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List of the most influential female people in Education,

#401

Jaleh Mansoor

#112752

Overall Influence

1975 - Present (49 years)

Jaleh Mansoor is an Iranian-born Canadian art historian, critic, and theorist of modern and contemporary art. She is an associate professor in the faculty of Art History, Visual Art and Theory at the University of British Columbia.

#402

Verna Kirkness

#128666

Overall Influence

1935 - Present (89 years)

Verna Jane Kirkness, is a Cree scholar, pioneer and lifelong proponent of indigenous language, culture and education who has been influential in Canadian indigenous education policy and practice. She is an associate professor emeritus at the University of British Columbia and resides in Winnipeg. Kirkness has received numerous awards for her outstanding contributions spanning five decades including the Order of Canada in 1998. Kirkness had an important impact on Canadian indigenous education policy and practice. She is the author of "numerous books and articles on the history of Indigenous education." The University of Manitoba's Verna J.

#403

Myra Strober

#78123

Overall Influence

1940 - Present (84 years)

Myra H. Strober is professor of education, emerita, for the school of education, at Stanford Graduate School of Business, Stanford, California, US. She also sits on the editorial board of Feminist Economics, and was the president of the International Association for Feminist Economics from 1997 to 1999.

#404

Elizabeth A. T. Smith

Elizabeth A. T. Smith

#89986

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (66 years)

Elizabeth A. T. Smith is an American art historian, museum curator, writer, and presently the executive director of the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation. She has formerly held positions as a curator at the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art , the chief curator and deputy director of programs at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, and the executive director, curatorial affairs, at the Art Gallery of Ontario. She is the author of numerous books on art and architecture, including Blueprints for Modern Living: History and Legacy of the Case Study Houses; Lee Bontecou: A Retrospective, Hele...

#405

Lucille Watahomigie

#108575

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (79 years)

Lucille Watahomigie is a Hualapai educator and linguist and native speaker of the Hualapai language. Biography After receiving her bachelor's degree in elementary education from Northern Arizona University, she returned to the Hualapai community of Peach Springs and became a teacher at the Peach Springs School. She went on to receive her master's degree at the University of Arizona, where she then worked as a professor for three years before returning to the Hualapai Nation in 1975 to found the Hualapai bilingual and bicultural education program in response to community demand. In 1982, she c...

#406

Marlene Dietrich

Marlene Dietrich

#49624

Overall Influence

1901 - 1992 (91 years)

Marie Magdalene "Marlene" Dietrich was a German and American actress and singer whose career spanned from the 1910s to the 1980s. In 1920s Berlin, Dietrich performed on the stage and in silent films. Her performance as Lola-Lola in Josef von Sternberg's The Blue Angel brought her international acclaim and a contract with Paramount Pictures. She starred in many Hollywood films, including six iconic roles directed by Sternberg: Morocco , Dishonored , Shanghai Express and Blonde Venus , The Scarlet Empress , The Devil Is a Woman , Desire , and Destry Rides Again . She successfully traded on her glamorous persona and exotic looks, and became one of the era's highest-paid actresses.

#407

Hwawei Ko

#61181

Overall Influence

1952 - 2020 (68 years)

Hwawei Ko was a Taiwanese pedagogue and professor who specialised in the promotion of reading education in Taiwan. She was the first director of the Learning and Teaching Institute of the Faculty of Letters at the National Central University and was professor of both the Department of Psychology of the National Chengchi University and at the National Chung Cheng University's Department of Psychology. Hwawei was a visiting scholar of the Harvard Institute for Educational Management and the Learning Research and Development Center at the University of Pittsburgh.

#408

Julie Andrews

#58846

Overall Influence

1935 - Present (89 years)

Dame Julie Andrews is an English actress, singer, and author. She has garnered numerous accolades throughout her career spanning over seven decades, including an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, two Emmy Awards, three Grammy Awards, and six Golden Globe Awards as well as nominations for three Tony Awards. One of the biggest box office draws of the 1960s, Andrews has been honoured with the Kennedy Center Honors in 2001, the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award in 2007, and the AFI Life Achievement Award in 2022. She was made a Dame by Queen Elizabeth II in 2000.

