 When she was still young, Mabel became interested in the study of archaeology and ethnology, to which her father was greatly devoted.In 1901, after studying at Chicago University for several years, she went to Athens, Greece to study archaeology.While a student in Athens she met her husband, Dr. Slavko Grujić, a member of a distinguished family of Serbia, who was at the time Chargé d'affaires of the Serbian Legation in Paris.