19 Facts About Emily Vermeule

Emily Dickinson Townsend Vermeule was an American classical scholar and archaeologist.

Emily Vermeule was a professor of classical philology and archaeology at Harvard University.

Emily Vermeule was named for her grandmother, a relative of the poet Emily Dickinson.

Emily Vermeule attended the Brearley School in New York City from 1934 to 1946.

Emily Vermeule earned an AM in classical archaeology from Radcliffe College in 1954, and a Ph.

Emily Vermeule taught at Bryn Mawr and Wellesley College from 1956 to 1958, became an assistant professor of classics in 1958, and was hired as an associate professor, at Boston University in 1961.

Emily Vermeule was the James Loeb Visiting Professor of Classical Philology at Harvard University in 1969.

In 1995, Emily Vermeule served as the president of the American Philological Association.

Emily Vermeule excavated at many sites in Greece, Turkey, Cyprus and Libya, including Gordion in the early 1950s, and Kephallenia, Messenia, Coastal East Libya, Halicarnassus, and Thera-Santorini in the 1960s.

Emily Vermeule was director of the excavations at Toumba tou Skourou, Cyprus, from 1971 to 1974.

Toumba tou Skourou, near Morphou, Cyprus, was a Late Bronze Age town that Emily Vermeule uncovered which represented three different cultures coming together: Palestinian, Egyptian, and Minoan.

Emily Vermeule was awarded the Radcliffe Graduate Society Gold Medal in 1968.

Emily Vermeule's lecture was entitled "Greeks and Barbarians: The Classical Experience in the Larger World," and dealt with the relationship between the Greeks and their "less civilized" neighbours.

Emily Vermeule received several honorary degrees from institutions throughout the United States.

Emily Vermeule was an elected member of both the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society.

Emily Vermeule married the archaeologist Cornelius Clarkson Vermeule III in 1957.

Emily Vermeule died of heart disease-related issues in Cambridge, Massachusetts on February 6,2001, at the age of 72.

Emily Vermeule was one of the earliest female academics at Harvard University and helped shape the faculty.

Emily Vermeule was a published poet, whose works appeared in The New Yorker and Poetry Magazine.