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Elizabeth French
1931 - 2021 (90 years)
Elizabeth Bayard French, FSA , also known as Lisa French, was a British archaeologist and academic, specialising in Mycenaean Greece, especially pottery and terracotta figurines and the site of Mycenae. She was the first woman to serve as director of the British School at Athens .
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Raymond Allchin
1923 - 2010 (87 years)
Frank Raymond Allchin, FBA was a British archaeologist and Indologist. He and his wife, Bridget Allchin, formed one of the most influential British partnerships in the post-Independence study of South Asian archaeology. Producing a large body of scholarship ranging from archaeological excavations, ethnoarchaeology as well as epigraphy and linguistics, the Allchins made their work and that of others accessible through a series of sole, joint and edited publications. Seminal works include The Birth of Indian Civilisation , which was later superseded by their books The Rise of Indian Civilisatio...
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Haskel Greenfield
1953 - Present (71 years)
Haskel Greenfield is an American archaeologist with a Balkan and Mid-East areal specialization within a general focus on cultural history. Greenfield was born in Newark, New Jersey. Biography Haskel Greenfield was born in Newark, New Jersey in 1953. He turned a childhood interest in ancient history and dinosaurs into his profession by getting his doctorate in anthropology from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York after a B.A. and an M.A. from Hunter College. His first professional position was at Indiana University Bloomington, Indiana. In 1989, he began working at the U...
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Alex Bayliss
1950 - Present (74 years)
Alexandra Bayliss is a British archaeologist and academic. She is Head of Scientific Dating at Historic England, and a part-time Professor of Archaeological Science at the University of Stirling in Scotland. Her research focuses on the construction of exact chronologies of European Neolithic archaeological sites, through the application of Bayesian statistical modelling of radiocarbon dates.
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Martin Carver
1941 - Present (83 years)
Martin Oswald Hugh Carver, FSA, Hon FSA Scot, is Emeritus Professor of Archaeology at the University of York, England, director of the Sutton Hoo Research Project and a leading exponent of new methods in excavation and survey. He specialises in the archaeology of early Medieval Europe. He has an international reputation for his excavations at Sutton Hoo, on behalf of the British Museum and the Society of Antiquaries and at the Pictish monastery at Portmahomack Tarbat, Easter Ross, Scotland. He has undertaken archaeological research in England, Scotland, France, Italy and Algeria.
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Andrew Hill
1946 - 2015 (69 years)
Andrew Hill was a British palaeoanthropologist and palaeontologist. He was the J. Clayton Stephenson Professor of Anthropology at Yale University. Education and career Hill was born on 6 June 1946, in Huthwaite in Nottinghamshire. He studied geology and palaeontology at the University of Reading, graduating in 1967, and published his first scientific paper, on fossil chordates, the following year. He then completed a PhD under William Bishop at Bedford College.
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Brigitte Bönisch-Brednich
Brigitte Bönisch-Brednich is a Professor of Anthropology at the Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, and Head of School of Social and Cultural Studies. Education Born in Northeim , studied Cultural Anthropology, Art History, Archaeology and History of Science at the University of Göttingen 1982–1987, graduated with a M.A. 1987 and got her PhD in 1994 from the University of Marburg with a scholarship by the Immanuel-Kant-Foundation. She was awarded her Dr. phil. habil. in 2000 for a project on German migration to New Zealand. She has worked on independent research projects and lectured at universities in Germany, Switzerland, Austria and New Zealand.
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Nora Ahlberg
1952 - Present (72 years)
Nora Louise Ahlberg is a Norwegian psychologist. She was Professor of Psychology at the University of Oslo and Director of the Psychosocial Centre for Refugees and later Director of the Norwegian Centre for Migration and Minority Health, a government agency that is now part of the Norwegian Institute of Public Health.
