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Olivia Harris
1948 - 2009 (61 years)
Olivia Jane Harris was a British social anthropologist whose work focused on the study of the Bolivian highlands. Her writing includes analyses of fertility, gender, money, conceptions of work and of time, the relation between law and custom, as well as the Inca and Spanish colonisation of current-day Bolivia.
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Richard T. Antoun
1932 - 2009 (77 years)
Richard T. "Dick" Antoun was a professor of anthropology at Binghamton University who specialized in Islamic and Middle Eastern studies. His work centered on religion and the social organization of tradition in Islamic law and ethics, among other things. He was stabbed to death in his office at Binghamton University in December 2009; a Saudi graduate student pleaded guilty to killing him, and was sentenced to 15 years in prison.
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Heidi Larson
1957 - Present (67 years)
Heidi J. Larson, Lady Piot is an American anthropologist and the founding director of the Vaccine Confidence Project. Larson headed Global Immunisation Communication at UNICEF and she is the author of Stuck: How Vaccine Rumors Start and Why They Don't Go Away. She was recognized as one of the BBC's 100 women of 2021.
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Manfred Bietak
1940 - Present (84 years)
Manfred Bietak is an Austrian archaeologist. He is professor emeritus of Egyptology at the University of Vienna, working as the principal investigator for an ERC Advanced Grant Project "The Hyksos Enigma" and editor-in-chief of the journal Ägypten und Levante and of four series of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Oriental and European Archaeology .
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Barbara Rylko-Bauer
1950 - Present (74 years)
Barbara Rylko-Bauer is a medical anthropologist and adjunct associate professor at Michigan State University. She earned a degree in microbiology from the University of Michigan and a Ph.D from the University of Kentucky. Her research and study efforts have focused on inequities in health care, social suffering, human rights, the Holocaust, and violence. The author of A Polish Doctor in the Nazi Camps: My Mother’s Memories of Imprisonment, Immigration, and a Life Remade, a memoir based on her mother’s time in the Nazi labor camps and the years after. Her mother was a prisoner turned doctor in the camp who later immigrated to the United States.
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Henk Schulte Nordholt
1953 - Present (71 years)
H.G.C. "Henk" Schulte Nordholt is head of research at KITLV and KITLV professor of Indonesian History at Leiden University. His focus is on Southeast Asian history, contemporary politics in Indonesia, political violence, Balinese studies and the anthropology of colonialism. He is chairman of the board of the International Institute of Asian Studies and Secretary of the European Association of Southeast Asian Studies .
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Virginia Gutiérrez de Pineda
1921 - 1999 (78 years)
Virginia Gutiérrez de Pineda was a Colombian anthropologist who pioneered work on Colombian family and medical anthropology. Biography She received her education at the National Pedagogy Institute, the Escuela Normal Superior of Colombia and the National Technology Institute, where she obtained her degree in Anthropology in 1944. She pursued graduate studies in Social and Medical Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley and, in 1962, she received her PhD in Social Sciences and Economics at the National Pedagogic University.
Go to ProfilePaloma Gay y Blasco is a social anthropologist specialising in gender and Spanish Gitanos . She is a full-time lecturer at University of St Andrews and has published two books and several articles, including Gypsies in Madrid: Sex, Gender, and the Performance of Identity and with Huon Wardle "How to Read Ethnography" .
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Nurit Bird-David
1951 - Present (73 years)
Nurit Bird-David is a professor of cultural anthropology at the University of Haifa, Israel. She is best known for her study of the Nayaka hunter-gatherers in South India, upon which she based much of her writings on animism, relational epistemology, and indigenous small-scale communities, and which later inspired additional fieldwork and insights on home-making in contemporary industrial societies, and the theoretical concept of scale in anthropology and other social sciences.
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Dawn Chatty
1947 - Present (77 years)
Dawn Chatty, is an American Emerita Professor of Anthropology and Forced Migration, who specialises in the Middle East, nomadic pastoral tribes, and refugees. From 2010 to 2015, she was Professor of Anthropology and Forced Migration at the University of Oxford and from 2011 to 2014, Director of the Refugee Studies Centre.
