Harvard Hires First Woman Professor, Alice Hamilton

Alice Hamilton was hired as an assistant professor in 1919 to create the Department of Industrial Medicine at Harvard Medical School. Although her appointment was in the Faculty of Medicine, she taught through the Harvard-MIT School of Public Health.

Dr. Hamilton was hired with three caveats: she could not participate in Commencement; she could not attend the Harvard Faculty Club; and she was not given complimentary football tickets.