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G. Ainsworth Harrison
1927 - 2017 (90 years)
Geoffrey Ainsworth Harrison FRAI was an English biological anthropologist who taught at the University of Oxford. Early life and education Harrison was born in Teddington, Middlesex, England, on 8 June 1927. He received a 1st class degree from Trinity College, Cambridge, where he read natural sciences. At Cambridge, he became interested in anthropology after attending a lecture on Australopithecus by paleontologist Robert Broom. He received his DPhil from the University of Oxford for his work on the adaptation of mice to warm environments, which he conducted under the supervision of Joseph We...
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Linda L. Barnes
1953 - Present (71 years)
Linda L. Barnes is an American medical anthropologist, a professor of family medicine at Boston University School of Medicine, and in the Graduate Division of Religious Studies at Boston University. Her research specialties are the social and cultural history of Western responses to Chinese healing traditions, and the interdisciplinary study of cultural, religious, and therapeutic pluralism in the United States. She has been regularly cited as an authority in the use of religiously based therapeutic traditions.
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Maria Wyke
1957 - Present (67 years)
Maria Wyke is professor of Latin at University College, London. She is a specialist in Latin love poetry, classical reception studies, and the interpretation of the roles of men and women in the ancient world. She has also written widely on the role of the figure of Julius Caesar in Western culture.
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Katherine Hagedorn
1961 - 2013 (52 years)
Katherine Johanna Hagedorn was an American ethnomusicologist. Born in Summit, New Jersey to a white family, she became a traditional Cuban drummer and Santería priestess. She spent her career as a Professor of Music at Pomona College in Claremont, California, where she directed the Ethnomusicology Program, served as co-coordinator of the Gender & Women’s Studies Program, and became an associate dean. She also served as a "scholar-in-residence at Harvard University’s Center for the Study of World Religions and as a visiting professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara."
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Richard J. C. Atkinson
1920 - 1994 (74 years)
Alternative meaning: Richard Atkinson Richard John Copland Atkinson CBE was a British prehistorian and archaeologist. Biography Atkinson was born in Evershot, Dorset, and went to Sherborne School and then Magdalen College, Oxford, reading Philosophy, Politics and Economics. During the Second World War, his Quaker beliefs meant that he was a conscientious objector. In 1944, he became Assistant Keeper of Archaeology at the Ashmolean Museum. In 1949, he was appointed a lecturer at the University of Edinburgh
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Matthew Collins
2000 - Present (24 years)
Matthew Collins, is a professor at the University of Copenhagen, formerly as a Niels Bohr professor, and also holds a McDonald Chair in Palaeoproteomics at the University of Cambridge. Prior to joining Cambridge he was professor of biomolecular archaeology at the University of York where he founded BioArCh, a collaboration between the departments of biology, chemistry and archaeology .
Go to ProfileLouise Steel is Professor of Near Eastern Archaeology at the University of Wales Trinity St David. Her research focuses on the prehistoric Mediterranean world, in particular Cyprus and the Eastern Mediterranean, as well as on themes of materiality and the human body. She conducts fieldwork in Cyprus at the Late Bronze Age site of Arediou Vouppes.
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James B. Pritchard
1909 - 1997 (88 years)
James Bennett Pritchard was an American archeologist whose work explicated the interrelationships of the religions of ancient Palestine, Canaan, Egypt, Assyria, and Babylon. Pritchard was honored with the Gold Medal Award for Distinguished Archaeological Achievement in 1983 from the Archaeological Institute of America.
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Julian Bennett
2000 - Present (24 years)
Dr Julian Bennett is a British archeologist. After leaving secondary school, Dr Julian Bennett worked as a freelance archaeologist in England and Germany, before entering the University of Durham as a mature student where he graduated with a BA in Archaeology in 1978. After preliminary graduate study at Newcastle University, he was appointed as an Excavations Director for English Heritage, continuing with graduate studies on a part-time basis to eventually be awarded his PhD in 1991. The title of his PhD thesis was The Setting, Development and Function of the Hadrianic Frontier in Britain. Fr...
