In the early days of professionalizing archaeology, women were able to participate in the discipline more easily than they could in a number of other scientific practices. Caroline Ransom was the first university-trained woman practicing as an Egyptologist in the United States in 1905. Contrary to what her male counterparts did, Ransom’s most influential work was done on the administrative side of the discipline, and not on the field site. It was through this gendered domestic academic work that she established her wide ranging and influential professional networks. The focus of this chapter is Ransom’s career as an assistant curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, where she had constant contact with patrons and archaeologists from all over the world. Ransom, and others like her, organized and maintained the foundational universities, museums, societies, and collections forming the center of the work. Using Ransom’s career as a case study, this chapter argues that we must study women in the early days of the discipline who were doing institution-building work. They were central to the narrative of Egyptology as network nodes, and they must be seen as such in order to understand the reality of their undeniable disciplinary impact.