Evelynn M. Hammonds is an American feminist, scholar and educator. She is the Barbara Gutmann Rosenkrantz Professor of the History of Science and Professor of African and African-American Studies at Harvard University, and former Dean of Harvard College. The intersections of race, gender, science and medicine are prominent research topics across her published works. Hammonds received degrees in engineering and physics. Before getting her PhD in the History of Science at Harvard, she was a computer programmer. She began her teaching career at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, later moving to Harvard. In 2008, Hammonds was appointed dean, the first African-American and the first woman to head the College. She returned to full-time teaching in 2013.
I love the name Evelynn so much that I named my daughter Evelynn! Her great grandmother passed away in 2016 and her middle name was Evelyn so I named my daughter after her but I added the extra "n" to make it a little more unique.