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She traveled to Germany to obtain a doctorate in art history. She failed to qualify in Berlin and Leipzig. Leipzig was her favorite and she attended the lectures of ten different professors, despite the rule that women were not admitted. She led a group of Wellesley students to visit the university
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She returned to America where she was employed by the University of Rochester in 1902. This was the year after the first woman obtained a degree at Rochester. Denio was the first woman to teach and her wages were covered by
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In 1910 she was promoted. She was mentioned by the university president, Benjamin Rush Rhees, in his annual report, in which he lauded Denio's teaching. She retired in 1917 with the title of Professor Emeritus.
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In 1896, Wellesley College had a new president, who decided that Denio's method of teaching was archaic, and she lost her job.
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The Transatlantic World of Higher Education: Americans at German Universities, 1776-1914
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Adventures Abroad: North American Women at German-speaking Universities, 1868-1915
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in October 1898. Her thesis was on the "Life and Works of Nicholas Pouissin".
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in 1889. She was successful in obtaining her doctorate at the
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Albion, New York
Rochester
American
University of Rochester
Professor Emeritus
Albion, New York
University of Heidelberg
Emily Sibley Watson
Rochester
The Transatlantic World of Higher Education: Americans at German Universities, 1776-1914
ISBN
978-0-85745-783-7
Adventures Abroad: North American Women at German-speaking Universities, 1868-1915
ISBN
978-0-313-32371-3




"Denio Became University of Rochester's First Female Faculty Member | Orleans County Department of History"
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