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List of the most influential female people in Philosophy,

#2101

Hannah Thompson

#175674

Overall Influence

1973 - Present (52 years)

Hannah Jane Thompson is a British academic and professor of French and critical disability studies at Royal Holloway, University of London. Her research focuses primarily on 19th and 20th century French literature, especially the novel.

#2102

Orsolina Montevecchi

#184532

Overall Influence

1911 - 2009 (98 years)

Orsolina Montevecchi was an Italian papyrologist. Life and career Montevecchi was born in Gambettola, Forlì-Cesena. She graduated from the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore with a thesis on sociological research in the papyri from Graeco-Roman Egypt. Since 1950, she has worked as a lecturer and then as a professor at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, where she spent the rest of her career. She was the author of numerous publications on the topic of Graeco-Roman Egypt, sociological studies in papyrology and provenance studies.

#2103

Rachel Hinrichs

#191631

Overall Influence

#2104

Barbara Balmer

#84241

Overall Influence

1929 - 2017 (88 years)

Barbara Balmer RSA was a Scottish artist and teacher. Biography Balmer was born in Birmingham and, between 1946 and 1951, studied art at Coventry School of Art and then at the Edinburgh College of Art. A travelling scholarship enabled Balmer to further her studies in France and Spain during 1951 and 1952. She also visited Italy with a group led by Douglas Percy Bliss. From 1970 to 1980, Balmer was a visiting lecturer at Gray's School of Art in Aberdeen. Seven of her paintings were adapted as dust jackets for editions in the Virago Modern Classics series. A large mural by Balmer is situated in...

#2105

Krystyna Marek

#81888

Overall Influence

1914 - 1993 (79 years)

Krystyna Marek was a Swiss-Polish professor of international law. Edward Raczynski, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Polish government in exile, called her "one of the first Polish female diplomats."

#2106

Aida Huseynova

#105229

Overall Influence

1964 - 2022 (58 years)

Aida Huseynova was a musicologist, pianist, and ethnomusicologist from Azerbaijan. She spent the last decade and a half of her career teaching in the Music in General Studies program at Indiana University--Bloomington and serving as an arts consultant for Yo-Yo Ma's Silk Road Ensemble, the Mike Morris Dance group, and other ensembles and initiatives.

#2107

Caroline Maun

#181077

Overall Influence

1968 - Present (57 years)

Caroline C. Maun is a professor, author, poet, lyricist, and musician. She teaches creative writing in the English Department at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan. Other areas of research include modernism, American Literature, African-American literature, and Internet Writing.

#2108

Gillian Jagger

#183281

Overall Influence

1930 - 2019 (89 years)

Gillian Jagger was a British multimedia sculptor and installation artist, based in the Hudson Valley of the United States. She is known for her plaster castings of manhole covers on the streets of New York City in the 1960s, during which time she was "erroneously being identified as a Pop artist". In her work Jagger "[appropriates] materials from nature", and incorporates tracings, rubbingss, and castings of found objects in both urban and rural environments.

#2109

Starr Hoffman

#191716

Overall Influence

#2110

Catherine Nakalembe

#128341

Overall Influence

Catherine Nakalembe is an Ugandan remote sensing scientist and an associate research professor at the University of Maryland in the Department of Geographical Sciences and the NASA Harvest Africa program Director. Her research includes drought, agriculture and food security.

#2111

Flavia Senkubuge

#68599

Overall Influence

Flavia Senkubuge is a South African physician, professor of public health medicine, an advocate of global public health and the immediate past President of the Colleges of Medicine of South Africa. At age 39, she was the college's youngest ever president and the first Black woman to hold the position.

#2112

Elfreda Chatman

#96640

Overall Influence

1942 - 2002 (60 years)

Elfreda Annmary Chatman was an African-American researcher, professor, and former Catholic religious sister. She was well known for her ethnographic approaches in researching information seeking behaviors among understudied or minority groups .

