Daniel Fessler is a professor of biological anthropology at the University of California, Los Angeles, working in the fields of evolutionary psychology, evolutionary anthropology, and evolutionary medicine. He was an editor-in-chief of journal of Evolution and Human Behavior.
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Giaco Schiesser
1953 - Present (71 years)
Giaco Schiesser is a Zurich-based theorist of cultural and media studies. He is a professor emeritus for cultural theory and media theory and for artistic research of Zurich University of the Arts, ZHdK .
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Nora England
1946 - 2022 (76 years)
Nora Clearman England was an American linguist, Mayanist, and Dallas TACA Centennial Professor at the University of Texas at Austin. Her research focused on the grammar of Mayan languages and contemporary Mayan language politics.
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Anoop Chandola
1937 - Present (87 years)
Anoop Chandola, author of 20 books, 4 coauthored is an American linguist-anthropologist, originally from Pauri , where he was raised in a priestly Brahmin family. Though his father and uncles broke their ancestral polygamous tradition he suffered from the after-effects of polygamy.
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Martha Menchaca
1956 - Present (68 years)
Martha Menchaca is an academic in the fields of social anthropology, ethnicity, gender, oral history, legal anthropology, immigration, and Chicana/o Studies on the relationship between U.S. and Mexican culture. Menchaca is recognized for her research on immigration, naturalization, and birthright citizenship. She is currently a professor at the University of Texas, Austin in the Department of Anthropology.
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Claire Smith
1957 - Present (67 years)
Claire Smith , is an Australian archaeologist specialising in Indigenous archaeology, symbolic communication and rock art. She served as Dean of the College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences at Flinders University in 2017-2018 and, prior to that, as head of the Department of Archaeology. She served two terms as president of the World Archaeological Congress from 2003 to 2014 and greatly increased the organization's size and visibility. Among her many publications is the Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology .
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Verne F. Ray
1905 - 2003 (98 years)
Verne Frederick Ray, was anthropology professor at the University of Washington, with a B.A. and M.A. in anthropology from Washington and a Ph.D. from Yale. Ray was one of the first anthropologists at UW, was head of the Department of Anthropology and associate dean of the graduate school.
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Roderick Salisbury
1967 - Present (57 years)
Roderick B. Salisbury is an American anthropological archaeologist specializing in landscape archaeology, human-environmental interactions, and the link between spatial organization and socio-political structure. Since 2015 he has worked at the Austrian Academy of Sciences and the Faculty of Historical and Cultural Studies at the University of Vienna, Austria.
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Jack Halberstam
1961 - Present (63 years)
Jack Halberstam , known also as Judith Halberstam, is an American academic and author, best known for his book Female Masculinity . His work focuses largely on feminism and queer and transgender identities in popular culture. Since 2017, Halberstam has been a professor in the department of English and Comparative Literature and the Institute for Research on Women, Gender, and Sexuality at Columbia University. Previously, he worked as both director and professor at The Center for Feminist Research at University of Southern California . Halberstam was the associate professor in the Department of...
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Chunghee Sarah Soh
1950 - Present (74 years)
Chunghee Sarah Soh or Sarah Soh is an American professor of Anthropology at San Francisco State University. She is a sociocultural anthropologist who specializes in issues of women, gender, sexuality.
Go to ProfileMark V. Flinn is a biomedical anthropologist, specializing in childhood stress, family relationships and health. His research includes a longitudinal 30-year study of child health in a rural community on the Caribbean island of Dominica. This study is the first of its kind to monitor stress hormones in a naturalistic setting.
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Dragoslav Srejović
1931 - 1996 (65 years)
Dragoslav Srejović was a Serbian archaeologist, cultural anthropologist and historian. He was the main contributor to the exploration of the Lepenski Vir archaeological site. Biography Srejović had a broad range of interests, and his fields of research range from paleolithic and mesolithic sites in Yugoslavia, through the late Roman period, to Greco-Roman mythology. He was a prolific author, having published more than 200 papers, over 20 monographs and a dozen guides and catalogs. He became a subscribing member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts in 1974, and a regular member in 1983,...
