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= Anna Marguerite McCann = Anna Marguerite McCann (May 11, 1933 - February 12, 2017) was an American art historian and underwater archaeologist, widely known for being one of the few women in the field in the 1960's. Most of her excavations and dives took place in the Mediterranean Sea. McCann studied Art History and Classical Studies for her undergraduate degree as well as for her master's degree and doctorate. She was known for her graduate thesis: "The Portraits of Septimius Severus, A.D. 193–211", which remains today the major scholarly work on the portraiture of the Roman emperor, Septimius Severus. .

Education
In 1954, McCann earned a B.A. in Art History (Phi Beta Kappa) with a minor in Classical Studies at Wellesley College. She continued her education on a Fulbright gran t at the American School of Classical Studies in Athens for a year when she was 21 years old.

In 1957, she would earn her Master's degree from New York University where she wrote her thesis, "Greek Statuary Types in Roman Historical Reliefs".

In 1965, she earned her doctorate in Art History and Classics from Indiana University.

Underwater Archaeology
McCann was one of the trailblazers in the field of underwater archaeology. She began diving in the early 1960's when the field was still in its infancy and very male-dominated.

From 1961 to 1962, she dove with the National Geographic Society and University of Pennsylvania for the excavation of the Yassı Ada shipwreck, a seventh-century C.E. wreck off the island of Yassı Ada in Turkey.

In 1963, she worked in the port of Kenchreai with a project sponsored by the University of Chicago and Indiana University.

In 1964 in Cosa, Italy,, she discovered an underwater pier. At first, her discovery was dismissed by the director of the American Academy, but Dr. McCann pressed forward and managed to secure funding for excavations from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the University of Missouri. The excavations would continue for another 22 years.

During her tenure at the American Academy in Rome, McCann worked as a photographer for land excavations directed by Frank E. Brown at the hilltop ruins of Cosa on the coast of Tuscany in Italy.

Teaching
McCann taught art history and archaeology at the University of Missouri (1966–1971) and at the University of California, Berkeley (1971–1974), as well as at Boston University (1997–2001)was a visiting scholar in the Program in Science, Technology, and Society at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2001–2007).

Museum Work
In the mid 1970's, Anna Marguerite McCann cataloged roman sculptures for the Metropolitan Museum of Art as part of its curatorial staff in the mid seventies. In 1975, She would direct their lecture program, "Archaeology Around the World”.

Awards
McCann published some of her research on sculpture in her book Roman Sarcophagi in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, which received the Association of American University Presses’ Outstanding Book Award (1978) and was recognized as an Outstanding Art Book by the Thomas J. Watson Library (1978).

In 1997, McCann received the Wellesley College Alumnae Achievement Award, the highest honor given to Wellesley College alumnae.

In 1998, McCann received the highest award, the Gold Medal Award, from the Archaeological Institute of America.