Caroline Morris Galt

Caroline Morris Galt
BornNovember 6, 1875
Aurora, Illinois, U.S.
DiedJanuary 17, 1937 (aged 61)
South Hadley, Massachusetts, U.S.
OccupationsCollege professor of art history, Greek, and archaeology

Caroline Morris Galt (November 6, 1875 – January 17, 1937) was an American college professor. She taught Greek, Latin, art history and archaeology courses at Mount Holyoke College, and was the first woman appointed as an annual professor at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens.

Early life and education

Galt was born in Aurora, Illinois, the daughter of Thomas Galt and Jeannette McFarlane Galt. Her mother was born in Glasgow, Scotland.

Caroline Galt earned a bachelor's degree at Bryn Mawr College in 1897, and pursued further studies at the University of Chicago and Columbia University. She was enrolled at the American School of Classical Studies in Rome in 1910 and 1911.[1]

Career

Galt taught Greek and mathematics at the Pennsylvania College for Women in Pittsburgh after college. She taught Latin at Mount Holyoke College starting in 1903, but was listed with the faculty only from 1908 to 1937.[2] She taught Greek and Latin, and took over much of the work of art history and archaeology professor Louise Fitz Randolph in 1913.[2] Her sisters, Mary Wallace Galt and Jeannette Rachel Galt, also taught at Mount Holyoke (mathematics and Latin, respectively).[3][4]

Galt taught a variety of courses throughout her time as an associate professor of archaeology at Mount Holyoke College. During the 1919-1920 academic year, she instructed classes on Egyptian archaeology, Roman archaeology, and Greek sculpture.[5]

Galt published articles on "a bronze statuette whose monumental beauty alone merits publication",[6] on "a sculptured marble fragment" from Aptera,[7] and on the "secluded life led by Greek women of the Hellenic Period".[8][9] In 1924 she toured through several northeastern states lecturing on "The Romans in Egypt."[10]

Galt organized the Mount Holyoke Friends of Art. In 1925, she was the first woman appointed as an annual professor at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens.[1][11] She was a member of the Classical League, the Archaeological Institute of America, the American Philological Association, and the American Numismatic Society.[1][12] One of her students at Mount Holyoke was archaeologist Sara Anderson Immerwahr.[13]

Death

Galt died of cancer on January 17th, 1937, in South Hadley, Massachusetts, at 61 years old.[11][14][15]

References

  1. ^ a b c Immerwahr, Sara A. "Caroline Morris Galt – 1875-1937" at "Breaking Ground: Women in Old World Archaeology", produced by the Brown University Institute of Archaeology and the Ancient World.
  2. ^ a b Herbert, Robert L. (2018). "History of Art at Mount Holyoke College, 1872-1914"
  3. ^ College, Mount Holyoke (1924). General Catalogue of Mount Holyoke College, 1837-1924. The College. p. 15.
  4. ^ Albino, Donna (2001-04-01). Mount Holyoke College. Arcadia Publishing. p. 62. ISBN 978-0-7385-0518-3.
  5. ^ College, Mount Holyoke (January 1920). "The Catalogue 1919-1920" (PDF). Mount Holyoke College Bulletin. 13 (3): 39.
  6. ^ Galt, Caroline M. (1929-01-01). "A Bronze Statuette". American Journal of Archaeology. 33 (1): 41–52. doi:10.2307/497647. ISSN 0002-9114. JSTOR 497647. S2CID 191374574.
  7. ^ "A Marble Fragment at Mount Holyoke College from the Cretan City of Aptera". Art and Archaeology. 6: 143–154. September 1917 – via Internet Archive.
  8. ^ Galt, Caroline M. (1931-10-01). "Veiled Ladies". American Journal of Archaeology. 35 (4): 373–393. doi:10.2307/498098. ISSN 0002-9114. JSTOR 498098. S2CID 245264905.
  9. ^ "'Veiled Ladies' Once Walked on Athens Streets". Lexington Herald-Leader. 1932-03-05. p. 2. Retrieved 2022-04-29 – via Newspapers.com.
  10. ^ "With Brooklyn and Long Island Students in School and College". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. 1924-03-28. p. 31. Retrieved 2022-04-29 – via Newspapers.com.
  11. ^ a b "Prof Caroline M. Galt of Mt Holyoke Dead". The Boston Globe. 1937-01-18. p. 7. Retrieved 2022-04-30 – via Newspapers.com.
  12. ^ American Numismatic Society. American Numismatic Society (ANS)—Standing Committees, 1916-1919 [ANS correspondence, ca. 1908-1931]. American Numismatic Society. p. 40.
  13. ^ Liebhart, Richard F. (2004). "Biography of Sara A. Immerwahr". Hesperia Supplements. 33: XIII–XVI. ISSN 1064-1173. JSTOR 1354058.
  14. ^ "Prof. Caroline M. Galt; Taught Greek and Archaeology at Mount Holyoke College". The New York Times. 1937-01-20. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2022-04-29.
  15. ^ "Current Events". The Classical Journal. 33 (2): 123–128. 1937. ISSN 0009-8353.
  • Clark, Austin. "Ancient Art and Modern Women: Louise Fitz-Randolph, Caroline Galt, and the Professionalization of Art History at Mount Holyoke College." (Master's thesis, University of Massachusetts 2017).
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