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James Spuhler
1917 - 1992 (75 years)
James Norman Spuhler was an American biological anthropologist who has been described as "the founder of anthropological genetics". He taught at the University of New Mexico from 1967 to 1984, where his research focused on human genetics. In 1990, he received the NAS Award for Scientific Reviewing. He died of cancer at his home in Santa Fe, New Mexico, on September 2, 1992.
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Jonathan Bach
1966 - Present (58 years)
Jonathan Bach is a professor of Global Studies at The New School. He is the founding chair of the Global Studies undergraduate interdisciplinary program at The New School in New York, where he has taught since 2002. He previously served as Associate Director of the Graduate Program in International Affairs at The New School. He is a faculty affiliate in the New School Department of Anthropology and at the Center for Organizational Innovation at Columbia University.
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Michel-Rolph Trouillot
1949 - 2012 (63 years)
Michel-Rolph Trouillot was a Haitian American academic and anthropologist. He was Professor of Anthropology and of Social Sciences at the University of Chicago. He was best known for his books Open the Social Science , Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History , and Global Transformations , which explored the origins and application of social science in academia and its implications in the world. Trouillot has been one of the most influential thinkers of Afro-Caribbean diaspora, because he developed wide-ranging academic work centered on Caribbean issues. Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall holds that "Trouillot was one of the most original and thoughtful voices in academia.
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Huon Wardle
1967 - Present (57 years)
Huon Wardle is a social anthropologist teaching at the University of St Andrews in Scotland. He is one of the key ethnographers of cosmopolitanism, and he draws both on philosophical and anthropological theory in his analyses. He is the author of An Ethnography of Cosmopolitanism in Kingston, Jamaica and, with Paloma Gay y Blasco of How to Read Ethnography . He is the editor with Nigel Rapport of A Cosmopolitan Anthropology? , with Moisés Lino e Silva of Freedom in Practice: Governance Autonomy and Liberty in the Everyday and with Justin Shaffner of Cosmopolitics . He has written articles in...
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Ekpo Eyo
1931 - 2011 (80 years)
Ekpo Okpo Eyo was a Nigerian scholar mostly known for his work on archeology of Nigeria. He worked at the interface of archeology, anthropology, and art history, and he was actively involved in and many years presiding the federal and national agencies of antiquities and museums in Nigeria. He has been described as 'a doyen and an institution in Nigerian culture' and a 'giant pillar [...] of Nigeria's museums'.
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Hanan Eshel
1958 - 2010 (52 years)
Hanan Eshel was an Israeli archaeologist and historian, well known in the field of Dead Sea Scrolls studies, although he did research in the Hasmonean and Bar Kokhba periods as well. With Magen Broshi he discovered a number of residential caves in the near vicinity of Qumran and co-published a number of historically significant documents from Qumran.
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Jeanne Favret-Saada
1934 - Present (90 years)
Jeanne Favret-Saada, born in 1934 in Tunisia, is a French ethnologist. Biography Favret-Saada was born in the Jewish community of Sfax in southern Tunisia. She studied philosophy in Paris, and then taught at the University of Algiers from 1959 to 1963. There, she studied political systems in Arab tribes and violence in Kabylie.
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Judith Irvine
1945 - Present (79 years)
Judith Temkin Irvine is the Edward Sapir Collegiate Professor of Linguistic Anthropology at the University of Michigan, where she researches language use in African social life to create social hierarchy.
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Mark Krasniqi
1920 - 2015 (95 years)
Mark Krasniqi was an Kosovar Albanian ethnographist, publicist, writer and translator who did most of his work while residing in Yugoslavia. Biography He was born on 19 October 1920 in near Peć, in the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes. He finished elementary school in Peć in the Serbian language and due to his Catholic background attended the Catholic high school in Prizren, being one of few Albanians among mostly Croatians and Slovenes, finishing in 1941. After high school, he studied literature at the University of Padova, Italy and after World War II he studied geography and ethnography at the University of Belgrade.
