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Alison Betts
2000 - Present (24 years)
Alison Venetia Graham Betts is a Scottish archaeologist and academic, who specialises in the "archaeology of the lands along the Silk Roads" and the nomadic peoples of the Near East. Since 2012, she has been Professor of Silk Road Studies at the University of Sydney.
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Anna Melyukova
1921 - 2004 (83 years)
Anna Ivanovna Melyukova was a Russian archaeologist and a pioneer in the field of Scythian archaeology. At her alma mater, Moscow State University, she held the position of professor of archaeology and eventually, became the head of its department of Scythology.
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Zakia Zouanat
1957 - 2012 (55 years)
Zakia Zouanat was a Moroccan anthropologist. A researcher at the Institute of African Studies at Mohammed V University, she was an expert in Moroccan Sufism. Her research concerned biographic accounts of important Sufi figures in the 12th to 13th centuries. Zouanat sought to bridge Moroccans educated in French who accessed their religions through Arabic texts. As evidenced by her commentary on the Delos Initiative, she actively sought to promulgate the protection of pilgrimage sites important to Moroccan Sufis, as well as provide context for economic and cultural relevance.
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Eric Walter Rothenbuhler
1950 - Present (74 years)
Eric Walter Rothenbuhler is an American anthropologist and dean of the School of Communications and a professor at Webster University. He is known for his works on ritual communication. Education Ph.D. Communication Theory and Research, Annenberg School of Communications, University of Southern California, 1985. Dissertation Title: Media events, civil religion, and social solidarity: The living room celebration of the Olympic Games.M.A. Department of Communication, Ohio State University, 1982. Thesis Title: Radio and the popular music industry: A case study of programming decision making.B.A. ...
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Robert E. Bell
1914 - 2006 (92 years)
Robert E. Bell , was an archaeologist. He was a Professor of Anthropology at the University of Oklahoma from 1947-1980, and Curator of Archaeology at the Stovall Museum of Science and History at the University of Oklahoma . He pioneered work on the Spiro Mounds archaeological site in eastern Oklahoma.
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Norma Diamond
1931 - 2011 (80 years)
Norma Diamond was an American anthropologist who specialized in the study of Chinese society, especially in Taiwan, and women's studies. She was Professor of Anthropology at University of Michigan from 1963 to 1996, and named Professor Emerita. She was the first woman to be a tenure track professor in Anthropology at that institution.
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Rotraut Wisskirchen
1936 - 2018 (82 years)
Rotraut Wisskirchen was a German Biblical archaeologist. Wisskirchen was born on 23 June 1936 in Hagen and studied law in Munich and Bonn; then she worked from 1965 to 1967 as a lawyer in the Federal Ministry of Housing and Urban Development. She was married to the lawyer Alfred Wisskirchen, with whom she had two daughters, also lawyers.
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Ronald G. Beckett
1953 - Present (71 years)
Ronald G. Beckett is an American paleoanthropologist, and Professor Emeritus in the Department of Biomedical Sciences at Quinnipiac University. In 1999, he and Gerald Conlogue founded the Bioanthropology Research Institute at the university. He is a Fellow of the American Association for Respiratory Care and is a Fulbright Scholar Senior Specialist in Anthropology.
Go to ProfileElizabeth Graham is a professor of Mesoamerican Archaeology at UCL. She has worked, for decades, on the Maya civilization, both in prehispanic and colonial times, specifically in Belize. She has recently turned her attention to Maya Dark Earths, and conducts pioneering work in the maya region as dark earths have mostly been studied in the Amazonia. She particularly focuses on how human occupation influences soil formation and production.
Go to ProfileLyn Wadley is an honorary professor of archaeology, and also affiliated jointly with the Archaeology Department and the Institute for Evolution at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa.
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Marco Milanese
1958 - Present (66 years)
Marco Milanese is an Italian archeologist. He graduated in archeology in 1981 from the University of Genoa. In 1983 he won the 3rd edition of the Bretschneider's Erma International Archeology Prize in Rome, with the work Scavi nell'oppidum pre-romano di Genova.
