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Albert Glock
1925 - 1992 (67 years)
Albert E. Glock was an American archaeologist working in Palestine, where he was murdered. Glock was born in Gifford, Idaho. His parents were deeply religious Lutherans of German ancestry living in Illinois. Albert Glock studied at several universities, graduating in 1950 at Concordia Seminary and receiving master's degree from the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago in 1963. In 1951 he married Lois Sohn, and he served as pastor in Normal, Illinois, for several years. He enrolled at the University of Michigan to pursue his studies under the biblical scholar George E. Mendenhall, who beli...
Go to ProfileJohn F. Cherry is a British-American prehistorian and archaeologist, specialising in Aegean prehistory and survey archaeology. He is Joukowsky Family Professor in Archaeology and Professor of Classics at the Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World at Brown University. He previously taught at the University of Cambridge and the University of Michigan.
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George F. Carter
1912 - 2004 (92 years)
George Francis Carter was an American professor of geography who taught at Johns Hopkins University and later Texas A&M University. Carter had a background in anthropology and conducted archaeological excavations in Southern California. He is best known for supporting the theories of trans-cultural diffusion and early human settlement of the Americas.
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Adia Benton
1977 - Present (47 years)
Adia Benton is an American cultural and medical anthropologist whose research concerns how care is provided in humanitarian emergencies and development projects. Benton is currently an associate professor of anthropology and African Studies at Northwestern University.
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Valentine Daniel
1947 - Present (77 years)
Professor Errol Valentine Daniel is a Sri Lankan Tamil academic, anthropologist and author. He is currently Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Southern Asian Institute at Columbia University.
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Kim TallBear
1968 - Present (56 years)
Kim TallBear (born 1968) is a Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate professor at the University of Alberta, specializing in racial politics in science. Holding the first ever Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Peoples, Technoscience and Environment, TallBear has published on DNA testing, race science and Indigenous identities, as well as on polyamory as a decolonization practice. TallBear is a citizen of the Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate in South Dakota, as well as a descendant from the Cheyenne and Arapaho tribes of Oklahoma. TallBear pursued post-secondary education at the University of Massachusetts Boston obtaining an undergraduate degree in community planning.
Go to ProfileChristina Riggs is a British-American historian, academic, and former museum curator. She specializes in the history of archaeology, history of photography, and ancient Egyptian art, and her recent work has concentrated on the history, politics, and contemporary legacy of the 1922 discovery of Tutankahmun's tomb. Since 2019, she has been Professor of the History of Visual Culture at Durham University. She is also a former Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. The author of several academic books, Riggs also writes on ancient Egyptian themes for a wider audience. Her most recent books include An...
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Jodi Magness
1956 - Present (68 years)
Jodi Magness is an archaeologist, orientalist and scholar of religion. She serves as the Kenan Distinguished Professor for Teaching Excellence in Early Judaism at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She previously taught at Tufts University.
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Elspeth Probyn
1958 - Present (66 years)
Elspeth Probyn is an Australian academic. She is currently professor of gender and cultural studies at the University of Sydney. She is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities, and Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia.
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C. Brian Rose
1956 - Present (68 years)
Charles Brian Rose is an American archaeologist, classical scholar, and author. He is the James B. Pritchard Professor of Archaeology at the University of Pennsylvania in the Classical Studies Department and the Graduate Group in the Art and Archaeology of the Mediterranean World. He is also Peter C. Ferry Curator-in-Charge of the Mediterranean Section of the Penn Museum, and was the museum's Deputy Director from 2008-2011. He has served as the President of the Archaeological Institute of America, and currently serves as director for the Gordion excavations and as Head of the Post-Bronze Age excavations at Troy.
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Melinda A. Zeder
1952 - Present (72 years)
Melinda A. Zeder is an American archaeologist and Curator Emeritus in the Department of Anthropology of the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution. Her zooarchaeological research has revolutionized understandings of animal domestication.