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Anne E. Pusey
1949 - Present (75 years)
Anne Elizabeth Pusey is director of the Jane Goodall Institute Research Center and a professor of evolutionary anthropology at Duke University. Since the early 1990s, Pusey has been archiving the data collected from the Gombe chimpanzee project. The collection housed at Duke University consists of a computerized database that Pusey oversees. In addition to archiving Jane Goodall’s research from Gombe, she is involved in field study and advising students at Gombe . She was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 2022.
Go to ProfileSonia Ruth Zakrzewski is a bioarchaeologist and associate professor at the University of Southampton. Career She is a member of the Paleopathology Association, and on the organising board of the Society for the Study of Human Biology and the British Association for Biological Anthropology & Osteoarchaeology . She was elected as a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London on 11 November 2011.
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Stephen Shennan
1949 - Present (75 years)
Stephen Shennan, FBA is a British archaeologist and academic. Since 1996, he has been Professor of Theoretical Archaeology. He was Director of the Institute of Archaeology at the University College London from 2005 to 2014.
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Thede Kahl
1971 - Present (53 years)
Thede Kahl is a German ethnographer and ethnolinguist. He is the head of the Institute of South Slavic Studies in the University of Jena , in Germany. His research focuses are the Slavs, endangered languages and dialects, minorities of the Balkans and Anatolia and other topics related to ethnography and ethnolinguistics. Kahl has received numerous awards, such as the "Distincția Culturală" diploma from the Romanian Academy. He is also a member of various organizations like the Austrian Academy of Sciences and editor and co-editor of the journal Symbolae Slavicae. Kahl is considered an expert ...
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Ronald Stade
1953 - Present (71 years)
Ronald Stade is a Swedish anthropologist. He is best known for his writings on cosmopolitanism and moral issues. His fieldwork in Guam resulted in a book-length ethnography called Pacific Passages: World Culture and Local Politics in Guam . His fieldwork in the Middle East is ongoing.
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Deborah Gewertz
1948 - Present (76 years)
Deborah B. Gewertz is an American anthropologist. She is the G. Henry Whitcomb 1874 Professor of Anthropology at Amherst College. Gewertz is a fellow of the Association for Cultural Anthropology and the Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania. Gewertz completed a B.A. in English literature, cum laude at Queens College, City University of New York in 1969. She was a special student at Princeton University from 1968 to 1969. Gewertz earned a Ph.D. in anthropology from the Graduate Center, CUNY in 1977.
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Elizabeth Brumfiel
1945 - 2012 (67 years)
Elizabeth M. Brumfiel was an American archaeologist who taught at Northwestern University and Albion College. She had been a president of the American Anthropological Association. Early life and education Brumfiel was born in Chicago, Illinois and attended Evanston Township High School. She participated as a Peace Corps volunteer in La Paz, Bolivia in 1966–1967. She got her B.A. and Ph.D. degrees in anthropology from the University of Michigan in 1965 and 1976 respectively and in 1969 got her M.A. in the same field from the University of California, Los Angeles.
Go to ProfileStefan Helmreich is a professor of cultural anthropology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He graduated from Stanford University in 1995 with a Ph.D. in anthropology. He is also the author of Silicon Second Nature, Alien Ocean, and Sounding the Limits of Life. He specializes in the anthropology of scientists - specifically oceanographers. He won the Guggenheim Fellowship for Social Sciences, US & Canada in 2018. Helmreich was also a Radcliffe Fellow starting in 2018. He is married to Heather Paxson a cultural anthropologist of food and family
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Philip L. Kohl
1946 - 2022 (76 years)
Philip L. Kohl was a professor of Anthropology at Wellesley College. Biography Kohl grew up in Chicago in 1946. His parents were Commonwealth Edison employees and the family lived in South Shore, Chicago. He graduated from St. Ignatius College Prep in 1964 and enrolled in College of the Holy Cross for one year before dropping out.
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David K. Jordan
1942 - Present (82 years)
David K. Jordan is a Professor Emeritus at the University of California, San Diego since 2004. He received his Ph.D. from University of Chicago in 1969. Jordan is known for his various service posts to the university. These positions include the chair for the Department of Anthropology, the Director for the Program of Chinese Studies, Provost of Earl Warren College, Interim Provost of Sixth College, as well as one of the Founders of the UCSD Department of Anthropology with psychological anthropologist Melford Spiro. Jordan currently participates in the university Academic Senate committees i...