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Sterling Dow
1903 - 1995 (92 years)
Sterling Dow was an American classical archaeologist, epigrapher, and professor of archaeology at Harvard University. After secondary education at Phillips Exeter Academy, Dow matriculated in 1921 at Harvard University and graduated there in 1925 with a bachelor's degree in philosophy. As the winner of the Fiske Scholarship, Dow spent the academic year 1925–1926 studying ancient history at Trinity College, Cambridge. Returning to Harvard in 1926, he graduated with M.A. in 1928 and Ph.D. in history in 1936. His doctoral supervisor was the Canadian ancient historian William Scott Ferguson . Dow married Elizabeth Sanderson Flagg in 1931.
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Rosemary Joyce
1956 - Present (68 years)
Rosemary A. Joyce is an American anthropologist and social archaeologist who has specialized in research in Honduras. They were able to archeologically confirm that chocolate was a byproduct of fermenting beer. She is also an expert in evaluating the archaeological records of society and the implications that sexuality and gender play in culture.
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David Van Reybrouck
1971 - Present (53 years)
David Grégoire Van Reybrouck is a Belgian cultural historian, archaeologist and author. He writes historical fiction, literary non-fiction, novels, poetry, plays and academic texts. He has received several awards for his works.
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Erella Hovers
1956 - Present (68 years)
Erella Hovers is an Israeli paleoanthropologist. She is currently a professor at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, working within the Institute of Archeology. The majority of her field work is centered in the Horn of Africa, with a primary focus on Ein Qashish, Israel and Eastern Ethiopia. Her research concentrates on the development of the use of symbolism during the Levantine Middle Palaeolithic and Middle Stone Age. Other research interests include lithic technology, taphonomy, and general behavior of early hominids.
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Scott M. Fitzpatrick
Scott M. Fitzpatrick is a Professor in the Department of Anthropology and Associate Director for Research and Collections at the Museum of Natural and Cultural History at the University of Oregon. He is a specialist in the prehistory and historical ecology of island and coastal regions of the Pacific and Caribbean. His research has focused on colonization events, seafaring strategies, adaptations to smaller islands, exchange systems, and human impacts on ancient environments. He has conducted archaeological research in the Caribbean and Pacific Islands with other projects having taken place in Panama, the Florida Keys, and Oregon Coast.
Go to ProfileMary L. Gray is an American anthropologist and author. She is a Fellow at Harvard University's Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society, as well as a Senior Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research. Along with her research, Gray teaches at Indiana University, maintaining an appointment as an Associate Professor of the Media School, with affiliations in American Studies, Anthropology, and Gender Studies. In 2020, she was awarded a MacArthur Genius Grant in recognition of her work "investigating the ways in which labor, identity, and human rights are transformed by the digital economy."
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R. Brian Ferguson
1951 - Present (73 years)
Richard Brian Ferguson is an American anthropologist. He is an authority on warfare. Life Richard Brian Ferguson was born in New York, New York on July 19, 1951. He spent his childhood in upstate New York.
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Andrew Reynolds
1967 - Present (57 years)
Andrew Reynolds is an English archaeologist specialising in the study of medieval Britain. He is a lecturer at the Institute of Archaeology, University College London. Reynolds worked as a field archaeologist from 1985 to 1990 before going on to gain a BA in Medieval Archaeology and a PhD from University College London.
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Geoff Bailey
1948 - Present (76 years)
Geoff Bailey is a British archaeologist. He currently holds the Anniversary Chair at the University of York in England. His research interests include palaeoeconomy and the archaeology of shell middens and prehistoric coastlines as well as maritime environments as used by humans.
