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Morton Klass
1927 - 2001 (74 years)
Morton Klass was an American anthropologist known for his studies of caste and kinship in India, as well as his work on religion and culture among the Bhojpuri-speaking Indo-Caribbean population. Klass completed his doctoral degree at Columbia University, where he later taught anthropology for many years. He conducted extensive fieldwork in both India and the Caribbean, beginning with Trinidad from 1957 to 1958. From 1962 to 1963, he began Indian studies at Columbia University under the direction of Conrad M. Arensberg in West Bengal. With a sponsorship from the Social Science Research Counci...
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Clarisa Hardy
1945 - Present (79 years)
Clarisa Rut Hardy Raskovan is an Argentinian-born psychologist, anthropologist, writer and politician from Chile, Minister for Social Development and Planning during the first term of Michelle Bachelet.
Go to ProfileRosemary J. Coombe is a Canadian anthropologist and lawyer, She is a professor in the Department of Anthropology at York University and Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Law, Communication and Cultural Studies. Previously, she was a full professor in the Faculty of Law at the University of Toronto.
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Marc Waelkens
1948 - 2021 (73 years)
Marc, Knight Waelkens was a professor emeritus of archaeology at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium. He was director of the excavation at the Pisidian city of Sagalassos in Turkey. The research project has become one of the biggest and most interdisciplinary excavations in the Mediterranean, where all aspects of the city and its territory are studied by means of a variety of modern research techniques.
Go to ProfileAnne C. Stone is an American anthropological geneticist and a Regents' Professor in the School of Human Evolution and Social Change at Arizona State University. Her research focuses on population history and understanding how humans and the great apes have adapted to their environments, including their disease and dietary environments. Stone is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and a Member of the National Academy of Sciences.
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Georg Pfeffer
1943 - 2020 (77 years)
Georg Pfeffer was a German anthropologist. Born in 1943 in Berlin to a German sociologist father and a British mother, he was schooled in Hamburg. In 1959, he moved to Lahore with his family, and studied at the city's Forman Christian College for 3 years. Later, he moved back to Germany and studied at the University of Freiburg where he also completed his Ph.D.
Go to ProfileRaminder Kaur is a Professor of Anthropology and Cultural Studies in the Departments of Anthropology and International Development at the University of Sussex. She has conducted fieldwork in India and Britain researching topics such as migration, race/ethnicity/gender, the creative arts, heritage, public culture, aesthetics, censorship, human rights, religion and politics, public representations of, and the socio-political, health and environmental implications of nuclear developments, and 'cultures of sustainability'.
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Sonia Chadwick Hawkes
1933 - 1999 (66 years)
Sonia Chadwick Hawkes, was a leading specialist in early Anglo-Saxon archaeology, described by fellow medieval archaeologist Paul Ashbee as a "discerning systematiser of the great array of Anglo-Saxon grave furnishings". She led major excavations on Anglo-Saxon cemeteries at Finglesham in Kent and Worthy Park in Hampshire.
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Nicole Boivin
1970 - Present (54 years)
Nicole Lise Boivin is an archaeologist and former director of the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. Education and career Boivin has a BSc in cellular, molecular and microbial biology from the University of Calgary , and an MPhil and PhD in archaeology from the University of Cambridge. Following her PhD she held a Fyssen Foundation postdoctoral research fellowship at Université de Paris X and CNRS in 2005, and a research fellowship at the Leverhulme Centre for Human Evolutionary Studies in Cambridge . This was followed by a senior research fellowship at the University of Oxford.
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Peter Warren
1938 - Present (86 years)
Peter Michael Warren, is a British archaeologist and academic, specialising in the Aegean Bronze Age. From 1977 to 2001, he was Professor of Ancient History and Classical Archaeology at the University of Bristol, where he is currently Professor Emeritus and a senior research fellow at the university.
