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Sonia Guillén
1950 - Present (74 years)
Sonia Elizabeth Guillén is a Peruvian anthropologist and the President of the Centro Mallqui, who is the current Minister of Culture of Peru. She was elected a foreign associate the National Academy of Sciences in 2012.
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Bernard J. Siegel
1917 - 2003 (86 years)
Bernard Joseph Siegel was an American cultural anthropologist who spent most of his career at Stanford University, where he helped establish its anthropology department. He was the founder of the Biennial Review of Anthropology in 1959, which became the Annual Review of Anthropology in 1972.
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Daniel Moerman
1941 - Present (83 years)
Daniel Ellis Moerman is an American medical anthropologist and ethnobotanist, and an emeritus professor of anthropology at the University of Michigan-Dearborn. He is known for his work relating to Native American ethnobotany and the placebo effect.
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Andrew Sherratt
1946 - 2006 (60 years)
Andrew George Sherratt was an English archaeologist, one of the most influential of his generation. He was best known for his theory of the secondary products revolution. Early life and education Sherratt was born in Oldham, Lancashire on 8 May 1946. From 1965, he studied archaeology and anthropology at Peterhouse, Cambridge University, completing his degree in 1968. He received his PhD from Cambridge in 1976, writing his thesis on The Beginning of the Bronze Age in south-east Europe.
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Nicholas J. Saunders
1953 - Present (71 years)
Nicholas J. Saunders is a British academic archaeologist and anthropologist. He was educated at the universities of Sheffield , Cambridge , and Southampton . He has held teaching and research positions at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, the University of the West Indies, Dumbarton Oaks, Washington D.C., and at University College London, where he was Reader in Material Culture, and undertook a major British Academy sponsored investigation into the material culture anthropology of the First World War . Saunders was Professor in the Department of Anthropology and Archaeology at the...
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Erdmute Alber
1963 - Present (61 years)
Erdmute Alber is a German ethnologist with research focus in political and kinship anthropology. Since 2010 she has held the chair in Social Anthropology at the University of Bayreuth. Education From 1983 to 1990, Erdmute Alber studied literature, Spanish and history at the Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen and the Freie Universität Berlin. After completing her master's degree, she worked from 1993 to 2000 as a research assistant at the Institute for Ethnology at the Freie Universität Berlin supervised by Georg Elwert. During this time she received her doctorate in 1997 on Transformations of power and rule among the Baatombu in northern Benin .
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Ellen Gruenbaum
2000 - 1999 (-1 years)
Ellen Gruenbaum is an American anthropologist. A specialist in researching medical practices that are based on a society's culture. Personal life Gruenbaum was born in St. Louis, Missouri, US, and received her A.B. in anthropology at Stanford University in 1974. She went on to the University of Connecticut to earn her M.A. in 1974 and her Ph.D. in 1982 in anthropology. Her doctoral thesis was "Health services, health, and development in Sudan : the impact of the Gezira irrigated scheme".
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Joan Silk
1953 - Present (71 years)
Joan B. Silk is an American primatologist, Regents Professor in the School of Human Evolution and Social Change at Arizona State University . Her research interests include evolutionary anthropology, animal behavior, and primatology. Together with her anthropologist husband, Robert T. Boyd , she wrote the textbook How Humans Evolved.
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Mark Turin
1973 - Present (51 years)
Mark Turin is a British anthropologist, linguist and occasional radio broadcaster who specializes in the Himalayas and the Pacific Northwest. From 2014–2018, he served as Chair of the First Nations and Endangered Languages Program and Acting Co-Director of the Institute for Critical Indigenous Studies at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. He is an Associate Professor at the University of British Columbia, cross-appointed between the Department of Anthropology and the Institute for Critical Indigenous Studies. He currently serves as the Interim Editor of the journal Pacific Affai...
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Keith F. Otterbein
1936 - 2015 (79 years)
Dr. Keith F. Otterbein was an Emeritus Professor of Anthropology at the University at Buffalo , in the United States. Dr. Otterbein was a past president of the Human Relations Area Files and a frequent contributor to cross-cultural research, primarily in warfare related topics.