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Caroline Brettell
1950 - Present (74 years)
Zoe Caroline Brettell is a Canadian cultural anthropologist known for her scholarship on migration and gender. Brettell is the University Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at Southern Methodist University, where she was previously the Dedman Professor and Ruth Collins Altshuler Professor. At SMU, Brettell has served as the Chair of the Department of Anthropology and the interim Dean of the Dedman College of Humanities and Sciences. She has also been president of both the Society for the Anthropology of Europe and the Social Science History Association .
Go to ProfileMarc Zender is an anthropologist, epigrapher, and linguist noted for his work on Maya hieroglyphic writing. He is Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Tulane University and a research affiliate at the Middle American Research Institute. His research interests include anthropological and historical linguistics, comparative writing systems, and archaeological decipherment, with a regional focus on Mesoamerica . He is the author of several books and dozens of articles touching on these themes.
Go to ProfileRose Oldfield Hayes was an American anthropologist at the State University of New York, Buffalo. After doing fieldwork in Sudan in 1970 interviewing women who had been infibulated, Hayes wrote the first scholarly paper on female genital mutilation that used that term, and the first to incorporate information from the women themselves. Published in American Ethnologist in 1975, the paper represented an important step forward in understanding the practice.
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Julian Pitt-Rivers
1919 - 2001 (82 years)
Julian Alfred Lane Fox Pitt-Rivers was a British social anthropologist, an ethnographer, and a professor at universities in three countries. Family background Pitt-Rivers was a great-grandson of the archaeologist Augustus Pitt Rivers. His father was the anthropologist and propertied aristocrat George Henry Lane-Fox Pitt-Rivers and his mother, Mary Hinton, was an actress and daughter of the governor-general of Australia, the 1st Baron Forster. His parents divorced in 1930, and through his father's second marriage he gained as his stepmother Dr Rosalind Pitt-Rivers, an eminent biochemist. He had two brothers, one by each of his father's marriages.
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Mércio Pereira Gomes
1950 - Present (74 years)
Mércio Pereira Gomes is a Brazilian anthropologist who presently teaches at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. He received his Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of Florida, in 1977, under the supervision of Charles Wagley, who at that time was considered the foremost Brazilianist in the United States and had done extensive fieldwork in Brazil. His dissertation was about the Tenetehara Indians of northern Brazil and in it Gomes expounded how this Indigenous people had managed to survive almost 400 years of relations with Western society. Years later, Gomes published his first b...
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Carmel Schrire
1941 - Present (83 years)
Carmel Schrire is a professor of anthropology at Rutgers University whose research focuses on historical archaeology, particularly in South Africa and Europe. Education and research Schrire was born in Cape Town, South Africa and completed her undergraduate studies at the University of Cape Town , going on to attend the University of Cambridge . Her early research interests were in prehistoric archaeology, and she did her doctoral research in Australia's Northern Territory on the way in which modern Aboriginal behaviour can help interpret prehistoric remains. She received her PhD in 1968 from...
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Helena Wulff
1954 - Present (70 years)
Helena Wulff is professor of social anthropology at Stockholm University. Her research is in the anthropology of communication and aesthetics based on a wide range of studies of the social worlds of literary production, dance, and the visual arts.
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Robert S. Newman
1943 - Present (81 years)
Robert S. Newman is an anthropologist based in Marblehead, Massachusetts, USA, primarily known for his contribution to studying post-1961 Goa, India. Early life and education Newman was born Robert Samuel Newman in Boston, Massachusetts and grew up in Marblehead, Mass., the son of Morris M. Newman and Ethel Solmer Newman, both children of Jewish immigrants from the Russian Empire. Music was his first love, but it turned out to be a short one. A chance to be an exchange student in Japan in 1959, turned Newman towards Asia and he earned his B.A. in Asian Studies from Cornell University in 1964.
Go to ProfileJorja Leap is an American anthropologist and adjunct professor in the social welfare department at the University of California, Los Angeles . She is also Director of the Health and Social Justice Partnership at UCLA and is a nationally recognized gang expert.
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Robert McCormick Adams Jr.
