Margaret Munn-Rankin
Joan Margaret Munn-Rankin, known as Margaret Munn-Rankin and published as J. M. Munn-Rankin, was a British archaeologist, historian, and academic, who specialised in the ancient Near East.
Career
From 1949 until her death in 1981, she was a Fellow of Newnham College, Cambridge, and a lecturer in the Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Cambridge. She bequeathed a sum of money to the university to establish the Margaret Munn-Rankin Studentship for Assyriology.In addition to her extensive teaching, she was also a field archaeologist and was involved in a number of excavations including Nimrud and Tell Rifaat.