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List of the most influential female people in Education,

#201

Caroline Bruzelius

#39056

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (75 years)

Caroline Astrid Bruzelius is an American art historian and expert in medieval architecture. She is the Anne M. Cogan Professor of Art and Art History at Duke University. In 2020 she was elected to the American Philosophical Society.

#202

Katie Salen

#22950

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (55 years)

Katie Salen Tekinbas is an American game designer, animator, and educator. She is a professor at the University of California, Irvine. Previously, she taught at DePaul University College of Computing and Digital Media, Parsons The New School for Design the University of Texas at Austin, New York University, and the Rhode Island School of Design. She has an MFA in graphic design from the Rhode Island School of Design.

#203

Denise Bradley

#115920

Overall Influence

1942 - 2020 (78 years)

Denise Irene Bradley was an Australian higher education administrator with specialist interests in educational equity and excellence and equity. She was known for the Bradley Review of Higher Education .

#204

Shirley Caesar

#47614

Overall Influence

1938 - Present (86 years)

Shirley Ann Caesar-Williams , known professionally as Shirley Caesar, is an American gospel singer. Her career began in 1951, when she signed to Federal Records at the age of 12. Throughout her seven decade career, Caesar has often been referred to as the "First Lady of Gospel Music", and "The Queen of Gospel Music". Additionally, she has won eleven Grammy Awards, fifteen Dove Awards, and fourteen Stellar Awards.

#205

Daisy Cocco De Filippis

Daisy Cocco De Filippis

#67053

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (75 years)

Daisy Cocco DeFilippis is a Dominican-American academic administrator and author. She is the current president at Hostos Community College in The Bronx, making her the first person born in the Dominican Republic to serve as President of a college of the City University of New York. From 2008 to 1 August 2020 she was president of Naugatuck Valley Community College in Waterbury, Connecticut. She is the author of works of fiction and non-fiction dealing with Dominican and Dominican-American women.

#206

Teresa del Conde

#37099

Overall Influence

1938 - 2017 (79 years)

Teresa del Conde Pontones was a Mexican art critic and art historian. Early life and education Born in Mexico City in 1938, Conde earned a bachelor's degree in psychology from National Autonomous University of Mexico in 1958. With a grant she furthered her studies in Rome, earning a degree in psychopathology at the University of Milan. In 1974, she was granted a degree in art history; in 1979, a master's degree; and in 1986, she obtained a doctorate.

#207

Beatrice von Bismarck

#90343

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (65 years)

Beatrice von Bismarck is a German art historian, curator, author and professor for art history and Bildwissenschaft. Life Bismarck studied art history in Freiburg, Munich, London and Berlin. From 1989 to 1993, she worked at the Städel in Frankfurt and was responsible for solo exhibitions of internationally renowned artists such as Richard Long, Bruce Nauman , Dan Flavin and Jürgen Partenheimer . She then took over as head of the 20th century department of the Städelsches Kunstinstitut for three years.

#208

Lotika Sarkar

#26607

Overall Influence

1923 - 2013 (90 years)

Lotika Sarkar was a noted Indian feminist, social worker, educator and lawyer, who was a pioneer in the field of women's studies and women's rights in India. She was a founding member of Centre for Women's Development Studies , Delhi, established in 1980, and also Indian Association for Women Studies, established in 1982. Starting in 1951, she taught law at Faculty of Law, University of Delhi till 1983, and also remained the head of the law faculty; thereafter she taught at Indian Law Institute. She was the first Indian woman to graduate from Cambridge University, and later in 1951 she also b...

#209

Irina Antonova

#12761

Overall Influence

1922 - 2020 (98 years)

Irina Aleksandrovna Antonova was a Soviet and Russian art historian who served as a Director of the Pushkin Museum in Moscow for 52 years, from 1961 to 2013, making her the oldest and the longest serving director of a major art museum in the world. Among her many awards and decorations are the State Prize of the Russian Federation and the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. She was the President of the Pushkin Museum, a ceremonial post.