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Pat Caplan
1942 - Present (82 years)
Ann Patricia Bailey "Pat" Caplan, is a retired British anthropologist and academic. From 1989 to 2003, she was Professor of Social Anthropology at Goldsmiths College, University of London. She was also the Director of the Institute of Commonwealth Studies between 1998 and 2000.
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Dario Maestripieri
1964 - Present (60 years)
Dario Maestripieri is an Italian behavioral biologist who is known for his research and writings about biological aspects of behavior in nonhuman primates and humans. He is currently a professor of Comparative Human Development, Evolutionary Biology, and Neurobiology at The University of Chicago.
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Shirley Brice Heath
1939 - Present (85 years)
Shirley Brice Heath is an American linguistic anthropologist, and Professor Emerita, Margery Bailey Professorship in English, at Stanford University. She graduated from Lynchburg College, Ball State University, and Columbia University, with a Ph.D. in 1970. She is a Brown University professor-at-large, and a visiting research professor at the Watson Institute.
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Stanley South
1928 - 2016 (88 years)
Stanley A. South was an American archaeologist who was a major proponent of the processual archaeology movement. South's major contributions to archaeology deal in helping to legitimize it as a more scientific endeavor. Additionally, South participated in the excavation and research of a number of historic sites throughout North and South Carolina, including Town Creek Indian Mound, Charles Towne Landing , Brunswick Town, North Carolina, Bethabara Historic District , the John Bartlam site at Cain Hoy , and Santa Elena , as well as Fort Dobbs and the Fayetteville Arsenal.
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Gerd Spittler
1939 - Present (85 years)
Gerd Spittler is a German ethnologist. Spittler became known through his participation in developing the Africa focus at the University of Bayreuth and through his research on Hausa peasants and Tuareg nomads. While in his early years as a sociologist he concentrated on the area of "power and domination", as part of his professorship in Bayreuth, as an ethnologist he later focused on other main topics: the ethnology of work, the ethnology of material needs, local action in a global context and research methodology. He has written and published many essays and books on these topics.
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JoAllyn Archambault
1942 - Present (82 years)
JoAllyn Archambault is a cultural anthropologist with an expertise in Native American people. She is the director of the Smithsonian Institution's American Indian Program. Born to a Sioux father and Creek mother, Archambault was raised in Sioux traditions and is a member of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe of North and South Dakota. Archambault has made a great contribution to anthropology by providing an insider's perspective to her research on Native American people.
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Horst Wolfgang Böhme
1940 - Present (84 years)
Horst Wolfgang Böhme is a German archaeologist with a focus on Late Antiquity / Early Middle Ages and research into castles. Life Böhme studied prehistory, Roman provincial archaeology, history and folklore in Kiel, Mainz and Munich.
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Francesco d'Errico
1957 - Present (67 years)
Francesco d'Errico is an archaeologist who works as CNRS Director of Research at the University of Bordeaux in France and Professor at the Centre for Early Sapiens Behaviour, University of Bergen. In 2014 he was awarded the CNRS silver medal. In 2015 Giorgio Napolitano, president of Italy, presented him with the Fabio-Frassetto prize from the Accademia dei Lincei.
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Patricia Sutherland
1940 - Present (84 years)
Patricia D. Sutherland is a Canadian archaeologist, specialising in the Arctic. She is an adjunct professor at Carleton University, an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Aberdeen, and sole proprietor of Northlands Research. Much of her recent research has focused on evidence of a lengthy Norse presence on Baffin Island in the 11th to 13th centuries CE and trade between them and the now-extinct Dorset people of the region. Sutherland's theory that there were Europeans on Baffin Island hundreds of years before the Norse settled Greenland at the start of the 11th century is controvers...
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Bjørn Thomassen
1968 - Present (56 years)
Bjørn Thomassen is an anthropologist and social scientist. He is associate professor at Roskilde University in the Department of Society and Globalisation. From 2003-2012 he worked at The American University of Rome, where he was chair of the department of International Relations.