#409

Mary Harron

#55767

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (71 years)

Mary Harron is a Canadian film director and screenwriter. She wrote and directed American Psycho, Charlie Says,The Notorious Bettie Page, and I Shot Andy Warhol. Early life Born in Bracebridge, Ontario, Canada, Harron grew up with a family that was entrenched in the world of film and theatre. She is the daughter of Gloria Fisher and Don Harron, a Canadian actor, comedian, author, and director. Her parents divorced when she was six years old. Harron spent her early life residing between Toronto and Los Angeles. Harron's first stepmother, Virginia Leith, was discovered by Stanley Kubrick and ac...

#410

Collette Tayler

Collette Tayler

#142246

Overall Influence

1951 - 2017 (66 years)

Collette Tayler was an Australian academic and researcher whose worked influenced early childhood education policy. She held the Chair of Early Childhood Education and Care, Melbourne Graduate School of Education, at the University of Melbourne for ten years.

#411

Sarah Landau

#80118

Overall Influence

1935 - Present (89 years)

Sarah Bradford Landau was an architectural historian who taught for many years in the Department of Art History at New York University. Education Landau earned her B.F.A. at the University of North Carolina . She earned her Ph.D. from New York University Institute of Fine Arts, where she was a student of Henry-Russell Hitchcock, the noted architectural historian. Her dissertation chronicled the work of the architects Henry Tuckerman Potter and William Appleton Potter.

#412

Susan L. Smith

#86826

Overall Influence

1947 - 2021 (74 years)

Susan Louise Smith was an associate professor emeritus in the Department of Visual Arts at the University of California, San Diego . She was noted for her 1995 book The Power of Women: A Topos in Medieval Art and Literature, an expansion of her 1978 doctoral dissertation on the Power of Women topos.

#413

Madlyn L. Hanes

#112006

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (76 years)

Madlyn L. Hanes is an American academic, and the former Chancellor of Penn State Harrisburg. She is now Vice President of the Commonwealth Campuses at Penn State University. Hanes graduated with her bachelor's degree in English education from the University of Florida in 1969. She received her master's degree in speech-language pathology and her Doctorate in curriculum and instruction from the University of Florida. Hanes previously served at chief academic officer of both Penn State Great Valley and Penn State Brandywine.

#414

Ann Phoenix

#102543

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (69 years)

Ann Phoenix, is a British psychologist and academic, whose research focuses on psychosocial issues related to identity. She is Professor of Psychosocial Studies at the Institute of Education, University College London. She was previously ESRC Professorial Fellow for the Transforming Experiences research programme. She was previously Co-Director of the Thomas Coram Research Unit, and Reader in Psychology at the Open University.

#415

Linda Dalrymple Henderson

#53032

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (76 years)

Linda Dalrymple Henderson is an American art historian, educator, and curator. Henderson is currently the David Bruton, Jr. Centennial Professor in Art History Emeritus at the University of Texas at Austin. Her research focuses on modern art, specifically twentieth-century American and European art.

#416

Ute Jung-Kaiser

#99850

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (82 years)

Ute Jung-Kaiser, née Jung is a German musicologist. Life and work Born in Essen, Jung-Kaiser completed studies for the teaching profession at grammar schools in Cologne. After her first Staatsexamen in the fields of musicology, German studies, philosophy and school music she was awarded a Doctorate in 1968. She passed the second Staatsexamen in 1975. In 1981 she received her habilitation in historical musicology at the University of Hamburg.

#417

Inge Hansen-Schaberg

#104163

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (70 years)

Inge Hansen-Schaberg is a German educational researcher. Life Born in Flensburg, Hansen-Schaberg studied German and biology at the from 1974 and passed the state examinations in 1980 and 1983. She then worked at a West Berlin primary and secondary school until 1989. Hansen-Schaberg was awarded a doctorate in 1991 with her dissertation Minna Specht – eine Sozialistin in der Landerziehungsheimbewegung . Untersuchung zur pädagogischen Biographie einer Reformpädagogin. at the TU Berlin and his habilitation in 1998 at the University of Potsdam.

#418

Beatriz de la Fuente

Beatriz de la Fuente

#39873

Overall Influence

1929 - 2005 (76 years)

Beatriz Ramírez de la Fuente was a Mexican art historian, notable for her work on pre-Hispanic art in America. In 1998, she was elected a member of the Academia Mexicana de la Historia. Biography Beatriz Ramírez was born in Mexico City. She studied literature in National Autonomous University of Mexico , graduating in 1953. She subsequently obtained the master's degree in art history from the Universidad Iberoamericana in 1957, and a doctorate in art history from UNAM in 1967. She was teaching at the Faculty of Philosophy and Literature at UNAM, at Universidad Iberoamericana, as well as at the Escuela Nacional de Antropología.

