Kate Everest Levi

Kate Asaphine Everest Levi (January 4, 1859 – October 19, 1938) was an American educator, writer, and social worker.

[1] Although both Syracuse University (1880, 1884) and the College of Wooster (1889) had granted doctorates in history to women in the 1880s,[2] Everest Levi is considered the first woman to receive a Ph.D. in history from an organized graduate school in the United States.

[3] She wrote on topics such as education and German immigration to the Midwest.

After attending Fond du Lac High School, she entered the University of Wisconsin in 1879, earning a BA in 1882.

After graduation, she taught at Markham's Academy, Milwaukee from 1882 to 1883; at La Crosse High School from 1883 to 1884; and was teacher of history and languages at Lawrence University from 1884 to 1890.