Alice Kehoe is a professor emeritus of anthropology at Marquette University in Milwaukee. After suffering some “benign neglect” at Harvard, she received her Ph.D. there in 1964, one of the first women to do so in archaeology. Since then she has been the author or editor of 20 books on New and Old world archaeology, Native American culture, and the history of anthropology. Dr. Kehoe has been called “a living legend in archaeology,” and in 2016 she was honored by the Plains Anthropological Association with its Distinguished Service Award for her “enduring work” in research and public education.
Her presentation will address the early days of women in the profession in the United States, their struggles for acceptance both in the field and in the classroom, and how the valuable contributions of women today can make for a better, more inclusive, and intellectually rigorous archaeology and anthropology in the future.
Join us for an open session with Alice Kehoe, author of Girl Archaeologist, as she shares her talk, “Sisterhood in a Sexist Profession,” on Tuesday, October 25, at 4 p.m. in Williams Hall 129.
