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Anna Belfer-Cohen
1949 - Present (75 years)
Anna Belfer-Cohen is an Israeli archaeologist and paleoanthropologist and Professor Emeritus at the Institute of Archaeology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Belfer-Cohen excavated and studied many important prehistoric sites in Israel including Hayonim and Kebara Caves and open-air sites such as Nahal Ein Gev I and Nahal Neqarot. She has also worked for many years in the Republic of Georgia, where she made important contributions to the study of the Paleolithic sequence of the Caucasus following her work at the cave sites of Dzoudzuana, Kotias and Satsrublia. She is a specialist in biolo...
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Paolo Biagi
1948 - Present (76 years)
Paolo Biagi is an Italian archaeologist specialising in the prehistory of Southeast Europe, Russia and the Caucasus, and Southwest Asia. He is currently a professor at the Ca' Foscari University of Venice.
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John Wilkes
1936 - Present (88 years)
John Joseph Wilkes, is a British archaeologist and academic. He is Emeritus Yates Professor of Greek and Roman Archaeology at University College London. Early life and education Wilkes was born on 12 July 1936 in Reigate, Surrey, England. He was educated at King Henry VIII School, Coventry, then an all-boys private school in Coventry, and at Harrow County School for Boys, an all-boys state grammar school in Harrow, London. He studied Ancient History and Archaeology at University College London, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts degree. He went on to study at St Cuthbert's Society, Durham U...
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Nathalie Beaux-Grimal
1960 - Present (64 years)
Nathalie Beaux-Grimal is a French Egyptologist, a research associate at the Collège de France and the French Institute of Oriental Archaeology in Cairo . She was educated at Yale University and obtained a Ph.D. in Egyptology under Jean-Claude Goyon in Lumière University Lyon 2 with a thesis on the Botanical Garden of the Precinct of Amun-Re at Karnak . From 1997 to 2005, she was French coordinator of Egyptology in the Faculty of Archeology at Cairo University in Giza. As part of the excavations of the IFAO, she participated in an expedition to the site of Deir el-Bahari, in collaboration with Janusz Karkowski of the Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology of the University of Warsaw .
Go to ProfileSusan Kane is an American art historian and a pioneer of field archaeology. Her work to preserve Libyan archaeological sites during Operation Unified Protector earned her the Society for American Archaeology Presidential Award in 2013. She currently directs the Cyrenaica Archaeological Project and the Sangro Valley Project in Tornareccio, Italy. Since 1977, Kane has served as the chair of the Curricular Committee on Archaeology at Oberlin College.
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Daniel M. Neuman
1944 - Present (80 years)
Daniel M. Neuman is the Mohindar Brar Sambhi Chair of Indian Music and Interim Director of the Herb Alpert School of Music, University of California, Los Angeles and also a published author of 10 books, being held in 1,163 libraries, the highest book is in 728 libraries worldwide. He has also been active in multimedia development, having received several grants for developing the World Music Navigator, a computerized ethnographic atlas from the early 1990s.
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David Bivar
1926 - 2015 (89 years)
Adrian David Hugh Bivar, FRAS was a British numismatist and archaeologist, who was Emeritus Professor of Iranian Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. He specialized in Sasanian seals and rock reliefs, Kushanoo-Sasanian coins and chronology, Mithraic iconography, Arsacid history and pre-Islamic folklore. His written works include book chapters written for the Fischer Weltgeschichte and The Cambridge History of Iran .
Go to ProfileJanet Montgomery is a British archaeological scientist and academic. Having studied at the University of Bradford, she is now Professor of Bioarchaeology at Durham University. She specialises in the study of diet and migration via tooth enamel biomineralization and isotope analysis.
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Hilary Deacon
1936 - 2010 (74 years)
Hilary John Deacon was a South African archaeologist and academic. He was professor of archaeology at the University of Stellenbosch in Stellenbosch, South Africa. His research focused on the emergence of modern humans and African archaeology. He was principal researcher at the Klasies River Caves, one of the oldest known sites of anatomically modern humans, who lived there circa 125,000 years ago.
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Aileen Moreton-Robinson
1956 - Present (68 years)
Aileen Moreton-Robinson is an Australian academic, Indigenous feminist, author and activist for Indigenous rights. She is a Goenpul woman of the Quandamooka people from Minjerribah in Queensland. She completed a PhD at Griffith University in 1998, her thesis titled Talkin' up to the white woman: Indigenous women and feminism in Australia. The thesis was published as a book in 1999 and short-listed for the New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards and the Stanner Award. A 20th Anniversary Edition was released in 2020 by University of Queensland Press. Her 2015 monograph The White Possessive: ...