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Agnes Kirsopp Lake Michels
1909 - 1993 (84 years)
Agnes Freda Isabel Kirsopp Lake Michels known as "Nan" to her friends, was a leading twentieth century scholar of Roman religion and daily life and a daughter of the Biblical scholar Kirsopp Lake . Michels earned her bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees in Latin from Bryn Mawr College, where she was also a member of the faculty from 1934 until 1975. After her retirement she frequently taught courses at Duke University as well as at the University of North Carolina.
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Tahsin Özgüç
1916 - 2005 (89 years)
Tahsin Özgüç was an eminent Turkish field archaeologist. The careers of Tahsin Özgüç and his wife, Nimet Özgüç, began after World War II and lasted for nearly 60 years. He was said to be the doyen of Anatolian archaeology.
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Tomris Bakır
1941 - 2020 (79 years)
Tomris Bakır was a classical archaeologist from Turkey, who specialised in ceramics, and was the Director of Excavations at Daskyleion. Biography Tomris Akbaşoğlu was born on 5 November 1941. She studied at Ankara University, where she obtained her undergraduate degree. She was awarded a doctoral degree at the Archaeological Institute of Heidelberg University, doctoral advisor was Roland Hampe. She was married to the archaeologist Güven Bakır .
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Francis B. Nyamnjoh
1961 - Present (63 years)
Francis B. Nyamnjoh is a Cameroonian Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Cape Town. He was recipient of the annual "ASU African Hero 2013" award from the African Students Union at Ohio University, the 2014 Eko Prize for African Literature, and his book #RhodesMustFall: Nibbling at Resilient Colonialism in South Africa won the 2018 ASAUK Fage & Oliver Prize for the best monograph.
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Fereidoun Biglari
1970 - Present (54 years)
Fereidoun Biglari is an Iranian archaeologist and a museum curator. Career Fereidoun Biglari is co-founder and head of the Paleolithic department in National Museum of Iran which was established in 2001. He is serving as a member of the research council of the Iranian Center for Archaeological Research . He is also editor-in-chief of "Journal of Iranian Archaeology " since its establishment in 2010. The journal is a scholarly journal about ancient Iran and neighboring regions. Since 1993, he has been directing archaeological field projects in various parts of Iran. His field of research cove...
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Lisa Matisoo-Smith
1963 - Present (61 years)
Lisa Matisoo-Smith is a molecular anthropologist and Professor at the University of Otago. As at 2018, she is Head of the Department of Anatomy. Biography Born in Hawai‘i in 1963, Matisoo-Smith also lived in Japan and California, following her father's naval postings.
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Eyal Ben-Ari
1953 - Present (71 years)
Eyal Ben-Ari is a former professor of anthropology in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem . His research interests include Japan as well as the Israeli Defence Forces. He served as the head of the university's Harry S. Truman Research Institute for the Advancement of Peace until January 2007, and also taught the Introduction to Anthropology course, making him well known to students.
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David Lancy
1945 - Present (79 years)
David Lancy is an American anthropologist and professor emeritus at Utah State University. He has made contributions to childhood development and the concept of "chore curriculum." He has been called "perhaps the world’s leading expert on child-parent relationships throughout the world." In 2001, he was awarded the Carnegie Foundation's Professor of the Year.
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Wendy Ashmore
1948 - 2019 (71 years)
Wendy Ann Ashmore was an American professor of Maya archaeology at the University of California, Riverside. She was involved in excavations in Belize, Guatemala, and Honduras. Her research focused on the implications that spaces, settlement patterns, and gender can have on social organization. She received her B.A. from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1970 and her Ph.D. in 1981 from the University of Pennsylvania. Her dissertation analyzed the results of the site periphery program that took place between 1975 and 1979 at Quirigua, Guatemala. In her dissertation, she discusses the...
