#1351
Marta Weigle
1944 - 2018 (74 years)
Marta Weigle was an American anthropologist and folklorist. Early life and education Weigle was born in Janesville, Wisconsin in 1944. The family moved to Santa Fe in 1961 so her father, Richard Weigle, who was president of St. John's College of Annapolis, could establish a new campus in Santa Fe. Weigle received a BA in Social Relations from Harvard in 1965 and continued with graduate study in Folklore at the University of Pennsylvania.
Go to Profile#1352
William L. Jungers
1948 - Present (76 years)
William L. Jungers was an American anthropologist, Distinguished Teaching Professor and the Chair of the Department of Anatomical Sciences at State University of New York at Stony Brook on Long Island, New York. He is best known for his work on the biomechanics of bipedal locomotion in hominids such as the 3.4-million-year-old Lucy , and the 6.1- to 5.8-million-year-old Millennium Man Orrorin tugenensis. He devoted much of his career to the study of the lemurs of Madagascar, especially giant extinct subfossil forms such as Megaladapis. More recently, Jungers has been a subject of media att...
Go to Profile#1353
H. Clyde Wilson Jr.
1926 - 2010 (84 years)
H. Clyde Wilson Jr. was a professor of anthropology at the University of Missouri. He was a fellow of American Anthropological Association and member of Sigma Xi. He was politically active running and winning four terms on the city council of Columbia, Missouri, and one term as mayor. He received the MU Peace Studies Professor of the Year Award for 1998.
Go to ProfileJames F. O'Connell is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at the University of Utah. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America and is on the editorial board of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Go to Profile#1356
Susan Sherratt
1949 - Present (75 years)
Susan Sherratt is Reader in Mediterranean Archaeology at the University of Sheffield. Her research focuses on the archaeology of the Bronze and Early Iron Ages of the Aegean, Cyprus and the eastern Mediterranean, especially trade and interaction within and beyond these regions.
Go to Profile#1357
Helen Hardacre
1949 - Present (75 years)
Helen Hardacre is an American Japanologist. She is the Reischauer Institute Professor of Japanese Religions and Society at the Departement of East Asian Languages and Civilization, Harvard University.
Go to ProfileRobert Hoppa is a Canadian physical anthropologist who held a Canada Research Chair in Skeletal Biology. A Professor at the University of Manitoba he conducts research on the health of past populations.
Go to Profile#1359
Irina Podgorny
1963 - Present (61 years)
Irina Podgorny is an Argentine anthropologist, a historian of science at the National University of La Plata, permanent staff at CONICET, professor ad honorem and Director of the Archive of History and Photographs at the Natural Science Facility and Museum of the National University of La Plata, and winner of the Bernardo Houssay Young Researcher Award. She has held numerous professorships and scholarships and has worked for CONICET since 2013.
Go to Profile#1360
Mark Mostert
2000 - Present (24 years)
Mark P. Mostert is co-director of the Institute for Disability and Bioethics and professor of Special Education at Regent University, Virginia Beach. He has written about and lectured on Eugenics and Euthanasia, Nazi Germany's state-sanctioned "useless eater" policy to exterminate people with disabilities and others considered less than human, and the fads and pseudoscientific practices found in special education.
Go to Profile#1361
Aparna Rao
1950 - 2005 (55 years)
Aparna Rao was a German anthropologist who performed studies on social groups in Afghanistan, France, and some regions of India. Her doctorate studies focused on anthropogeography, ethnology, and Islamic studies. Rao taught anthropology at the University of Cologne, serving for a brief time as chair of the Department of Ethnology at the South Asia Institute of Heidelberg University, Germany.
Go to Profile#1363
David Tab Rasmussen
1958 - 2014 (56 years)
David Tab Rasmussen , also known as D. Tab Rasmussen, was an American biological anthropologist. Specializing in both paleontology and behavioral ecology with interests in Paleogene mammals, early primate evolution, prosimians , and birds, he synthesized multiple fields of study in order to better understand evolutionary processes. His field research spanned the western United States as well as internationally in Africa and the Neotropics. He published over 85 research articles.
Go to Profile#1364
Nnamdi Azikiwe
1904 - 1996 (92 years)
Nnamdi Benjamin Azikiwe, , usually referred to as "Zik", was a Nigerian statesman and political leader who served as the 3rd governor-general of Nigeria between 1960 and 1963 and the 1st president of Nigeria during the First Nigerian Republic which existed from 1963 to 1966. Considered a driving force behind the nation's independence, he came to be known as the "father of Nigerian nationalism".
