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John A. Saliba
1937 - Present (87 years)
John A. Saliba is a Maltese-born Jesuit priest, a professor of religious studies at the University of Detroit Mercy and a noted writer and researcher in the field of new religious movements. Saliba has advocated a conciliatory approach towards new religions. He has argued that membership in such movements can serve as a temporary haven for young adults in a formative stage of their lives, and is not necessarily detrimental. He has been critical of the brainwashing concept espoused by the anti-cult movement.
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Jeff Halper
1946 - Present (78 years)
Jeff Halper is an Israeli-American anthropologist, author, lecturer, and political activist who has lived in Israel since 1973. He is the Director of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions and a co-founder of The One Democratic State Campaign . He is a Jewish Israeli.
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Martin Brauen
1948 - Present (76 years)
Martin Brauen is a cultural anthropologist from Bern, Switzerland who specialises in Tibet, the Himalayas and history of religions. Biography Martin Brauen studied ethnology and religious history at the University of Zurich and Buddhology at the University of Delhi. He earned a doctorate after defending a thesis in Zurich on Holidays and ceremonies in Ladakh and a degree of Privatdozent . Since 1975 he has had several positions at the EthnographicMuseum of the University of Zurich , as well as becoming a lecturer. From 2008 to 2012 he was chief curator at the Rubin Museum of Art in New York C...
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George Bass
1932 - 2021 (89 years)
George Fletcher Bass was an American archaeologist. An early practitioner of underwater archaeology, he co-directed the first expedition to entirely excavate an ancient shipwreck at Cape Gelidonya in 1960 and founded the Institute of Nautical Archaeology in 1972.
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Alfonso Ortiz
1939 - 1998 (59 years)
Alfonso Alex Ortiz was a Native American cultural anthropologist. Life Ortiz graduated from the University of New Mexico in 1961, and from the University of Chicago with a master's degree and a Ph.D. in anthropology. He taught at University of California at Los Angeles, Colorado College, Pitzer College and Princeton University, and at the University of New Mexico.
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Paul Apodaca
1951 - Present (73 years)
Paul Apodaca is an associate professor of Anthropology and American Studies at Chapman University. Personal background Apodaca was born in Los Angeles and raised in Tustin, California. His father's family were from the eastern side of the Navajo Reservation, of the Ma'ii deeshgiishinii Clan , and his mother's family are Mixton. Apodaca received his masters' of arts degree in American Indian studies and his doctorate degree in Folklore and Mythology from University of California, Los Angeles. He was the Outstanding Graduate Student of 1996. Apodaca lives in Orange, California.
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Peter Aaby
1944 - Present (80 years)
Peter Aaby is trained as an anthropologist but also holds a doctoral degree in medicine. In 1978, Peter Aaby established the Bandim Health Project, a Health and Demographic Surveillance System site in Guinea-Bissau in West Africa, which he has run ever since. In 2000, Peter Aaby was awarded the Novo Nordisk Prize, the most important Danish award within health research.
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Alexander Spoehr
1913 - 1992 (79 years)
Alexander Spoehr was an American anthropologist who served as president of the American Anthropological Association in 1965. Spoehr was born in Tucson, Arizona on August 23, 1913, to parents Herman Augustus Spoehr and Florence Mann. Alexander Spoehr was of German, Danish, and Austrian descent. He was raised in Palo Alto, California, and enrolled at Stanford University, later transferring to the University of Chicago, where he completed an A. B. in economics. Spoehr remained at the University of Chicago for graduate study in anthropology, researching the Seminole in Florida. In January 1940, Spoehr began working at the Field Museum.
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Daniel Vidart
1920 - 2019 (99 years)
Daniel Vidart was a Uruguayan anthropologist, writer, historian, and essayist. He was one of the most notable social scientists of the region. In 2010 he was awarded the Grand National Prize for Intellectual Activity.