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Simon James
1957 - Present (67 years)
Simon James is an archeologist of the Iron Age and Roman period and an author. He is Professor of Archaeology at the University of Leicester in England. His research interests are the Roman world and its interactions with the Celts and Middle Eastern peoples.
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Carolyn Rouse
1965 - Present (59 years)
Carolyn Moxley Rouse is an American anthropologist, professor and filmmaker. She is Professor and Chair of the Department of Anthropology at Princeton University. Biography Rouse grew up in Del Mar, California, the daughter of a physicist and a psychologist . She encountered discrimination at an early age as her family was prevented from buying a home in Rancho Santa Fe because of their race.
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Florence Connolly Shipek
1918 - 2003 (85 years)
Florence C. Shipek professor of anthropology at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside, was an American anthropologist and ethnohistorian, a leading authority on Southern California Indians. Biography Florence McKeever Connolly was born in North Adams, Massachusetts on December 11, 1918. She started her college years at College of Charleston at the age of 15, and then earned her BA and MA in anthropology at the University of Arizona. There, she served as field assistant to Clara Lee Tanner and Emil Haury in 1935 and 1939-1940, and published on petroglyphs and ceramics based on that field w...
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Bjørnar Olsen
1958 - Present (66 years)
Bjørnar Julius Olsen is professor at UiT - The Arctic University of Norway. He is a Norwegian archaeologist who specializes in archaeological theory, material culture, museology, northern/Arctic archaeology, and contemporary archaeology. Olsen is a prominent figure in the turn to things in humanities and social sciences, including symmetrical archaeology.
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Lisa Duggan
1954 - Present (70 years)
Lisa Duggan is Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University. Duggan was president of the American Studies Association from 2014 to 2015, presiding over the annual conference on the theme of "The Fun and the Fury: New Dialectics of Pleasure and Pain in the Post-American Century."
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Evelia Edith Oyhenart
1955 - 2021 (66 years)
Evelia Edith Oyhenart was an Argentine biological anthropologist, whose research focused on child growth, nutrition, and human adaptation. She served as a full professor, dean, and vice-dean of the Faculty of Natural Sciences and Museum of the National University of La Plata . She was also the director of the Ontogeny and Adaptation Research Laboratory at UNLP.
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Iris Love
1933 - 2020 (87 years)
Iris Cornelia Love was an American classical archaeologist, best known for the rediscovery of the Temple of Aphrodite in Knidos. Early life and education Love was born in New York to Cornelius Love, a diplomat and investment banker descended from Alexander Hamilton and from Captain Cook, and Audrey Josephthal, a great-granddaughter of Meyer Guggenheim. Her parents collected art and antiques, her British governess was a classicist, and she was interested from an early age in archaeology and languages. Her grandmother, Edyth Guggenheim Josephthal, left her a trust fund.
Go to ProfileMichael John Rowlands is a retired British academic and anthropologist. He was Professor of Anthropology and Material Culture at University College London from 1993 to 2010. Career Rowlands graduated from the University of London with a BSc in anthropology and went on complete a PhD there. He was appointed Lecturer in Anthropology at University College London in 1973 and was promoted to a readership in 1982, after which he was Professor of Anthropology and Material Culture at UCL from 1993 to 2010. He was also Head of the Department of Anthropology there from 1992 to 1996. Since retiring in 2...
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Valentine Roux
1956 - Present (68 years)
Valentine Roux is a French archaeologist specialising in ceramic production in the Levant between the 5th and 2nd millennium BCE with the aim of identifying the "evolutionary trajectories of ceramic traditions."
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Stephen Williams
1926 - 2017 (91 years)
Stephen Williams was an archaeologist at Harvard University who held the title of Peabody Professor of North American Archaeology and Ethnography. Fantastic Archaeology Williams is best known as the author of Fantastic Archaeology and a course at Harvard based on the same material; a critical examination of pseudoarchaeological claims such as Atlantis, Mu, fringe related pre-Columbian trans-oceanic contact theories, psychic archaeology, etc. He also discusses claims made in the Book of Mormon about the prehistoric Americas. The book has received positive reviews.
