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Lida Shaw King Lida Shaw King earned degrees in Classics from Vassar College (A.B. 1890) and Brown University (M.A. 1894). She was a student at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 1899-1901 and held the Agnes Hoppin Fellowship at the School, 1900-1901. Lida King and Ida Thallon (Hill) were the first women of the American School allowed to excavate on mainland Greece, participating in the excavations at the Vari Cave in Attica, spring, 1901. She wrote on the vases, terracottas and small objects for the 1903 publication of the Vari finds. She did not participate in the School’s Corinth excavations but she worked on the catalogue of the initial finds of architectural terracottas from the Corinth site. The catalogue was later expanded and completed by Ida Thallon, co-authored by Lida King, and published in 1929 by the American School at Athens. In 1905 Lida King was appointed Dean of the Women’s College in Brown University and was no longer able to continue her archaeological research. She was a very capable and widely esteemed college administrator. As she had gained grounds in bringing consideration of women in field archaeology towards parity with men at the American School, she likewise brought the Women’s College to equal academic standing with men within Brown University. She continued as Dean at Brown until her retirement in 1922 due to declining health. Author of biography: Faith Ford Sandstrom Download biography (in PDF format) Keywords: Ida Carleton Thallon Hill, Vassar College, Brown University, American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Rufus B. Richardson, Wilhelm Dörpfeld, Harriet Boyd Hawes, Corinth, Vari Cave, Maurice E. Dunham, Charles Weller, Corinth architectural terracottas, Women’s College in Brown University |