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Luis Kemnitzer
1928 - 2006 (78 years)
Luis Stowell Kemnitzer was an American anthropologist known for his social and political activism. From 1967 to 1994, Kemnitzer was a professor at San Francisco State University, where in 1969 he taught that institution's first course in American Indian Studies. In this role, Kemnitzer visited Alcatraz Island during its occupation—which had been partially planned in his classroom, and among whose participants were some of his students — to provide logistical advice on how to set up educational programs for Native American children on the island.
Go to ProfileZhang Dongju is a Chinese archeologist and an associate professor at the College of Earth and Environmental Sciences of Lanzhou University. Zhang's research determined that the Xiahe mandible found in the Baishiya Karst Cave on the Tibetan Plateau shared DNA with fossilized remains found in the Denisova Cave in Siberia. This moved to 120,000 years earlier the dates of earliest proven hominin activities in the Tibetan Plateau, and revealed for the first time that the Denisovan hominins had spread throughout Asia rather than being located only near the Denisova Cave. Zhang's work is considered likely to prompt reconsideration of other fossil remains using ancient protein analysis.
Go to ProfilePegi Vail is an American anthropologist, documentary filmmaker, and curator at New York University. Career A former Fulbright Scholar, Vail began as a visual artist and museum educator. Receiving her Ph.D. at NYU in Sociocultural Anthropology in 2004, Vail's dissertation focused on the "backpacker subculture," travel narratives and the 'gentrification' of the Bolivian tourism industry, a topic she would return to in her award-winning feature-length documentary film, Gringo Trails. Upon its release, Gringo Trails was featured in a number of international publications, including The Hollywood Reporter, Condé Nast, Der Spiegel, and Globo.
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Vasil Garnizov
1958 - Present (66 years)
Vasil Garnizov is a Bulgarian anthropologist and political scientist. Vasil Garnizov is one of the founders of the New Bulgarian University, secretary of the Society for New Bulgarian University, initiator of the establishment of the Department of Anthropology and a lecturer in the department since its inception. He is a member of the Board of Trustees of the University.
Go to ProfileMonica Louise Smith is an American archaeologist, anthropologist, and historian of ancient cities and their household activities. She is Professor and Navin and Pratima Doshi Chair in Indian Studies in the Department of Anthropology at the University of California, Los Angeles.
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Blaga Aleksova
1922 - 2007 (85 years)
Blaga Aleksova was a Macedonian archaeologist. Bibliography She graduated from high school and studied at the Art History Department of the Saints Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje. She obtained her doctorate in medieval archeology in 1958 at the University of Lublin. In the years 1948–1950 she worked as a curator at the Skopje City Museum, and then for 15 years managed the Department of Medieval Archeology at the Archeological Museum. In 1962–1975 she was the director of this museum. In 1971 and 1983 she was a scholarship holder at Dumbarton Oaks. In the years 1975–1983 she worked at the Institute of Art History as a professor of medieval and early Christian archeology.
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Alexandra Brewis Slade
1965 - Present (59 years)
Alexandra Brewis Slade is a New Zealand-American anthropologist and professor who studies how health reflects the interaction of human biology and culture. as well as an advocate for a reduction in global health stigma.
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Lynne Goldstein
1953 - Present (71 years)
Lynne Goldstein is an American archaeologist, known for her work in mortuary analysis, Midwestern archaeology, campus archaeology, repatriation policy, and archaeology and social media. She is a professor of anthropology at Michigan State University and was the editor of American Antiquity between 1995 and 2000.
Go to ProfileKeith W. Kintigh is an American anthropologist and professor emeritus at Arizona State University. He specialises in quantitative archaeology and the archaeology of the Southwestern United States, conducting field research on Ancestral Pueblo sites in the Cibola region of New Mexico. He was one of the founders of Digital Antiquity, an organization supporting the long-term preservation of archaeological data, and its data repository the Digital Archaeological Record .
Go to ProfileMelinda S. Allen is an American–New Zealand archaeologist. She is currently a full professor at the University of Auckland. Academic career Melinda gained her BA in anthropology and biology from the University of Arizona, followed by her Master of Arts in anthropology from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. After a PhD titled 'Dynamic landscapes and human subsistence: Archaeological investigations on Aitutaki Island, southern Cook Islands' at the University of Washington , Allen moved to the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum. In 1996 she took up a position as lecturer at the University of Auckla...
