Judith Sealy is a Professor and South Africa Research Chairs Initiative Research Chair in Archaeology and Paleoenvironmental Studies and director of the Stable Light Isotope Lab in the Department of Archaeology at the University of Cape Town.
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Rivke Jaffe
1978 - Present (47 years)
Rivke Jaffe is a Dutch anthropologist by background, as of 2016 appointed professor of Urban Geography at the University of Amsterdam. Career Jaffe studied Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology at Leiden University, where she also wrote a Ph.D. dissertation on urban environmental problems and community involvement in Kingston, under the supervision of Peter Nas. Together with later fieldwork in Jamaica as well as Curaçao her dissertation formed the basis for the monograph Concrete Jungles. After writing her dissertation Jaffe held positions as postdoctoral researcher at the Royal N...
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Sonia Harmand
1974 - Present (51 years)
Sonia Harmand is a French archaeologist who studies Early Stone Age archaeology and the evolution of stone tool making. She received her undergraduate degree from the University of Paris where she was associated with the "Prehistory and Technology" research unit, which was well known in the field of stone tool analysis. Harmand earned a PhD from Paris Nanterre University, and is a research associate at CNRS, which is the largest French governmental research organization, and Europe's largest fundamental science agency. She worked as a Research Scientist at CNRS for four years before joining Stony Brook University in New York as an associate professor.
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Ana María Groot
1952 - Present (73 years)
Ana María Groot de Mahecha is a Colombian historian, archaeologist, anthropologist and associate professor at the Department of Anthropology of the Universidad Nacional de Colombia. Ana Mariá Groot speaks Spanish, English and French.
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Barbara Browning
1961 - Present (64 years)
Barbara Browning is an American academic, novelist, dancer, and cultural critic. Education and career Browning received her B.A. in comparative literature from Yale University in 1983, spent a year in Brazil on a Fulbright fellowship, where she studied dance, and then returned to Yale to complete her Ph.D. in 1989. She taught for six years in the English Department of Princeton University, where she was awarded the President's Distinguished Teaching Award, and since then has taught in the Department of Performance Studies at the Tisch School of the Arts, New York University, serving for a tim...
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Fiona Kumari Campbell
1963 - Present (62 years)
Fiona Kumari Campbell is a disability studies researcher and theorist, focusing on disability in relation to law, technology, advocacy, and desire. She is currently Professor of Disability and Ableism Studies in the School of Education and Social Work at the University of Dundee, Scotland and adjunct professor in Disability Studies with the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka. She is the author of Contours of Ableism.
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Christina Warinner
2000 - Present (25 years)
Christina Warinner is an American anthropologist best known for her research on the evolution of ancient microbiomes. She is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Harvard University and the Sally Starling Seaver Assistant Professor at the Radcliffe Institute. Warinner is also a Research group leader at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History in Jena, Germany.
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Rosalind Gill
1963 - Present (62 years)
Rosalind Clair Gill is a British sociologist and feminist cultural theorist. She is currently Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis at City, University of London. Gill is author or editor of ten books, and numerous articles and chapters, and her work has been translated into Chinese, German, Portuguese, Spanish and Turkish.
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Kathleen M. Adams
1957 - Present (68 years)
Kathleen M. Adams is a cultural anthropologist, Professorial Research Associate at SOAS, University of London, Professor Emerita at Loyola University Chicago, and an Adjunct Curator at the Field Museum of Natural History. Adams is known for her research on cultural transformations in island Southeast Asia, , and her contributions to critical tourism studies, heritage studies, and museum studies. Her award-winning books include Art as Politics: Re-crafting Identities, Tourism and Power in Tana Toraja, Indonesia and The Ethnography of Tourism: Edward Bruner and Beyond . Additional books include ...
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Deborah Wong
1959 - Present (66 years)
Deborah Anne Wong is an American academic, educator, and ethnomusicologist. She is known for her studies of Asian-American and Thai music. Early life and education Wong was born on the east coast of the United States and now lives in California. She received a Bachelor of Arts in anthropology and music from the University of Pennsylvania in 1982. Wong later attended the University of Michigan, from which she earned her master's degree and then her PhD in 1991. She identifies as Chinese-American, Asian-American, and multi-ethnic.
