Groundbreakers and Groundshakers

Bridging the Visibility Gap: Groundbreakers and Groundshakers

Tamar Althouse

Tamar Althouse

The first female graduate of the IU Law School in Bloomington.

Eileen Bender

Founder of an annual retreat for faculty development at IU South Bend.

Behind the Scenes: The Unknown Black Women of the IU Libraries and Archives

Wilma Moore, Grace Jackson-Brown, and Gloria Gibson.

Kathryn A. Fields Blackwell

Kathryn A. Fields Blackwell

Her experiences as an African American female student at IU Bloomington in the 1940s.

esther bray

Esther Bray

Interview with the grandson of an early female business professor.

Mary Brown Craig

IU Bloomington's first archivist.

Claudia Crump

Claudia Crump

Longtime professor at IU Southeast and co-founder of the campus's Center for Cultural Resources.

Martha Dawson

Martha Dawson

Pioneer in education research at IU Bloomington.

The Early Female Faculty at IUPUI

Anne Donchin, Nancy Roeske, Diane Brashear, Jeannette Matthew, and Florence McMaster.

Mari Evans

Mari Evans

Prominent poet and founder of the Black Arts Movement.

Sarah Kirby

The First Women of the Business School

Sarah Kirby, Esther Bray, Lulu Westenhaver, and Blanche McNeely Wean.

Women's League

Rebecca Rogers George

Early woman in medicine.

Romola Latchem Hicks

Former radio voice actor and longtime professor at IU Northwest.

Goldie Ivory

Goldie Ivory

Barrier breaker at IU South Bend.

Gloria Kaufman

Gloria Kaufman

Founder of the women's studies program at IU South Bend.

Jacqueline Hall Kelly

Her life as a student at IU Southeast and IU Bloomington in the 1960s.

Jane Ketcham

Jane Merrill Ketcham

Early female faculty member at the IU School of Medicine.

Suzanne Knoebel

Pioneering researcher at the IU School of Medicine.

Coramae Richey Mann

Groundbreaking faculty member at IU Bloomington.

Florence McMaster

Oversaw the rapid expansion of the IUPUI law library.

Elinor Ostrom

Elinor Ostrom

IU Bloomington faculty member and the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Economics.

Benjamin F. Peery

Astrophysicist and professor at IU Bloomington.

Ingeborg Schmidt working at her desk

Ingeborg Schmidt

Early female professor at the IU Bloomington School of Optometry.

May Wright Sewall and Alma Eikerman

A reformer and art administrator and a world-renowned metalworker and jewelry designer.

Barbara Shalucha

The founder of Hilltop Gardens.

Carrie Parker

Carrie Parker Taylor

First African American woman to enroll at IU.

Carrie Parker Taylor

An update on Miss Carrie

carrie parker portrait with carrie's family beside it

Carrie Parker Taylor

Her legacy inspired new scholarships at IU Bloomington.

LaVerta Terry

Her impact at IU and on the Groups Scholars Program.

Camilla Williams

Internationally known soprano and IU Bloomington faculty member.

The Women Who Changed IU Medicine

Winifred Kahmann, Jane Merrill Ketcham, Alice Fitzgerald, Ethel Clarke, Emily Holmquist, and Elizabeth Grossman.

women in social service at IU

The Women of IUPUI

Edna Henry, Clare Assue, Frances Rhome, and Marjorie Leamnson Stonehill.