#419

Jordana Mendelson

#119643

Overall Influence

1970 - Present (54 years)

Jordana Mendelson is an art historian author, curator, and professor. Mendelson is a professor at NYU and, since 2020, Director of its King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center. Education and Teaching Mendelson received bachelors in art history with a Spanish minor from Boston University in 1988 and her Masters and PhDs from Yale in 1993 and 1999, respectively. She currently serves as associate professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese Languages and Literature at New York University. Previously, Mendelson was an associate professor of Art History at the University of Illinois at Urbana-C...

#420

Ratna Ghosh

#126209

Overall Influence

1939 - Present (85 years)

Ratna Ghosh is a Canadian academic and education scholar. She is a Distinguished James McGill Professor and Sir William C. Macdonald Professor of Education at McGill University in Montreal, Canada, where she previously served as the Dean of the Faculty of Education from 1998 – 2003.

#421

Signe Horn Fuglesang

#135000

Overall Influence

1938 - Present (86 years)

Signe Horn Fuglesang is a Norwegian art historian and Professor Emerita at the University of Oslo, best known for her published research and writings on Viking art. She is a fellow of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.

#422

Fiona Murray

#73230

Overall Influence

Dame Fiona Elizabeth Murray is the Associate Dean for Innovation at the MIT Sloan School of Management. She is a member of the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom's Council for Science and Technology and Vice-Chair of the Board of Directors of the NATO Innovation Fund.

#423

Hilary Robinson

#31086

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (68 years)

Hilary Robinson is a British academic and art theorist. She is Professor of Feminism, Art, and Theory at Loughborough University's School of Social Sciences and Humanities. She was Dean of the School of Art and Design and a professor at Middlesex University, and previously served as Dean of the College of Fine Arts at Carnegie Mellon University. Her research focuses on the history, theory, and practice of feminist art.

#424

Lillian Negrón Colón

#175888

Overall Influence

Lillian Negrón Colón is a Puerto Rican educator and university administrator. She became president of Bayamón Central University in 2010. Negrón Colón served 16 years as dean of the college of education at Pontifical Catholic University of Puerto Rico.

#425

Ruth A. Myers

#141611

Overall Influence

1926 - 2001 (75 years)

Ruth A. Myers was known as the “grandmother of American Indian Education in Minnesota.” A persistent voice for American Indian children and their families, Myers focused on education policy. She focused on learning opportunities for American Indian children. She also worked for curriculum and resource materials that reflected the American Indian history and culture for all Minnesota learners.

#426

Alison Ritter

#171726

Overall Influence

Alison Joan Ritter is an Australian academic whose research focuses on illicit drug use and policy. As of 2021 she is a full professor and director of the Drug Policy Modelling Program at the University of New South Wales.

#427

Donna Campbell

#105250

Overall Influence

Donna Campbell is a New Zealand Māori university teacher, curator, weaver and textile artist. She affiliates with Ngāpuhi and Ngāti Ruanui iwi. Her works are held in the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa and in the British Museum. In 2019 Campbell completed a PhD at the University of Waikato with a thesis titled Ngā kura a Hineteiwaiwa: The embodiment of Mana Wahine in Māori fibre Arts.

#428

Olivia Horsfall Turner

#113469

Overall Influence

1980 - Present (44 years)

Olivia Jane Horsfall Turner is a British architectural historian, author and broadcaster. In 2013, she was the writer and presenter of the television series Dreaming the Impossible: Unbuilt Britain for BBC Four.

#429

Mary Ashun

#129207

Overall Influence

1968 - Present (56 years)

Mary A. Ashun is a Ghanaian-Canadian educator, author and researcher; she is principal of Ghana International School in Accra, Ghana. Education Mary Ashun was born in Accra, Ghana, in 1968 as Mary Asabea Apea to Emmanuel Apea, former diplomat with the Commonwealth Secretariat in London and UN Ambassador and Coordinator to Nigeria and ECOWAS, and Emma Elizabeth Apea a teacher.

#430

Edith Porada

#78286

Overall Influence

1912 - 1994 (82 years)

Edith Porada was an Austrian-born art historian and archaeologist, a leading authority on ancient cylinder seals and a professor of art history and archaeology at Columbia University. About Porada was born in Vienna to a wealthy family. She graduated from the Realreform Gymnasium Luithlen in 1930 and received her Ph.D. from the University of Vienna in 1935 with a dissertation about glyptic art of the Old Akkadian period. Later she moved to Paris to study at the Louvre. In 1938 she emigrated to the United States where she worked at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on the seals of Ashurnasirpal I...