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Alan C. Swedlund
1943 - Present (81 years)
Alan C. Swedlund is a biological anthropologist and Emeritus Professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Early in his career he was an assistant professor at Prescott College, Prescott, AZ. His research focuses primarily on the history of the human population, and on health and disease. He is the author of Shadows in the Valley: A cultural history of Illness, Death and Loss in New England, 1840-1916.
Go to ProfileJ. Patrick Gray is a professor of anthropology at University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. His research fields are holocultural research, sociobiology, methodology, and religion. He received his PhD degree from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 1974. He has authored sixteen articles, one book, co-edited another book with James Silverberg, and was Editor of the World Cultures eJournal from 1992 to 2013 superseded by Gregory Truex.
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Anagnostis Agelarakis
1956 - Present (68 years)
Anagnostis P. Agelarakis is a professor of Anthropological Archaeology and Physical Anthropology at Adelphi University. He received a B.A. from Lund University in 1977, in Classical Archaeology and European Ethnology, and conducted his post-baccalaureate studies at Lund Polytechnic Institute in 1980, in Environmental Studies. In 1988, he earned an M.Phil. in Anthropology, and in 1989, a Ph.D., in Archaeology and Physical Anthropology from Columbia University.
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Gonzalo Correal Urrego
1939 - Present (85 years)
Gonzalo Correal Urrego is a Colombian anthropologist, palaeontologist and archaeologist. He has been contributing to the knowledge of prehistoric Colombia for over forty years and has published in Spanish and English. Correal Urrego is considered one of the most important anthropologists of Colombia. He has collaborated with many other anthropologists and archaeologists, among others Thomas van der Hammen and Ana María Groot.
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Christian Bromberger
1946 - Present (78 years)
Christian Bromberger is a French professor of anthropology and an expert of Iranian studies at the University of Provence in France. He is a specialist in studying the culture of Gilan in the Northern side of Iran and also the head of the French Association of Iranian Studies.
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Richard Blanton
1943 - Present (81 years)
Richard E. Blanton is an American anthropologist, archaeologist, and academic. He is most renowned for his archaeological field and theoretical research into the development of civilizations in pre-Columbian Mesoamerica, particularly those from the central Mexican plateau and Valley of Oaxaca regions. Blanton taught at Rice University and Hunter College of the City University of New York before joining the faculty at Purdue University in 1976. He is currently Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at Purdue's College of Liberal Arts.
Go to ProfileDorian Q. Fuller is an American archaeologist and professor of archaeobotany at the UCL Institute of Archaeology. Originally from San Francisco, he studied at Yale University and the University of Cambridge .
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Jill Pruetz
1950 - Present (74 years)
Jill Pruetz is an American anthropologist and primatologist. She currently works in the Department of Anthropology at Texas State University. Pruetz is known for her groundbreaking research on savanna-dwelling chimpanzees in Senegal and her uncanny ability to engage public audiences. Pruetz has worked with the National Geographic Society and National Science Foundation. Her research has also been shared by media icons such as the Today Show, BBC, and Dr. Neil de Grasse Tyson.
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Robert Sharer
1940 - 2012 (72 years)
Robert J. Sharer was an American archaeologist, academic and Mayanist researcher. He was known for his archaeological investigations at a number of pre-Columbian Mesoamerican sites conducted over a career spanning four decades, and for his archaeological reports, theorizing, and writings in his field of specialty, the ancient Maya civilization. Sharer was a lecturer and professor at the University of Pennsylvania's Department of Anthropology for more than 30 years, and occupied the endowed chair of Sally and Alvin V. Shoemaker Professor in Anthropology, an appointment which he held beginning in 1995.
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Yannis Hamilakis
1966 - Present (58 years)
Yannis Hamilakis is a Greek archaeologist and writer who is the Joukowsky Family Professor of Archaeology and Professor of Modern Greek Studies at Brown University. He specialises in archaeology of the prehistoric Aegean as well as historical archaeology, including ethnography and anthropology. His research interests include nationalism, postcolonialism, and migration studies.
