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List of the most influential female people in Education,

#651

Letitia Fickel

#181543

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (63 years)

Letitia Cope Hochstrasser Fickel is a New Zealand education academic and academic administrator. She is currently a full professor and acting pro-vice chancellor at the University of Canterbury. Academic career After a 1998 EdD at the University of Louisville titled 'Teacher culture and community : an ethnography of a high school social studies department,' Fickel worked at the University of Alaska Anchorage before moving to the University of Canterbury in 2010.

#652

Kathryn Brush

#174263

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (70 years)

Kathryn Louise Brush is a Canadian art historian. She is Distinguished University Professor Emerita at the University of Western Ontario, and was the first professor in the Department of Visual Arts at the University of Western Ontario to be named a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.

#653

Geert ten Dam

#187802

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (68 years)

Geert ten Dam is a Dutch scientist. She is the president of the University of Amsterdam.

#654

Dorothy Price

#171021

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (57 years)

Dorothy Cilla Price is a British art historian and academic. She is Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art and Critical Race Art History at the Courtauld Institute of Art. She was previously Professor of History of Art at the University of Bristol, and was the first woman of colour to be appointed to a Chair in Art History at a Russell Group university. Price researches, teaches, and curates on "histories, art and thought of people of African descent", with a focus on German modernism, German expressionism, and post-war Black British art, with a focus on women artists. In 2021, she was ele...

#655

Barbara Bloemink

#101892

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (73 years)

Barbara J. Bloemink is an American art historian and former director and chief curator of five art and design museums. She has published several works on the modernist painter Florine Stettheimer and is considered an expert on the artist.

#656

Ruby Lin

#150988

Overall Influence

1976 - Present (50 years)

Ruby Lin Xin-ru is a Taiwanese actress, television and film producer, and pop singer. American entertainment critic Derek Elley named Lin as "Taiwan's TV Drama Queen". 3 years after Lin made her acting debut in a TV commercial, she rose to national and regional prominence overnight for her role as Xia Ziwei in the TV series My Fair Princess 还珠格格 . My Fair Princess was highly popular in East and Southeast countries; launching Lin as a household name in Asia. She followed the success with other hit series including The Duke of Mount Deer , Romance in the Rain , Boy & Girl , Affair of Half a Lif...

#657

Freida High Wasikhongo Tesfagiorgis

#178032

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (80 years)

Freida High Wasikhongo Tesfagiorgis is a painter, art historian, and visual culturalist who focuses on African American, modern and contemporary African art, African Diaspora, and modern European Art and Primitivism. She is Professor Emerita, Departments of African-American Studies, Gender & Women’s Studies, and Art, University of Wisconsin-Madison. In 2021 she was the recipient of a Lifetime Achievement Award at the 31st Annual James A. Porter Colloquium on African American Art at Howard University.

#658

Laura O'Dwyer

#169009

Overall Influence

Laura Mary O'Dwyer is a professor of Measurement, Evaluation, and Statistics at Boston College known for her work on examining the impact of technology in education, especially science education, and for quantifying outcomes for K-12 student success.

#659

Lizzie Borden

#146050

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (68 years)

Lizzie Borden is an American filmmaker, best known for her early independent films Born in Flames and Working Girls . Early life The daughter of a Detroit stockbroker, she was originally named Linda Elizabeth Borden. At the age of eleven she decided to take the name of the infamous accused double murderer Lizzie Borden, the inspiration for this children's rhyme:Lizzie Borden took an axeAnd gave her father forty whacks,When she saw what she had done,She gave her mother forty-oneOf her announcement to her parents that she was legally changing her name, Borden says, "At the time, my name was th...

#660

Bernadine Newsom Denning

Bernadine Newsom Denning

#182647

Overall Influence

1930 - 2011 (81 years)

Bernadine Newsom Denning was an educator and civil rights activist recognised in the Michigan Women's Hall of Fame. Biography Denning née Newsom was born in 1930 in Detroit. At the age of 16, she taught swimming at the Lucy Thurman branch of the Detroit YWCA. In 1951, she began work as a physical education teacher in Detroit public schools; she retired as assistant superintendent for community relations. She was also assistant professor of education at the University of Michigan. She served on the board of trustees for Central Michigan University.