#431

Sharon Lamb

#136830

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (69 years)

Sharon Lamb , is an American professor in the Department of Counseling and School Psychology at the University of Massachusetts Boston's, College of Education and Human Development, and a fellow of the American Psychological Association . She also sits on the editorial board of the academic journals Feminism & Psychology, and Sexualization, Media, and Society.

#432

Jill Adler

#150043

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (73 years)

Jillian Beryl Adler née Smidt is a South African Professor of Mathematics education at the University of the Witwatersrand and the President of the International Commission on Mathematical Instruction . Adler's work has focused on the teaching and learning of mathematics particularly in multilingual classrooms.

#433

Viviane Robinson

#148394

Overall Influence

Viviane Marcelle Joan Robinson is an emeritus distinguished professor at the University of Auckland, specialising in organisational and educational psychology. Academic career After a PhD titled The behavior of caregivers: the example of clinical teams at Harvard University, completed in 1976, Robinson moved to the University of Auckland. She was appointed a Distinguished Professor in 2012.

#434

Bagele Chilisa

#152504

Overall Influence

Bagele Chilisa is a Botswanan post-colonial scholar who has written and spoken extensively about indigenous research and evaluation methodologies. She is a full professor at the University of Botswana, where she teaches courses on social science research methods and evaluation research to undergraduate and graduate students. Chilisa has served as an evaluator on multiple global projects, and is considered to be an important "African thought leader." Chilisa identifies as a member of the Bantu people of Africa.

#435

Mirta Martin

#73669

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (64 years)

Mirta Maria Martin, is an American former educator who was the president of Fairmont State University from 2018 to 2022 and the president of Fort Hays State University from 2014 to 2016. Prior to Fort Hays State, Martin served as the Dean of Virginia State University's Reginald F. Lewis School of Business, a position she held from August 1, 2009 until June 30, 2014.

#436

Cheryl Holcomb-McCoy

#111786

Overall Influence

Cheryl Holcomb-McCoy is Dean and Distinguished Professor of Education in the School of Education at American University in Washington, DC. Previously, she was Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs at Johns Hopkins University , and a professor of Counseling and Human Development at the JHU School of Education. She was an affiliate faculty member in the Center for Africana Studies, Johns Hopkins University. Holcomb-McCoy is a graduate of Hampton High School.

#437

Mignon Nixon

#90018

Overall Influence

Mignon Nixon is an American academic. She serves as the Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art History at University College London in London, United Kingdom. Early life Mignon Elizabeth Nixon is the daughter of John Trice Nixon, a United States federal judge, and Betty C. Nixon, a former city councillor in Nashville, Tennessee. Her paternal grandfather, Herman Clarence Nixon, was a political scientist at Vanderbilt University and a member of the Southern Agrarians.

#438

Ahalya Chari

#98318

Overall Influence

1921 - 2013 (92 years)

Ahalya Chari was an Indian educationist and the first commissioner of the Kendriya Vidyalaya chain of schools, a system of education under the Ministry of Human Resource Development India. Her efforts are recognised towards the establishment of Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan, an autonomous body under the MHRD, attending to the educational needs of the children of transferable central government employees. The Government of India awarded her the fourth highest Indian civilian honour of the Padma Shri in 1983.

#439

Lynda Nead

#36208

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (67 years)

Lynda Nead is a British curator and art historian. She is currently the Pevsner Chair of the History of Art at Birkbeck, University of London. Nead's work studies British art, media, culture and often focuses on gender. Nead is a fellow of the British Academy, the Royal Historical Society and of the Academia Europaea.

#440

Lorene Cary

#93276

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (67 years)

Lorene Cary is an American author, educator and social activist. Biography Cary grew up in a working-class neighborhood in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In 1972, she was invited to the elite St. Paul's boarding school in New Hampshire, on scholarship, entering in St. Paul's second year of co-education as one of the fewer than ten African-American female students. She spent two years at St. Paul's, graduating in 1974. She earned an undergraduate degree and her MA from the University of Pennsylvania in 1978.

