Milicent Shinn

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Milicent Washburn Shinn (1858 - August 14, 1940) was a child psychologist who was the first female 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.

[edit] 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)

[edit] References

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