#661

Anne Coffin Hanson

#183455

Overall Influence

1921 - 2004 (83 years)

Anne Coffin Hanson was an American art historian. She was the first female to be hired as a fully tenured professor, serve as president of the College Art Association, and department chair at Yale University.

#662

Ayoka Chenzira

#170016

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (73 years)

Ayoka "Ayo" Chenzira is an independent African-American producer, film director, television director, animator, writer, experimental filmmaker, and transmedia storyteller. She is the first African American woman animator and one of a handful of Black experimental filmmakers working since the late 1970s. She has earned international acclaim for her experimental, documentary, animation, and cross-genre filmmaking productions. Her work, as well as her efforts as one of the first African American woman film educators, have led some in the press to describe her as a media activist for social justi...

#663

Jillianne Code

#180197

Overall Influence

1976 - Present (50 years)

Jillianne Reay Code is a Canadian researcher and learning scientist. She is an associate professor in the faculty of Education at the University of British Columbia and director of the Assessment for Learning in Immersion and Virtual Environments research lab.

#664

Caroline A. Jones

#68929

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (72 years)

Caroline A. Jones , is an American art historian, author, curator, and critic. She teaches and serves within the History Theory Criticism Section of the Department of Architecture at MIT School of Architecture and Planning, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States.

#665

Delores J. Knaak

#184054

Overall Influence

1929 - 2020 (91 years)

Delores J. "Dee" Knaak was an American educator and politician. Knaak was born Delores Jean McComber in Hibbing, Minnesota and graduated from Hibbing High School and Hibbing Junior College. She went to St. Cloud State University. Knaak lived in White Bear Lake, Minnesota and taught in elementary school. Knaak served on the Ramsey County Commission. Knaak served in the Minnesota Senate from 1977 to 1980 and was a Republican. Knaak then served on the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission from 1991 to 1996. Knaak died in Maplewood, Minnesota. Her son was Fritz Knaak who also served in the Minne...

#666

Carol Tulloch

#154406

Overall Influence

Carol Tulloch is a British author and academic who is a Professor of Dress, Diaspora and Transnationalism at the University of the Arts London, known for her work on cultural heritage, auto/biography, personal archives and style narratives.

#667

Elizabeth Cropper

#113998

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (82 years)

Marjorie Elizabeth Cropper is a British-born art historian with a special interest in Italian and French Renaissance and Baroque art and art literature. Dean of the National Gallery of Art’s Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts since December 2000, she previously held positions as Professor of Art History at Johns Hopkins University and director of the university’s Charles S. Singleton Center for Italian Studies at Villa Spelman in Florence.

#668

Jessica Snow

#161306

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (62 years)

Jessica Snow is an American abstract artist, curator, and professor. Her paintings and drawings are distinguished by bright, vivid colors through a visual language that employs color, shape and texture to speak in conversation with the traditions of geometric abstraction, biomorphism, and color field painting. Her inspiration is fed by research into mid-century architecture, landscape design, 20th century art history and Asian art history. She lives and works in San Francisco, California, where she teaches painting, drawing and art appreciation at the University of San Francisco. Recently she...

#669

Idah Sithole-Niang

#126860

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (69 years)

Idah Sithole-Niang is a Zimbabwean biochemist and educator. Her main area of research has been viruses which attack the cowpea, one of the major food crops of Zimbabwe. Biography Idah Sithole was born in Hwange, Zimbabwe, on 2 October 1957. She attended the University of London, on scholarship, earning a BS in biochemistry in 1982. When she was awarded a USAID Fellowship in 1983, Sithole chose to continue her education, studying plant and virus genetics. She earned a PhD in 1988 from Michigan State University in Lansing, Michigan. She completed a post-doctoral fellowship at the Plant Researc...

#670

Shoshana Bean

#176342

Overall Influence

1977 - Present (49 years)

Shoshana E. Bean is an American singer, songwriter, YouTuber, and stage actress. She has released three records and has appeared on many theater cast recordings and film soundtracks. In 2022, Bean received a nomination for the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical for her performance as Susan Young in Mr. Saturday Night.

#671

Laurie Dinnebeil

#111145

Overall Influence

Laurie Dinnebeil is an American scholar of childhood education. She is the Daso Herb Endowed Chair at the University of Toledo. She was editor-in-chief of the Journal of Early Intervention for a period of five years, beginning in 2014.

