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
Matilda Coxe Stevenson (née Evans) (May 12, 1849 – June 24, 1915), who also wrote under the name Tilly E. Stevenson, was the first woman ever employed as an anthropologist in the U.S. She was also the first female anthropologist to study the Native Americans of New Mexico. She pioneered the use of photography in ethnology.
An American ethnologist, geologist, explorer, and activist, Stevenson was a supporter of women in science, She helped to establish the Women's Anthropological Society in Washington DC.
The first woman hired by the Bureau of American Ethnology (BAE) to research southwestern Indigenous people, 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]
^Miller, Darlis (2007). Matilda Coxe Stevenson: Pioneering Anthropologist. University of Oklahoma Press. p. 43. ISBN 978-0-8061-3832-9.
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