She visited Athens in 1905 to attend the International Congress of Archaeology where she met the archaeologist and anthropologist Charles Henry Hawes (1867-1943) of Cambridge University.
There she discovered a Minoan city, and in later excavations, Minoan tombs on the hill of Sphoungaras nearby. In 1904 she began her excavation of Gournia in Crete, assisted by Blanche Emily Wheeler (1870-1936), the final recipient of the Hoppin Fellowship. In 1902, she was the first woman to address the Archaeological Societies, which subsequently granted her a fellowship. She returned to Smith in 1900 to lecture, incorporating her findings into a master's thesis at Smith College in 1901. She was the first woman to ever lead an archaeological excavation in the Aegean. Only digging for four months, she uncovered houses and tombs from the Geometric period. Arthur Evans, working at Knossos, advised her to dig at Kavousi in eastern Crete. Boyd used the Hoppin fund to finance a dig herself. However, the School did not accept women on their digs and she was recommended to work as a librarian. In 1899 she received the $1000 Agnes Hoppin Memorial Fellowship, created by the ASCSA to address limitations placed on women in the archaeological field. She volunteered as a nurses' aid the following year for soldiers wounded the Spanish American War. She was later decorated by Greece for her work in the war. During the Greco-Turkish war when the Turkish army defeated the Greek army, displacing many Greek citizens, Hawes took nursing training to assist them. Starting in 1898 she received a fellowship from the ASCSA school. In 1896 she did her graduate work with the American School of Classical Studies in Athens. She was awarded a Bachelor's degree in Classics from Smith College in 1892 as Phi Beta Kappa. From 1892 to 1896 she taught Classics in various schools in both North Carolina and Delaware. Boyd received her early education from Prospect Hill School in Massachusetts where she graduated in 1888. Her mother died when she was 10 months old and was raised solely by her father. Born Harriett Boyd, her father was Alexander Boyd, a leather merchant, and her mother Harriet Wheeler (Boyd) in 1871, the final of five children and the only girl. Archaeologist of classical antiquity first woman to lead an archaeological excavation in the Aegean.
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