#210

Anke Grotlüschen

#106657

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (55 years)

Anke Grotlüschen is an educational researcher and professor at the University of Hamburg. Life Anke Grotlüschen studied at the Wirtschaftsakademie Hamburg from 1988 – 1991 and finished as Betriebswirtin . She continued studying educational sciences from 1991 – 1997 with the main topics being Adult Education as well as psychology, sociology and politics as minors at the University of Hamburg. She finished this study program with a thesis about political education in the perspective of critical psychology.

#211

Lola Aronovich

#77386

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (57 years)

Dolores Aronovich Aguero, better known as Lola Aronovich , is an Argentine-Brazilian feminist blogger and educator. She is a university professor at Federal University of Ceará Department of Foreign Letters; her research is focused on English literature, film and gender issues

#212

Joanne Yatvin

#98525

Overall Influence

Joanne Yatvin is an American public school educator. Formerly a president of the National Council of Teachers of English, she was a member of the National Reading Panel , mandated by the US Congress to assess different methods of literacy education. She published a "minority report" separately, saying that panel members lacked integrity. She taught at Portland State University.

#213

Mari-Luci Jaramillo

#80145

Overall Influence

1928 - 2019 (91 years)

Mari-Luci Jaramillo was an American educator and diplomat who served as U.S. Ambassador to Honduras from 1977 to 1980. Upon her confirmation, Jaramillo became the first Mexican-American woman to serve as an American ambassador.

#214

Joe Anna Hibler

#89725

Overall Influence

1939 - Present (85 years)

Joe Anna Hibler is an American educator. Much of her career was spent teaching business at the university level. Retired from active teaching, she is the former president of Southwestern Oklahoma State University , an inductee into the Oklahoma Women's Hall of Fame, and currently a regent of the Regional University System of Oklahoma.

#215

Edna Coll

#76924

Overall Influence

1906 - 2002 (96 years)

Edna Coll Pujals was a Puerto Rican educator and author. She was president of the Society of Puerto Rican Authors in San Juan. Coll was also the founder of the Academy of Fine Arts in Puerto Rico. Early life and education Edna Coll Pujals was born in Arecibo, Puerto Rico. Her parents were Cayetano Coll y Cuchí, a former President of Puerto Rico House of Representatives and Carmen Pujol Toste. Coll received her primary and secondary education in San Juan. She earned a doctorate in literature and arts from the University of Puerto Rico.

#216

Margaret Buckner Young

#44246

Overall Influence

1921 - 2009 (88 years)

Margaret Buckner Young was an American educator and author. Biography The daughter of Eva Carter and Frank Buckner, she was born Margaret Buckner in Campbellsville, Kentucky and was educated in Aurora, Illinois and at Kentucky State Industrial College, receiving a bachelor's degree in English and French. In 1944, she married Whitney M. Young Jr. Young continued her education, receiving a master's degree in educational psychology from the University of Minnesota. In 1953, the couple moved to Atlanta where she taught educational psychology at Spelman College. In 1961, they moved to New Rochelle...

#217

Alvia Wardlaw

#59627

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (77 years)

Alvia J. Wardlaw is an American art scholar, and one of the country's top experts on African-American art. She is Curator and Director of the University Museum at Texas Southern University, an institution central to the development of art by African Americans in Houston. She also is a professor of Art History at Texas Southern University. Wardlaw is a member of the Scholarly Advisory Council of the National Museum of African American History and Culture, and co-founded the National Alliance of African and African American Art Support groups in 1998. Wardlaw was University of Texas at Austin's...

#218

Linda Schele

#25606

Overall Influence

1942 - 1998 (56 years)

Linda Schele was an American Mesoamerican archaeologist who was an expert in the field of Maya epigraphy and iconography. She played an invaluable role in the decipherment of much of the Maya hieroglyphs. She produced a massive volume of drawings of stelae and inscriptions, which, following her wishes, are free for use to scholars. In 1978, she founded the annual Maya Meetings at The University of Texas at Austin.