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Michael Cosmopoulos
1963 - Present (61 years)
Michael Basil Cosmopoulos is Professor of Greek History and Archaeology with the Department of Anthropology and Archaeology; and Holder of the Endowed Professorship in Greek Studies at the University of Missouri–St. Louis. He is a Fellow of the St. Louis Academy of Science, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, a member of the Athens Academy of Arts and Sciences, of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2022 he was decorated by the president of Greece with the Gold Cross of the Order of Phoenix.
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Walter Lee Williams
1948 - Present (76 years)
Walter Lee Williams is an American former professor of anthropology, history, and gender studies at the University of Southern California. In 2013, after his retirement, he was arrested, convicted, and imprisoned for five years on the charge of "illicit conduct in foreign places". He had sexual acts with two underage boys in the Philippines and possessed erotic paraphernalia related to child pornography. Williams was apprehended in a public park in Playa del Carmen, Mexico in 2013 and extradited to Los Angeles, United States for trial.
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Elsa Redmond
1951 - Present (73 years)
Elsa Marion Redmond is an American archaeologist at the American Museum of Natural History. She specialises in Latin American archaeology. She is an elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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Daphne Berdahl
1964 - 2007 (43 years)
Daphne Berdahl was an anthropologist known for her work on Eastern Germany and Post-socialist Europe. Her work on gender and consumption as well as her writing on post-communist nostalgia has been widely cited by scholars of post-socialism.
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Alice Dewey
1928 - 2017 (89 years)
Alice Greeley Dewey was an American anthropologist who studied Javanese society. She was a professor of anthropology at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa from 1962 until her retirement in 2005. Among her doctoral students was Ann Dunham, the mother of President Barack Obama.
Go to ProfileJohn Parkington is an Emeritus professor in archaeology and hunter-gatherers, Paleoenvironmental reconstruction and human ecology, prehistoric art, and coastal archaeology. He has suggested that since fish provide an important nutrient for the brain, the consumption of fish led to the emergence of the first really intelligent humans in the Western Cape region of South Africa. In February 2000 South African President Thabo Mbeki mentioned the letter he had received from Parkington, regarding the protection of archaeological heritage sites, in his address at the opening of South Africa's Parlia...
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Sue Black, Baroness Black of Strome
1961 - Present (63 years)
Susan Margaret Black, Baroness Black of Strome, is a Scottish forensic anthropologist, anatomist and academic. She was the Pro Vice-Chancellor for Engagement at Lancaster University and is past President of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland. From 2003 to 2018 she was Professor of Anatomy and Forensic Anthropology at the University of Dundee. She is President of St John's College, Oxford.
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James L. Watson
1947 - Present (77 years)
James L. Watson is Fairbank Professor of Chinese Society and Professor of Anthropology, Emeritus, Harvard University. He taught at the University of London School of Oriental and African Studies, University of Pittsburgh, University of Hawaii, and University of Houston, and, since his retirement, at Knox College. Among his interests are Chinese emigrants to London, the subject of his doctoral work and first book; ancestor worship and Chinese popular religion in present-day and in history; family life and village organization; food and food systems in East Asia. He is best known outside acade...
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Charles Ramble
1957 - Present (67 years)
Charles Albert Edward Ramble is an anthropologist and former University Lecturer in Tibetan and Himalayan Studies at the Oriental Institute, Oxford University. Since 2009 he has been Professor and Directeur d'études at the Ecole pratique des hautes études , Paris. Between 2006 and 2013 he was elected president of the International Association for Tibetan Studies and convened the 10th seminar of IATS at Oxford in 2003.
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Otto Holzapfel
1941 - Present (83 years)
Otto Holzapfel is a German folklorist and researcher of traditional German folk song . He is a retired professor at the University of Freiburg. His mother tongue is Danish. He studied in Frankfurt am Main; among his subjects were Scandinavian languages and literature with Klaus von See. In 1970 he was appointed curator at the German Folk Song Archives in Freiburg, now Center for Popular Culture and Music, University of Freiburg. He led this institute until 1996. He was co-editor of the journal Jahrbuch für Volksliedforschung from 1984 to 1998 and editor of the Studien zur Volksliedforschung .
