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Wellesley College is a private women's liberal arts college in Wellesley, Massachusetts. Founded in 1870 by Henry and Pauline Durant as a female seminary, it is a member of the Seven Sisters Colleges, an unofficial grouping of current and former women's colleges in the northeastern United States. [7]
Myrtilla Avery, 1891 – classical scholar focused on Medieval art, former chair of Department of Art at Wellesley College and director of the Farnsworth Art Museum 1930–1937; [3] introduced the first art history classes at Wellesley and the earliest museum studies courses; Carole B. Balin, 1986 – professor of Jewish history [4]
In 1925 she moved to Wellesley College where she became an assistant professor in the History Department. Overacker was one of the first professors to teach political science at Wellesley, 15 years before a dedicated political science department was established there.
25-74175. GNIS feature ID. 0618332. Website. wellesleyma.gov. Wellesley (/ ˈwɛlzli /) is a town in Norfolk County, Massachusetts, United States. Wellesley is part of Greater Boston. The population was 29,550 at the time of the 2020 census. [3] Wellesley College, Babson College, and a campus of Massachusetts Bay Community College are located ...
Alice Freeman Palmer. Alice Freeman Palmer (born Alice Elvira Freeman; February 21, 1855 – December 6, 1902) was an American educator. As Alice Freeman, she was president of Wellesley College from 1881 to 1887, when she left to marry the Harvard professor George Herbert Palmer. From 1892 to 1895 she was dean of women at the newly founded ...
Tony Martin (21 February 1942 – 17 January 2013) [1] was a Trinidad and Tobago -born scholar of Africana Studies. From 1973 to 2007 he worked at Wellesley College in Wellesley, Massachusetts, and over the course of his career published more than ten books and a range of scholarly articles. Born in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, Martin ...
Jonathan B. Knudsen (December 16, 1944 - August 28, 1999) was an American historian who specialized in 18th-century German history, a translator from German to English, and a professor of history at Wellesley College. He did his graduate work at the University of California, Berkeley and was the last advisee [1] of Hans Rosenberg (who retired ...
Elizabeth Penfield Newell. Barbara Warne Newell (born August 19, 1929) [1] is an economist, career professor, and higher education administrator. Notably, she served as the tenth President of Wellesley College from 1972 to 1980 and was the first female chancellor of the State University System of Florida from 1981 to 1985. [2][3]