Judson, Margaret Atwood (1899–1991)

US historian and educator. Her Crisis of the Constitution: An Essay in Constitutional and Political Thought in England, 1603–45 1949, is widely respected. She published Breaking the Barrier: A Professional Autobiography by a Woman Educator and Historian before the Women's Movement in 1984.

She was born in Winstead, Connecticut. Educated at Radcliffe College (PhD 1933), she taught at Rutgers University 1928–67, professor emeritus 1967–91, where she was chair of the history and political science department 1955–63 and acting dean 1966–67.