#2113

Joan Catoni Conlon

#164259

Overall Influence

Joan Catoni Conlon is Professor and Director of Graduate Choral Research Emerita for the University of Colorado at Boulder, where she conducted the University Singers. She received her BA, MA and DMA degrees from the University of Washington where she was Professor of Choral Music and Conducting . From 1971 to 1995 she was the conductor of the Northwest Chamber Chorus in Seattle, Washington, and was the chair of the Research and Publications Committee of the American Choral Directors Association. Her scholarship specializes in the choral music of Georg Philipp Telemann and Claudio Monteverdi. She published Performing Monteverdi: A Conductor’s Guide .

#2114

Chris Bourg

#129618

Overall Influence

Chris Bourg is an American librarian, sociologist and former officer of the United States Army. She has been the director of Massachusetts Institute of Technology Libraries since 2015. Career and education Bourg graduated with a B.A. from Duke University and a M.A. from the University of Maryland. She went on to study sociology at Stanford University where she completed an M.A. and PhD. Her doctoral thesis titled Gender mistakes and inequality was supervised by Cecilia L. Ridgeway.

#2115

Shira Yalon-Chamovitz

#88781

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (63 years)

Shira Yalon-Chamovitz is an Israeli occupational therapist. She is the director of the Israel Institute on Cognitive Accessibility and dean of students at Ono Academic College. She has made significant contributions to the field of accessibility for people with cognitive disabilities, having coined the terms "cognitive ramps" and "simultaneous simplification".

#2116

Anne-Marie Jackson

#190775

Overall Influence

Anne-Marie Jackson is a New Zealand professor at the University of Otago specialising in Māori physical education and health. Early life Jackson grew up in rural Southland, with a Māori and a non-Māori parent. Both her parents worked in shearing gangs. She affiliates with the Ngāti Whātua, Ngāpuhi, Ngāti Kahu o Whangaroa and Ngāti Wai tribes.

#2117

Ochy Curiel

#188714

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (62 years)

Rosa Inés Curiel Pichardo , better known as Ochy Curiel, is an Afro-Dominican feminist academic, singer and social anthropologist. She is known for helping to establish the Afro-Caribbean women's movement and maintaining that lesbianism is neither an identity, orientation nor sexual preference, but rather a political position. She is one of the most prominent feminist scholars in Latin America and the Caribbean.

#2118

Pilar Pedraza

#102381

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (74 years)

Pilar Pedraza Martínez is a Spanish professor and writer. Her work has two main aspects: horror narrative and essay. Biography After earning her doctorate in History at the University of Valencia, Pilar Pedraza has been teaching Film and avant-garde cinema there since 1982. She was Councilor of Culture of the Generalitat Valenciana from 1993 to 1995, during the last term of Joan Lerma, and member of the Board of Directors of RTVV. Throughout her career, she has combined teaching and research with literary creation.

#2119

Barbara J. Bain

#91576

Overall Influence

1941 - Present (84 years)

Barbara Jane Bain is an Australian haematologist and oncologist. She is a professor at the Imperial College Faculty of Medicine and a consultant at St Mary's Hospital, London. She is known as the author of reference textbooks in the field of haematology that form the core curriculum for laboratory morphology and pathology.

#2120

Karen Lam

#139130

Overall Influence

Karen Lam is a Canadian director, writer and producer. She is known for the horror film Evangeline . Life and career Karen Lam grew up in Brandon, Manitoba. Lam's father, a professor, would show his daughter horror films that she cites as an influence for her work. Lam also lists Gothic literature and Asian horror films as influences.

#2121

Brigitte François-Sappey

Brigitte François-Sappey

#124559

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (81 years)

Brigitte François-Sappey is a French musicologist, educator, radio producer, and lecturer. Biography Brigitte François-Sappey studied music at the Conservatoire de Paris where she won first prizes of music history, musical analysis, musical esthetics, musicology, and at the École normale de musique de Paris where she graduated for piano teaching.