1926 - 2018 (92 years)
Robert McCormick Adams Jr. was an American anthropologist and secretary of the Smithsonian Institution . He worked in both the Near East and Mesoamerica. A long time professor of the University of Chicago, he was best known for his research in Iraq.
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Johnny Clegg
1953 - 2019 (66 years)
Jonathan Paul Clegg, was a South African musician, singer-songwriter, dancer, anthropologist and anti-apartheid activist. He first performed as part of a duo - Johnny & Sipho - with Sipho Mchunu which released its first single, Woza Friday in 1976. The two then went on to form the band Juluka which released its debut album in 1979. In 1986, Clegg founded the band Savuka, and also recorded as a solo act, occasionally reuniting with his earlier band partners. Sometimes called Le Zoulou Blanc , he was an important figure in South African popular music and a prominent white figure in the resist...
Go to ProfileChristopher Pinney is an anthropologist and art historian, and Professor of Anthropology and Visual Culture at University College London in the department of anthropology. He is known for his studies on the visual culture of South Asia, specifically India. He was honoured by the Government of India, in 2013, by bestowing on him the Padma Shri, the fourth highest civilian award, for his contributions to the field of literature.
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Robert E. M. Hedges
1944 - Present (80 years)
Robert Ernest Mortimer Hedges is a British archaeologist and academic. Born in 1944, Hedges attended High Wycombe Royal Grammar School and studied for his Doctor of Philosophy degree at Cambridge University. He was appointed a Fellow of St Cross College, Oxford University, and worked at Oxford University since at least 1994, when he was reappointed a lecturer in Archaeology "from 1 November 1994 until the retiring age".
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Richard Guy Condon
1952 - 1995 (43 years)
Richard Guy "Rick" Condon was an American anthropologist who specialized in the study of Inuit. He was curator of the Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum and editor of the international journal, Arctic Anthropology.
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Robert L. Kelly
1957 - Present (67 years)
Robert Laurens Kelly is an American anthropologist who is a professor at the University of Wyoming. As a professor, he has taught introductory Archaeology as well as upper-level courses focused in Hunter-Gathers, North American Archaeology, Lithic Analysis, and Human Behavioral Ecology. Kelly's interest in archaeology began when he was a sophomore in high school in 1973. His first experience in fieldwork was an excavation of Gatecliff Rockshelter, a prehistoric site in central Nevada. Since then, Kelly has been involved with archaeology and has dedicated the majority of his work to the eth...
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Gail M. Kelly
1933 - 2005 (72 years)
Gail M. Kelly was an American anthropologist known for training generations of anthropologists at Reed College in Portland, Oregon. She was born February 9, 1933, in Deer Park, Washington and after her mother's death was raised by relatives in Portland. She attended Reed as an undergraduate, studying under Morris Opler and David H. French, graduating in 1955. Her B.A. thesis, Themes in Wasco Culture, was based on fieldwork on the Warm Springs Indian Reservation under French's supervision. She pursued a Ph.D. in anthropology at the University of Chicago, where she was strongly influenced by Edward Shils and Fred Eggan.
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Hiroshi Udagawa
1994 - Present (30 years)
is a Japanese archaeologist and anthropologist. Biography He is a professor emeritus at the University of Tokyo since 1994, he is an expert in Ainu and northern/Siberian archeology. He is mainly involved in archaeological research of the Jōmon period, and is an authority on Okhotsk culture through Satsumon era. He has authored a number of books specifically about Ainu archaeology, including a 1986 book on the Ainu musical instrument, the tonkori, in collaboration with Eijiro Kanaya. Although professor of the University of Tokyo, the majority of his career was spent in the North Sea Cultural St...
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Aud Talle
1944 - 2011 (67 years)
Aud Talle was a Norwegian social anthropologist. She graduated as mag.art. from the University of Oslo and as fil. dr. from Stockholm University. She was a research assistant at the University of Bergen from 1975 to 1977, lector at Stockholm University from 1990 to 1995 and professor at the University of Oslo from 1995. She conducted her field work in Kenya, Somalia, Tanzania and London.
