Goldman, Hetty (1881–1972)

US archaeologist. She was one of the first female directors of an archaeological excavation (at Halae, Greece, 1911–14) and went on to direct numerous excavations for the Fogg Museum and Bryn Mawr College in Greece, Asia Minor, and Yugoslavia at sites including Eutresis, Greece (1924–27) and Colophon (1922, 1925) and Tarsus (1934–39, 1947, 1948), Turkey. She had a reputation as an unusually systematic and accurate fieldworker. Goldman published accounts of her digs, including Excavations at Eutresis in Boeotia (1931) and the three-volume Excavations at Gozlu Kule Tarsus (1950–63). She was the first female professor at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton (1936–47).

Goldman was born in New York City. She was educated at Bryn Mawr College (BA) and Radcliffe University (MA and PhD). She turned to fieldwork while in Athens on a fellowship, specializing in prehistoric archaeology of the Greeks and other eastern Mediterranean peoples.