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Sharon Macdonald
1961 - Present (64 years)
Sharon Jeanette Macdonald is a British anthropologist and museologist. Career In 1987, Macdonald received her Ph.D. from the University of Oxford and subsequently taught at Brunel University and Keele University. From 1996 until 2004, she was a lecturer, then 2005 a reader in cultural anthropology, both at the University of Sheffield. In 2006, she held a position as professor of social anthropology at the University of Manchester. She was appointed as anniversary professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of York in 2015. There, she led the "Profusion" theme in the Heritage Futures project.
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Clara Lee Tanner
1905 - 1997 (92 years)
Clara Lee Tanner was an American anthropologist, editor and art historian. She is known for studies of the arts and crafts of American Indians of the Southwest. Early life and education Born Clara Lee Fraps in Biscoe, North Carolina, the daughter of Joseph Conrad Fraps, a railroad machinist, and his wife, Clara Dargon Lee Fraps. She moved with her family to Tucson, Arizona, at the age of two.
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Sada Mire
1976 - Present (49 years)
Sada Mire is a Swedish-Somali archaeologist, art historian and presenter from Arap clan who currently serves as an assistant professor at the faculty of archeology, Leiden University. She is a public intellectual and heritage activist who has argued that cultural heritage is a basic human need in her 2014 TEDxEuston talk. In 2017, Hay Festival of Literature and the Arts selected Mire as one of their 30 international thinkers and writers. She became the Director of Antiquities pf Somaliland in 2007. Raised in the Somali capital of Mogadishu, Mire fled the country at the start of the civil war at the age of 15.
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Yasuko I. Takezawa
1957 - Present (68 years)
Yasuko I. Takezawa is a Japanese cultural anthropologist who researches race, ethnicity, and immigration in the United States, Japan, and other countries. She is a professor of cultural anthropology and sociology at the Institute for Research in the Humanities of Kyoto University.
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Anna Curtenius Roosevelt
1946 - Present (79 years)
Anna Curtenius Roosevelt is an American archaeologist and Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at the University of Illinois Chicago. She studies human evolution and long-term human-environment interaction. She is one of the leading American archeologists studying Paleoindians in the Amazon basin. Her field research has included significant findings at Marajo Island and Caverna da Pedra Pintada in Brazil. She does additional field work in the Congo Basin. She is the great-granddaughter of United States President Theodore Roosevelt.
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Rita El Khayat
1944 - Present (81 years)
Rita El Khayat also known as "Ghita". Ghita El Khayat, , is Moroccan psychiatrist, anthro-psychoanalyst, writer, and anthropologist. She studied at modern schools of Rabat and completed her graduation in the field of Psychiatry, Psychoanalyst and Medical Aerospace from Paris whereas graduation in Ergonomics and Occupational Medicine were completed from Bordeaux. She did her PhD in Anthropology of Arab World from .
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Fiona Marshall
2000 - Present (25 years)
Fiona Marshall is an archaeologist at Washington University in St. Louis. Her methodological specialties are zooarchaeology and ethnoarchaeology. She has excavated Pastoral Neolithic sites in eastern Africa, focusing primarily on the domestication and herding of animals, particularly cattle and donkeys. She has also conducted ethnoarchaeological research on factors that affect body part representation in archaeological sites, and on foraging ways of life amongst Okiek people of the western Mau Escarpment, Kenya. She has also worked to conserve the Laetoli footprints.
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Mariza Corrêa
1945 - 2016 (71 years)
Mariza Corrêa was a Brazilian anthropologist and sociologist. She was professor at the Department of Anthropology of the State University of Campinas . Trained in journalism in the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul , she started to study social sciences in the State University of Campinas where she graduated in 1975. She earned in 1982 her PhD in Political Sciences at the University of São Paulo with a thesis on Raimundo Nina Rodrigues.
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Margaret McArthur
1919 - 2002 (83 years)
Annie Margaret McArthur was an Australian nutritionist, anthropologist and educator. She is remembered for conducting ground-breaking research from the late 1940s into the indigenous peoples of Australia, Papua New Guinea and the Pacific region. After assignments with the World Health Organization and the Food and Agriculture Organization, in 1965 she was engaged as the first women lecturer in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Sydney, becoming a senior lecturer prior to her retirement in 1975.