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George R. Milner
1953 - Present (71 years)
George R. Milner is an American archaeologist in the Department of Anthropology at The Pennsylvania State University. He has done archaeological research on sites encompassing a range of time periods in Illinois, Missouri, Wisconsin, and Kentucky, and has also worked in Egypt and Saipan . He has worked with prehistoric and historic human skeletal remains from eastern North America, Denmark, and Egypt. By using modern samples of known age from the United States, Switzerland, and Portugal, he has helped refine skeletal age estimation techniques.
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Dolores Piperno
1949 - Present (75 years)
Dolores Rita Piperno is an American archaeologist specializing in archaeobotany. She is a senior scientist emeritus of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Balboa, Panama and the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, Washington.
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Bryony Coles
1946 - Present (78 years)
Bryony Jean Coles, is a prehistoric archaeologist and academic. She is best known for her work studying Doggerland, an area of land now submerged beneath the North Sea. Early life and education Coles was born on 12 August 1946 to John Samuel Orme and Jean Esther Orme . She studied at Bristol University before completing her postgraduate degree at the London Institute of Archaeology and completing an MPhil in Anthropology at University College London.
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John Traphagan
1961 - Present (63 years)
John Willis Traphagan is professor emeritus of Human Dimensions of Organizations and Anthropology at the University of Texas at Austin and a visiting professor at the Center for International Education at Waseda University. Traphagan's research has largely focused on rural Japan, with most of his research conducted in Iwate Prefecture. He has published extensively on science and culture, aging, health, and life in rural Japan. In the late 2000s, he developed a second stream of research focused on the culture and ethics of space exploration. He has made significant contributions in the study o...
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Daris Swindler
1925 - 2007 (82 years)
Daris Ray Swindler was an American anthropologist. Biography Born in Morgantown, West Virginia, Swindler later served in the U.S. Navy in World War II, working on tankers in the North Atlantic and Pacific oceans. He went on to study anthropology at West Virginia University and the University of Pennsylvania. A long-time professor at the University of Washington, Dr Swindler also taught human anatomy at Cornell University Medical College , at the University of South Carolina and Michigan State University.
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Asbjørn Herteig
1919 - 2006 (87 years)
Asbjørn Herteig was a Norwegian archeologist. He was the first curator at the Bryggen Museum and affiliated with the University of Bergen. Biography He was born in Hadsel in Nordland, Norway. In 1952, he took his magister degree in archeology at the University of Oslo. Through this work, Herteig was a pioneer in the field of Norwegian medieval era archeology. Herteig worked with excavations of Kaupanger on the island of Veøya. In particular, he was associated with the excavations of Bryggen in Bergen. Herteig was one of the co-founders of and organisers of Bryggens Museum. He also played ...
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Andrzej Kokowski
1953 - Present (71 years)
Andrzej Kokowski is a Polish archaeologist who is a Professor of Archaeology and Director of the Institute of Archaeology at Maria Curie-Skłodowska University. Biography Andrzej Kokowski was born in Złotów in 1953. He received his PhD from the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań in 1996 with a thesis on the Wielbark culture. Since 2000, Kokowski has been Professor of Archaeology at Maria Curie-Skłodowska University. He is the Founder and Director of the Institute of Archaeology at Maria Curie-Skłodowska University.
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Nicholas De Genova
1968 - Present (56 years)
Nicholas De Genova is a Professor and Chair of the Department of Comparative Cultural Studies at the University of Houston. His research centers primarily on migration, borders, citizenship, and race.
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Heather Levi
1962 - Present (62 years)
Heather Levi is an American anthropologist best known for her research in lucha libre. Levi was born in Massachusetts and became an Assistant professor of Anthropology at Temple University. She received her Bachelor of Arts degree in Anthropology from the University of Massachusetts in 1990 and went on to receive a PhD in Anthropology in 2001 from New York University. She currently lives in Philadelphia.