#219

Alison Jones

#62283

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (69 years)

Barbara Alison Jones is a New Zealand academic who works in the field of sociology of education. She is the great-great-great granddaughter of Andrew Buchanan, New Zealand politician 1862–1874; great-great granddaughter of William Baldwin New Zealand politician 1863–1867; great granddaughter of Admiral William Oswald Story of the British Royal Navy. She has two sons, Finn McCahon Jones and Frey McCahon Jones

#220

Liz Byrski

#51084

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (80 years)

Elizabeth Ann Byrski is an Australian writer and journalist. Biography After graduating from Notre Dame Convent in Lingfield, Surrey, in 1960, Byrski furthered her education at the Crawley College of Further Education and the Wall Hall College of Education . Her first job was as a secretary at a pest control firm in Sussex. Her journalism career began when she started as a journalist in 1962 on the Horley Advertiser , in Horley, Surrey. She moved to Australia in 1981.

#221

Michelle Fine

#71917

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (72 years)

Michelle Melody Fine is a distinguished professor at the City University of New York and has her training in Social and Personality Psychology, Environmental Psychology, American Studies, and Urban Education. Her research includes the topics of social injustice and resistance and urban education. Fine is also an author and has written several works, one of her most known being Muslim American Youth .

#222

Belinda Probert

#52069

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (75 years)

Belinda Probert is an educator and social scientist who has advised non-government organisations and state and national governments in Australia. Her academic research and writing has been in the areas of employment policy, gender equity, and work and welfare reform, including households and the domestic division of labour. She has held senior leadership roles in several universities as well as with the Australian Research Council, where she was a member and Deputy Chair of the Research Training and Careers Committee , and member of the Social, Behavioural and Economic Sciences Expert Adviso...

#223

Ebba Koch

#47316

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (80 years)

Ebba Koch is an Austrian art and architectural historian, who defines and discusses cultural issues of interest to political, social and economic historians. Presently she is a professor at the Institute of Art History in Vienna, Austria and a senior researcher at the Austrian Academy of Sciences. She completed her doctorate in philosophy and her Habilitation at Vienna University.

#224

Dawn Adès

#52159

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (81 years)

Josephine Dawn Adès, , also known as Dawn Adès, is a British art historian and academic. She is professor emeritus of art history and theory at the University of Essex. Early life and education Adès was born on 6 May 1943 to A. E. Tylden-Pattenson. She studied at St Hilda's College, Oxford, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1965. She then studied art history at the Courtauld Institute of Art, graduating with a Master of Arts degree in 1968.

#225

Gloria Blackwell

#64425

Overall Influence

1927 - 2010 (83 years)

Gloria Blackwell, also known as Gloria Rackley , was an African-American civil rights activist and educator. She was at the center of the Civil Rights Movement in Orangeburg, South Carolina during the 1960s, attracting some national attention and a visit by Dr. Martin Luther King of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. Her activities were widely covered by the local press.

#226

Patience Agbabi

Patience Agbabi

#45644

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (59 years)

Patience Agbabi FRSL is a British poet and performer who emphasizes the spoken word. Although her poetry hits hard in addressing contemporary themes, it often makes use of formal constraints, including traditional poetic forms. She has described herself as "bicultural" and bisexual. Issues of racial and gender identity feature in her poetry. She is celebrated "for paying equal homage to literature and performance" and for work that "moves fluidly and nimbly between cultures, dialects, voices; between page and stage." In 2017, she was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

#227

Brunilde Sismondo Ridgway

#36170

Overall Influence

1929 - Present (95 years)

Brunilde Sismondo Ridgway is an Italian archaeologist and specialist in ancient Greek sculpture. Life The daughter of an Italian officer, she spent her childhood in Ethiopia and Eritrea, where her father was stationed. After World War II, she studied classics at the University of Messina, where she obtained her degree in classics in 1953. An archaeology scholarship and Fulbright Travel Grant allowed her to continue her studies at Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania, where she came under the tutelage of Rhys Carpenter. At the end of her MA, she wrote her thesis on Archaic sculpture at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens.

#228

Eva L. Baker

#116305

Overall Influence

Eva L. Baker is a distinguished professor currently at the University of California, Los Angeles, the former acting dean of the Graduate School of Education & Information Studies and current director of the National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing.

#229

Alida Anderson

#51158

Overall Influence

Alida Anderson is a professor at the School of Education at American University in Washington, DC. Education Anderson attended Sidwell Friends School in Washington, DC , and holds a BA, Art/Art History and Asian Studies, Colgate University, Hamilton, NY, an MA, Learning Disabilities, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, and a PhD, Special Education, from the University of Maryland, College Park, MD.

