Lida Shaw King (September 15, 1868 in

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– January 10, 1932 in

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) was an American classical scholar and college dean.

Biography

Lida Shaw King was born in

Massachusetts Massachusetts (Massachusett language, Massachusett: ''Muhsachuweesut assachusett writing systems, məhswatʃəwiːsət'' English: , ), officially the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, is the most populous U.S. state, state in the New England ...

. Her parents were Henry Melville King and Susan Ellen Fogg King. She graduated from

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in 1890 and from

Brown University Brown University is a private research university in Providence, Rhode Island. Brown is the seventh-oldest institution of higher education in the United States, founded in 1764 as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providenc ...

( A.M.) in 1894 and continued her graduate studies at Vassar (1894–1895),

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(1897–1898), Bryn Mawr (1899–1900), and at the American School of Classical Studies in Athens (1900–1901) where she was awarded the

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. She taught the classics at Vassar (1894–1897) and at the Packer Collegiate Institute (1898–1899, 1901–1902), and at Brown was assistant professor of classical

philology Philology () is the study of language in oral and writing, written historical sources; it is the intersection of textual criticism, literary criticism, history, and linguistics (with especially strong ties to etymology). Philology is also defin ...

(1905–1909), dean of the Women's College from 1905 to 1922, and

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of classical literature and archæology 1909–1922. She made contributions to the

American Journal of Archaeology The ''American Journal of Archaeology'' (AJA), the peer-reviewed journal of the Archaeological Institute of America, has been published since 1897 (continuing the ''American Journal of Archaeology and of the History of the Fine Arts'' founded by t ...

. She resigned from her positions at Brown in 1922 due to illness, and died in Providence on January 10, 1932. She is buried at Evergreen cemetery in Portland, Maine. An appreciation of her work as Dean at Brown University was written by Mary Emma Woolley in 1923.

Publications

* with Ida Thallon-Hill ''Corinth: Results of Excavations Conducted by the American School of Classical Studies at Athens: Volume IV Part I: Decorated Architectural Terracottas'' Harvard University Press (1929)

References

External links

Brown University biography
* {{DEFAULTSORT:King, Lida Shaw 1868 births 1932 deaths Radcliffe College alumni Educators from Providence, Rhode Island Bryn Mawr College alumni Vassar College faculty Vassar College alumni Brown University faculty American archaeologists Brown University alumni American women archaeologists American women academics