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Gary Urton
1946 - Present (78 years)
Gary Urton is an American anthropologist. He was the Dumbarton Oaks Professor of Pre-Columbian Studies at Harvard University and the chair of its anthropology department between 2012 and 2019. Urton retired from Harvard in 2020, after multiple former students accused him of sexual harassment. Despite much controversy and opposition, he was given an emeritus title after retirement. Following internal investigation, Urton was stripped of his emeritus status by Harvard in June 2021.
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Angela von den Driesch
1934 - 2012 (78 years)
Angela von den Driesch was a German archaeologist and veterinarian. She was a professor and former director of the Institut für Paläoanatomie, Domestikationsforschung und Geschichte der Tiermedizin at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich.
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Mary Beaudry
1950 - 2020 (70 years)
Mary Carolyn Beaudry was an American archaeologist, educator and author whose research focused on historical archaeology, material culture and the anthropology of food. She was a Professor of Archaeology, Anthropology, and Gastronomy at Boston University .
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Alan Millard
1937 - Present (87 years)
Alan Ralph Millard is Rankin Professor Emeritus of Hebrew and Ancient Semitic languages, and Honorary Senior Fellow , at the School of Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology in the University of Liverpool.
Go to ProfileRebecca Gowland is a bioarchaeologist. She is a Professor of Archaeology at Durham University. Education Gowland studied for an undergraduate degree at Durham University. She then completed a master's degree at the University of Sheffield before returning to Durham, where she completed her PhD in 2002.
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Aydogdy Kurbanov
1976 - Present (48 years)
Aydogdy Kurbanov is a Turkmen archaeologist and historian whose main area of research is prehistoric and late antiquity of Central Asia. Born in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan, he graduated from the Turkmen State University named after Magtymguly and he did a Ph.D. at the Free University of Berlin and has been a postdoctoral researcher in archaeology and history at the Academy of Sciences of Turkmenistan. He has been the head of department of archaeology of the Academy's Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography.
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Thomas J. Pluckhahn
1966 - Present (58 years)
Thomas Pluckhahn is an assistant professor of the Department of Anthropology at the University of South Florida. His areas of specialization in the field of anthropology include Eastern United States Prehistory, Mesoamerican Prehistory, Cultural Resource Management, Settlement Pattern Studies, Archaeology of Households, Environmental Anthropology, Ceramic Analysis, and GIS Applications for Anthropology.
Go to ProfileJudith Littleton is a New Zealand anthropology academic, and as of 2018 is a full professor at the University of Auckland. Academic career After a 2011 PhD titled 'A delicious torment : an analysis of dental pathology on historic Bahrain' at The Australian National University, Littleton moved to the University of Auckland, rising to full professor.
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Crawford Hallock Greenewalt Jr.
1937 - 2012 (75 years)
Crawford Hallock Greenewalt Jr. was an American classical archaeologist at the University of California, Berkeley who made contributions to the study of Lydia through his excavations at Sardis. Biography Greenewalt was the son of Crawford Hallock Greenewalt, a chemical engineer and later president of the DuPont, and Margaretta L. Greenewalt. He had one brother, David Greenewalt, and one sister, Nancy G. Frederick. He attended the Tower Hill School, received a B.A. from Harvard University in 1959, and a Ph.D. in Classical Archaeology from the University of Pennsylvania in 1966. Greenwalt died ...
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Peter S. Wells
1948 - Present (76 years)
Peter S. Wells is an American anthropologist and author who is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Minnesota. Biography Peter S. Wells was born in Boston, Massachusetts on October 9, 1948. Wells received his B.A. from Harvard College in 1970, and his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1976.
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George Horse Capture
1937 - 2013 (76 years)
George Paul Horse Capture was an anthropologist, activist, and writer. Horse Capture was one of the earlier Native Americans to be a museum curator. He was the first curator of the Plains Indian Museum in Cody, Wyoming, and worked for a decade at the National Museum of the American Indian, during planning for its new building on the Mall in Washington, DC. He was an enrolled member of the Fort Belknap Indian Community of the Fort Belknap Reservation of Montana.
