Milicent Shinn

Milicent Washburn Shinn (1858 – August 14, 1940) was a child psychologist who was the first woman to receive a doctorate from the University of California, Berkeley. She finished her undergraduate degree in 1880, edited the Overland Monthly from 1882–1894, and received her Ph.D. in 1898. She died in Niles, California.

Works

• The Leland Stanford, Junior, University (1891)
• Notes on the development of a child, 2 volumes, University of California Studies, (1893).
• Notes on Children's Drawings (1897)
• The Biography Of A Baby (1900)
• The Development of the Senses in the First Three Years of Childhood, (1908)

References

• Obituary, New York Times, August 14, 1940 (unverified).

Weblinks

• Christine von Oertzen: Science in the nursery: Milicent Shinn’s observations of early childhood development, 1890 to 1910, article about Shinn and her work from the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science 2013 (in German, English abstract)