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Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney
1934 - Present (91 years)
Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney is a noted anthropologist and the William F. Vilas Professor of Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. She is the author of fourteen single-authored books in English and in Japanese, in addition to numerous articles. Her books have been translated into many other languages, including Italian, Korean, Polish and Russian. Ohnuki-Tierney was appointed the Distinguished Chair of Modern Culture at the Library of Congress in DC in 2009 and then in 2010 Fellow of Institut d’Études Avancées-Paris. She is a member of The American Academy of Arts and Sciences, its mi...
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Nora Groce
1952 - Present (73 years)
Nora Ellen Groce is an anthropologist, global health expert and Director of the Disability Research Centre at University College London. She is known for her work on vulnerable populations in low- and middle-income countries and in particular for her work on people with disabilities in the developing world. Her doctoral dissertation, published by Harvard University Press in 1985, Everyone Here Spoke Sign Language: Hereditary Deafness on Martha’s Vineyard, is considered a classic work in the disability studies and ethnographic literatures.
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Beatriz Barba
1928 - 2021 (93 years)
Beatriz Barba Ahuactzin was a Mexican academic, anthropologist, and archaeologist, who was the second woman to earn a degree in archaeology in her country. She was a member of the National System of Researchers from 1985 and a member of the Mexican Academy of Sciences. Upon her fortieth anniversary of teaching, in 1991, she was honored with the gold Ignacio Altamirano Medal by the government of Mexico and the Secretariat of Education. In 2013, the National Institute of Anthropology and History paid tribute to her life's work.
Go to ProfileSally McBrearty was an American paleoanthropologist and Paleolithic archaeologist. She was a professor and head of the anthropology department at the University of Connecticut. Education and career McBrearty studied at the University of California, Berkeley and the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, completing her PhD at Illinois in 1986. She joined the University of Connecticut in 1994, was appointed a professor in 2002, and head of the department of anthropology in 2008. Previously, she held positions at Brandeis University, Yale University, and the College of William & Mary.
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Susan Alberts
1959 - Present (66 years)
Susan C. Alberts is an American primatologist, anthropologist, and biologist who is the current Chair of the Department of Evolutionary Anthropology at Duke University; previously, she served as a Bass fellow and the Robert F. Durden Professor of Biology at Duke. She currently co-directs the Amboseli Baboon Research Project with Jeanne Altmann of Princeton University. Her research broadly studies how animal behavior evolved in mammals, with a specific focus on the social behavior, demography, and genetics of the yellow baboon, although some of her work has included the African elephant. She wa...
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Kristen Hawkes
1944 - Present (81 years)
Kristen Hawkes is an American anthropologist, currently a professor at University of Utah. In 2021 she was elected to the American Philosophical Society. Education Hawkes received a bachelor's degree in Sociology and Anthropology from Iowa State University and a Masters in Anthropology from the University of Washington. She was awarded a PhD in Anthropology for her research into kinship and cooperation among the Binumarien a highland community in New Guinea.
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Isabel McBryde
1934 - Present (91 years)
Isabel McBryde AO is an Australian archaeologist and emeritus professor at the Australian National University and School Fellow, in the School of Social Sciences, Faculty of Arts. McBryde is credited with training "at least three generations of Australian archaeologists" and is affectionately referred to as the "Mother of Australian Archaeology". McBryde had a "holistic" approach to studying the archaeology of Aboriginal Australia, which has been carried on by many of her students . McBryde has also made considerable contributions to the preservation and protection of Australian cultural her...
Go to ProfileDr. Brenda E.F. Beck , also known as Brindha Beck, is a Canadian anthropologist and exporter of Tamil culture. She has published eight books and authored over sixty journal articles and is a key figure in raising awareness of Tamil culture in Toronto, Canada, where many Tamil Indians settled after the Tamil Diaspora. She lived in Olapalayam near Kangayam for two years in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. She spent two years there for her doctorate in anthropology, awarded by the University of Oxford . The title of the thesis was Social and conceptual order in Koṅku. She published her research i...
Go to ProfileKaren Ramey Burns was an American forensic anthropologist known for work in international human rights. Her specialty was the recovery and identification of human remains in criminal, historical, archaeological, and disaster-related circumstances. She worked on a number of high-profile cases, including the Raboteau Massacre and trial in Haiti, the Río Negro massacre in Guatemala, victims of genocide in Iraqi Kurdistan, the Amelia Earhart search in Kiribati, Fiji, and the Northern Mariana Islands, and the identification of the Kazimierz Pułaski remains in Savannah, Georgia, United States. She w...