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Patrick Gaffney
1947 - Present (77 years)
Patrick Daniel Gaffney is an American anthropologist, academic, translator, member of the Congregation of Holy Cross and the current Vice-Chancellor of Notre Dame University Bangladesh. Education and career He earned his PhD from the University of Chicago and has taught at the University of Notre Dame, USA, since 1980. For his academic work, he received Kaneb Teaching Award in 2001, and Reinhold Niebuhr Award in 2002. A polyglot fluent in Arabic, French, German, Dutch, Spanish, Italian, Russian, and a competent reader in Latin, Greek, Hebrew, Gaffney translated Renaissance of the East by Hans Fortmann in 1972 and With Open Hands by Henri Nouwen in 1973 from Dutch into English.
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Barry Raftery
1944 - 2010 (66 years)
Barry Raftery was an Irish archaeologist and academic. He is best known for his pioneering work in wetland archaeology and Iron Age hillforts in Ireland. He was Professor of Celtic Archaeology in University College Dublin for more than thirty years, and served as chair of the Department of Celtic Archeology at UCD from 1996 to his retirement in 2007.
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Francine Saillant
1953 - Present (71 years)
Francine Saillant is a Canadian anthropologist and intellectual. Biography Saillant received her Ph.D. from McGill University in 1987. She is a professor in the Department of Anthropology at Laval University since 1996; and serves as the Director of the Centre interuniversitaire sur les lettres, les arts et les traditions . Saillant has directed the efforts of the journal Anthropologie et sociétés for more ten years. She was appointed in 2008 to be a member of the Royal Society of Canada. In 2013, she was co-chair of the 81st Congress of the Association francophone pour le savoir.
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Katrina Karkazis
1970 - Present (54 years)
Katrina Alicia Karkazis is an American anthropologist and bioethicist. She is a professor of Sexuality, Women's and Gender Studies at Amherst College. She was previously the Carol Zicklin Endowed Chair in the Honors Academy at Brooklyn College, City University of New York and a senior research fellow with the Global Health Justice Partnership at Yale University. She has written widely on testosterone, intersex issues, sex verification in sports, treatment practices, policy and lived experiences, and the interface between medicine and society. In 2016, she was jointly awarded a Guggenheim Fell...
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Mike Smith
1955 - 2022 (67 years)
Mike Smith was an Australian archaeologist, scholar, historian, researcher and author. He was instrumental in the development of Central Australian archaeological research and establishing the antiquity of Aboriginal presence in the inland desert 35,000 years ago.
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Rosalind C. Morris
1963 - Present (61 years)
Rosalind C. Morris is a Canadian anthropologist and cultural critic. She is Professor of Anthropology at Columbia University. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2022. Biography Morris grew up in Canada and spent her childhood in Kimberley, British Columbia and Vancouver. She completed her BA at the University of British Columbia and received her MA from York University, and PhD from the University of Chicago. She joined the Columbia faculty in 1994.
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Haim Hazan
1947 - Present (77 years)
Haim Hazan is Professor of sociology and social anthropology at Tel Aviv University. His research focuses on old age as a social phenomenon. He is also an active partner at the Herzog Institute for the Study of Aging and Old Age. He is the author of more than 15 books. Hazan is the editor of the magazine Israeli Sociology and has been the director of the Institute for Social Research at the Horowitz Institute and the Herczeg Institute on Aging at Tel Aviv University.
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Keneiloe Molopyane
1987 - Present (37 years)
Keneiloe Molopyane is a South African biological archaeologist and paleoanthropologist. She began studying archeology at the University of Pretoria, and later completed a master 's degree in archeobiology at the University of York. In 2021 she completed a doctoral thesis in biological anthropology at Wits University. In 2021, she was named an "emerging explorer" by the National Geographic Society.
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William Washabaugh
1945 - Present (79 years)
William Washabaugh is Professor Emeritus of anthropology at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. He has pursued studies of Creole languages, Sign languages of the Deaf, flamenco artistry, sport fishing, and cinema.
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Nancy Munn
1931 - 2020 (89 years)
Nancy Dorothy Munn was an American anthropologist best known for her work in space and time, value, and world-making. Munn conducted fieldwork principally on the island of Gawa in Papua New Guinea, and amongst the Walbiri in Yuendumu, Australia.