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Dennis Jenkins
2000 - Present (24 years)
Dennis L. Jenkins is a research archaeologist, field school supervisor for the Oregon State Museum of Anthropology/Museum of Natural and Cultural History at the University of Oregon, and director of the university's Northern Great Basin Field School. One of his excavations led to a new accepted date for earliest human settlement in the Americas. Jenkins' work on coprolites earned him the nickname Dr. Poop.
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Judith Lynne Hanna
1936 - Present (88 years)
Judith Lynne Hanna is an anthropologist, scholar, and author. She is an affiliate research professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Maryland, College Park. Her research focuses the relationship between dance and society in African villages and places of social interaction in America, such as schools and entertainment clubs. She has also conducted research on African cities, urban studies, and at-risk youth. She is the grandmother of YouTuber Merrick Hanna
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Lawrence Krader
1919 - 1998 (79 years)
Lawrence Krader was an American socialist anthropologist and ethnologist. Early life Krader was born on December 9, 1919, in Jamaica, New York. In 1936, at the Philosophy Department of the City College of New York , he studied Aristotle with Abraham Edel, Leibniz with Philipp P. Wiener, and mathematical logic and linguistics with Alfred Tarski. In 1937–38, he also studied logic with Rudolf Carnap and ethnology with Franz Boas. In 1941, Krader graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree at CCNY and was granted the Ketcham Award for Philosophy. As the US entered World War II, Krader joined the mer...
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Signe Howell
1942 - Present (82 years)
Signe Lise Howell is a Norwegian social anthropologist. Personal life Howell was born in Tinn to physician Finn Oddvar Lie and Lise Thomassen. She was married to performance artist Anthony Howell from 1970 to 1977, and to Desmond James McNeill from 1986.
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John Laredo
1932 - 2000 (68 years)
John Epaminondas Laredo was born in Pretoria, South Africa. He was brought up speaking Afrikaans and English, and later learned Zulu and several other languages. In 1951, Laredo went to Stellenbosch University, followed by a master's in social anthropology at King's College, Cambridge. He returned to South Africa in 1958 with his wife Ursula Marx, lecturing in African studies at University of Cape Town. He then moved to Durban in 1959 to undertake anthropological fieldwork in kwaZulu at Natal University, where he subsequently became a sociology lecturer.
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Robert G. Bednarik
1944 - Present (80 years)
Robert G. Bednarik is an Australian prehistorian and cognitive archeologist. Robert Bednarik moved from Austria to Australia in 1966. Bednarik, who considers himself an autodidact, is an expert in the fields of rock art and paleolithic portable art. He conducts experimental archeology and edits four scientific journals.
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Graeme Barker
1946 - Present (78 years)
Graeme William Walter Barker, is a British archaeologist, notable for his work on the Italian Bronze Age, the Roman occupation of Libya, and landscape archaeology. Early life and education Barker was born on 23 October 1946. He was educated at Alleyn's School, then a direct grant grammar school in Dulwich. He studied for the classical tripos at St John's College, Cambridge, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts degree; as per tradition, his BA was promoted to a Master of Arts degree. He remained at Cambridge to take his Doctor of Philosophy degree, which he completed in 1973 with a doctoral ...
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Janine R. Wedel
1957 - Present (67 years)
Janine R. Wedel is an American anthropologist and university professor in the Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University and a senior research fellow of the New America Foundation. She is the author of several books and many articles on some key systemic processes of the day. She is the first anthropologist to win the Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order.
Go to ProfileJohn Skoyles is a neuroscientist and evolutionary psychologist. He studied philosophy of science at the London School of Economics and then did MRC funded research upon neuroscience and dyslexia at University College London.
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Peter Mathews
1951 - Present (73 years)
Peter Mathews is an Australian archaeologist, epigrapher, and Mayanist. He was a professor at the University of Calgary, and is Co Director of the Naachtun Archaeology Project. Between 1979 and 1986 he taught in the Department of Anthropology at Harvard University. He was a professor of Archaeology and Maya Hieroglyphs at La Trobe University until his retirement at the end of 2011. He continued to lecture at the university throughout 2012, until his end of tenure in 2013.