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Judith Swaddling
1950 - Present (75 years)
Judith Swaddling is a British classical archaeologist and the Senior Curator of Etruscan and pre-Roman Italy in the Department of Greece and Rome at the British Museum. She is particularly known for her work on the Etruscans, and the ancient Olympic Games.
Go to ProfileMayfair Yang or Yang Meihui is a Taiwanese-American cultural anthropologist of China. Her research focuses on modernity, religion and secularism, state formation, religious environmentalism, China Studies, gender studies, postcolonial studies, and media studies.
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Constanza Ceruti
1973 - Present (52 years)
María Constanza Ceruti is an anthropologist and mountaineer from Argentina, who has done more than 80 field surveys, most of them as part of National Geographic teams in Andean regions of Argentina, Chile, Bolivia, Ecuador and Peru. Her most important finding are the Children of Llullaillaco, considered the best preserved mummies in the world by the Guinness World Records. She is also the first woman worldwide to specialize in high-altitude archaeology, studying Inca ceremonial centers on the summits of Andean peaks above 6000 meters. She is a pioneer in the anthropological study of sacred m...
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Pamela Erickson
1951 - Present (74 years)
Pamela Irene Erickson is a medical anthropologist. The holder of both a Dr.P.H and a PhD , she is Professor of Anthropology and Community Medicine at the University of Connecticut, Storrs. A former editor of the scholarly journal Medical Anthropology Quarterly, much of her own research has focused on reproductive health among Hispanic girls and young women. Prominent among the publications resulting from these investigations is her 1998 book, Latina Adolescent Childbearing in East Los Angeles. Erickson has also done fieldwork in Nepal, the Philippines, India, and Ecuador and this work is reflected in her 2008 textbook, Ethnomedicine.
Go to ProfileJudith Friedlander is a Professor of Anthropology at Hunter College in New York City. She is the Acting Director of Academic Programs and former Dean of Roosevelt House, as well as the former dean of The New School.
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Katharina Galor
1966 - Present (59 years)
Katharina Galor is a German-born Israeli art historian and archaeologist specializing in Israel-Palestine. She has been teaching at Brown University since 1998, where she is Hirschfeld Visiting Associate Professor of Judaic Studies and Visiting Associate Professor of Urban Studies.
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Dawn Prince-Hughes
1964 - Present (61 years)
Dawn Prince-Hughes is an American anthropologist, primatologist, and ethologist. She is the author of several books, including Gorillas Among Us: A Primate Ethnographer's Book of Days and her memoir Songs of the Gorilla Nation: My Journey Through Autism, and she is the editor of the essay collection Aquamarine Blue 5: Personal Stories of College Students with Autism.
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Emiliana Cruz
1971 - Present (54 years)
Emiliana Cruz is a contemporary linguistic anthropologist. She received her doctorate in linguistic anthropology from University of Texas at Austin and currently teaches at CIESAS-CDMX. She is the co-founder of the Chatino Language Documentation Project.
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Olcay Neyzi
1927 - Present (98 years)
Remide Olcay Neyzi was a Turkish doctor and the former Director of the Department of Pediatrics, Istanbul Faculty of Medicine . As the first author of the most comprehensive pediatric textbook in Turkish, she greatly contributed to improving the level of medical education in Turkey.
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Theresa A. Singleton
1952 - Present (73 years)
Theresa A. Singleton is an American archaeologist and writer who focuses on the archaeology of African Americans, the African diaspora, and slavery in the United States. She is a leading archaeologist applying comparative approaches to the study of slavery in the Americas. Singleton has been involved in the excavation of slave residences in the southern United States and in the Caribbean. She is a professor of anthropology at Syracuse University, and serves as a curator for the National Museum of Natural History.
Go to ProfileChristine Hastorf is an archaeologist and is currently Professor in the Anthropology department at the University of California, Berkeley. Her research focuses on agriculture, political complexity, gender, archaeobotany, and the archaeology of the Andes.
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Polly Hill
1914 - 2005 (91 years)
Polly Hill was a British social anthropologist of West Africa, and an Emeritus Fellow of Clare Hall, Cambridge. Life and career Hill came from a family of distinguished academics – her father, A. V. Hill, had earned a Nobel prize in physiology and her mother Margaret Hill was a leading social reformer. Hill's maternal grandfather was economist John Neville Keynes, and maternal uncles were economist John Maynard Keynes and surgeon Geoffrey Keynes. Her brothers were the physiologist David Keynes Hill and the oceanographer Maurice Hill, while her sister Janet married the immunologist John Herber...