#672

Lynn Gamwell

#140754

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (83 years)

Lynn Gamwell is an American nonfiction author and art curator known for her books on art history, the history of mathematics, the history of science, and their connections. Gamwell has a bachelor's degree from the University of Illinois at Chicago, an MFA from Claremont Graduate School, and a PhD from the University of California, Los Angeles. She is also a faculty member at the School of Visual Arts, and has curated exhibits for institutions including the Freud Museum, New York Academy of Sciences, and Loyola University Museum of Art.

#673

Jennifer Roberts

#176161

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (57 years)

Jennifer L. Roberts is an American art historian. She serves as Elizabeth Cary Agassiz Professor of the Humanities and Johnson-Kulukunkdis Family Faculty Director of the Arts at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University. Her research and teaching focuses on American art from the colonial period to the present.

#674

Jane Aaron

#126679

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (75 years)

Jane Rhiannon Aaron FEA FLSW is a Welsh educator, literary researcher and writer. She was Professor of English at the University of Glamorgan in south Wales, until her retirement in September 2011. She then became an associate member of the Centre for the Study of Media and Culture in Small Nations at the University of South Wales. Aaron is known for her research and publications on Welsh literature and the writings of Welsh women. She was elected as a Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales in 2011.

#675

Jennylyn Mercado

#174766

Overall Influence

1987 - Present (39 years)

Jennylyn Anne Pineda Mercado-Ho is a Filipino actress, singer, and songwriter. She was the winner of the first season of the reality talent competition StarStruck. Mercado garnered acclaim at a young age for her acting performances on television and film. She starred in multiple commercially successful films, including English Only, Please , The Prenup , Walang Forever , and Just the 3 of Us . With GMA Records and Viva Records, Mercado has released three albums, which have several popular singles such as "Sa Aking Panaginip", "Moments Of Love" in collaboration with Janno Gibbs, "Basta't Nandito Ka", and "Kahit Sandali".

#676

Sadia Shepard

#115925

Overall Influence

Sadia Quraeshi Shepard is a Pakistani American filmmaker and author. She is the author of The Girl from Foreign: A Search for Shipwrecked Ancestors, Lost Loves, and a Sense of Home, which was published by the Penguin Press in 2008. She is the daughter of an American father, architect Richard Shepard, and a Pakistani American mother - artist, designer and educator, Samina Quraeshi.

#677

Anne B. Kerr

#46490

Overall Influence

Anne B. Kerr is an American academic and the president of Florida Southern College since 2004. Life Kerr attended Mercer University for her bachelor's degree. She received both her master's and doctorate from Florida State University. Kerr is the 17th president in Florida Southern's history. She was inducted into Omicron Delta Kappa at Florida Southern in 2005.

#678

Jan Allen

#153863

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (74 years)

Jan Allen is a Canadian curator, writer, visual artist, and assistant professor in the Department of Art History and Art Conservation, and the Cultural Studies Program, at Queen's University, in Kingston, Ontario.

#679

Susan Elliott

#123724

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (68 years)

Susan Leigh Elliott is an Australian academic specialising in medical education. Since 2017, she has served as the deputy vice-chancellor and vice-president for education at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. She was previously the deputy vice-chancellor at the University of Melbourne.

#680

Marisa Morán Jahn

#126919

Overall Influence

1977 - Present (49 years)

Marisa Morán Jahn, also known as Marisa Jahn is an American multimedia artist, writer, and educator based in New York City. She is a co-founder and president of Studio REV-, a nonprofit arts organization that creates public art and creative media to impact the lives of low-wage workers, immigrants, youth, and women. She teaches at Massachusetts Institute of Technology as a lecturer, Teachers College of Columbia University, and The New School. Jahn has edited three books about art and politics.

#681

Ingrid D. Rowland

#96158

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (73 years)

Ingrid D. Rowland is a professor in the Department of History at the University of Notre Dame. She is a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books. Biography She is the daughter of Nobel Chemistry Prize laureate Frank Sherwood Rowland.

#682

Miriam Basilio

#183798

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (59 years)

Miriam Margarita Basilio Gaztambide is an American art historian and Associate Professor of Museum Studies and Art History at New York University. Basilio's intellectual interests include Latin American art, political art, and other issues of politics, art, and identity.

