Matilda Coxe Stevenson
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Matilda Coxe Stevenson (née Evans) (May 12, 1849 – June 24, 1915), who also wrote under the name Tilly E. Stevenson, was an American ethnologist, geologist, explorer, and activist. She was a supporter of women in science, helping to establish the Women's Anthropological Society in Washington DC. Stevenson was also the first woman hired by the Bureau of American Ethnology (BAE) to research southwestern Indigenous people. In doing so, she published multiple monographs and one long text on the Zuni people. Her work was supported by some of her male colleagues at the time and was seen as a contemporary by some of her fellow ethnologists or anthropologists. However, she faced barriers as a woman scientist in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries; in order to compete, she defied societal expectation which pushed some to regard her as stubborn and aggressive.[1]
Matilda Coxe Stevenson | |
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Born | Matilda Coxe Evans (1849-05-12)May 12, 1849 |
Died | June 24, 1915(1915-06-24) (aged 66) |
Nationality | American |
Alma mater | Miss Annable's Academy; private study of law with her father, Alexander H. Evans; of chemistry and geology with Dr. N. M. Mew of the Army Medical School, Washington, D.C.; of ethnology with her husband, James Stevenson, of the USGS |
Spouse | James D. Stevenson (m. 1872) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Ethnologist |
Institutions | Bureau of American Ethnology, Smithsonian Institution |