Dohan, Edith Hayward Hall (1877-1943)

US archaeologist. She was one of the first American women to gain a PhD in archaeology. She went into academia and became curator of the museum at the University of Pennsylvania. She was editor of the American Journal of Archaeology.

She was born in New Haven, Connecticut, graduated from Smith College, and then studied archaeology and Greek at Bryn Mawr College, spending 1903-05 at the American School of Classical Studies in Athens. Her doctoral dissertation was titled ‘Decorative Art of Crete in the Bronze Age’. She taught at Mount Holyoke College (1908-12), then went to the University of Pennsylvania and became assistant curator of the museum there. During her later time as editor of the American Journal of Archaeology, she specialized in Etruscan graves.