Name Hetty Goldman Died May 4, 1972 | Role Archaeologist | |
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Books Excavations at Eutresis in Boeotia Awards Gold Medal of the Archaeological Institute of America | ||
Hetty Goldman (December 19, 1881 – May 4, 1972) was an American archaeologist. She was the first woman faculty member at the Institute for Advanced Study and one of the first female archaeologists to undertake excavations in Greece and the Middle East.
Born in New York City, Goldman was a member of the Goldman–Sachs banking family. In 1903 she received her A.B. from Bryn Mawr College and her Ph.D. from Radcliffe College in 1915. She joined the Institute for Advanced Study in 1936 and retired in 1947. Goldman was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1950. In 1966, the Archaeological Institute of America awarded her the Gold Medal Award for Distinguished Archaeological Achievement. She died May 4, 1972 in Princeton, New Jersey.