#683

Khadija Mushtaq

#184613

Overall Influence

1974 - Present (52 years)

Khadija Mushtaq is a Pakistani academic administrator and educator. She is the chancellor of Roots Ivy International University and chief executive officer of the Roots School System. Education Mushtaq completed a Master of Economics degree with a specialization in development studies and monetary policy from Quaid-i-Azam University.

#684

Annie Ross

#165585

Overall Influence

1930 - 2020 (90 years)

Annabelle McCauley Allan Short , known professionally as Annie Ross, was a British-American singer and actress, best known as a member of the jazz vocal trio Lambert, Hendricks & Ross. Early life Ross was born in Surrey, England, the daughter of Scottish vaudevillians John "Jack" Short and Mary Dalziel Short . Her brother was Scottish entertainer and theatre producer and director Jimmy Logan. She first appeared on stage at age three. At the age of four, she travelled to New York by ship with her family; she later recalled that they "got the cheapest ticket, which was right in the bowels of the...

#685

Helen Hills

#178736

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (66 years)

Helen Hills is a British art historian and academic. She was appointed Anniversary Reader of Art History at the University of York in 2005 and promoted to Professor of History of Art in 2008. Hence she was the first woman professor of Art History at that University Before this Helen Hills taught at the Universities of Keele and Manchester in the UK, at Queen's University in Canada and at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She has published numerous books and articles on art and architectural history. She has particular research interests in the Baroque art movement, and was a gu...

#686

Romita Ray

#92109

Overall Influence

1970 - Present (56 years)

Romita Ray Kapoor is an Indian-born American art historian, educator, and curator. Ray is currently Associate Professor of Art and Music Histories at Syracuse University. Career Born in Kolkata to Jyoti and Arundhati, Ray moved to the United States to attend Smith College, earning a Bachelor of Arts in 1992. She then received three degrees in Art History from Yale University: a Master of Arts in 1994, a Master of Philosophy in 1995, and a Doctor of Philosophy in 1999. Her dissertation, under the direction of Esther da Costa Meyer, was titled "The Painted Raj: The Art of the Picturesque in Bri...

#687

Martha Leeb Hadzi

#146364

Overall Influence

1919 - 2003 (84 years)

Martha Leeb Hadzi was an art historian and an archeologist. Early life and education Hadzi was born on December 24, 1919. She grew up in Montclair, New Jersey, United States, and graduated from the Beard School in Orange, New Jersey in 1937. Hadzi then earned her bachelor's degree at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York. She completed her master's degree at the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University in New York City and her PhD at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut.

#688

Piri Halasz

#92097

Overall Influence

Piri Halasz is an American art critic, educator and writer. Biography The daughter of diet-book author Ruth West, and theatrical critic, screenwriter George Halasz . She attended Barnard College, where she majored in English and served as the features editor of the Barnard Bulletin. She then went on to Time magazine where she was employed first as a researcher and next as a writer. In 1966, she wrote the famous cover story for the aforementioned periodical Swinging London. Subsequently, this led to her authoring a travel guide of the same name for Coward McCann first published in 1967 and reissued in 2010 under the iUniverse imprint as part of the Authors Guild "Back in Print" series.

#689

Rena Matsui

#173483

Overall Influence

1991 - Present (35 years)

is a Japanese actress, singer, and novelist. Matsui is a former member of the Japanese idol girl groups SKE48 and Nogizaka46. As a member of the former, she also participated in the main lineup of AKB48's singles. As an actress, she has played roles in numerous films and television series, including Kamen Rider Build the Movie: Be the One and the 99th NHK asadora Manpuku.

#690

Carol Mavor

#174336

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (69 years)

Carol Jane Mavor is an American writer and professor. Her work includes the books Pleasures Taken: Performances of Sexuality and Loss in Victorian Photographs, Becoming: The Photographs of Clementina, Viscountess Hawarden, and Blue Mythologies: Reflections on a Colour. She is Professor of Art History and Visual Culture at the University of Manchester.

#691

Suzanne Wilson

#187731

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (71 years)

Suzanne M. Wilson is an American professor of education. She is currently the Neag Endowed Professor of Teacher Education at the University of Connecticut's Neag School of Education. She is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a member of the National Academy of Education.

