judith K. Brodsky, Olin co-founded, and co-directed several initiatives and institutions, including the Institute for Women and Art, the Women Artists Archive National Directory, the Miriam Schapiro Archives on Women Artists, and the Feminist Art Project. She was the founding director of the Margery Somers Foster Center: A Resource Center and Digital Archive on Women, Scholarship and Leadership at Rutgers University.

#533

Jennie Stephens

#180413

Overall Influence

1975 - Present (51 years)

Jennie C. Stephens is an academic researcher, professor, author, and social justice advocate. She is Professor of Sustainability Science & Policy at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts. She is also affiliated with the Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies Program, the department of Civil & Environmental Engineering and the department of Cultures, Societies & Global Studies.

#534

Glory Van Scott

#165488

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (79 years)

Glory Van Scott is an educator, writer, actress and dancer. She is a former principal dancer with the Katherine Dunham, Agnes de Mille and Talley Beatty dance companies and has performed in the United States and around the world.

#535

Suzanne Blier

#70286

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (78 years)

Suzanne Preston Blier is an American art historian who currently serves as Allen Whitehill Clowes Professor of Fine Arts and Professor of African and African American Studies at Harvard University with appointments in both the History of Art and Architecture department and the department of African and African American studies. She is also a member of the Institute for Quantitative Social Science and a faculty associate at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs. Her work focuses primarily on African art, architecture, and culture.

#536

Ruth Phillips

#58894

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (81 years)

Ruth B. Phillips is a Canadian art historian and curator who specializes in North American aboriginal art. She is an author of numerous books and articles on the subjects of Indigenous studies, anthropology/archaeology, political science, international studies, public policy, Canadian studies, and cultural studies.

#537

Whitney Davis

#82126

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (68 years)

Whitney Davis is an art historian, writer, and theorist. Davis has been teaching at the University of California, Berkeley in the art history department since 2001 as the George C. and Helen N. Pardee Professor of History and Theory of Ancient and Modern Art. In addition to an extensive list of publications in the field of Western art history, Davis has made major contributions to the field of queer theory and LGBTQ studies, such as the 1998 essay "'Homosexualism,' Gay and Lesbian Studies, and Queer Theory in Art History."

#538

Margaretta M. Lovell

#154260

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (82 years)

Margaretta M. Lovell is an American art historian who serves as the Jay D. McEvoy, Jr. Professor of the History of Art at the University of California, Berkeley. Her research and teaching center on the art and history of the United States, including eighteenth- and nineteenth-century landscape painting, portraiture, decorative arts, furniture, architecture, food, and forests.

#539

Mary Hardy

#167781

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (68 years)

Mary Rosalyn Hardy is a professor of actuarial science at the University of Waterloo . She pioneered, together with Julia Wirch, the development and application of the conditional tail expectation . Biography Hardy studied mathematics at the University of London and holds a PhD from Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh. She has served as editor of the North American Actuarial Journal and she was previously editor of Annals of Actuarial Science.

#540

Silvia Eiblmayr

#149221

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (26 years)

Silvia Eiblmayr is an Austrian art historian and curator. Life and work Eiblmayr was born in Germany and grew up in Upper Austria and lives and works in Vienna. She holds a doctorate in art history from the University of Vienna and works as a curator in the field of contemporary art.

#541

Gertrud Seidmann

#80535

Overall Influence

1919 - 2013 (94 years)

Gertrud Seidmann, was an Austrian-British linguist and jewellery historian, specialising in engraved gems. Her first career was as a linguist, teaching German and applied linguistics at Battersea County School, the University of Oxford, and the University of Southampton: she was awarded the Goethe Medal in 1968. She formally retired in 1979 and dedicated herself to researching jewellery and engraved gems, becoming a research associate of the Institute of Archaeology and of Oxford's Beazley Archive.

