biography
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Hawes, Harriet (Ann) Boyd
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| female
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| lived:
| (1871–1945)
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| biography:
| Archaeologist, educator, and social activist, born in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. After graduating from Smith College (1892), she continued her studies in Greece, and worked as a nurse (1897) during the Greco-Turkish war. She went to Crete (1900), and with the encouragement of Arthur Evans, began to excavate a Minoan site at Kavousi. During 1901–5 she led a large team that excavated the Minoan town of Gournia, thereby becoming the first woman to head a major archaeological dig, and she also became the first woman to lecture to societies of the Archaeological Institute of America (1902). She married the English anthropologist Charles Henry Hawes (1906), and in 1908 published her monumental work on Gournia. During World War 1 she went over to Corfu (1916) to help nurse the Serbians, and in 1917 organized a unit of Smith College graduates and directed their relief efforts in France, where she stayed until June 1918. During 1920–36 she was on the faculty of Wellesley College. Always involved in one political and social cause or another, she worked for woman suffrage, protested the Sacco–Vanzetti executions, became involved in labour and economic issues during the Depression, personally protested the Germans' annexation of Czechoslovakia, called for the USA to go to Europe's defence in World War 2, and was a strong advocate of an international body to promote unity and peace. |
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