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Kristen Ghodsee
1970 - Present (54 years)
Kristen Rogheh Ghodsee is an American ethnographer and Professor of Russian and East European Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. She is primarily known for her ethnographic work on post-Communist Bulgaria as well as being a contributor to the field of postsocialist gender studies.
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Mizuko Ito
1968 - Present (56 years)
Mizuko Itō , sometimes known as Mimi Ito, is a Japanese cultural anthropologist. She is Professor in Residence and John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Chair in Digital Media and Learning, and Director of the Connected Learning Lab in the Department of Informatics, Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Irvine. Her main professional interest is young people's use of media technology. She has explored the ways in which digital media are changing relationships, identities, and communities.
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Nina Jablonski
1953 - Present (71 years)
Nina G. Jablonski is an American anthropologist and palaeobiologist, known for her research into the evolution of skin color in humans. She is engaged in public education about human evolution, human diversity, and racism. In 2021, she was elected to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and in 2009, she was elected to the American Philosophical Society. She is an Evan Pugh University Professor at The Pennsylvania State University, and the author of the books Skin: A Natural History, Living Color: The Biological and Social Meaning of Skin Color, and the co-author of Skin We Are In.
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Milton Singer
1912 - 1994 (82 years)
Milton Borah Singer was a leading American anthropologist and expert on Indian studies. He was a professor at the University of Chicago. Singer was the first to use the phrase Semiotic Anthropology in 1978.
Go to ProfileThomas Evan Levy is Distinguished Professor and holds the Norma Kershaw Chair in the Archaeology of Ancient Israel and Neighboring Lands at the University of California, San Diego. He is a member of the Department of Anthropology and Jewish Studies Program. Levy is co-director of the Scripps Center for Marine Archaeology and directs the Center for Cyber-archaeology and Sustainability at the Qualcomm Institute UC San Diego research group at the California Center of Telecommunications and Information Technology .
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John Buettner-Janusch
1924 - 1992 (68 years)
John Buettner-Janusch , often called "B-J", was an American physical anthropologist who pioneered the application of molecular evolution methods, such as protein sequence comparison, to the field of primate evolution. He served as chairman of the New York University anthropology department before 1980, when he was sent to prison for turning his laboratory into a drug manufacturing operation. After his release, he attempted to poison the judge who presided over his first trial and was sent to prison a second time.
Go to ProfileJames M. Cheverud is an American biologist, focusing on evolutionary quantitative genetics, morphology, and the genetics of complex traits and diseases in mammals. He is currently the Chair of the Biology Department at Loyola University Chicago. He spent several years as a professor at Washington University in St. Louis, where he is an Emeritus Professor in the departments of Anthropology and Anatomy & Neurobiology.
Go to ProfileAlbert C. Goodyear III is an American archaeologist who is founder and director of the Allendale PaleoIndian Expedition in South Carolina, where he has unearthed controversial evidence that may greatly move back the date of occupation of North America by humans to 50,000 years or more before the present. His area of expertise includes the Clovis culture which dates back about 13,000 years in North America.
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Frank Bessac
1922 - 2010 (88 years)
Francis Bagnall Bessac was an American anthropologist who spent much of his life teaching the subject at the University of Montana, where he was appointed to the faculty in 1965. During the years toward the end of and immediately following World War II, Bessac served with the Office of Strategic Services and the US State Department in Western China and Mongolia. During their escape from Communist Chinese forces to Tibet in 1950, Bessac was part of a group mistakenly attacked by Tibetan forces in which Central Intelligence Agency spy Douglas Mackiernan was killed, making Mackiernan the CIA's ...
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Alison Jolly
1937 - 2014 (77 years)
Alison Jolly was a primatologist, known for her studies of lemur biology. She wrote several books for both popular and scientific audiences and conducted extensive fieldwork on Lemurs in Madagascar, primarily at the Berenty Reserve, a small private reserve of gallery forest set in the semi-arid spiny desert area in the far south of Madagascar.