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Lee Ann Newsom
1956 - Present (68 years)
Lee Ann Newsom is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at the Pennsylvania State University at University Park. She has written numerous books and articles. She was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship in 2002.
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David Whitehouse
1941 - 2013 (72 years)
David Bryn Whitehouse, FSA, FRGS was a British archaeologist and senior scholar of the Corning Museum of Glass. He was director of the British School at Rome between 1974 and 1984. Early life Whitehouse was born 15 October 1941, the son of Brindley Charles Whitehouse and his wife Alice Margaret Whitehouse. He grew up in the village of Wildmoor near Bromsgrove, Worcestershire. He was educated at Catshill First School and at King Edward's School a private school located in Birmingham. He read for a Bachelor of Arts , later promoted to Master of Arts , at St John's College, Cambridge. He held a ...
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Scott Kiesling
1950 - Present (74 years)
Scott Fabius Kiesling is a professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Pittsburgh. With the completion of his dissertation, Language, Gender, and Power in Fraternity of Young Men's Discourse, Kiesling received a PhD in linguistics in 1996 from Georgetown University, where he previously completed an M.S. in linguistics. He also received a B.A. in linguistics from the University of Pennsylvania in 1989. Kiesling has held previous academic positions at the University of Sydney and The Ohio State University.
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Karen B. Strier
1959 - Present (65 years)
Karen B. Strier is a primatologist. She is a Vilas Research Professor and Irven DeVore professor of Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, and co-editor of Annual Review of Anthropology. The main subject of her research is the Northern Muriqui, a type of spider monkey found in Brazil.
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A. H. J. Prins
1921 - 2000 (79 years)
Adriaan Hendrik Johan Prins was a Dutch Africanist and maritime anthropologist. He was a recipient of many research grants and fellowships , Prins was frequently consulted by the Dutch government and royal court, who valued his wealth of knowledge about the peoples and cultures of Africa and the Middle East.
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M. Margaret Clark
1925 - 2003 (78 years)
Mary Margaret Clark was an American medical anthropologist who is credited with founding the sub-discipline of medical anthropology. Life M. Margaret Clark was born on January 9, 1925, in Amarillo, Texas. After receiving a doctorate degree in anthropology from University of California, Berkeley, she was employed by the U.S. Public Health Service as a researcher, where she worked on public health-related projects in Colorado. She also worked as a consultant for various agencies directed towards health and aging. Dr. Clark later earned a Professor Emerita position at University of California, San Francisco where she taught medical anthropology through a joint graduate program she created.
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Lauren Berlant
1957 - 2021 (64 years)
Lauren Gail Berlant was an American scholar, cultural theorist, and author who is regarded as "one of the most esteemed and influential literary and cultural critics in the United States." Berlant was the George M. Pullman Distinguished Service Professor of English at the University of Chicago, where they taught from 1984 until 2021. Berlant wrote and taught issues of intimacy and belonging in popular culture, in relation to the history and fantasy of citizenship.
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David William Cohen
1943 - Present (81 years)
David William Cohen is Emeritus Professor of History and Anthropology at the University of Michigan. He specializes in East Africa and is a leader in the emerging field of historical anthropology. He is Honorary Research Fellow, Archive and Public Culture Initiative, University of Cape Town.
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Amos Kloner
1940 - 2019 (79 years)
Amos Kloner was an Israeli archaeologist and professor emeritus. Academic career Amos Kloner taught in the Martin Szusz Department of the Land of Israel Studies at Bar Ilan University in Ramat Gan. His fields were Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine archaeology.
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Otto von Sadovszky
1925 - 2004 (79 years)
Otto J. von Sadovszky was a Hungarian-American anthropologist who worked at California State University, Fullerton in southern California for most of his career until his retirement. He is best known for his linguistic work attempting to link Native American languages of California to languages spoken in Siberia.