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Henry de Lumley
1934 - Present (90 years)
Henry de Lumley is a French archeologist, geologist and prehistorian. He is director of the Institute of Human Paleontology in Paris, and Professor Emeritus at the Museum of Natural History in Paris. He is also a corresponding member of the Academy of Humanities of the Institute of France and former director of the French National Museum of Natural History. He is best known for his work on archeological sites in France and Spain, notably Arago cave in Tautavel, Southern France, Terra Amata in Nice and Grotte du Lazaret near Nice, and Baume Bonne at Quinson, where some of the earliest ev...
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Martin Millett
1955 - Present (69 years)
Martin John Millett, is a British archaeologist and academic. From 2001 to 2022, he was the Laurence Professor of Classical Archaeology at the University of Cambridge and a professorial fellow of Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge. Since 2021, he has been president of the Society of Antiquaries of London.
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Margaret Bender
1963 - Present (61 years)
Margaret Clelland Bender is an American anthropologist who specializes in the language and culture of the Cherokee people. She received her Ph.D. in 1996 from the University of Chicago, where she studied with the anthropologist Raymond D. Fogelson. She is currently Associate Professor of anthropology and Chair of the Anthropology Department at Wake Forest University.
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Gordon Hillman
1943 - 2018 (75 years)
Gordon Hillman was a British archaeobotanist and academic at the UCL Institute of Archaeology. He has been described as "a pivotal figure in the development of archaeobotany at the Institute of Archaeology at University College London, [who] through his research, publications and teaching had a major influence on the field worldwide."
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Christine Obbo
1947 - Present (77 years)
Christine Obbo is an Ugandan socio-cultural anthropologist. She attended school at Makerere University in Uganda, earning her BA and MA there and went on to receive a doctorate at the University of Wisconsin, with a scholarship from Rockefeller Foundation. She was then a professor at Wheaton College and then Wayne State University, later becoming involved in activities with HIV/AIDS, gender, and policy issues.
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Homer Thompson
1906 - 2000 (94 years)
Homer Armstrong Thompson was a Canadian classical archaeologist of the twentieth century, specializing in ancient Greece. As a fellow of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Thompson led the excavations of the Athenian Agora from May 25, 1931 until 1970. He was married to a fellow archaeologist, Dorothy Burr Thompson.
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Sarah Wagner
1972 - Present (52 years)
Sarah E. Wagner is an American professor of anthropology at the George Washington University's Columbian College of Arts and Sciences and a 2017 Guggenheim Fellow. Wagner is especially recognized for her research and work on genocides.
Go to ProfileGilbert Pwiti is an archaeologist. He is a pioneer of modern archaeological and heritage management research in southern Africa and Zimbabwe. Pwiti was amongst the first generation of indigenous historians to be trained in archaeology in postcolonial southern Africa and he was the first professor of Archaeology in Zimbabwe.
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Roland Martin
1912 - 1997 (85 years)
Roland Martin was a French archaeologist. From 1934 to 1938 Martin studied at the Sorbonne and the École normale supérieure. From 1938 until 1946, he was a member of the French School at Athens. From 1936 to 1971, he taught at the University of Dijon, since 1956 as a professor. From 1965 to 1980 he was Directeur d'études at the École pratique des hautes études and from 1971 to 1980 professor of Greek Archaeology at the University Paris I.
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Pierre Gros
1939 - Present (85 years)
Pierre Gros is a contemporary scholar of ancient Roman architecture and the Latin language, particularly the texts of the writer Vitruvius. He presently holds the post of Professor of Latin language and civilization at the Université de Provence. He is the author of numerous scholarly treatises, including those on Roman architecture and urbanism, Roman architects, and important critical editions of Vitruvius published in the Collection Budé. In 2005 he was presented with a volume in his honor, Théorie et pratique de l'architecture romaine: la norme et l'expérimentation: études offertes á Pi...
Go to ProfileSusan C. Antón is an American biological anthropologist and paleoanthropologist. She is a professor at New York University and fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Education Antón graduated with B.A. in Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley in 1987. She remained at Berkeley for further study, receiving her M.A. and Ph.D. in anthropology in 1991 and 1994, respectively. She worked as a curator on skull collections during her studies.
