She was the first woman faculty member at the Institute for Advanced Study[1] and one of the first female archaeologists to undertake excavations in Greece and the Middle East.
[4] Goldman graduated in 1903 from Bryn Mawr College, where she took a double major in English and Greek.
She received her PhD in 1916, having written a thesis entitled The Terracottas from the Necropolis of Halae.
In 1936, Goldman was the first woman to be appointed to the Institute for Advanced Study as a professor.
[1] Goldman was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1950.