Go to ProfileEmma Kowal is an Australian cultural and medical anthropologist, physician and scholar of science and technology studies. She is most well known for her books Trapped in the Gap: Doing Good in Indigenous Australia, and the co-edited volumes of Force, Movement, Intensity: The Newtonian Imagination in the Humanities and Social Sciences , Cryopolitics: Frozen Life in a Melting World .
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Manuel João Ramos
1960 - Present (64 years)
Manuel João Mendes Silva Ramos is a Portuguese anthropologist, artist and civil rights advocate. As an author, he is widely held in libraries worldwide. Early life and education Ramos was born in Lisbon, Portugal, the eldest son of late actor , He took his BA in Anthropology in 1982, at New University of Lisbon, his MsC in Comparative Literary Studies in 1987, also at New University of Lisbon, and his PhD in Symbolic Anthropology at ISCTE-IUL.
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Frank LaPena
1937 - 2019 (82 years)
Frank Raymond LaPena, also known as Frank LaPeña and by his Wintu name Tauhindauli , was a Nomtipom-Wintu American Indian painter, printmaker, ethnographer, professor, ceremonial dancer, poet, and writer. He taught at California State University, Sacramento, between 1975 and 2002. LaPena helped defined a generation of Native artists in a revival movement to share their experiences, traditions, culture, and ancestry.
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Alan R. Rogers
1950 - Present (74 years)
Alan R. Rogers is a Professor in the Department of Anthropology and Adjunct Professor in the Department of Biology at the University of Utah. His research is in the fields of population genetics and evolutionary ecology. He is the author of The Evidence for Evolution.
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Diane Bell
1943 - Present (81 years)
Diane Robin Bell is an Australian feminist anthropologist, author and activist. She is Professor Emerita of Anthropology at the George Washington University in Washington, D.C, USA and Distinguished Honorary Professor of Anthropology at the Australian National University, Canberra. Her work focuses on the Aboriginal people of Australia, Indigenous land rights, human rights, Indigenous religions, violence against women, and on environmental issues.
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Alasdair Whittle
1949 - Present (75 years)
Alasdair William Richardson Whittle, is a British archaeologist and academic, specialising in Neolithic Europe. He was Distinguished Research Professor of Archaeology at Cardiff University from 1997 to 2018.
Go to ProfileRebecca Wragg Sykes is a British paleolithic archaeologist, broadcaster, popular science writer and author who lives in Wales. She is interested in the Middle Palaeolithic, specifically in the lives of Neanderthals; and she is one of the founders of TrowelBlazers, a website set up to celebrate the lives of women in archaeology, palaeontology and geology.
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Deborah Fahy Bryceson
1951 - Present (73 years)
Deborah Fahy Bryceson is a British academic currently affiliated to the Centre of African Studies at the University of Edinburgh and University of Uppsala. She pioneered research into sectoral change in Africa, looking primarily at 'transnational families' and coining the terms 'de-agrarianisation' and 'mineralized urbanization'. She has published 16 books and over 130 journal articles and book chapters, specialising on livelihood, labour, urbanization and agrarian studies.
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Shuichi Toyama
1954 - Present (70 years)
is a Japanese archaeologist and historian, Professor in the Faculty of Letters at Kogakkan University. He specializes in archaeological geography, environment archeology, geomorphology, and the history of geography, and is an expert in ancient Japanese farming practices and the history of the Yamanashi Prefecture. He has conducted much research into rice cultivation in ancient Japan in particular, which has been quoted in numerous publications. In his work related to the environment and archaeology, he has examined the relationship history between nature and human beings, which was the subject of a 2008 book.
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Jennifer Baird
1978 - Present (46 years)
Jennifer A. Baird.jpg Jennifer Baird, is a British archaeologist and academic. She is Professor in Archaeology at Birkbeck, University of London. Her research focuses on the archaeology of Rome's eastern provinces, particularly the site of Dura-Europos.
