Wilson’s first boss was a remarkably accomplished woman: Martha Carey Thomas was a product of Johns Hopkins, the Sorbonne, the University of Leipzig, and the University of Zurich, where she earned her Ph.D.—all before she was 26. As Dean of Bryn Mawr College, she gave Wilson his first teaching job, in 1885. Later as president of the National College Equal Suffrage League, she would advise NAWSA’s Anna Howard Shaw and Carrie Chapman Catt on how to deal with President Wilson. In this 1879 photograph she is a graduate student of 22.
Source photograph: Bryn Mawr College Photo Archives.
Date: 1879
Wilson’s first boss was a remarkably accomplished woman: Martha Carey Thomas was a product of Johns Hopkins, the Sorbonne, the University of Leipzig, and the University of Zurich, where she earned her Ph.D.—all before she was 26. As Dean of Bryn Mawr College, she gave Wilson his first teaching job, in 1885. Later as president of the National College Equal Suffrage League, she would advise NAWSA’s Anna Howard Shaw and Carrie Chapman Catt on how to deal with President Wilson. In this 1879 photograph she is a graduate student of 22.
Source photograph: Bryn Mawr College Photo Archives.
Date: 1879