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Pierre Alexandre
1922 - 1994 (72 years)
Pierre Alexandre , was a French anthropologist and linguist. Biography Born Pierre Hippolyte Henri Charles Alexandre in Algiers, he spent his childhood in mainland France. Alexandre studied at the Lycée Carnot in Paris. In 1943, he qualified for entry into the École nationale de la France d'Outre-Mer.
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Herbert D. G. Maschner
1959 - Present (65 years)
Herbert D. G. Maschner is an American anthropologist and academic administrator. His research interests include biocomplexity and sustainability in prehistoric human ecology , warfare and inequality in prehistory, the application of Darwinian theory and evolutionary psychology to archaeology, GIS in archaeology, isotope analysis and virtual museums and repositories.
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Elisabeth Schmid
1912 - 1994 (82 years)
Elisabeth Schmid was a German archaeologist and osteologist. She is best known for her work concerning the prehistoric statue, the lion-man, and for her book, Atlas of Animal Bones. Early life and career Schmid was born in Freiburg im Breisgau in 1912 and graduated with a PhD from the University of Freiburg.
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Robert Morkot
1957 - Present (67 years)
Robert George Morkot, FSA is an archaeologist and academic, specialising in Ancient Egypt. He is a Senior Lecturer in Archaeology at the University of Exeter. His current research is focused on the external relations of Ancient Egypt, particularly the relations with Kush . He also works on the historiography of Ancient Egypt.
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Nicola Masini
1965 - Present (59 years)
Nicola Masini is an Italian scientist with CNR, noted for his work on exploring traces of Andean civilizations in Peru and Bolivia using spatial technologies and Remote Sensing. Biography He graduated in Engineering in 1990. He became Researcher with the Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche in 1995, Senior scientist at CNR-IBAM in 2003, Research Director of CNR-Institute of heritage Science in 2020, Professor of Fundamentals of Restoration and Science for Conservation at the University of Basilicata since 2002. His dominant scientific interest is the application and the development of new appr...
Go to ProfileDavid M. Rosen is an American anthropologist. Rosen holds a J.D. from Pace University School of Law and a Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of Illinois. He is Professor of Anthropology, at Fairleigh Dickinson University. He lived in Teaneck, New Jersey and now resides in Brooklyn.
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David Soren
1946 - Present (78 years)
David Soren is an American archaeologist and former vaudeville performer. Early life and early entertainment career Soren was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on October 7, 1946. He began his career in the entertainment business at the age of eight, and a year later was the youngest cast member of CBS television's The Horn and Hardart Children's Hour. Subsequently, Soren performed in vaudeville and road shows with members of the Philadelphia Eagles football team, Pete Boyle and, regularly, with local children's program hosts Sally Starr and Chief Halftown. He is included in the Encyclopedi...
Go to ProfileAntoinette T. Jackson is Professor and Chair of Anthropology at the University of South Florida in Tampa. Her research focusses on sociocultural and historical anthropology, the social construction of race, class, gender, ethnicity; heritage resource management, and American, African American and African Diaspora culture.
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Richard Reece
1939 - Present (85 years)
Richard Marsden Reece, FSA is a numismatist and retired academic. Biography Reece completed a degree in biochemistry at University College London in 1961, before moving to Wadham College, Oxford, where he completed a diploma in education the following year. He taught at the private St John's School in Leatherhead for three years before becoming Head of Chemistry at St George’s School in Harpenden in 1966.
Go to ProfilePenelope Wilson is a British lecturer of Egyptology in the Department of Archaeology at Durham University, UK. She is a member of the Centre for the Study of the Ancient Mediterranean and the Near East. She is also the field director of the joint Durham University/Egypt Exploration Society/Supreme Council of Antiquities project at Sais, Egypt.
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Margaret Orbell
1934 - 2006 (72 years)
Margaret Rose Orbell was a New Zealand author, editor and academic. She was an associate professor of Māori at the University of Canterbury from 1976 to 1994. During her career, Orbell wrote several books on Māori literature and culture, edited numerous collections of songs, poetry and stories, and brought Māori works to a wider and international audience. She was an editor of bilingual magazine Te Ao Hou / The New World in the 1960s, and expanded the magazine's literary and historical content. In 2002, she was appointed a Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to Māori an...
