{{short description|American archaeologist}} {{Infobox person | name = Hetty Goldman | image = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{birth date|1881|12|19}} | birth_place = New York City, U.S. | death_date = {{death date and age|1972|5|4|1881|12|19}} | death_place = Princeton, New Jersey, U.S. | death_cause = | resting_place = | resting_place_coordinates = | nationality = | other_names = | known_for = | education = | alma_mater = Bryn Mawr College<br/>Radcliffe College | employer = | occupation = Archaeologist | title = | term = | predecessor = | successor = | political_party = | boards = | spouse = | children = | parents = Julius Goldman<br/>Sarah Adler | relatives = Marcus Goldman <small>(paternal grandfather)</small><br/>Samuel Adler <small>(maternal grandfather)</small><br/>Ashton Sanborn <small>(brother-in-law)</small> }} '''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<ref name=IAS>{{cite web|title=Hetty Goldman|url=http://www.ias.edu/people/goldman|website=Institute for Advanced Study|date=19 April 2012|access-date=July 29, 2014}}</ref> and one of the first female archaeologists to undertake excavations in Greece and the Middle East.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Cohen |first1=Getzel M. |last2=Joukowsky |first2=Martha Sharp |title=Breaking Ground: Pioneering Women Archaeologists |publisher=University of Michigan Press |year=2006 |page=299 |isbn=0472031740 }}</ref>
==Biography== Hetty Goldman was born on December 19, 1881, in New York City. She was a member of the Goldman–Sachs banking family.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.ias.edu/hetty-goldman-life|title=Hetty Goldman: Life|work=Institute for Advanced Study|access-date=2017-05-22|language=en}}</ref> Her father was Julius Goldman, a lawyer, her mother was Sarah (Adler) Goldman, a homemaker.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Past and Promise: Lives of New Jersey Women|publisher=Scarecrow Press, Inc.|year=1990|isbn=0-8108-22016|location=Metuchen, N.J.|pages=302–303}}</ref>
Goldman graduated in 1903 from Bryn Mawr College, where she took a double major in English and Greek. She went on to study archaeology at Radcliffe College, where she was the first woman to hold the Charles Eliot Norton Fellowship from Harvard in order to study at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens. She received her PhD in 1916, having written a thesis entitled ''The Terracottas from the Necropolis of Halae''.
In 1936, Goldman was the first woman to be appointed to the Institute for Advanced Study as a professor.<ref name="notedwomandiessanbernardino">{{cite news|title=Noted Woman Educator Dies|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/61212823/?terms=%22Hetty%2BGoldman%22|access-date=May 29, 2016|work=The San Bernardino County Sun|location=San Bernardino, California|date=May 7, 1972|via=Newspapers.com|url-access=registration |page=41}}</ref> She retired in 1947.<ref name=IAS/>
Goldman was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1950.<ref name=AAAS>{{cite web|title=Book of Members, 1780–2010: Chapter G|url=http://www.amacad.org/publications/BookofMembers/ChapterG.pdf|publisher=American Academy of Arts and Sciences|access-date=July 29, 2014}}</ref> In 1966, the Archaeological Institute of America awarded her the Gold Medal Award for Distinguished Archaeological Achievement.<ref name="notedwomandiessanbernardino"/><ref name=AIA>{{cite web|title=Gold Medal Award for Distinguished Archaeological Achievement|url=http://www.archaeological.org/awards/goldmedal|website=Archaeological Institute of America|access-date=July 29, 2014}}</ref>
Goldman died May 4, 1972, in Princeton, New Jersey.<ref name=IAS/><ref name="notedwomandiessanbernardino"/>
== See also == * Mary Hamilton Swindler
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==Further reading== *{{cite news|ref=none|last1=Knox|first1=Sanka|title=Woman Scholar Is Honored at 75: Institute for Advanced Study Cites Hetty Goldman for Archaeological Work|agency=The New York Times|date=23 December 1956}} *{{cite news|ref=none|title=Dr. Hetty Goldman of Institute For Advanced Study Dies at 90|agency=The New York Times|date=6 May 1972|page=38}}
==External links== * {{wikisource author-inline|Hetty Goldman}} * {{Internet Archive author |sname=Hetty Goldman |sopt=t}} *[http://www.ias.edu/people/goldman Biography at the Institute for Advanced Study] *[http://triarte.brynmawr.edu/Obj172817?sid=21808&x=2388429&port=264 Pottery from the Tarsus Excavations, Bryn Mawr College Art and Artifact Collections] *[http://triarte.brynmawr.edu/PRT1133?sid=21808&x=2388242&x=2388243 Illustrations from the Tarsus Excavations, Bryn Mawr College Art and Artifact Collections]
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