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.[1] 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.
[5] Hall applied for the Agnes Hoppin Memorial Fellow at the American School of Classical Studies in Athens.
[5] Hall was able to receive a grant from the American Exploration Society specifically to be in Gournia as Boyd's assistant.
[5] Hall came onto the excavation site with knowledge of the Greek language and her previous studies, of Minoan and Mycenaean pottery designs, which meant she did not need much training compared to other candidates.
[5] During Hall's time at the dig site, she would have to take notes on where any object was found, how deep they were underground, and clean them in hydrochloric acid to be photographed and placed in scrapbooks documenting their findings.
[5] Spending more time on this dig site, Hall was able to recover "twenty thousand vase fragments, but only five joints were made.
Boyd and Hall shipped their findings to the United States which ended up forming the first Mycenaean and pre-Mycenaean collection to be displayed in America.
[4] During her time at Mount Holyoke College Hall was allowed to return to Crete to continue her excavations during the Spring semesters and taught during the Fall.
[7] Her time teaching at Mount Holyoke College came to an end in 1912 but Hall would return in 1913 to give a guest presentation.
[8] She published an important corpus of Italic tomb groups held in the collection of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.
[5] Hall was also awarded the Agnes Hoppin Memorial Fellowship of the American School of Classical Studies in Athens in 1903.