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Michel Egloff
1941 - 2021 (80 years)
Michel Egloff was a Swiss prehistorian. He founded the Musée d'archéologie de Neuchâtel, which houses the archeological service of the Canton of Neuchâtel. He was chair of prehistoric archeology at the University of Neuchâtel, where he retired from in 2006 and became an honorary professor. He also founded the archeology museum Laténium in Hauterive.
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Alojz Benac
1914 - 1992 (78 years)
Alojz Benac was a Bosnian and Yugoslav archaeologist and historian. Biography Benac studied classical philology and archaeology in Belgrade's Philosophy Faculty , and received his doctorate from Ljubljana University . He worked in the National Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina from 1947 to 1967 . He then left to assume a professorship in archaeology and ancient history in the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Sarajevo . He later became the founder and first Director of the Centre for Balkan Studies, within the Academy of Sciences and Arts of Bosnia and Herzegovina , of which he was Ge...
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Machteld Mellink
1917 - 2006 (89 years)
Machteld Johanna Mellink was an archaeologist who studied Near Eastern cultures and history. Biography Mellink received her undergraduate training at the University of Amsterdam and her doctorate from Utrecht in 1943. Mellink moved to Bryn Mawr College in the 1946 as an American Association of University Women Marion Reilly Fellow and spent the summer of 1947 at the University of Chicago on a Ryerson Grant. During this time she began excavating with Hetty Goldman at Tarsus, in southern Turkey. She began teaching in Bryn Mawr College's Department of Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology in 1949 and retired in 1988; in 1972 she was appointed to the Leslie Clark Chair in the Humanities.
Go to ProfileNiki Joseph Paul Alsford is a British academic specializing in Taiwan studies. Upon completing his bachelor's degree with honours at the University of Southampton, Alsford pursued a master's degree at National Chengchi University in Taiwan, followed by a doctorate at SOAS, University of London. He is a professor in Asia Pacific studies at the University of Central Lancashire. Alsford was nominated a fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society in 2013, a fellow of the Higher Education Academy in 2017, and a fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland in 2019.
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Bertram Mapunda
1957 - Present (67 years)
Bertram B. B. Mapunda is an archaeometallurgist and professor of anthropology and history at Jordan University College, Tanzania, since October 2017. He is also principal of the college. He discovered the short, convectional iron smelting furnaces of south-western Tanzania.
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Kari Bruwelheide
1967 - Present (57 years)
Kari Bruwelheide is an American archaeologist and anthropologist. She is known for her work as a physical anthropologist, bioarchaeologist, and forensic anthropologist at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History.
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Raimund Karl
1969 - Present (55 years)
Raimund Karl is an Austrian archaeologist, Celticist and historian. He is currently a professor of Archaeology and Heritage Management Institute and at the School of History, Welsh History and Archaeology at Bangor University.
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David Stoll
1952 - Present (72 years)
David Matthew Stoll is an American cultural anthropologist. His research has focused on the indigenous peoples of modern Latin America, and especially on the Mayas in Guatemala. He has been a professor of anthropology at Middlebury College since 1997.
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Tony Wilkinson
1948 - 2014 (66 years)
Tony James Wilkinson, FBA was a British archaeologist and academic, specialising in landscape archaeology and the Ancient Near East. He was Professor of Archaeology at the University of Edinburgh from 2005 to 2006, and Professor of Archaeology at Durham University from 2006 to until his death in 2014.
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Samuel G. Armistead
1927 - 2013 (86 years)
Samuel Gordon Armistead was an American ethnographer, linguist, folklorist, historian, literary critic and professor of Spanish. He is considered one of the most notable Hispanist scholars of the second half of the 20th and early 21st century.