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Aileen Fox
1907 - 2005 (98 years)
Aileen Mary Fox, Lady Fox, was an English archaeologist, who specialised in the archaeology of south-west England. She notably excavated the Roman legionary fortress in Exeter, Devon, after the Second World War.
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Kristina Killgrove
1977 - Present (48 years)
Kristina Killgrove is an American bioarchaeologist, science communicator, and author who primarily covers anthropology and archaeology news and engages in research on ancient Roman skeletons. She is a regular contributor to Live Science and previously to Mental Floss, Science Uncovered, and Forbes. From 2012 to 2018, she was faculty in anthropology at the University of West Florida and she has maintained an affiliation as a research scholar at the Ronin Institute since 2011. She is currently affiliated with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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Branislava Sušnik
1920 - 1996 (76 years)
Branislava Sušnik was a Slovenian-Paraguayan anthropologist. Life and education Branislava Sušnik was born on 28 March 1920 in Medvode, Kingdom of Yugoslavia, currently in Slovenia to the lawyer Jože Sušnik and Karolina née Prijatelj. She attended primary school and classical grammar school in Ljubljana, and in 1937 entered Ljubljana University where she studied prehistory and history at the Faculty of Arts. In 1942, Sušnik completed her doctoral studies in ethnohistory and Ural-Altaic linguistics with the German anthropologist prof. Wilhelm Schmidt in Vienna and began studying the cultures and languages of Asia Minor at the Pontifical Biblical Institute in Rome.
Go to ProfileCarolyn Sargent is a medical anthropologist. She focuses on gender studies and health issues, with interests in reproductive health, managing the health of women in low-income families, and decision making in the medical field. She has done fieldwork in West Africa, Benin, Jamaica and France where she worked on reproductive health, midwifery, prenatal care and migrant fertility patterns.
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Sondra Hale
1937 - Present (88 years)
Sondra Hale is Professor Emeritus of Anthropology and Gender Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles ; former Co-editor of the Journal of Middle East Women's Studies and former Co-Chair, Islamic Studies. Her regional interests are in Africa and the Middle East, focusing mainly on Sudan and Eritrea .
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Anne Zeller
1947 - Present (78 years)
Anne C. Zeller is a physical anthropologist who specializes in the study of primates. She received her M.A. and Ph.D from the University of Toronto. During her graduate studies she worked on chromosome analysis, comparing chimpanzee and human chromosomes. Anne has undertaken primate field research in Morocco, Gibraltar, Texas, Borneo and Africa. These two types of research combine interests in the physical development of humans from their primate ancestors, and the behavioral patterns of primates which are similar to those found among humans. However, her approach to physical anthropology is ...
Go to ProfileStephanie Moser is an archaeology professor and head of the department at the University of Southampton, England. Her work explores the exhibition and reception of the human past. Moser's research examines visual images from antiquity through the lens of modern anthropology.
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Florence M. Hawley
1906 - 1991 (85 years)
Florence May Hawley Ellis was one of the first anthropologists to work extensively on dendrochronology, or tree-ring dating. She conducted archaeological and ethnographic research in the Southwestern United States; and undertook some of the first dendrochronological research in eastern North America in the mid 20th century, examining samples from a number of archaeological sites. She was also highly regarded as a passionate teacher who pushed her students toward greatness by encouraging them to think for themselves and work hard for what they wanted to achieve. Although faced with many challe...
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Helen Safa
1930 - 2013 (83 years)
Helen M. Icken Safa was an anthropologist, feminist scholar and academic. Safa focused her work on Latin American studies and she served as president of the Latin American Studies Association from 1983 to 1985. She taught anthropology and Latin American studies at Syracuse University, Rutgers University and the University of Florida. She received the Silvert Award, the highest honor given by the Latin American Studies Association.
Go to ProfilePenelope Dransart is an anthropologist, archaeologist, and historian specialising in South American anthropology and the study of castles. Until 2016 she was a Reader at University of Wales Trinity Saint David. She is Honorary Reader at the University of Aberdeen. Dransart was elected as a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London in 1998. She has written or edited several books, including Earth, Water, Fleece and Fabric: An Ethnography and Archaeology of Andean Camelid Herding .
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