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John Chadwick
1920 - 1998 (78 years)
John Chadwick, was an English linguist and classical scholar who was most notable for the decipherment, with Michael Ventris, of Linear B. Early life, education and wartime service John Chadwick was born at 18 Christ Church Road, Mortlake, Surrey, on 21 May 1920, the younger son of Margaret Pamela and Fred Chadwick, civil servant. He was educated at St Paul's School and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.
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Eileen Krige
1905 - 1995 (90 years)
Eileen Jensen Krige was a prominent South African social anthropologist noted for her research on Zulu and Lovedu cultures. Together with Hilda Kuper and Monica Wilson, she produced substantial works on the Nguni peoples of Southern Africa. Apart from her research she is considered to be one of the 'pioneering mothers' of the University of Natal, Durban, South Africa, where she taught from 1948 until retirement in 1970. She inspired many women to devote themselves to research. Krige is also associated with a group of South African anthropologists who were strongly against the segregation policies of apartheid in South Africa.
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Christopher Chippindale
1951 - Present (73 years)
Christopher Ralph Chippindale, FSA is a British archaeologist. He worked at the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology from 1988 to his retirement in 2013, and was additionally Reader in Archaeology at the University of Cambridge from 2001 to 2013.
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Trude Dothan
1923 - 2016 (93 years)
Trude Dothan was an Israeli archaeologist who focused on the Late Bronze and Iron Ages in the region, in particular in Philistine culture. Biography Trude Krakauer was born in Vienna. She immigrated with her parents to Mandatory Palestine at the age of one. In Jerusalem, they joined the local community of intellectuals and artists, many of them German speakers. Her father, Leopold Krakauer , was an artist and architect who designed several Bauhaus-style buildings for Jerusalem's "garden city" of Rehavia; her mother Grete was a painter. She attended the Rehavia Gymnasium for her high school ...
Go to ProfileMargaret Shirley Mutu is a Ngāti Kahu leader, author and academic from Karikari, New Zealand and works at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. She is Māori and her iwi are Ngāti Kahu, Te Rarawa and Ngāti Whātua.
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Elizabeth Povinelli
1962 - Present (62 years)
Elizabeth A. Povinelli is Franz Boas Professor of Anthropology and Gender Studies at Columbia University, where she has also been the Director of the Institute for Research on Women and Gender and the Co-Director of the Centre for the Study of Law and Culture. She received her Ph.D. in Anthropology from Yale University in 1991. She is the author of books and essays of critical theory as well as a former editor of the academic journal Public Culture.
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Clive Gamble
1951 - Present (73 years)
Clive Stephen Gamble, is a British archaeologist and anthropologist. He has been described as the "UK’s foremost archaeologist investigating our earliest ancestors." Early life and education Gamble was born in 1951. He was educated at Brighton College, a private school in Brighton, England. He studied at Jesus College, Cambridge, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1972: as per tradition, bi BA was promoted to a Master of Arts degree in 1975. Remaining at Jesus College, he studied for a Doctor of Philosophy degree which he completed in 1978. His doctoral thesis was titled "Animal...
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Pnina Werbner
1944 - Present (80 years)
Pnina Werbner was a British social anthropologist. Her work focused on Sufi mysticism, diasporas, Muslim women and public sector unions in Botswana. She has written extensively about the Arab Spring. Werbner was married to anthropologist Richard Werbner, and was the niece of Max Gluckman.
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Adrian Zenz
1974 - Present (50 years)
Adrian Nikolaus Zenz is a German anthropologist known for his studies of the Xinjiang internment camps and Uyghur genocide. He is a director and senior fellow in China studies at the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation, an anti-communist think tank established by the US government and based in Washington, DC.
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Maria Reiche
1903 - 1998 (95 years)
Maria Reiche Grosse-Neumann was a German-born Peruvian mathematician, archaeologist, and technical translator. She is known for her research into the Nazca Lines, which she first saw in 1941 together with American historian Paul Kosok. Known as the "Lady of the Lines", Reiche made the documentation, preservation and public dissemination of the Nazca Lines her life's work.
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