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McKenzie Wark
1961 - Present (63 years)
McKenzie Wark is an Australian-born writer and scholar. Wark is known for her writings on media theory, critical theory, new media, and the Situationist International. Her best known works are A Hacker Manifesto and Gamer Theory. She is a professor of Media and Cultural Studies at The New School.
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Joachim Werner
1909 - 1994 (85 years)
Joachim Werner was a German archaeologist who was especially concerned with the archaeology of the Early Middle Ages in Germany. The majority of German professorships with particular focus on the field of the Early Middle Ages were in the second half of the 20th century occupied by his academic pupils.
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William M. Fields
1949 - Present (75 years)
William M. Fields , also known by the lexigram , is an American qualitative investigator studying language, culture, and tools in non-human primates. He is best known for his collaboration with Sue Savage-Rumbaugh beginning in 1997 at the Language Research Center of Georgia State University. There he co-reared Nyota , a baby bonobo, with Panbanisha , Kanzi and Savage-Rumbaugh . Fields and Savage-Rumbaugh are the only scientists in the world carrying out language research with bonobos.
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Michael Shunkov
1953 - Present (71 years)
Michael V. Shunkov is a Russian archaeologist and member of the Russian Academy of Science working at Novosibirsk State University. Shunkov was one of the archaeologists behind the find of a fossilized finger-bone excavated in the Siberian Denisova Cave in the Altai Mountains in 2008 leading up to the 2010 discovery of the Denisova human.
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Klavs Randsborg
1944 - 2016 (72 years)
Klavs Randsborg was a Danish archaeologist. He was Professor of World Archaeology at the University of Copenhagen, where he spent most of his academic life. He was also at times Visiting Professor at various British, Dutch and German universities, as well as Washington University in St. Louis.
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Andrew Turton
1938 - Present (86 years)
Andrew Turton was a British anthropologist who specialised on Thailand and the Tai peoples of Southeast Asia. Life Turton held the Chair of Anthropology and Chair of the Centre of Southeast Asian Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies , University of London. He lived for many years in Thailand, where he did research, mainly in Northern Thailand, but also in Laos and the Chinese province of Yunnan, where the native areas of several Tai peoples lie. He lived in London until his death in 2021.
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Farideh Heyat
1949 - Present (75 years)
Farideh Heyat is a British-Iranian anthropologist and a writer based in London. She is a retired lecturer of SOAS, University of London and American University of Central Asia in Bishkek. Heyat is the author of numerous articles on women in Azerbaijan and Kyrgyzstan. She is also the author of the following books: Azeri Women in Transition: Women in Soviet and post-Soviet Azerbaijan and The Land of Forty Tribes.
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Giovanni Colonna
1934 - Present (90 years)
Giovanni Colonna is a contemporary Italian scholar of ancient Italy and, in particular, the Etruscan civilization. Biography Colonna is an emeritus professor at the Sapienza University of Rome where he has taught since 1980. He took his first degree at Rome in 1957, studying under Massimo Pallottino. He studied further at Rome and Athens and was then archaeological superintendent of south Etruria from 1964 until 1972. He has carried out numerous fieldwork campaigns in Etruria and in other locations . With his wife, Elena Di Paolo, he excavated the necropolis at Viterbo and published two volu...
Go to ProfileJulia Farley is a British archaeologist specialising in Iron Age and Roman metalwork. She is the Curator of the European Iron Age & Roman Conquest Period collections at the British Museum. Career Farley studied archaeology and anthropology at the University of Cambridge, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 2007. She then studied archaeology at Cardiff University, graduating with a Master of Arts in 2008. She undertook postgraduate research at the University of Leicester, completing her Doctor of Philosophy degree in 2012 with a thesis titled "At the Edge of Empire: Iron Age and ear...
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