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David Mattingly
1958 - Present (66 years)
David John Mattingly, FBA is an archaeologist and historian of the Roman world. He is currently Professor of Roman Archaeology at the University of Leicester. Biography Mattingly's grandfather, Harold Mattingly, was Keeper of the Department of Coins and Medals at the British Museum, and his father, Harold B. Mattingly, was Professor of Ancient History at Leeds University. He received a Bachelor of Arts in history at the University of Manchester, and later a Doctor of Philosophy from the same university, under the supervision of Barri Jones. His doctoral thesis was titled "Tripolitania: A comparative study of a Roman frontier province", and was submitted in 1984.
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Marie-Françoise Guédon
Marie-Françoise Guédon is a Canadian anthropologist and professor of religious studies at the University of Ottawa in Ottawa, Canada. She has done fieldwork among the Inuit, Gitksan, Ahtna, and Tanana peoples of Canada and Alaska.
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Susan D. Gillespie
1952 - Present (72 years)
Susan D. Gillespie is an American academic anthropologist and archaeologist, noted for her contributions to archaeological and ethnohistorical research on pre-Columbian Mesoamerican cultures, in particular the Aztec, Maya and Olmec. Gillespie holds a position as professor in the Department of Anthropology at University of Florida, Gainesville, USA, having also been associate chair of the department from 2003 until 2009.
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Daniel J. Crowley
1921 - 1998 (77 years)
Daniel J. Crowley was an American art historian and cultural anthropologist who focused on the cultural expressions of Sub-Saharan Africa and the Caribbean, with particular focus on the interconnectedness of carnivals, festivals, the arts and folklore. Crowley also became a strong advocate for disability studies in anthropology.
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Gunter Schöbel
1959 - Present (65 years)
Gunter Schöbel is a German archaeologist and director of the Pfahlbau Museum Unteruhldingen. Career Schöbel studied archaeology, anthropology and geology at the University of Tübingen from 1979 to 1982. From 1982 to 1989 the continued his studies of archaeology, geology and ethnology at the University of Freiburg. 1989 he completed his studies receiving a PhD. During his studies he worked as underwater archaeologist for the Landesamt für Denkmalpflege Baden-Württemberg. Since 1990 Schöbel worked as scientific advisor at Pfahlbau Museum Unteruhldingen. Since 1994 Schöbel is the director of the Museum.
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João de Pina-Cabral
1954 - Present (70 years)
João de Pina-Cabral is a Portuguese anthropologist and a senior researcher at the Instituto de Ciências Sociais of the University of Lisbon, where he was President of the Scientific Council . At present he is professor of social anthropology at the University of Kent.
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Robert H. Dyson
1927 - 2020 (93 years)
Robert H. Dyson, Jr. was an American archaeologist who served as director of the Penn Museum . He was best known for directing excavations at Teppe Hasanlu between 1956 and 1977. Education and career Dyson was born in York, Pennsylvania, in 1927, and received his PhD from Harvard University in 1966. He joined the University of Pennsylvania as an associate professor of anthropology and associate curator of the Near East section of the Penn Museum. He served as the dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences from 1979 to 1982 and was the director of the Penn Museum from 1982 to 1994. He retired fr...
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Adam T. Smith
1968 - Present (56 years)
Adam Thomas Smith is Distinguished Professor of Arts and Sciences in Anthropology at Cornell University. He is also co-founder of The American-Armenian Project for the Archaeology and Geography of Ancient Transcaucasian Societies and co-director of The Aragats Foundation. He is a co-director
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Peggy Phelan
1948 - Present (76 years)
Peggy Phelan is an American feminist scholar. She is one of the founders of Performance Studies International, the former chair of New York University's Department of Performance Studies from 1993 to 1996, Stanford's Theatre and Performance Studies Department from 2007 to 2011, and continues as the Ann O’Day Maples Professor of the Arts, Professor of Theater & Performance Studies and English, and the Denning Family Director of the Stanford Arts Institute. Her research interests while at Stanford University include; American Literature, British Literature, and performance studies with a focus...