#2122

Amanda Howe

#66147

Overall Influence

Amanda Caroline Howe is a British medical doctor who works as a general practitioner and is a Professor of Primary Care. She is a former President of the Royal College of General Practitioners and a former President of the World Organization of Family Doctors .

#2123

Ndidiamaka Amutah-Onukagha

#148573

Overall Influence

Ndidiamaka Nneoma Amutah-Onukagha is an American researcher who is the Julia A. Okoro Professor of Black Maternal Health at the Tufts University School of Medicine. Her research considers women's health disparities in Black women. Amutah-Onukagha is the inaugural Tufts University Assistant Dean of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion for Public Health. She was named the American Public Health Association Maternal and Child Health Section's Young Professional of the Year in 2019.

#2124

Kay Slocum

#183620

Overall Influence

Kay Brainerd Slocum is an American musician and historian who has published books in music and medieval history. Slocum is currently the Gerhold Professor of History and Humanities at Capital University, Ohio, prior to which she taught music history and viola at Kent State University. A violist, Slocum has performed with the Ohio Chamber Orchestra, the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, the Erie Philharmonic, and the Youngstown Symphony. She currently plays with the ProMusica Chamber Orchestra.

#2125

Frances Lander Spain

#105254

Overall Influence

1903 - 1999 (96 years)

Frances Lander Spain was a children's librarian and an instructor of school library services. In 1960, she became the first children's librarian to ever hold the position of president of the American Library Association . Spain was named one of the library's "100 Most Important Leaders We Had in the 20th Century."

#2126

June Blum

#145500

Overall Influence

1929 - 2017 (88 years)

June Druiett Blum was a multimedia American artist who produced paintings, sculptures, prints, light shows, happenings, jewelry, art books, pottery, conceptual documentations, and drawings. She was also a feminist curator and activist who worked to advance the women's movement and increase visibility for women artists.

#2127

Beatriz Jaguaribe

#115731

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (66 years)

Beatriz Jaguaribe is a professor of comparative communications in the School of Communications at the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro and the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship. Jaguaribe has written on race and visual culture in contemporary Brazil. Among her publications are Fins de Século: Cidade e Cultura no Rio de Janeiro , published by Rocco, and Mapa do Maravilhoso do Rio de Janeiro , published by Sextante Artes. Jaguaribe works on the relationship between artistic production and lived experiences in the production of cultural maps of urban Brazil.

#2128

Karen Finch

#164790

Overall Influence

1921 - 2018 (97 years)

Karen Solveig Sinding Møller Finch was a Danish-born British master weaver, conservator and educator who was the founder of the Textile Conservation Centre. Life Karen Finch was born in May 1921 on a farm in Rødding in Denmark to Soren Møller and Ellen Sinding. She left the farm to study art in Copenhagen under Gerda Henning and Kaare Klint. She witnessed the occupation of her country and moved to England after she married Norman Finch in 1946.

#2129

Francesca Sundsten

#58242

Overall Influence

1960 - 2019 (59 years)

Francesca Sundsten was an American painter. She applied traditional techniques while exploring elements of composition, palette, and minor abstractions of space and paint to create paintings and illustrations which were described by The Seattle Times as "calling to mind the Old Masters" with a "distinctly surrealist sensibility."

#2130

Jean E. Lowrie

#186658

Overall Influence

1918 - 2014 (96 years)

Jean Elizabeth Lowrie was an American librarian, educator, and president of the American Library Association from 1973 to 1974. She received a bachelor's degree from Keuka College in 1940 and a second bachelor's degree in library science from Western Reserve University in 1941. She went on to receive a master's degree in elementary education from Western Michigan University in 1956 and her doctorate from Western Reserve University in 1959.

