John Griffiths Pedley

Broschiertes Buch

Ellen Constance Nightingale

A Life

Beschreibung

Ellen Constance "Connie" Nightingale (1892-1967) was a leading advocate for women's rights and the education of girls, serving as headmistress of Dr. Williams' School, Dolgellau (1924-40) and The Mount School, York (1940-8).

Autor

John Griffiths Pedley is Emeritus Professor of Classical Archaeology and Greek at the University of Michigan and past Director of the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology. He is the author of numerous books, on topics as varied as Greek sanctuaries, Sardis, Greek sculpture, and South Italian archaeology and architecture.Joining the Michigan faculty as Assistant Professor in 1965, he was promoted Associate in 1968 and Professor in 1974. He served as Acting Chair of the Department of Classical Studies for two years in the 1970s and as Director of the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology during 1973-86. In 1978 he received a Senior Faculty Distinguished Achievement Award. In 1996-7 he was appointed Distinguished Senior Lecturer and received the Warner G. Rice Humanities Award. He has served as Visiting Scholar at Cambridge University, as Resident in Archaeology at the American Academy in Rome, and as Guest Scholar at the J. Paul Getty Museum.In the course of his career he has received fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies, the American research Institute in Turkey, Harvard University, the American Philosophical Society and the National Endowment for the Humanities, and numerous awards from the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities for improvements to the collections and programs of the Kelsey Museum.He is pleased to have been able to research and relate the life of Ellen Constance "Connie" Nightingale-his aunt by marriage.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Gnatbooks
• Seitenzahl: 142
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Februar 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 8mm
• Gewicht: 236g
• ISBN-13: 9780578351322
• ISBN-10: 0578351323
• Artikelnr.: 63561688