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Kjetil Tronvoll
1966 - Present (58 years)
Kjetil Tronvoll is a peace and conflict studies researcher, specialising in Eritrea, Ethiopia and Zanzibar. , he is a professor of peace and conflict studies at Bjørknes University College and heads a consultancy firm Oslo Analytica.
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John C. Barrett
1949 - Present (75 years)
John C. Barrett, is a British archaeologist, prehistorian, and Emeritus Professor of Archaeology at the Department of Archaeology, University of Sheffield. His research has primarily focussed on archaeological theory, European Prehistory from early agriculture to Romanisation, and the development of commercially funded archaeology in the UK. Barrett has been seen as an influential figure in the development of archaeological theory, critiques of archaeological practice, and British Prehistory.
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Neil Price
1965 - Present (59 years)
Neil Stuppel Price is an English archaeologist specialising in the study of Viking Age-Scandinavia and the archaeology of shamanism. He is currently a professor in the Department of Archaeology and Ancient History at Uppsala University, Sweden.
Go to ProfileWarren DeBoer was an American anthropologist specializing in ethnography and archaeology of the Americas. He particularly focused on ethnohistory and ethnoarchaeology of South America. DeBoer received his PhD from UC-Berkelely in 1972. He taught at Queens College, New York, from 1972 until his retirement in 2012. DeBoer was the 1999 recipient of the Society for American Archaeology's "Excellence in Ceramic Studies Award."
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R. Ross Holloway
1934 - 2022 (88 years)
Robert Ross Holloway was an American archaeologist, founder with Rolf Winkes of the Center for Classical Art and Archaeology at Brown University , and the Elisha Benjamin Andrews Professor Emeritus of Brown University, where he taught from 1964 to his retirement in 2006.
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Joseph Dumit
1966 - Present (58 years)
Joseph Patrick Dumit is an American cultural anthropologist and science and technology studies scholar. He is a professor of anthropology and science & technology studies at the University of California, Davis, where he was formerly the director of the Institute for Social Sciences and Science and Technology Studies. He received his BA from Rice University and his Ph.D from the University of California, Santa Cruz. His 2004 book, Picturing Personhood: Brain Scans and Biomedical Identity, received the Diana Forsythe Prize from the American Anthropological Association in 2005 and the Rachel Car...
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Nicholas Allen
1939 - 2020 (81 years)
Nicholas Justin Allen was an English physician and social anthropologist who specialized in Indo-European studies. Allen was Viceregent at Wolfson College, Oxford and Anthropology Editor of the Journal of Indo-European Studies.
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Klaus Theweleit
1942 - Present (82 years)
Klaus Theweleit is a German sociologist and writer. Life Theweleit was born in Ebenrode, East Prussia , the son of a railway company worker and a Jewish mother. He wrote the following about his father: "Above all he was a railroader, wholeheartedly, as he used to say, and then a human being. He was a rather good human being and a good fascist. His beatingss which he gave away abundantly and brutally as it was usual in his time and with the best of intentions were the first lessons I received on fascism, a fact I only later fully discovered."
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Helena Hamerow
1971 - Present (53 years)
Helena Francisca Hamerow, is an American archaeologist, best known for her work on the archeology of early medieval communities in Northwestern Europe. She is Professor of Early Medieval archaeology and former Head of the School of Archaeology, University of Oxford.
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Lutz Röhrich
1922 - 2006 (84 years)
Lutz Röhrich was a German folklorist and scholar studying topics relating to literature, oral stories, and similar types of media. He enjoyed a long and prestigious career, starting as a professor at the Philipp University of Marburg in 1967 and experiencing his stature growing decade by decade. His peers as well as those that he taught referred to him as "ein lebendiges lexikon", "the living encyclopedia", due to his deep knowledge and friendliness in discussing many different aspects of his work.
