Edith Hall Dohan

Edith Hayward Hall Dohan (31 December 1877–14 July 1943) was an American archaeologist who earned Bryn Mawr College's first classical archaeology Ph.D. Hall was part of an excavation team with Harriet Boyd in her early career that most notably brought the first Mycenaean and pre-Mycenaean collection to be displayed in America.

Education Edith attended Woodstock Academy in Woodstock, Connecticut, along with her brother and sister, where her father, Ely Hall, was the principal.

Dohan's 1907 dissertation focused on art in Bronze Age Crete.

Gournia, 1904 In February, 1904, Richard Seager sent Edith Hall news via telegram that she was invited to join Harriet Boyd in Gournia as Boyd wished to have a female companion to join her team on excavations in Crete. In the early weeks of digging at her new site, she discovered thousands of shards of pottery, but after several weeks, Hall discovered there was not a correlation between depth and age and finding that the shards she had been uncovering dated back to around 2000 B.C. Her time teaching at Mount Holyoke College came to an end in 1912 but Hall would return in 1913 to give a guest presentation. She published an important corpus of Italic tomb groups held in the collection of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.

Personal life On May 12, 1915, Dohan married Joseph M. Dohan, a lawyer and gentleman farmer. Dohan's children were David Hayward Warrington Dohan and Katharine Elizabeth Dohan.