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Beatriz Góis Dantas
1941 - Present (83 years)
Beatriz Góis Dantas is a Brazilian anthropologist, folklorist, sociologist, writer, and professor emeritus of Anthropology at the Federal University of Sergipe. Bibliography Citations
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Donald Symons
1942 - Present (82 years)
Donald Symons is an American anthropologist best known as one of the founders of evolutionary psychology, and for pioneering the study of human sexuality from an evolutionary perspective. He is one of the most cited researchers in contemporary sex research. His work is referenced by scientists investigating an extremely diverse range of sexual phenomena. Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker describes Symons' The Evolution of Human Sexuality as a "groundbreaking book" and "a landmark in its synthesis of evolutionary biology, anthropology, physiology, psychology, fiction, and cultural analysis, written with a combination of rigor and wit.
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Charlotte Roberts
1957 - Present (67 years)
Charlotte Ann Roberts, FBA is a British archaeologist, academic and former nurse. She is a bioarchaeologist and palaeopathologist, whose research focuses on health and the evolution of infectious disease in humans. From 2004 to 2020, she was Professor of Archaeology at Durham University: she is now professor emeritus.
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David Stuart
1965 - Present (59 years)
David S. Stuart is an archaeologist and epigrapher specializing in the study of ancient Mesoamerica, the area now called Mexico and Central America. His work has studied many aspects of the ancient Maya civilization. He is widely recognized for his breakthroughs in deciphering Maya hieroglyphs and interpreting Maya art and iconography, starting at an early age. He is the youngest person ever to receive a MacArthur Fellowship, at age 18. He currently teaches at the University of Texas at Austin and his current research focuses on the understanding of Maya culture, religion and history through ...
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Morris Goodman
1925 - 2010 (85 years)
Morris Goodman was an American scientist known for his work in molecular evolution and molecular systematics. Goodman was a distinguished professor at the Center for Molecular Medicine and Genetics at Wayne State University School of Medicine, editor-in-chief of the journal Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, and a member of the anthropology section of the United States National Academy of Sciences.
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Marcia Herndon
1941 - 1997 (56 years)
Marcia Alice Herndon was an American ethnomusicologist and anthropologist. She specialized in the ways culture and music reflect each other. Herndon grew up in a family of country music performers in North Carolina. After completing her master's degree in 1964 at Tulane University, she performed classical music for several years. Earning a PhD in anthropology and ethnomusicology in 1971, she taught at the University of Texas at Austin, the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Maryland. She is widely known for her contributions to Native American music studies with books s...
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Carol Stack
1940 - Present (84 years)
Carol B. Stack is an Urban American anthropologist who specialized in studies of African American networks, minority women, and youth. Stack has taken a strong role in several social sciences, and is Professor Emerita of Education in the Graduate School of Education at University of California, Berkeley.
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Paulette Steeves
1955 - Present (69 years)
Paulette F. C. Steeves is the Canada Research Chair in Healing and Reconciliation at Algoma University. Education and career Steeves is Cree-Métis and was born in Whitehorse, Yukon. She spent her formative years in Lillooet, British Columbia, Canada. Steeves holds an BA in Anthropology degree from the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville. She holds a Master in Anthropology from the State University of New York at Binghamton , Her masters thesis was titled "Archaeology, CRM, Academia, and Ethics, and, Akimel O'odham, Type 2 Diabetes: Links to Traditional Food Loss."
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Richard Rottenburg
1953 - Present (71 years)
Richard Walter Rottenburg is an Anthropologist of Science and Technology and Professor at Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of the Witwatersrand. Academic life Rottenburg studied social anthropology, sociology and Arab studies at the Free University of Berlin. For his PhD in anthropology he conducted 39 months of fieldwork in South Kordofan . Between 1984-1987, he lectured at the University of Transkei, South Africa. Later he did research on formal organization in companies and city administrations in Europe. In the 1990s Rottenburg worked as a consultant for projects in development cooperation, carrying out research in Africa and Europe.