#542

Carmen Twillie Ambar

#116906

Overall Influence

1968 - Present (58 years)

Carmen Twillie Ambar is an American attorney, academic, and the current president of Oberlin College in Ohio. She was appointed to the post in May 2017. In 2002, she became the ninth woman to lead Douglass College and the youngest dean in its history. She was dean of Douglass College until August 2008 when she became president of Cedar Crest College. Ambar was appointed by Governor Corzine to the New Jersey Economic Development Authority Board of Directors. In 2017, she was named 15th president of Oberlin College.

#543

Marilyn Strutchens

#113632

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (64 years)

Marilyn E. Strutchens is an African-American mathematics educator focusing on the training of secondary-school mathematics teachers and on equity issues in mathematics education. She has served as president of the Association of Mathematics Teacher Educators, and is Emily R. and Gerald S. Leischuck Endowed Professor for Critical Needs and Mildred Cheshire Fraley Distinguished Professor of Mathematics Education, and Program Coordinator for Secondary Mathematics Education in the Department of Curriculum and Teaching at Auburn University.

#544

Luisa Vertova

#103150

Overall Influence

1921 - 2021 (100 years)

Luisa Vertova was an Italian art historian. Her research work mostly focused on Renaissance Italian painters such as Piero della Francesca, Mantegna, Paolo Veronese, Titian, Botticelli and Caravaggio. In addition, she undertook numerous projects as editor of several editions of her mentor Bernard Berenson's and her husband Benedict Nicolson's writings.

#545

Deborah Nadoolman Landis

Deborah Nadoolman Landis

#36249

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (74 years)

Deborah Nadoolman Landis is an American costume designer, author, and professor. She has worked on notable films such as Animal House, The Blues Brothers, Raiders of the Lost Ark and Three Amigos, all of which credited her as Deborah Nadoolman. Landis served two terms as president of the Costume Designers Guild of which she has been a member for more than thirty years. She is married to director John Landis; their son is screenwriter Max Landis.

#546

Margaret Horsburgh

Margaret Horsburgh

#178137

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (83 years)

Margaret Phyllis Elsie Horsburgh is a New Zealand academic who established the school of nursing at the University of Auckland and worked as a nurse educator for over 30 years. Biography Horsburgh was born in Auckland in 1943, and was educated at Diocesan School for Girls. She began training as a nurse in 1961. From a career as an intensive-care nurse, Horsburgh joined Auckland University of Technology in 1976. She completed a Doctor of Education degree through Charles Sturt University in 1998, with a thesis titled Quality monitoring in higher education: a case study of the impact on student learning.

#547

Catherine Emihovich

#107807

Overall Influence

Catherine Emihovich was the former dean and current faculty member of the University of Florida College of Education. In May 2002 she was selected as dean of the college. Prior to this position, she was the dean of the College of Education at California State University at Sacramento. She stepped down as dean on August 14, 2011, and took a year's sabbatical before resuming her faculty responsibilities. She was the first woman to be dean at the college.

#548

Jane Gilbert

#178883

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (71 years)

Dr. Jane Gilbert is an educationalist in New Zealand. She was the Chief Researcher of New Zealand Council for Educational Research. From 2014, Jane was appointed as a professor of education at Auckland University of Technology.

#549

Shiza Shahid

#166801

Overall Influence

Shiza Shahid is a Pakistani social entrepreneur, social activist, investor, and educator. She is the co-founder and former CEO of the non-profit Malala Fund, which promotes education for every girl. In 2013, she was included in Time "30 Under 30" list of world change-makers, and in 2014, she was listed in Forbes "30 Under 30" list of global social entrepreneurs. She is also well-known as the personal assistant of Nobel Peace Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai.

#550

Galina Pugachenkova

Galina Pugachenkova

#84777

Overall Influence

1915 - 2007 (92 years)

Galina Anatolevna Pugachenkova was a Soviet archaeologist and art historian, regarded as a founder of Uzbek archaeology and central to the progression of archaeology and art history under Soviet regimes. Her work has contributed greatly to the register of surviving buildings in Central Asia and in many cases was the first register of traditional surviving buildings. G. A. Pugachenkova directed a branch of the archaeological expedition of southern Turkmenistan from 1946 to 1961, and of the Uzbek historical-artistic expedition from 1959 to 1984.

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