Dohan, Edith Hayward Hall
Dohan, Edith Hayward Hall
(1877–1943) archaeologist; born in New Haven, Conn. She graduated from Smith College (1899), then studied archaeology and Greek at Bryn Mawr College, spending 1903–05 at the American School of Classical Studies in Athens. One of the first American women in the field of archaeology, her doctoral dissertation was titled Decorative Art of Crete in the Bronze Age (1907). She taught at Mount Holyoke College (1908–12), then went to the University of Pennsylvania and became assistant curator of the museum there. After an interruption to start a family (1915–20), she returned to the museum, becoming its curator in 1942. From 1932 to her death, she was editor of the American Journal of Archaeology, specializing in her later years in Etruscan graves.The Cambridge Dictionary of American Biography, by John S. Bowman. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1995. Reproduced with permission.