#692

Adenike Akinsemolu

#174510

Overall Influence

1990 - Present (36 years)

Adenike Adebukola Akinsemolu is a Nigerian sustainability advocate, educator, author, and a social entrepreneur. She is a lecturer at Obafemi Awolowo University . She is known as one of the country's leading experts on environmental sustainability.

#693

Shannon Walsh

#171990

Overall Influence

1976 - Present (50 years)

Shannon Walsh is a Canadian filmmaker, writer and scholar. She has directed the feature documentaries The Gig Is Up, H2Oil ,À St-Henri, le 26 août, Jeppe on a Friday and Illusions of Control. She has also directed music videos for the Montreal based artist Little Scream.

#694

Tal Dekel

#177560

Overall Influence

1968 - Present (58 years)

Tal Dekel is an art historian, curator and academic. Her work deals with modern and contemporary art in Israel and around the world. Her research focuses on issues of visual culture, analyzing its interrelations with race, class, gender, sexuality and nationality, while using feminist theories and transnationalism. Her recent research revolves around case studies of women immigrants from the Former Soviet Union, Ethiopia and the Philippines in Israel.

#695

Babette Mangolte

#139161

Overall Influence

1941 - Present (85 years)

Babette Mangolte is a French cinematographer, film director, and photographer who has lived and worked in the United States since 1970. Life and career Mangolte was born and raised in France and moved to New York City in 1970. She attended L'Ecole Nationale de la Photographie et de la Cinematographie, graduating in 1966. Her move to New York was prompted by a disillusionment with the French film industry's male dominated climate, and an interest in experimental works by American filmmakers such as Jonas Mekas and Stan Brakhage. In the 1970s she began documenting the performance works of notable choreographers such as Trisha Brown, Lucinda Childs, David Gordon, and Yvonne Rainer.

#696

Nana Mizuki

#114057

Overall Influence

1980 - Present (46 years)

Nana Kondō, better known by the stage name , is a Japanese voice actress, singer and narrator from Niihama, Ehime. She is represented by the agency StarCrew. Mizuki was trained as an enka singer, releasing one single under her birth name in 1993 and made her debut as a voice actress in 1996. Her prominent roles include Hinata Hyuga in the long-running ninja series Naruto as well in Boruto: Naruto Next Generations, Tamao Tamamura in Shaman King 2001 and 2021, Colette Brunel in Tales of Symphonia, Fate Testarossa in Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha, Tsubasa Kazanari in Symphogear, Moka Akashiya in Rosario + Vampire, Tsubomi Hanasaki in Heartcatch Precure! and Ann Takamaki in Persona 5.

#697

Carol Mattusch

#103918

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (79 years)

Carol C. Mattusch is the Mathay Professor of Art History at George Mason University. She is a specialist in Greek, Roman and 18th century art. Education Mattusch studied at Bryn Mawr College, graduating in 1969. She received her PhD from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1975.

#698

Elizabeth Hill Boone

#54320

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (78 years)

Elizabeth Hill Boone is an American art historian, ethnohistorian and academic, specializing in the study of Latin American art and in particular the early colonial and pre-Columbian art, iconography and pictorial codices associated with the Mixtec, Aztec and other Mesoamerican cultures in the central Mexican region. Her extensive published research covers investigations into the nature of Aztec writing, the symbolism and structure of Aztec art and iconography and the interpretation of Mixtec and Aztec codices.

#699

Adelaide L. Sanford

#187673

Overall Influence

1925 - Present (101 years)

Adelaide Luvenia Sanford is an American leader, scholar, activist administrator, public speaker, and national advocate for African-centered education for students of African descent. She has been in the field of education for over 35 years as an educator, education activist, activist, principal, community organizer, and Vice Chancellor Emerita, Board of Regents University of the State of New York. She served on the Board of Regents of the University of the State of New York from 1986 to 2007.

#700

Elizabeth Kridl Valkenier

#174363

Overall Influence

1926 - Present (100 years)

Elizabeth Kridl Valkenier is a Polish-American art historian and a specialist in nineteenth century Russian art. Her work on the Peredvizhniki, first published in 1977, was part of a re-evaluation of their aims in breaking away from the Russian academy.

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