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Martha Sharp Joukowsky
1936 - 2022 (86 years)
Martha Sharp Joukowsky was a Near Eastern archaeologist and a retired member of the faculty of Brown University known for her fieldwork at the ancient site of Petra in Jordan. Early life and education Martha Sharp Joukowsky was the daughter of Waitstill Hastings Sharp and Martha Ingham Dickie, noted for aiding Jews escaping Nazi persecution in Czechoslovakia during World War II. Joukowsky was educated at Pembroke College American University of Beirut and Paris I-Sorbonne .
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Myra Shackley
1949 - Present (75 years)
Myra Lesley Shackley was formerly Professor of Culture Resource Management and Head of the Centre for Tourism and Visitor Management at Nottingham Trent University Business School. She retired in summer 2011. She has written 15 books
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Ivan Kalmar
1948 - Present (76 years)
Ivan Kalmar is a Canadian professor. Early life Soon after he was born in Prague, his family moved to Komárno, and later to Bratislava. When he was seventeen, he left what was then Czechoslovakia, and eventually arrived in the United States. Kalmar's family settled down in Philadelphia.
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Catherine Panter-Brick
Catherine Panter-Brick is the Bruce A. and Davi-Ellen Chabner Professor of Anthropology, Health, and Global Affairs at Yale University, where she directs the Program on Conflict, Resilience, and Health and the Program on Stress and Family Resilience. She is also the senior editor of the interdisciplinary journal Social Science & Medicine and the President-Elect of the Human Biology Association. She serves as Head of Morse College, one of Yale’s 14 residential colleges, and is Chair of the Council of Heads.
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Carola Lentz
1954 - Present (70 years)
Carola Lentz is a German social anthropologist and, since November 2020, president of the Goethe-Institut. She is senior research professor at the Department of Anthropology and African Studies at Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz.
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Audrey Butt Colson
1926 - Present (98 years)
Audrey Joan Butt Colson , is a social anthropologist with a particular interest in the Amerindian peoples of Guyana, Brazil and Venezuela. She was, together with Peter Rivière, one of the pioneers of Amazonian anthropology at the University of Oxford.
Go to ProfileElen Feuerriegel is an Australian palaeoanthropologist, known for being one of the "underground astronauts" of the Rising Star Expedition. She is also a clinical research scientist at the University of Colorado Denver where she specialises in COVID-19 AND HIV clincial trials.
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Manuel Arturo Izquierdo Peña
Manuel Arturo Izquierdo Peña is a Colombian anthropologist who has contributed to the knowledge of the Muisca and other pre-Columbian cultures, among others San Agustín, Colombia. His main work has been on archaeoastronomy of the Muisca calendar.
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Sarah Kendzior
1978 - Present (46 years)
Sarah J. Kendzior is an American author, anthropologist, researcher, and scholar. Kendzior is the author of The View from Flyover Country – a collection of essays first published by Al Jazeera – and is a former co-host of the Gaslit Nation podcast. In 2020, she published her second book, Hiding in Plain Sight: The Invention of Donald Trump and the Erosion of America, which was a New York Times bestseller. In September 2022, she published her third book, They Knew: How a Culture of Conspiracy Keeps America Complacent, which was a finalist for a Los Angeles Times Book Prize.
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Jeremy Keenan
1945 - Present (79 years)
Jeremy Keenan is a British social anthropologist. The regional focuses of his research are the Sahara, North Africa and the Sahel region, and he concentrates on anthropology of development, security and globalisation. He has published a number of books and articles about the approaches of the United States to counter terrorism in Africa.
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Walter Fairservis
1921 - 1994 (73 years)
Walter Ashlin Fairservis was an American archaeologist. Early life He was born in Brooklyn, New York, United States, in 1921. His mother, Edith Yeager, was an actress. His wife, Jano, was an artist and illustrator. He received B.A. and M.A. degrees in anthropology from Columbia University and a second M.A. and a Ph.D. from Harvard University.
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