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Graham Smith
1950 - Present (74 years)
Graham Hingangaroa Smith is a New Zealand Māori academic and educationalist of Ngāti Porou, Ngāi Tahu, Ngāti Apa and Ngāti Kahungunu descent. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society Te Apārangi. Career Smith grew up with his grandmother in the Wairarapa region. He received a scholarship to a private boarding school in Auckland, which led to university and a teaching career.
Go to ProfileJim Allen is an Australian archaeologist specialising in the archaeology of the South Pacific. Allen led the first professional excavation of a European site in Australia, the 1840s military settlement of Victoria, which was established at Port Essington at the northernmost point of the Northern Territory. He also worked on the Lapita culture, tracing the expansion of Polynesian settlement through its distinctive pottery style. In the 1990s, he played a prominent role in the debate over the forced repatriation of Aboriginal remains.
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Hanna Snellman
1961 - Present (63 years)
Hanna Kyllikki Snellmann is Professor of Ethnology and Vice-rector at the University of Helsinki. The focus of her research is on migration within and from the Arctic. Career Snellmann completed her PhD in ethnology at the University of Helsinki in 1997. From 2004 to 2007 she was a research fellow with the Academy of Finland. In 2007 and 2008 she worked at the Lakehead University and the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies at the University of Helsinki. From 2009 to 2012 she was Professor of Ethnology at the University of Jyväskylä, leaving this post in 2014 to take up her current role ...
Go to ProfileRobyn Magalit Rodriguez is an Filipina American professor, author, and activist. She is currently a professor and chair of the Department of Asian American Studies at the University of California, Davis. In 2018, Rodriguez founded the Bulosan Center for Filipino Studies; which is noted to be the first Filipino Studies center in the United States. She is a former associate professor at Rutgers.
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Katja Werthmann
1964 - Present (60 years)
Katja Werthmann is a German ethnologist with a regional focus on West Africa. She is a professor for 'Society, politics and economy of Africa' at the Institute for African Studies at the University of Leipzig. K. Werthmann conducts research in Anglophone and Francophone Africa on the handling of material and symbolic resources in the context of spatial and social mobility in contemporary Africa. She has made contributions to political, economic, religious and urban ethnology. After the Doctorate at the Freie Universität Berlin and the Habilitation at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz she taught at universities in Germany , Switzerland and Sweden .
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Sonia Nimr
1955 - Present (69 years)
Sonia Nimr is a Palestinian writer, storyteller, translator, ethnographer and academic. She writes for children and youth in Arabic and English, and relates folk-tales in colloquial Arabic. She is the winner of the 2014 Etisalat Award for Arabic Children's Literature for Best Young Adult Book for her book Extraordinary Journeys to Unknown Places. Nimr is an Associate Professor of Philosophy and Cultural Studies at Birzeit University.
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Lakshman Kumar Mahapatra
1929 - 2020 (91 years)
Lakshman Kumar Mahapatra was an Indian anthropologist born in Odisha. He graduated in anthropology from the University of Calcutta and received a doctorate from the University of Hamburg. He was Vice-Chancellor of Utkal University in 1986 and Sambalpur University in 1989. While heading the anthropology department at Utkal University, he was the first academic in India to start a course on Southeast Asia in the regular curriculum at the university level in India.
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Jørgen Carling
1974 - Present (50 years)
Jørgen Carling is a Norwegian researcher specializing on international migration. He holds a PhD in Human Geography from the University of Oslo and is Research Professor of Migration and Transnationalism Studies. Carling has worked at the Peace Research Institute Oslo since 2002, where he has been Research Director since 2012.
