Maria Mitchell was the first woman in the United States to become a professor in this field.
Anthropology
Archeaology
Architecture
Astronomy
Astronomy. Born into a Massachusetts Quaker family in 1818, with a father who believed all his children should be educated to the extent of their abilities, she discovered the comet now named for her in 1847. A year later she was the first woman electd to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in Boston.