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Karen Chin
2000 - Present (24 years)
Karen Chin is an American paleontologist and taphonomist who is considered one of the world's leading experts in coprolites. Biography Chin loved studying living things as a child, and enjoyed memorizing the names of species that she read about. As a college student, she worked as a nature interpreter for the National Park Service.
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Joyce Tyldesley
1960 - Present (64 years)
Joyce Ann Tyldesley is a British archaeologist and Egyptologist, academic, writer and broadcaster who specialises in the women of ancient Egypt. She was interviewed on the TV series 'Cunk on Earth', about Egypt's pyramids, in 2022.
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Gary Lock
1948 - Present (76 years)
Gary R. Lock is a British archaeologist and emeritus professor at the School of Archaeology, University of Oxford. He is noted for his contributions to computational archaeology. Work in the UK In the 1980s Lock became involved in computational archaeology, working on a database for Danebury, an iron age hillfort in Hampshire which was excavated under the direction of Barry Cunliffe. In 1987 he was co-author of Computer Archaeology in the Shire Archaeology series. Interest in computational archaeology and prehistoric hillforts are also evidenced in more recent work, for example Using computers...
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Susan A. Phillips
1969 - Present (55 years)
Susan A. Phillips is an American anthropologist and criminologist who works as a professor of environmental analysis at Pitzer College. She is known for research on graffiti, and her books on gangs and graffiti.
Go to ProfilePaul Tapsell is a New Zealand academic, of Ngāti Whakaue and Ngāti Raukawa descent and as of 2020 is Professor of Indigenous Studies at Melbourne University. Academic career After working and studying at the University of Auckland and a 1998 PhD titled 'Taonga : a tribal response to museums' at the University of Oxford Faculty of Anthropology and Geography, Tapsell moved to the University of Otago, rising to full professor.
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Andrée Rosenfeld
1934 - 2008 (74 years)
Andrée Jeanne Rosenfeld FAHA was an archaeologist specialising in rock art. Early life and education Rosenfeld was born in 1934 in Liège, Belgium, the daughter of the physicists Yvonne and Léon Rosenfelds. After the Second World War the family moved to Manchester. She studied for a BSc in physics at Bristol University in 1956, where she took up caving. Rosenfeld studied for a Master of Science and then obtained a PhD in 1960 from the Institute of Archaeology, with a thesis on the sedimentology of caves from sites in Devon supervised by Frederick Zeuner. During her postgraduate research she ex...
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Bianca Christel Williams
1980 - Present (44 years)
Bianca Williams is an American cultural anthropologist, feminist, author and academic, whose work centers on Black Americans. Dr. Williams is an associate professor of anthropology at the Graduate Center of the . She earned her B.A., M.A., and Ph.D from Duke University. She went on to earn a graduate certificate in African and African American Studies as well. She has researched extensively the emotional labor undertaken by black women, feminist pedagogies, black feminist leadership, and emotional labor in higher education workplaces. She began teaching at the University of Colorado Boulder, w...
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Gwendolyn Leick
1951 - Present (73 years)
Gwendolyn Leick was an Austrian-born British historian and Assyriologist who wrote multiple books and encyclopedias in English about ancient Mesopotamia. Early life Gwendolyn Leick was born on 25 February 1951 in Oberaichwald, Austria, to parents Reginald and Herta Leick. Her father was a physician and her mother was a social worker.
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Isabel Behncke
1976 - Present (48 years)
Isabel Behncke Izquierdo is a field ethologist who studies animal behaviour to understand other animals, as well as to understand humans and our place in nature. Originally from Chile, she is a primatologist, a pioneer adventurer-scientist and the first South American in following great apes in the wild. Behncke is currently director of the Centro de Estudios Públicos , and advisor to the Chilean government, working on long-term strategies in science, technology, innovation and knowledge as a member of the National Council of Science, Technology, Knowledge and Innovation for Development , of t...
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Halyna Lozko
1952 - Present (72 years)
Halyna Lozko is Ukrainian ethnologist, theologian and neopagan leader. In 1993 she founded the group Pravoslavia in Kyiv, which adheres to Slavic Native Faith in the tradition established by Volodymyr Shaian. Lozko also co-founded the Native Faith Association of Ukraine , founded in 1998 and registered on 24 May 2001.
