Elizabeth Hazelton Haight
Elizabeth Hazelton "Hazel" Haight (February 11, 1872 – November 15, 1964) was an American
classical scholar and
academic who specialised in Latin teaching. She spent most of her career working for
Vassar College in
Poughkeepsie,
New York. Haight was the second female president of the
American Philological Association, and first woman to chair the Advisory Council of the
American School of Classical Studies at Rome. She published eleven books in the field of Classics, as well as histories of Vassar and
James Monroe Taylor. Her works focused on Latin Literature and the Greek novel, before she began the study of symbolism in Latin literature in her final publications. She was involved in Vassar's war efforts during World War I, and supporting foreign scholars during World War II, and was consistently interested in promoting women's education as a force for good in American society.
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