#2131

Sally Baddock

#106979

Overall Influence

Sally Anne Baddock is a New Zealand academic in the field of midwifery, and is a professor in the School of Midwifery at Otago Polytechnic. Academic career Baddock completed a PhD titled Bedsharing vs cot-sleeping: an investigation of the physiology and behaviour of infants in the home setting in 2004 at the University of Otago.

#2132

Margaret Benyon

#82433

Overall Influence

1940 - 2016 (76 years)

Margaret Benyon, , was a British artist. Trained as a painter, she was one of the first artists to use holography as a medium and had her first solo show of holograms in 1969. She was appointed to the Order of the British Empire in 2000 for her service to art and has been called "the mother of British holography".

#2133

Jeanine Meerapfel

Jeanine Meerapfel

#152945

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (82 years)

Jeanine Meerapfel is a German-Argentine film director and screenwriter. She has directed twenty films since 1966. In 1984, she was a member of the jury at the 34th Berlin International Film Festival.

#2134

Libby Heaney

#171599

Overall Influence

Libby Heaney is a British artist and quantum physicist known for her pioneering work on AI and quantum computing. She works on the impact of future technologies and is widely known to be the first artist to use quantum computing as a functioning artistic medium. Her work has been featured internationally, including in the Victoria and Albert Museum, Tate Modern and the Science Gallery.

#2135

Virginia Caine

#189323

Overall Influence

Virginia A. Caine is an American physician who is the director and chief medical officer of the Marion County Public Health Department in Indianapolis, Indiana. She is a specialist in infectious diseases and is nationally recognized for her work with AIDS and sexually transmitted diseases. She is an Associate Professor of Medicine for the Infectious Disease Division of the Indiana University School of Medicine and an Adjunct Associate Professor in the School of Public Health.

#2136

Ute Müller-Doblies

#174726

Overall Influence

1938 - Present (87 years)

Ute Müller-Doblies is a German botanist with an interest in the systematics of Amaryllidaceae. She is currently at the Herbarium of the Technische Universität Berlin in collaboration with Dietrich Müller-Doblies .

#2137

Faʻafetai Sopoaga

#186981

Overall Influence

Faumuinā Faʻafetai Sopoaga is a Samoan-New Zealand academic specialising in Pacific health, Pacific workforce development, Pacific students, and Pacific communities. She is a professor at the Dunedin School of Medicine at the University of Otago, Dunedin. When she was appointed, she became the first Pacific woman medical doctor to be appointed in a professorial role at any university in Australia or New Zealand, and the first Pacific woman to be appointed a professor at the University of Otago.

#2138

Fatmah Baothman

#155058

Overall Influence

Fatmah Baothman is Saudi Arabian computer scientist who is the first woman in the Middle East with a Ph.D. in artificial intelligence. She was recently appointed the board president for the Artificial Intelligence Society. Baothman has worked over 25 years as, and is currently, an assistant professor at King Abdulaziz University Faculty of Computing & Information Technology Baothman established the women's Department which is the foundation of the Computer Science College at King Abdulaziz University, and became the first teaching assistant faculty member.

#2139

Sandra Welner

#113746

Overall Influence

1958 - 2001 (43 years)

Sandra Welner was an American physician, inventor, and advocate for disabled women's healthcare. Early life and education Sandra Leah Welner was raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the daughter of Nikodem and Barbara Safier Welner. Her parents were both Polish-born and British-educated; her father was a civil engineer, and her mother was a nurse. Sandra graduated from Hillel Academy in 1975, as valedictorian and a National Merit Scholar. Welner enrolled in an accelerated medical education program, where she completed undergraduate work at Lehigh University, and earned her medical degree from the Medical College of Pennsylvania, in 1981 .

#2140

Padmini Murthy

#137453

Overall Influence

Padmini Murthy is a physician, Professor and Global Health Director at New York Medical College. In 2016 she was awarded the Elizabeth Blackwell Medal by the American Medical Women's Association for her contribution to the field of women in medicine.