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Michael Warren
1958 - Present (66 years)
Michael W. Warren is an associate professor emeritus and forensic anthropologist, at the University of Florida. He formerly served as the William H. Garmany Term Professor of Human Rights & Social Justice in the Department of Anthropology, and as Assistant Director of the William R. Maples Center for Forensic Medicine. Dr. Warren is a retired diplomate of the American Board of Forensic Anthropology. He was a board member of the Scientific Working Group for Forensic Anthropology . He also served as a member of the Forensic Advisory Board of the International Committee for the Red Cross. From 2009 until his retirement, Dr.
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Malika Zeghal
1965 - Present (59 years)
Malika Zeghal is a Tunisian Professor in Contemporary Islamic Thought and Life at Harvard University, and formerly an associate professor of the anthropology and sociology of religion in the University of Chicago Divinity School.
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Margaret Stefana Drower
1911 - 2012 (101 years)
Margaret Stefana Drower Hackforth-Jones MBE , known as Peggy Dower, was an English historian of Ancient Near Eastern History and Egyptology. She was awarded the MBE and elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London. She wrote the definitive biography of Flinders Petrie.
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Jean Schensul
1950 - Present (74 years)
Jean J. Schensul is a medical anthropologist and senior scientist at The Institute for Community Research, in Hartford, Connecticut. Dr. Schensul is most notable for her research on HIV/AIDS prevention and other health-related research in the United States, as well as her extensive writing on ethnographic research methods. She has made notable contributions to the field of applied anthropology, with her work on structural interventions to health disparities leading to the development of new organizations, community research partnerships, and community/university associations. Schensul’s work h...
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K. Ludwig Pfeiffer
1944 - Present (80 years)
K. Ludwig Pfeiffer is a German scholar in literary, media and cultural studies, born on February 23, 1944, in Neustadt an der Aisch, Middle Franconia, Germany. Besides his own publications, he is the editor and co-editor of 14 volumes in various research disciplines.
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Jean-Marie Brohm
1940 - Present (84 years)
Jean-Marie Brohm is a French sociologist, anthropologist and philosopher. Professor of sociology at the University of Montpellier III, he was also the founder of the journal Quel Corps ?, member of the editorial staff of the monthly Répertoire and is actually director of the journal Prétentaine. Brohm has written many books and is the leading proponent of the radical critique of sport in France.
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Seifollah Kambakhshfard
1929 - 2010 (81 years)
Seifollah Kambakhshfard was an Iranian archaeologist, who specialized in archaeology and Ancient History of Iran. Education and career summary Born in Tehran, he completed his elementary education at the Adib and Dar ul-Funun schools and graduated from University of Tehran with master's degree in Archaeology in 1964. He started his career as a teacher and taught in the elementary schools while he was pursuing his postgraduate studies. He joined the prehistory division of the National Museum of Iran in 1959 and served as an assistant director of the Institute of Archaeology that operated under the University of Tehran at the time.
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Massimo Pallottino
1909 - 1995 (86 years)
Massimo Pallottino was an Italian archaeologist specializing in Etruscan civilization and art. Biography Pallottino was a student of Giulio Quirino Giglioli and worked early in his career on the Temple of Apollo at Veii. In essence Pallottino created the modern discipline of Etruscology and trained many of its leading practitioners. He published a massive corpus of material during his career and established a research center in Rome, today known as C.N.R. per l'Archeologia etrusco-italica. He was also influential in establishing the Istituto Nazionale di Studi Etruschi e Italici and its journal, Studi Etruschi.
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Greg Laden
1958 - Present (66 years)
Gregory Thomas Laden is an American biological anthropologist and science blogger. Education Born in 1958, Laden received his B.A. from the University of the State of New York's Regents College program in 1984, and his M.A. and Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1987 and 1992, respectively, where he was advised by Irven DeVore.
