Clairève Grandjouan

Clairève or Claireve Grandjouan (10 October 1929 – 1982) was a French-born American archaeologist.

She had a B.A. and Ph.D. from Bryn Mawr College. After working on excavations in Athens, she became General Secretary of the Archaeological Institute of America (1962–1968) and editor of its Bulletin, while teaching at New York University (1963–1968). She then taught at Hunter College from 1968, becoming chairman of classical and Oriental studies in 1968 and full professor in 1981.

She frequently spoke in public, described as "Stimulating, amusing, and well informed on a wide variety of area studies" and "a consummate educator".

She was a lively personality, and wrote fiction as well as academic papers, including a spoof entitled "The Dormouse Caper" which is described as showing her views on "teaching, scholarship and life".

Selected publications

(completed by Eileen Markson and Susan I. Rotroff)

References

1929 births

1982 deaths

American women archaeologists

Bryn Mawr College alumni

Hunter College faculty

20th-century American archaeologists

New York University faculty

French emigrants to the United States

20th-century American women writers

20th-century French women writers

American women academics