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Geoffrey Wainwright
1937 - 2017 (80 years)
Geoffrey John Wainwright, was a British archaeologist specialising in prehistory. He was the Chief Archaeologist of English Heritage from 1989 to 1999, and visiting professor to a number of universities. He served as president of the Prehistoric Society from 1981 to 1985 and the Society of Antiquaries of London from 2007 to 2010.
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Nicole-Claude Mathieu
1937 - 2014 (77 years)
Nicole-Claude Mathieu was a French anthropologist, feminist, academic and writer, who is remembered for her contributions to gender studies, including women's rights, the institution of marriage, materialist feminism and women's oppression. An active contributor to feminist journals, from 1971 she served as Chef de travaux at the where she edited the journal L'Homme while contributing many articles of her own. From 1990, she was maîtresse de conférences at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences. In June 1996, she received a doctorate honoris causa from the Université Laval.
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Gennady Zdanovich
1938 - 2020 (82 years)
Gennadii Borisovich Zdanovich was a Russian archaeologist based at the historical site of Arkaim, Chelyabinsk, Russia. Zdanovich led the excavation campaign at Arkaim in the Southern Urals. In the archaeology of the Sintashta culture, he introduced the term "the Country of Towns". He was a proponent of an approach which seeks to unify archaeological and ecological approaches to the environment.
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Gonzalo Trancho
1955 - Present (69 years)
Gonzalo Javier Trancho Gayo is a Spanish anthropologist. He obtained doctor and bachelor degrees in Biological Sciences at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, where he is also a professor in the Zoology and Anthropology Department. His thesis dealt with a cell biology study of populations of Nilotides and he has taken part in several researches in Spain and more countries . He's a member of the Asociación Española de Paleopatología
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Richard Hodges
1952 - Present (72 years)
Richard Hodges, is a British archaeologist and past president of The American University of Rome. A former professor and director of the Institute of World Archaeology at the University of East Anglia , Hodges is also the former Williams Director of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology in Philadelphia . His published research primarily concerns trade and economics during the early part of the Middle Ages in Europe. His earlier works include Dark Age Economics , Mohammed, Charlemagne and the Origins of Europe and Light in the Dark Ages: The Rise and Fall of S...
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Mark Roberts
1961 - Present (63 years)
Mark Brian Roberts is an English archaeologist specialising in the study of the Palaeolithic. He is best known for his discovery of, and subsequent excavations at, the Lower Palaeolithic site of Boxgrove Quarry in southern England. Roberts is principal research fellow at the UCL Institute of Archaeology. He has twice been awarded the Stopes Medal for his contribution to the study of Palaeolithic humans and Pleistocene geology, and in 2021 was made an Honorary Fellow of West Dean College of Arts and Conservation.
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David W. Brokensha
1923 - 2017 (94 years)
David Warwick Brokensha was a South African anthropologist and university professor, known for his work on Indigenous development and cultures in Africa. Early life and education Brokensha was born in Durban, Union of South Africa on 23 May 1923. His father was a lawyer , while his mother was a nursing sister from Lancashire in England; they married in 1915. His paternal grandfather was from Cornwall and had moved to the area in 1870.
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Bruce McFadgen
1943 - Present (81 years)
Bruce Gordon McFadgen is a New Zealand surveyor and archaeologist. McFadgen qualified as a land surveyor at the University of Otago, and worked for the Department of Lands and Survey until 1968. He then completed a Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts degrees in anthropology at Otago, followed by a PhD in geology at Victoria University of Wellington in 1979, before working as a staff archaeologist for the New Zealand Historic Places Trust.
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Janette Deacon
1939 - Present (85 years)
Janette Deacon is a South African archaeologist specialising in heritage management and rock art conservation. She has studied the changes in stone tools from sites in the southern Cape in relation to climate change over the past 20,000 years. From 1985, she located rock engravings at places where the /Xam informants of Wilhelm Bleek and Lucy Lloyd lived in the nineteenth century. She served as a member of the SAHRA Council and was first chairperson of Heritage Western Cape.
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Salvatore Settis
1941 - Present (83 years)
Salvatore Settis is an Italian archaeologist and art historian. From 1994 to 1999 he was director of the Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities in Los Angeles and from 1999 to 2010 of the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa.
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