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Heather Hurst
1976 - Present (48 years)
Heather Hurst is an American archaeologist and archaeological illustrator. Career Dr. Hurst graduated from Skidmore College in 1997 and from Yale University in 2009 with a Ph.D. in anthropology. She teaches at Skidmore College. Her research is focused on art and iconography, with a focus on Maya murals and Olmec rock art. She has studied the art and architecture of Bonampak, Copan, Holmul, Oxtotitlan, Palenque, Piedras Negras, San Bartolo, and Xultun.
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Theresa Howard Carter
1929 - 2015 (86 years)
Theresa Howard Carter was an archaeologist, educator, and scholar. Personal life and education Carter was born on May 15, 1929, in Millbrook, New York, to Clarence K. Howard and Anne Warren Howard. She grew up on a dairy farm and attended Miss Howard's School, which was run at the farm by her aunt and namesake, Tess. When she reached the age of 13, Carter began attending the Millbrook Memorial School. Upon graduation she successfully pursued an A.B. in Anthropology at Syracuse University. She then went on to complete an M.A. in Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania in 1954. During th...
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Rita P. Wright
1936 - Present (88 years)
Rita P. Wright is an American anthropologist, and professor emeritus at New York University. She graduated from Wellesley College with a B.A. in 1975 and from Harvard University with an M.A. in 1978 and Ph.D. in 1984. She specializes in Near East societies, the Indus Civilisation and gender roles. She currently teaches the introductory archaeology course, required for the anthropology major at the university.
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Encarnación Cabré
1911 - 2005 (94 years)
Encarnación Cabré Herreros was a Spanish archaeologist. Cabré developed an interest in archaeology at a young age. She accompanied her father , a prominent Spanish archaeologist, on expeditions to peninsular Spain. She was a prolific academic in the 1930s, presenting her research in archaeological excavation in various journals and international conferences. After the Spanish Civil War of the late 1930s, the Francoist dictatorship forbade her from teaching, and she mostly retired. She returned to the field in 1975, where she remained active for the rest of her life.
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Lisa Peattie
1924 - 2018 (94 years)
Lisa Redfield Peattie was an American anthropologist and professor of urban anthropology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She was best known for her work in advocacy planning, a type of urban planning which seeks social change by including all interests and groups in the planning process. Peattie, who earned her Ph.D. from University of Chicago in 1968, published extensively on slums and squatter settlements. She also engaged in numerous peace actions, and had a long, although minor and nonviolent, arrest record.
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Denis-Constant Martin
1947 - Present (77 years)
Denis-Constant Martin is a French scholar. Biography Martin, a graduate of the Institut d'études politiques de Paris and the Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales, is the holder of two doctorates, directed by Georges Balandier. From 1969 to 2008, he was research director at the . A researcher at the "Centre d'étude d'Afrique noire" of the Bordeaux University, he teaches political anthropology at the Institut d'études politiques de Bordeaux and has also given courses in the music department of the Paris 8 University, but also, among others, in South Africa, Algeria, the Uni...
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Howard Williams
1972 - Present (52 years)
Howard M. R. Williams is a British archaeologist and academic who is Professor of Archaeology at the University of Chester in England. His research focuses on the study of death, burial and memory in Early Medieval Britain.
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Alexander Laban Hinton
Alexander Laban Hinton is an anthropologist whose work focuses on genocide, mass violence, extremism, transitional justice, and human rights. He has written extensively on the Cambodian genocide and, in 2016, was an expert witness at the Khmer Rouge Tribunal. He has authored many books including, most recently, It Can Happen Here: White Power and the Rising Threat of Genocide in the US and Anthropological Witness: Lessons from the Khmer Rouge Tribunal. , he is a distinguished professor at Rutgers University.
Go to ProfileJenny Tung is an evolutionary anthropologist and geneticist. She is an Associate Professor of Biology and a researcher at Duke University. In 2019, she was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship. Personal life Tung’s mother and father immigrated to the United States from China and moved to Maryland and then to Delaware where they had Tung and her older sister, Wenny. Tung’s father was a chemical engineer for DuPont, an American chemical company, and her mother was a teacher prior to their coming to the United States. Upon starting her undergraduate work at Duke University, Tung studied biology with ...
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