#230

Camille Akeju

#70970

Overall Influence

Camille Giraud Akeju is American curator and educator. She is the former director of the Anacostia Community Museum in Washington, D.C. Biography Camille Akeju grew up in Mount Vernon, New York. She attended college in Jacksonville University, in 1968, and was one of six students to be integrated in the dorms. She ended up leaving Jacksonville and attended Howard University, where she earned a bachelor's degree in art education, a minor in printmaking, and her master's degree in art history. While at Howard, she would intern at the Smithsonian Museum of American Art.

#231

Celeste Ulrich

#65886

Overall Influence

1924 - 2011 (87 years)

Celeste Ulrich was an American educator and leader in the field of physical education. Education Ulrich was born in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1924, and attended Forest Park High School. She received a Bachelor of Science from Woman's College, now the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, in 1946, and continued her education at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, receiving a master's degree in 1947. She earned a PhD from the University of Southern California in 1956.

#232

Vivian Maria Vasquez

#77696

Overall Influence

Vivian Maria Vasquez is a professor at American University's School of Education in Washington, DC. She is the author of eleven books and multiple chapters in other books, as well as many articles in professional journals.

#233

Eileen Scanlon

#122046

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (73 years)

Eileen Scanlon is a British academic who is Regius Professor of Open Education at the Open University. Early life and education Scanlon was born in 1951. She is a graduate of the University of Glasgow and the Open University.

#234

Janetta Rebold Benton

#80971

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (79 years)

Janetta Rebold Benton is an American art historian. She is currently Distinguished Professor of Art History at Pace University in New York. Education Benton received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Cornell University in 1967 and a Master of Arts degree from George Washington University in 1969. She received a PhD from Brown University in 1980. She also earned an MDP diploma from the Management Development Program at the Harvard University Graduate School of Education.

#235

Rosemarie Allen

#80127

Overall Influence

Rosemarie Allen is an American academic who specializes in diversity, equity, and inclusion. She is an associate professor of early childhood development at the Metropolitan State University of Denver and president and chief executive officer for the Institute for Racial Equity and Excellence.

#236

M. Elizabeth Graue

#99491

Overall Influence

M. Elizabeth Graue is Sorenson professor of Curriculum and Instruction, in the School of Education at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. She is the former Associate Director for Faculty, Staff, and Student Development at the Wisconsin Center for Education Research. Graue's areas of interest include school readiness, class size reduction, preK policy, preparing teachers for inclusive home-school relations, and qualitative research methods.

#237

Patricia Fortini Brown

#110116

Overall Influence

1936 - Present (88 years)

Patricia Fortini Brown is Professor Emerita of Art & Archaeology at Princeton University. Venice and its empire, from the late middle ages through the early modern period, has been the primary site of her scholarly research, with a focus on how works of art and architecture can materialize and sum up significant aspects of the culture in which they were produced. Her recent work has focused on Venetian territories in the Mediterranean and the Terraferma, particularly the Friuli.

#238

Aparna Sen

#34351

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (79 years)

Aparna Sen is an Indian film director, screenwriter and actress who is known for her work in Bengali cinema. She has received several accolades as an actress and filmmaker, including nine National Film Awards, five Filmfare Awards East and thirteen Bengal Film Journalists' Association Awards. For her contribution in the field of arts, the Government of India honoured her with Padma Shri, the country's fourth highest civilian award.

#239

Evelyn Welch

#39092

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (65 years)

Evelyn Kathleen Welch is an American scholar of the Renaissance and Early Modern Period, and Vice Chancellor of the University of Bristol. Prior to her role as Vice Chancellor, Evelyn was the professor of Renaissance Studies, Provost, and Senior Vice President at King’s College London. She served as the Interim President and Principal of King's College London from February to June 2021.

#240

Irene Tarimo

#51352

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (60 years)

Irene Aurelia Tarimo is a Tanzanian environmental scientist and educator. She currently serves as Head of Department of environmental studies at the Open University of Tanzania , where she is also a lecturer and a researcher. She previously served as OUT Director in the Lindi Region since 2007 to 2015.