Go to Profile#1365
Helen Groger-Wurm
1921 - 2005 (84 years)
Helen Groger-Wurm, birth name Helene Gröger , was an Austrian-Australian ethnologist, anthropologist and linguist. After earning a Ph.D. from the University of Vienna in 1946, she married the Hungarian-born linguist Stefan Wurm. In 1954 the couple moved to Australia where they obtained Australian citizenship. They carried out field research in New Guinea and in northern Australia. From 1962 until her 1974, Groger-Wurm was a research officer at the Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies, lecturing in parallel on the aboriginal way of life at the Australian National University. She went on to take up work a librarian at the Australian National Library until her retirement in 1982.
Go to Profile#1366
Lorenzo Nigro
1967 - Present (57 years)
Lorenzo Nigro is an Italian archaeologist, novelist and watercolorist. He is Full Professor of Near Eastern Archaeology in the Faculty of Letters and Philosophy at Sapienza University of Rome. He directs four main archaeological expeditions at Jericho in Palestine, with the Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities, at the Early Bronze Age fortified city, previously unknown, of Khirbet al-Batrawy in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, and at Motya, a Phoenician city in Western Sicily, and he is co-director of the Institut National du Patrimoine-Sapienza University of Rome Expedition to Carthage. Sin...
Go to Profile#1367
Philip Rahtz
1921 - 2011 (90 years)
Philip Arthur Rahtz was a British archaeologist. Rahtz was born in Bristol. After leaving Bristol Grammar School, he became an accountant before serving with the Royal Air Force during the Second World War. During war service, Rahtz became friends with the archaeologist Ernest Greenfield, the excavator of Great Witcombe Roman Villa, Gloucestershire and Lullingstone Castle, Kent. This friendship sparked a personal interest in archaeology and a professional career, which began with excavations at Chew Valley Lake in 1953.
Go to Profile#1368
Sonia Montecino
1954 - Present (70 years)
Sonia Cristina Montecino Aguirre is a Chilean writer and anthropologist. In 2013, she was awarded the Premio Nacional de Humanidades y Ciencias Sociales Biography She studied Anthropology in Universidad de Chile where she graduated in 1980 and in 2016 she received her doctorate in Leiden University in Holland. She is married to the anthropologist Rolf Foerster González.
Go to ProfileAndrew Michael Tangye Moore, also known as A. M. T. Moore, is a British archaeologist and academic. He is a professor at the Rochester Institute of Technology . Early life Andrew Moore was born in Devon, England. He read Modern History at the University of Oxford and in 1966 he joined Kathleen Kenyon's excavation in Jerusalem. From 1967 to 1969, he did postgraduate studies at the University of London under John Evans. He then undertook postgraduate research at the University of Oxford. He completed his Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1978 with a doctoral thesis entitled The Neolithic of the Levant.
Go to Profile#1370
Nadav Na'aman
1939 - Present (85 years)
Nadav Na'aman is an Israeli archaeologist and historian. He specializes in the study of Near East in the second and first millenniums BC. His research combines the history of the Ancient Near East, archaeology, Assyrology, and the study of the Bible. He possesses broad knowledge in all these four branches of research.
Go to Profile#1371
Richard Ashby Wilson
Richard Ashby Wilson is an American–British social anthropologist of law and human rights. He is the Gladstein Distinguished professor of Human Rights and Professor of Anthropology and Law at the University of Connecticut. In 2021, Wilson became the Associate Dean of Faculty Development and Intellectual Life at the University of Connecticut School of Law. Wilson established the interdisciplinary Human Rights Institute at the University of Connecticut and was the Director of the Human Rights Institute from 2003 to 2013. Wilson is one of the founders of the anthropology of human rights and was e...
Go to Profile#1372
Lissant Bolton
1954 - Present (70 years)
Lissant Mary Bolton is an Australian anthropologist and the Keeper of the Department of Africa, Oceania and the Americas at the British Museum. She is particularly known for her work on Vanuatu, textiles, and museums and indigenous communities.
Go to Profile#1374
Miriam Stark
1962 - Present (62 years)
Miriam T. Stark is an American archaeologist whose field experience and emphasis of studies have included locations in North America, the Near East and Southeast Asia. She is currently a professor of Southeast Asian Archaeology at the University of Hawai’i-Manoa, a position she has held since August 1995. Having first received her B.A. from the University of Michigan, she went on to complete her M.A and PhD from the University of Arizona. Stark has co-directed the Lower Mekong Archaeological Project , located in southern Cambodia for the past 12 years. Her research focus not only includes the...