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Susan Keefe
1947 - Present (77 years)
Susan Elaine Emley Keefe is an American anthropologist and author. She is a professor emerita at Appalachian State University. Keefe has published books on Mexican-American culture and Appalachian health issues.
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Philippe Leveau
1940 - Present (84 years)
Philippe Leveau is a 20th-century French historian and archaeologist, a specialist of the ancient world. Works Caesarea de Maurétanie : une ville romaine et ses campagnes, Éditions de l'École française de Rome, 1984, X + 556 pages Ph. Leveau et J.-L. Paillet, L'alimentation en eau de Caesarea de Maurétanie et l'aqueduc de Cherchel , Ed. L'Harmattan, Paris 1976, 185 pages, 10 plans hors-texte.J. Gascou, Ph. Leveau et J. Rimbert, Inscriptions latines de la cité d'Apt, Supplément à Gallia, Paris, CNRS, 1997, 220 p.Burnouf J. et Leveau Ph., , Fleuves et Marais, une Histoire au Croisement de la Nature et de la Culture.
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Carmen Guarini
1953 - Present (71 years)
Aurelia Del Carmen Guarini is an Argentine anthropologist, teacher, film director, and film producer specializing in anthropological documentary films. She teaches visual anthropology and directs documentaries in Argentina and in Cuba. She serves on the documentary projects' evaluation committee at the National Institute of Cinema and Audiovisual Arts and participates in Cine Ojo projects.
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Revil Mason
1929 - 2020 (91 years)
Revil John Mason was a South African archaeologist. He was Professor of Archaeology at the University of the Witwatersrand. Early life and career Mason was born in Johannesburg, grew up in Saxonwold and matriculated from St John's College. He attained a B.Comm degree from the University of the Witwatersrand and was awarded the Aitken medal for the best graduate in commerce as well as the Chamber of Industries medal and the Dean’s award. However after attending a lecture presented by the anthropologist Raymond Dart he became fascinated with archaeology and decided to study it at the University of Cape Town.
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Scott MacEachern
1960 - Present (64 years)
Allison Scott MacEachern is Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs and a professor of archaeology and anthropology at Duke Kunshan University. Before joining the faculty of Duke Kunshan University in 2018, he was a professor of Anthropology at Bowdoin College for 23 years, where he also served as Chair of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology. An expert on African archaeology, he is the former president of the Society of Africanist Archaeologists. He was educated at the University of Prince Edward Island, where he received his Bachelor of Arts with honors in anthropology, and at the University of Calgary, where he received his M.A.
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Alberto Moreiras
1956 - Present (68 years)
Alberto Moreiras is a Spanish-born academic and cultural theorist who currently works at Texas A&M University. Previously he taught at Duke University and at the Centre for Modern Thought at the University of Aberdeen.
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Uzma Z. Rizvi
1973 - Present (51 years)
Uzma Z. Rizvi is an archaeologist and associate professor of Anthropology and Urban Studies, Department of Social Science and Cultural Studies at Pratt Institute and a visiting scholar at Shah Abdul Latif University, Khairpur, Pakistan. Her research focuses on Ancient Pakistan and United Arab Emirates, during the third millennium BCE and ancient subjectivity, intimate architecture; memory, war, and trauma in relationship to the urban fabric, critical heritage studies at the intersections of contemporary art and history, and finally, epistemological critiques of the discipline in the service of...
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Georgina Born
1955 - Present (69 years)
Georgina Emma Mary Born, is a British academic, anthropologist, musicologist and musician. As a musician she is known as Georgie Born and for her work in Henry Cow and with Lindsay Cooper. Background Born was born in Wheatley, Oxfordshire, the granddaughter of the physicist and Nobel laureate Max Born, daughter of the pharmacologist Gustav Born, and cousin of the pop singer Olivia Newton-John.
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