#241

Frances Spalding

#28595

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (74 years)

Frances Spalding is a British art historian, writer and a former editor of The Burlington Magazine. Life Frances Crabtree studied at the University of Nottingham and gained her PhD for a study of Roger Fry. She taught art history at Sheffield City Polytechnic before becoming a freelance writer and curator. She returned to academic work to take up the post of professor of Art History at Newcastle University in 2000.

#242

Nell K. Duke

#99688

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (24 years)

Nell K. Duke is a contemporary educator and literacy researcher with an interest in informational text, early literacy development, and reading comprehension instruction, with an emphasis on children living in poverty. She is currently a professor of language, literacy, and culture and a faculty associate in the combined program in education and psychology at the University of Michigan.

#243

Marilyn Leask

#90346

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (74 years)

Marilyn Leask is an academic and author who researches in education in the UK. She is Professor of Education at De Montfort University, and was previously Professor of Educational Knowledge Management at the University of Bedfordshire and a professor at Brunel University. Many of her works involve the educational use of information and communications technology .

#244

Natalie Kampen

#49523

Overall Influence

1944 - 2012 (68 years)

Natalie Kampen was an American art historian and women's studies professor. She was born Natalie Boymel on February 1, 1944 in Philadelphia to Pauline and Jules Boymel. She received her bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of Pennsylvania in 1965 and 1967, respectively. She went on to attend Brown University, receiving her PhD in 1976. Her thesis analyzed depictions of Roman working women in second and third century reliefs from Ostia Antica. Boymel taught at the University of Rhode Island from 1969 to 1988. She taught women's studies and art history at Barnard College.

#245

Theodora J. Kalikow

#48806

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (82 years)

Theodora June "Theo" Kalikow is an American academic, university president, author, and women's rights advocate. Holder of a master's degree and PhD in philosophy, she taught at Southeastern Massachusetts University for 17 years before becoming Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Northern Colorado in 1984. From 1984 to 1987 she was Dean of Plymouth State College in New Hampshire. She then served as 13th President of the University of Maine at Farmington from 1994 to 2012, and Interim President of the University of Southern Maine from 2012 to 2014. She was inducted in...

#246

Candy Dawson Boyd

#79420

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (78 years)

Candy Dawson Boyd is an American writer, activist, and educator. She is an author of more than six children's books focused on African-American youth. Early life and education Boyd was born in 1946 in Chicago, Illinois. Her birth name is Marguerite Cecille Dawson. Her parents were Mary Ruth Ridley and Julian Dawson. Boyd had two siblings and she was the oldest of the three. Her mother and father divorced. Boyd was raised by her mother. They lived in South Chicago. Boyd attended racially segregated elementary and middle schools. The library she used was also segregated. The library books were used from white schools that no longer wanted them.

#247

Nina Turner

#70035

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (57 years)

Nina Hudson Turner is an American politician and television personality. A member of the Democratic Party, she was a Cleveland City Council member from 2006 to 2008 and a member of the Ohio Senate from 2008 until 2014. Turner was the Democratic nominee for Ohio Secretary of State in 2014, but lost in the general election against incumbent Jon Husted, receiving 35.5 percent of the vote. A self-described democratic socialist, her politics have been variously described as progressive, left-wing, or far-left.

#248

Edith Pfau

#72073

Overall Influence

1915 - 2001 (86 years)

Sister Edith Pfau, S.P., was an American painter, sculptor, and art educator known for her religious works and commissions. Born Alberta Henrietta Pfau in Jasper, Indiana, she began drawing at a very early age. Later in her life she recalled, "I always was attracted to faces. I find faces everywhere, even in scribbles on the wall."

#249

Vanessa Siddle Walker

#84624

Overall Influence

Vanessa Siddle Walker is the Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of African American Educational Studies at Emory University and was president of the American Educational Research Association in 2019–20. Walker has studied the segregation of the American educational system for twenty-five years and published the non-fiction work The Lost Education of Horace Tate: Uncovering the Hidden Heroes Who Fought for Justice in Schools.

#250

Elizabeth Broun

Elizabeth Broun

#63732

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (78 years)

Elizabeth "Betsy" Broun is an American art historian and curator. Broun served as the Margaret and Terry Stent Director of the Smithsonian American Art Museum from 1989 to 2016, and is the longest-serving female director in the history of the Smithsonian Institution.

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