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Women at The Johns Hopkins University: A History

By Julia B. Morgan

Women at The Johns Hopkins University: A History

Bibliography | Credits

1915 Summer Session students enjoy a lawn party at Homewood

Chapter 1: The Question of Coeducation

1874-1877

In 1893, geologist Florence Bascom became the first woman to be awarded the Ph.D. at Hopkins.

Chapter 2: Exceptions to the Rule

1877-1909

The nucleus of the Women's Fund Committee

Chapter 3: The School of Medicine

1877-1893

Within a few years of their admission to the graduate programs in 1907, women became a more familiar sight in Hopkins libraries and laboratories.

Chapter 4: Graduate Programs and the Faculty

1907-1969

In the academic year 1971-72, the first dormitories for freshman women opened.

Chapter 5: The Undergraduate Program

1969-1986

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bibliography

Alan Mason Chesney Medical Archives of the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions.  "The Women’s Medical Fund and the Opening of the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine: Selections from an Exhibit prepared by the Alan Mason Chesney Medical Archives." (undated exhibit catalog).

Angell, James B.  "Remarks of President Angell of the University of Michigan to Johns Hopkins University Trustees, July 3, 1874." The Ferdinand Hamburger, Jr. Archives of The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland. [Hereafter cited as JHU Archives.] Record Group Number 01.001, Records of the Board of Trustees.  Series 4, Remarks of Angell and Eliot.

Bamberger, Florence E. Reference File.  JHU Archives.

Bascom, Florence.  Reference File.  JHU Archives.

Carson, Rachel.  Reference File.  JHU Archives.

Eliot, Charles W.  "Remarks of President Eliot of Harvard College to Johns Hopkins University Trustees, June 4, 1874." JHU Archives.  Record Group Number 01.001, Records of the Board of the Trustees.  Series 4, Remarks of Angell and Eliot.

Gilman, Daniel C., Papers.  Manuscript Collection No. 1.  Correspondence with Christine Ladd-Franklin and M. Carey Thomas.  Special Collections, The Milton S. Eisenhower Library, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland.  [Hereafter cited as Special Collections.]

Hawkins, Hugh.  Pioneer: A History of the Johns Hopkins University, 1874-1889.  Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1960.

Jacob, Kathryn A.  "How Johns Hopkins Protected Women from ´The Rougher Influences.´" The Johns Hopkins Magazine  27, No. 2 (March 1976): 4-7.

The Johns Hopkins University Trustees.  JHU Archives.  Record Group Number 01.001, Records of the Board of Trustees.  Series 2, Minutes.  Volumes I and II.

The Johns Hopkins University Trustees, Executive Committee.  JHU Archives.  Record Group Number 01.001, Records of the Board of Trustees.  Series 2, Minutes.  Volumes I, II, and III.

Johnson, Buford Jeannette.  Reference File.  JHU Archives.

Johnson, Karen E.  "Maria Goeppert Mayer: Atoms, Molecules and Nuclear Shells."  Physics Today 39, No. 9 (September 1986): 44-49.

Ladd-Franklin, Christine.  Reference File.  JHU Archives.

Large, Elizabeth D.  "Girls? What Girls?" The Johns Hopkins Magazine 22, No. 3 (Fall 1971): 26-27.

Mayer, Maria Goeppert.  Reference File.  JHU Archives.

Smith, Isabel Fothergill.  The Stone Lady: A Memoir of Florence Bascom.  Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania: Bryn Mawr College, 1981.

Women, Admission of.  The Johns Hopkins University Collection.  Manuscript Collection No. 137.  Special Collections.

Women, Admission of (Coeducation at JHU).  Reference File.  JHU Archives.


Credits

Unless otherwise noted, all photographs are from the collections of the Ferdinand Hamburger, Jr. Archives of the Johns Hopkins University.

The author gratefully acknowledges the research assistance provided by Robert Cyphers (Registrar), Cynthia Requardt (Manuscript Librarian), Kristin Alden and Margaret Burns.  Thanks also to those who read and commented on the manuscript: Tammi Gutner (School of Advanced Interantional Studies historian), Nancy McCall (Assistant Archivist, Hopkins Medical Archives), David Morgan, Elizabeth Schaaf (Peabody Archivist), James Stimpert (Assistant Archivist, Ferdinand Hamburger, Jr. Archives), and Darlene Townsend.

Julia Boublitz Morgan is an alumna (B.A., 1976; M.L.A., 1982) and was University Archivist 1977-1990.

 

Jill Reilly James (Assistant Curator of Manuscripts) created the Web version, 2005.

© The Johns Hopkins University, 1986 and 2005.

 



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