#2141

Afua Adwo Jectey Hesse

#50684

Overall Influence

Afua Adwo Jectey Hesse, , is a Ghanaian surgeon and the first Ghanaian-trained female doctor to become a paediatric surgeon. In August 2010, she became the first Ghanaian and second African to be elected President of the Medical Women's International Association .

#2142

Noriko Kamakura

#81419

Overall Influence

1939 - Present (86 years)

Noriko Kamakura :22 was a practitioner, researcher, and academic leader in occupational therapy. She was in the initial generation of people who became occupational therapists in Japan. She greatly influenced how occupational therapy developed in that country, contributing especially in clinical approaches to persons with central nervous disorders of executive functions. In addition, she explored function of the hand in enough detail to develop a system of taxonomies that can account for the vast majority of postures and movements of the hand.

#2143

Jan Millsapps

#175385

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (75 years)

Jan Millsapps is a U.S. digital filmmaker, fiction writer, and Professor Emerita in the Cinema Department at San Francisco State University. She has produced films, videos and interactive cinema on subjects ranging from domestic violence to global terrorism, and has published in traditional print and online venues.

#2144

Ann Rockley

#102407

Overall Influence

Ann Rockley is a content manager. She is the founder and President of The Rockley Group, based in the greater Toronto Area. She regularly presents papers and workshops on subjects involving the efficient creation, management and delivery of content for organizations in North America and Europe. She was the lead analyst for The XML & Component Content Management Report on Content Management Systems Watch.

#2145

Neema Kaseje

#93323

Overall Influence

Neema Kaseje is an American pediatric surgeon and public health specialist in Boston, with Doctors Without Borders, and at University Hospitals Geneva. She is the founder and director of the Surgical Systems Research Group in Kisumu, Kenya. She has recently been appointed the head of the World Health Program in Emergency and Essential Surgical Care, and leads a Wellcome Trust funded COVID-19 health intervention in Siaya, Kenya.

#2146

Roser Bru

#112944

Overall Influence

1923 - 2021 (98 years)

Roser Bru Llop was a Spanish-born Chilean painter and engraver associated with the neo-figurative art movement. Biography Roser Bru was born in Barcelona in 1923. The following year her family went into exile in Paris, France, as a result of the dictatorship of Miguel Primo de Rivera. Four years later, they returned to their hometown where Bru studied at the Montessori School and later, in 1931, at the . After the Spanish Civil War, in 1939, she moved back to France, where she embarked for Chile on the SS Winnipeg. She arrived in Valparaíso on 3 September of that year.

#2147

Jacqueline Couti

#191692

Overall Influence

Jacqueline Couti is the Laurence H. Favrot Associate Professor of French Studies and Associate Director of the Center for the Study of Women, Gender, and Sexuality at Rice University. Education Dr. Couti received her MA in 2004, and her PhD in 2008 from the University of Virginia in French Language and Literatures with a specialization in Francophone and New World Studies.

#2148

Kate van Orden

#177415

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (75 years)

Kate van Orden is an American musicologist and bassoonist, currently Dwight P. Robinson Jr. Professor of Music at Harvard University. Biography Van Orden obtained a Ph.D. in Music History and Theory from the University of Chicago in 1996.

#2149

Doris Hargrett Clack

#181867

Overall Influence

1928 - 1995 (67 years)

Doris Hargrett Clack was an African-American librarian and expert on cataloging and classification. She was a professor of library science at Florida State University for 23 years and did extensive scholarly work on the library classification of black studies and the second edition of the Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules .

#2150

Judith Estrin

#182373

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (71 years)

Judith "Judy" L. Estrin is an American entrepreneur, business executive, and philanthropist. She co-founded eight technology companies. Estrin worked with Vinton Cerf on the Transmission Control Protocol project at Stanford University in the 1970s. She was the chief technology officer of Cisco Systems from 1998 to 2000. Since 2007, Estrin has been the CEO of JLABS, LLC, a privately held company focused on furthering innovation in business, government, and nonprofit organizations.

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