Go to Profile#1376
Irving Finkel
1951 - Present (73 years)
Irving Leonard Finkel is a British philologist and Assyriologist. He is the Assistant Keeper of Ancient Mesopotamian script, languages and cultures in the Department of the Middle East in the British Museum, where he specialises in cuneiform inscriptions on tablets of clay from ancient Mesopotamia.
Go to Profile#1377
Marilyn Palmer
1943 - Present (81 years)
Marilyn Palmer, is a British historian, archaeologist and academic, who specialises in landscape history and industrial archaeology. Having been a school teacher, she moved into academia and taught at Loughborough College, Loughborough University, and Leicester University. She was the United Kingdom's first Professor of Industrial Archaeology.
Go to ProfileBrenda Farnell is a British-American anthropologist and Professor of American Indian Studies and Anthropology at the University of Illinois. Her areas of focus include dance, movement, performance, language, and Labanotation. Her work is influenced by Sociocultural Theory, Visual Anthropology, Ethnopoetics, and Semiotic Anthropology. Farnell's use of Labanotation as a research tool has developed dance and performance notation in the field of Anthropology. She focuses on the North American Plains culture areas, including the Nakota, Crow, and Comanche nations. Her work includes extensive study ...
Go to Profile#1380
Peter T. Ellison
1951 - Present (73 years)
Peter Thorpe Ellison is an American anthropologist who researches human reproductive ecology. His work has been recognized with a Guggenheim Fellowship and membership of the National Academy of Sciences, among other honors. He has also served as the editor-in-chief of the American Journal of Human Biology and American Journal of Physical Anthropology and editor of Annual Review of Anthropology.
Go to ProfileEve Tuck is an Unangax̂ scholar in the field of Indigenous studies and educational research. Tuck is the Professor of Critical Race and Indigenous Studies at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto.
Go to Profile#1382
Elliott P. Skinner
1924 - 2007 (83 years)
Elliott Percival Skinner was an American anthropologist and United States Ambassador to the Republic of Upper Volta. Background Born in Port of Spain, Trinidad, in a family with four siblings and Barbadian ancestry on his father's side, Skinner came to the United States in 1943. He supported American values, and enlisted in the United States Army in 1944 and fought in World War II in France, which later allowed him to obtain citizenship. Skinner earned a bachelor's degree from New York University in 1951. He then attended Columbia University, where he earned a master’s degree in 1952 and a doctorate in 1955.
Go to Profile#1383
Ella Shohat
1959 - Present (65 years)
Ella Shohat , is an American professor of cultural studies at New York University, where she teaches in the departments of Art & Public Policy and Middle Eastern & Islamic Studies. She has written and lectured on the topics of Eurocentrism, Orientalism, Postcolonialism, Transnationalism, and Diasporic cultures.
Go to Profile#1384
Alain le Pichon
1944 - Present (80 years)
Alain le Pichon is a French Anthropologist. With Umberto Eco he founded Transcultura, an international institute, of which he became the president. In October 2010, Transcultura was given the role of organising th EU-China High Level Cultural Forum.
Go to ProfileWilliam Irons is an American evolutionary anthropologist and professor emeritus in anthropology at the Northwestern University known for his research on the Yomut Turkmen, in northern Iran. His research interests include evolutionary ecology, reproductive strategies, demography and the evolutionary foundations of morality and religion.
Go to Profile#1386
Helen Leach
1945 - Present (79 years)
Helen May Leach is a New Zealand academic specialising in food anthropology. She is currently a professor emerita at the University of Otago. Early life and family Born Helen May Keedwell in Wellington on 3 July 1945, Leach is the daughter of Peggy and Harvey Keedwell. Her older sister, Nancy Tichborne, was a watercolour artist.
Go to Profile#1387
Diana Kirkbride
1915 - 1997 (82 years)
Diana Victoria Warcup Kirkbride-Helbæk, was a British archaeologist who specialised in the prehistory of south-west Asia. Biography She attended Wycombe Abbey School in High Wycombe and served in the Women's Royal Naval Service during the Second World War. She completed a postgraduate diploma at University College London in 1950 studying Mesopotamian and Palestinian archaeology under Sir Max Mallowan and Dame Kathleen Kenyon. Kirkbride went to work on the excavations of Jericho from 1952 to 1955. In 1953, she began fieldwork in Jordan, including the restoration of the Jerash Theatre and excavations at Petra in 1956.