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Hermann Hinz
1916 - 2000 (84 years)
Hermann Hinz was a German archaeologist who was Professor and Head of the Institute for Prehistory and Protohistory at the University of Kiel. Biography Hermann Hinz was born in Wangerin, German Empire on 13 February 1916, the son of Wilhelm and Ida Hinz. After graduating from the gymnasium in Köslin in 1935, Hinz served in the and the Wehrmacht. Since 1937, Hinz studied at Lauenburg. Hinz transferred to the University of Freiburg in 1938, where he studied prehistory, anthropology, art history, history, geology, folklore and classical archaeology. From 1939 to 1941 he worked at Greifswald for his doctorate.
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Frédérique Apffel-Marglin
Frédérique Apffel-Marglin is a professor emerita of anthropology. She taught at Smith College in Massachusetts. Life Apffel-Marglin finished high school at the Lycée Regnault, Tangier, Morocco. She received both her B.A. and her Ph.D. from Brandeis University.
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Joanna Sofaer
1970 - Present (54 years)
Joanna Rachel Sofaer Derevenski , known as Joanna Sofaer, is a British archaeologist and academic, who specialises in the European Bronze Age, using theoretical approaches, and material culture studies. She is Professor of Archaeology at the University of Southampton.
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Hester A. Davis
1930 - 2014 (84 years)
Hester A. Davis was an American archaeologist. Arkansas' first State Archaeologist, she was instrumental in creating national public policy and conservancy standards for cultural preservation as well as developing professional and ethical standards for archaeologists. She was the recipient of numerous awards and honors, including two distinguished service awards and induction into the Arkansas Women's Hall of Fame.
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Riccardo Francovich
1946 - 2007 (61 years)
Riccardo Francovich was a pioneering Italian archaeologist and expert on Medieval Italy. The son of Carlo Francovich, Francovich was a professor of Medieval archaeology first at the University of Florence and, then, from 1986 until his death in 2007, at the University of Siena. Many would consider him one of the most influential and important archaeologists of Medieval Italy.
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Katie Hinde
2000 - Present (24 years)
Katherine Hinde is an Associate Professor of Evolutionary Biology and Senior Sustainability Scientist at Arizona State University, where she researches lactation. She is also a science writer and science communicator.
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Marlene Dobkin de Rios
1939 - 2012 (73 years)
Marlene Dobkin de Rios was an American cultural anthropologist, medical anthropologist, and psychotherapist. She conducted fieldwork in the Amazon for almost 30 years. Her research included the use of entheogenic plants by the indigenous peoples of Peru.
Go to ProfilePaul Christopher Memmott is an Australian architect, anthropologist, academic and the Director of the Aboriginal Environments Research Centre at the University of Queensland. He is an expert on topics related to Indigenous architecture and vernacular architecture, housing, homelessness and overcrowding.
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Andrea Cornwall
1963 - Present (61 years)
Andrea Cornwall is Professor of Global Development and Anthropology at King's College London. Professional career Andrea Cornwall is a political anthropologist who specialises in the anthropology of gender and sexuality, citizen participation and participatory research.
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Harold Barclay
1924 - 2017 (93 years)
Harold B. Barclay was a professor emeritus in anthropology at the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta. His research focused on rural society in modern Egypt and the northern Arab Sudan as well as political anthropology and anthropology of religion. He is also commonly acknowledged as a notable writer in anarchist theory, specialising in theories involving the structure and oppressive systems of the state and how society would operate without a formal government.
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Corinne Hofman
1959 - Present (65 years)
Corinne Lisette Hofman FBA is a Dutch professor of Caribbean Archaeology at Leiden University since 2007. She was a winner of the 2014 Spinoza Prize. Hofman was born in Wassenaar. She obtained a PhD at Leiden University in 1993.
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Jeffrey H. Cohen
1962 - Present (62 years)
Jeffrey H. Cohen is an American anthropologist. Education and early career Cohen received his undergraduate degree from Indiana University Bloomington. He went on to earn his PhD at Indiana under the supervision of Richard Wilk.
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William Leap
1946 - Present (78 years)
William Leap is an emeritus professor of anthropology at American University and an affiliate professor in the Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies Program at Florida Atlantic University . He works in the overlapping fields of language and sexuality studies and queer linguistics, and queer historical linguistics.
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