Janet D. Spector

Summary

This is an abstract from the "Female Firsts: Celebrating Archaeology’s Pioneering Women on the 101st Anniversary of the 19th Amendment " session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Janet D. Spector is best known for her groundbreaking work in Feminist Archaeology and collaborative research but she also made significant contributions beyond archaeology. Spector helped form the Women’s Studies Department at the University of Minnesota in 1973, the first in the nation to offer a major in women’s studies. And in the wake of Rajender v. University of Minnesota (a landmark class action lawsuit dealing with sexual discrimination in the academy), she was tapped by university administrators to head a special Commission on the Status of Women. Using an anthropological approach, Spector began a series of ethnographic interviews with faculty, staff, and students to evaluate conditions in order to improve the campus climate. In all of her work, Spector sought to challenge existing structures of knowledge using the same integrated, multivocal approach that characterized her work in archaeology.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 86th Annual Meeting, Online (2021)   •
• Female Firsts: Celebrating Archaeology’s Pioneering Women on the 101st Anniversary of the 19th Amendment

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Abstract Id(s): 32062