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Daria Khaltourina
1979 - Present (45 years)
Daria Andreyevna Khaltourina is a Russian sociologist, anthropologist, demographer, and a public figure. She is the head of the Group of the Monitoring of Global and Regional Risks of the Russian Academy of Sciences, co-chairperson of the Russian Coalition for Alcohol Control, as well as the Russian Coalition for Tobacco Control. She is a laureate of the Russian Science Support Foundation Award in "The Best Economists of the Russian Academy of Sciences" nomination .
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James J. Fox
1940 - Present (84 years)
James Joseph Fox is an American anthropologist and historian of Indonesia. He was educated at Harvard University and Oxford University in where he was a Rhodes Scholar. The title of his doctoral thesis was The Rotinese: A study of the social organisation of an eastern indonesian people
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Timothy Taylor
1960 - Present (64 years)
Timothy Taylor is a British-based archaeologist specialising in prehistory and archaeological theory. Work Taylor was born in Norfolk and educated at the universities of Cambridge and Oxford. His academic work began studying ornamental metalwork of the Balkans and western Asia. Since, his focus has shifted and he has done extensive work on the archaeology of cannibalism, sexuality and material culture theory. He has also written several popular books on archaeology. In the 1980s and 1990s he frequently presented his work on television. The British Archaeological Award winner for "best popular archaeology on television" 1991 was a "Down to Earth" episode on which he appeared.
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Norman Hammond
1944 - Present (80 years)
Norman Hammond is a British archaeologist, academic and Mesoamericanist scholar, noted for his publications and research on the pre-Columbian Maya civilization. Career Hammond was educated at Peterhouse, Cambridge. He held academic posts at Cambridge , Bradford , and Rutgers universities , before he became a professor in the Archaeology Department at Boston University's College of Arts and Sciences in 1988. Now retired at Boston, he is currently a Senior Fellow of the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research at Cambridge.
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Pauline Wiessner
1947 - Present (77 years)
Pauline Wiessner is an American anthropologist who focused on cultural Anthropology. She is currently a professor at University of Utah. Wiessner has held various professor positions at Universities in the United States, Denmark, and France and various positions in Universities and communities across the world. During her research she work with Ju/’hoansi Bushmen of the Kalahari in South Africa to learn about the social networks and Enga of Papua New Guinea to learn about their customs of exchange, ritual and warfare.
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Ivan Mikulčić
1936 - 2020 (84 years)
Ivan Mikulčić was a prominent archaeologist from North Macedonia. Biography Mikulcic was born on March 25, 1936, in the then Kingdom of Yugoslavia in the Srem town of Indjija to a Croat family. He graduated in archeology from the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Belgrade in 1958, and in 1965 he defended his doctorate. He worked later in the museums in Stip, Bitola and Skopje, and since 1969 he was teaching at the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Skopje. In 1969 he received the title of assistant, then associate professor and full professor . He retired in 2000. Mikulčić ...
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Alex de Waal
1963 - Present (61 years)
Alexander William Lowndes de Waal , a British researcher on African elite politics, is the executive director of the World Peace Foundation at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. Previously, he was a fellow of the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative at Harvard University, as well as program director at the Social Science Research Council on AIDS in New York City.
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Laurajane Smith
1962 - Present (62 years)
Laurajane Smith is a Heritage and Museum Studies scholar. Among Smith's publications that examine the politics of heritage, she edited the book Uses of Heritage. She published the book Emotional Heritage: Visitor Engagement at Museums and Heritage Sites. In 2016, Smith was elected Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia.
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Oded Lipschits
1963 - Present (61 years)
Oded Lipschits is an Israeli professor in the Department of Archaeology and Ancient Near East Studies at Tel Aviv University. In 1997 he earned his Ph.D. in Jewish History under the supervision of Nadav Na'aman. He has since become a Senior Lecturer and Full Professor at Tel Aviv University and served as the Director of the Tel Aviv Institute of Archaeology since 2011. Lipschits is an incumbent of the Austria Chair of the Archeology of the Land of Israel in the Biblical Period and is the Head and founder of the Ancient Israel Studies Masters program in the Department of Archaeology and Ancien...
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