Gulliver, Julia Henrietta (1856–1940)
Gulliver, Julia Henrietta (1856–1940)
American scholar. Born July 30, 1856; died on July 25, 1940; graduated B.A. Smith College, 1879, Ph.D., 1888; postgraduate study at the University of Leipzig, 1892–1893. President of Rockford College (1902–1919).
Selected works:
Studies in Democracy (1917); many papers in academic journals.
At a time when very few women were able to have academic careers, Julia Henrietta Gulliver's career flourished with the study of philosophy and psychology. She entered Smith College in its inaugural year (1875) and was granted a B.A. in 1879 and a Ph.D. in 1888. In the 1890s, Gulliver went to Rockford Female Seminary, where she was head of the department of philosophy and Biblical literature. For two years, she resumed her own studies in Europe at the University of Leipzig with Wilhelm Wundt, and then returned to Rockford. The seminary was now a college, and she acted as its president from 1902 to 1919.
Catherine Hundleby , M.A., Philosophy, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada