Ettalene Mears Grice (March 25, 1887 – December 4, 1927) was an American educator, curator, and scholar of ancient Assyria and Babylonia.
She completed doctoral studies in 1917, and was the first woman to earn a Ph.D. in Assyriology at Yale.
She was the Alexander Kohut Research Fellow at Yale from 1919 to 1925,[7] working as assistant to curator and professor Albert T. Clay,[8] and lecturing on Assyria.
[5][10] As Clay's assistant, she worked on several large projects, including a "Historical Palaeography of Babylonia and Assyria", which was "a dreary, endless task, but Miss Grice embarked upon it with patience and competence," according to a recent historian.
[8] He moved back to Ohio[2] after she died suddenly in 1927, at the age of 40, in Hartford, Connecticut.