Go to Profile#1389
Dori Tunstall
1972 - Present (52 years)
Elizabeth "Dori" Tunstall is a design anthropologist, researcher, academic leader, writer, and educator. She is dean of the faculty of design at OCAD University in Toronto, Canada, and the first black dean of a faculty of design anywhere. Tunstall holds a PhD and an MA in anthropology from Stanford University [1994–1999] and a BA in anthropology from Bryn Mawr College [1990–1994].
Go to Profile#1390
Rolfe D. Mandel
1952 - Present (72 years)
Rolfe D. Mandel is a Distinguished Professor of archaeology in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Kansas as well as Senior Scientist and Executive Director of the Odyssey Geoarchaeological Research Program at the Kansas Geological Survey. Initially trained as a geographer, he has been a major figure in defining the subdiscipline of geoarchaeology and has spent the last thirty years focusing on the effects of geologic processes on the archaeological record. His primary research interests include geoarchaeology, Quaternary soils, geology, paleoecology, and paleoenvironmental reconstruction in the Great Plains region of the United States as well as the Mediterranean.
Go to Profile#1391
Emily Vermeule
1928 - 2001 (73 years)
Emily Dickinson Townsend Vermeule was an American classical scholar and archaeologist. She was a professor of classical philology and archaeology at Harvard University. Early life and education Emily Dickinson Townsend was born on August 11, 1928, in New York City to Clinton Blake Townsend and Eleanor Mary Meneely. She was named for her grandmother, a relative of the poet Emily Dickinson.
Go to Profile#1392
Rhys Jones
1941 - 2001 (60 years)
Rhys Maengwyn Jones was a Welsh-Australian archeologist. Biography Jones was born in Blaenau Ffestiniog, Wales and educated at Whitchurch Grammar School, Cardiff. He was an undergraduate at Emmanuel College, Cambridge where Graham Clarke, Eric Higgs and Charles McBurney were his instructors in archaeology. He spoke Welsh fluently.
Go to Profile#1393
Katerina Douka
1981 - Present (43 years)
Katerina Douka is an archaeological scientist whose work focuses on the spatio-temporal pattern of human dispersals and extinctions across Eurasia, including Neanderthals, Denisovans and modern Homo sapiens.
Go to Profile#1394
Robert Garfias
1932 - Present (92 years)
Robert Garfias is an American ethnomusicologist and musicologist. He is a professor of Anthropology and a member of The Social Dynamics and Complexity Group at the University of California, Irvine as well as a professor at the Japanese National Museum of Ethnology in Senri, Osaka.
Go to Profile#1396
Michael Lapidge
1942 - Present (82 years)
Michael Lapidge, FBA is a scholar in the field of Medieval Latin literature, particularly that composed in Anglo-Saxon England during the period 600–1100 AD; he is an emeritus Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge, a Fellow of the British Academy, and winner of the 2009 Sir Israel Gollancz Prize.
Go to Profile#1397
Elisabeth Croll
1944 - 2007 (63 years)
Elisabeth Joan "Lisa" Croll, was a New Zealand anthropologist. She is known as the first anthropologist to visit Chinese villages in a period when political actions made access into the country for foreigners difficult. Croll published books on the subject and held several short-term fellowships at various educational institutions. She also worked for United Nations agencies and international non-government organisations.
Go to Profile#1398
Nathan Hare
1933 - Present (91 years)
Nathan Hare is an American sociologist, activist, academic, and psychologist. In 1968 he was the first person hired to coordinate a Black studies program in the United States. He established the program at San Francisco State. A graduate of Langston University and the University of Chicago, he had become involved in the Black Power movement while teaching at Howard University.
Go to Profile#1399
Kamari Maxine Clarke
1966 - Present (58 years)
Maxine Kamari Clarke is a Canadian-American scholar with family roots in Jamaica. As of 2020, she is a distinguished professor at the Centre for Criminology & Sociolegal Studies and the Centre for Diaspora & Transnational Studies at the University of Toronto. In 2021, she was named a Guggenheim Fellow.
Go to Profile#1400
Peter van Dommelen
1966 - Present (58 years)
Peter Alexander René van Dommelen is a Dutch archaeologist and academic, who specialises in the archaeology of the Western Mediterranean and Phoenician-Punic archaeology. Since July 2015, he has been Director of the Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World at Brown University.
Go to Profile