#441

Shirley Clarke

#84051

Overall Influence

1919 - 1997 (78 years)

Shirley Clarke was an American filmmaker. Life Born Shirley Brimberg in New York City, she was the daughter of a Polish-immigrant father who made his fortune in manufacturing. Her mother was the daughter of a multimillionaire Jewish manufacturer and inventor. The eldest of three daughters, her sister was the writer Elaine Dundy. Her interest in dance began at an early age, but met with the disapproval of her father, a violent bully.

#442

Beth Simone Noveck

Beth Simone Noveck

#64494

Overall Influence

1971 - Present (53 years)

Beth Simone Noveck is the 1st Chief Innovation Officer of New Jersey, Director of the Burnes Center for Social Change at Northeastern University, and Director of The Governance Lab. She is also affiliated faculty with the Institute for Experiential AI. She is the author of Solving Public Problems: How to Fix our Government and Change Our World , Smart Citizens, Smarter State: The Technologies of Expertise and the Future of Government , Wiki Government: How Technology Can Make Government Better, Democracy Stronger, and Citizens More Powerful , and co-editor of the State of Play: Law and Virtua...

#443

Christiane Joost-Gaugier

#111796

Overall Influence

1934 - Present (90 years)

Christiane L. Joost-Gaugier is a French-born American art history scholar whose research has included work on the art of the Italian Renaissance and on the influence of Pythagoras on art and philosophy into the Middle Ages and Renaissance. She is also known for bringing the first class action against an American university for its discriminatory treatment of women faculty.

#444

Mary Kennedy Carter

#133616

Overall Influence

1934 - 2010 (76 years)

Mary Kennedy Carter was a social studies teacher and civil rights activist in Ohio, United States. She took part in creating the award-winning curriculum "New York and Slavery: Complicity and Resistance". She was the wife of Donald W. Carter and mother of Keith B. Carter.

#445

Sussan Babaie

#61913

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (70 years)

Sussan Babaie is an Iranian-born art historian and curator. She is best known for her work on Persian art and Islamic art of the early modern period. She has written extensively on the art and architecture of the Safavid dynasty. Her research takes a multidisciplinary approach and explores topics such as urbanism, empire studies, transcultural visuality and notions of exoticism. In her work as a curator, Babaie has worked on exhibitions at the Sackler Museum of Harvard University , the University of Michigan Museum of Art , and the Smith College Museum of Art .

#446

Martina Pippal

#57354

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (67 years)

Martina Pippal is an Austrian art historian and a painter and sculptor. Biography Martina Pippal was born 1957 in Vienna as the daughter of the painter Hans Robert Pippal and the architect Eugenie Pippal-Kottnig . Growing up in the studio of her parents she early acquired skills in several artistic techniques. In addition to her artistic inclination, she got interested in the socioeconomic and political backgrounds of the conditions of artistic production. She started university studies in art history, classical archeology, history and theology at the University of Vienna, and acquired her PhD in Art History 1981 there.

#447

Abigail Solomon-Godeau

#80552

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (76 years)

Abigail Solomon-Godeau is an American art critic, exhibition curator, art historian, and Professor Emerita in art history, University of California, Santa Barbara. Education B.A., University of Massachusetts, magna cum laude

#448

Wendy Maruyama

#169641

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (72 years)

Wendy Maruyama is an artist, furniture maker, and educator from California. She was born in La Junta, Colorado. Maruyama was influential in the early period of post-modern artistic furniture. She challenges the masculine environments within the field of woodworking. Her work uses humor, social commentary, sculptural forms, and color to challenge the accepted notions of furniture. Conceptually her work deals with social practices such as her Japanese-American heritage, feminism, and wildlife endangerment in Africa. Maruyama served as the head of the Furniture Design department at San Diego Sta...

#449

Ruth Etchells

#89207

Overall Influence

1931 - 2012 (81 years)

Dorothea Ruth Etchells was an English poet and college principal who spent most of her working life in the University of Durham. Early life She was born on 17 April 1931. She attended Merchant Taylors’ School and the University of Liverpool. After graduation, she became an English teacher at Aigburth Vale High School in Liverpool and then a lecturer at the Chester College of Higher Education.

#450

Rina Zazkis

#101464

Overall Influence

Rina Zazkis is a Canadian scholar in education and mathematics. She is a Professor in the Faculty of Education at Simon Fraser University and a Canada Research Chair in STEM Teaching and Learning. Career Zazkis began her academic career at Simon Fraser University in 1991 as an Assistant Professor. She was eventually promoted to Full Professor in the Faculty of Education by 2000. In 2011, she was a recipient of the Dean of Graduate Studies Awards for Excellence.

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