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Giorgio Buccellati
1937 - Present (87 years)
Giorgio Buccellati is an Italian archaeologist, best known for having discovered the ancient city of Urkesh , capital of the Hurrians, in Syria. Current position Buccellati is a Professor Emeritus in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures and the Department of History at UCLA. He was the founding director of the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology. He founded IIMAS – The International Institute for Mesopotamian Area Studies, of which he is currently the Director. He has also been active as a publisher, having founded Undena Publications, of which he is currently the General Editor.
Go to ProfileHannah Morris is an American anthropologist, known for her contribution to the Rising Star Expedition as one of the six women Underground Astronauts. She is currently a Ph.D. student in the Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources at the University of Georgia, studying "the implications of human actions on vegetative ecosystems".
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Harry Hawthorn
1910 - 2006 (96 years)
Harry Bertram Hawthorn, OC was a Canadian anthropologist and museum curator. He is well known for his work with the coastal First Nations of British Columbia. Hawthorn was born in Wellington, New Zealand and studied at Victoria University College , then Auckland University College , , and Yale University . His first fieldwork experiences were with the Māori of New Zealand and in Peru.
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Gary M. Feinman
1951 - Present (73 years)
Gary M. Feinman is an American archaeologist, and the MacArthur Curator of Mesoamerican, Central American, and East Asian Anthropology at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago. He was a part of the Valley of Oaxaca Settlement Pattern Project which focused on the evolution of the Monte Albán state and shifts in settlement in the region over three millennia. He has conducted research in the Valley of Oaxaca, Mexico for over 30 years, most recently in the lands of the communities Tlacolula, Mitla, Matatlán, and Ejutla. These studies focused on household excavations at three sites . Mo...
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Michael M. J. Fischer
1946 - Present (78 years)
Michael M. J. Fischer is Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities and Professor of Anthropology and Science and Technology Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Lecturer in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School.
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Jan Vansina
1929 - 2017 (88 years)
Jan Vansina was a Belgian historian and anthropologist regarded as an authority on the history of Central Africa, especially of what is now the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, and Burundi. He was a major innovator in the historical methodology of oral history. As a professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, he taught several generations of students and, according to a biographer, "set the pace in African historical studies from the 1950s into the 1990s."
Go to ProfileAlice Stevenson is a British archaeologist and museum curator. She is Senior Lecturer in Museum Studies at UCL's Institute of Archaeology and a specialist in Predynastic and Early Dynastic Egyptian archaeology.
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Lilia Moritz Schwarcz
1957 - Present (67 years)
Lilia Katri Moritz Schwarcz is a Brazilian historian and anthropologist. She is a doctor in social anthropology at the University of São Paulo, full professor at the Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas in the same institution, and visiting professor at Princeton University.
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M. Wells Jakeman
1910 - 1998 (88 years)
Max Wells Jakeman was the founder of the department of archaeology at Brigham Young University and an early member of the advisory board of the New World Archaeology Foundation . Jakeman has been described as "the father of Book of Mormon archaeology".
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Maria Eugenia Bozzoli
1935 - Present (89 years)
María Eugenia Bozzoli is a Costa Rican anthropologist, sociologist and human rights activist. She is one of the founders of anthropology in Costa Rica, as well as the country's first woman anthropologist.
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Robert Drews
1936 - Present (88 years)
Robert Drews is an American historian who is Professor of Classical Studies Emeritus at Vanderbilt University. He received his B.A. from Northwestern College, his M.A. from University of Missouri and his Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University. Drews specializes in ancient history and prehistory, in particular the evolution of warfare and of religion.
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Ziba Mir-Hosseini
1952 - Present (72 years)
Ziba Mir-Hosseini is an Iranian-born legal anthropologist, specialising in Islamic law, gender and development. She received her PhD in anthropology from Cambridge University and is the author of several books on Islam, gender, and the family.
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