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Riall Nolan
1943 - Present (81 years)
Riall W. Nolan is an American anthropologist, an emeritus professor of anthropology at Purdue University, USA and a faculty member in the MPhil program in International Development at the University of Cambridge, UK. A scholar of international development, cross-cultural adaptation, and applied anthropology, he has conducted research on issues of change and development in Eastern Senegal, Papua New Guinea, Sri Lanka, Tunisia, Somalia, Cote d’Ivoire, Guinea, Indonesia, Thailand, and Western Siberia. His work as a researcher and project specialist has included community led development initiati...
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Ray Laurence
1963 - Present (61 years)
Ray Laurence is professor of ancient history at Macquarie University. He has won the Routledge Ancient History Prize for his first book Roman Pompeii: Space and Society, and the Longman-History Today New Generation Prize for his book Pompeii: The Living City.
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Ronny Reich
1947 - Present (77 years)
Ronny Reich is an Israeli archaeologist, excavator and scholar of the ancient remains of Jerusalem. Education Reich studied archaeology and geography at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His MA thesis dealt with Assyrian architecture in Palestine , about which he later published several articles .
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Sandra Bowdler
1946 - Present (78 years)
Sandra Bowdler is an Australian archaeologist, emeritus professor of archaeology and former head of the Archaeology Department at the University of Western Australia. Education Bowdler completed an Honours degree in archaeology at the University of Sydney in 1971 and received her PhD from the Australian National University in 1979. Bowdler's PhD thesis was on the Aboriginal archaeology of Hunter Island in the Bass Strait near Tasmania, which was later published in 1984.
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Carol van Driel-Murray
1950 - Present (74 years)
Carol van Driel-Murray is a Roman archaeologist who specialises in the role of women and studying leather. After studying at the University of Liverpool, van Driel-Murray worked at the University of Amsterdam for 37 years and the University of Leiden for three before she retired in 2015.
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Barbara J. Heath
1960 - Present (64 years)
Barbara J. Heath is a professor in the Department of Anthropology at The University of Tennessee, Knoxville who specializes in historical archaeology of eastern North America and the Caribbean. Her research and teaching focus on the archaeology of the African diaspora, colonialism, historic landscapes, material culture, public archaeology and interpretation, and Thomas Jefferson.
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Philippe Charlier
1977 - Present (47 years)
Philippe Charlier is a French coroner, forensic pathologist and paleopathologist. Biography Charlier was born in Meaux on 25 June 1977. His father is a doctor, his mother a pharmacist. He made his first dig at the age of 10, when he found a human skull. He studied archaeology and art history at the Michelet Institute and was part of the forensic department at Raymond Poincaré University Hospital.
Go to ProfilePeter Adds is Wellington-based academic, treaty negotiator and former head of Victoria University of Wellington's Te Kawa a Māui/School of Māori Studies. He is of Te Ati Awa descent. With a background in anthropology and archaeology, he has interests in Treaty of Waitangi settlements, indigenous astronomy, Māori development, and international indigenous issues.
Go to ProfileBrenna R. Hassett is an American British bioarchaeologist at University College London , author, public speaker and one of the founders of TrowelBlazers, which celebrates women archaeologists, paleontologists and geologists.
Go to ProfileChristopher Judge is an archaeologist at the University of South Carolina Lancaster, whose research focus is the late prehistoric and early historical archaeology of South Carolina and immediately surrounding areas, as well as blues music in South Carolina. He is an instructor in both anthropology and archaeology. Some of his areas of interest include the Woodland and Mississippian periods, ceramics, theory, public education, and folk music.
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Charles Stafford
1956 - Present (68 years)
Charles Stafford is Professor of Anthropology at the London School of Economics; he is also one of the co-founders of the LSE’s Programme in Culture & Cognition. Stafford specialises in the social anthropology of China and Taiwan. His research projects and scholarly publications have focused primarily on child development, learning, schooling, kinship, religion and the psychology of economic life. In July 2018 he was elected Fellow of the British Academy .
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Gabriella Eichinger Ferro-Luzzi
1931 - Present (93 years)
Gabriella Eichinger Ferro-Luzzi is an Italian anthropologist and dravidologist who has done field studies in India, mainly in the Tamil Nadu state. Born in 1931 in Germany, she studied modern languages at the University of Mainz and did a Ph.D. at the University of Rome in 1968. Between 1985 and 1991, she worked briefly at the University of Venice, University of Bologna, and University of Rome. She taught Tamil language and literature at the University of Naples "L'Orientale" and also worked as a professor of Asian Studies at the university.
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Gillian Cowlishaw
1934 - Present (90 years)
Gillian Cowlishaw is a New Zealand-born anthropologist whose ethnographic research with Aboriginal Australians, investigates local cultures, histories and the relationship between settler colonialists and Indigenous people.
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Chilla Bulbeck
1951 - Present (73 years)
Margaret Chilla Bulbeck was the emeritus professor of women's studies at Adelaide University from 1997 until 2008, and has published widely on issues of gender and difference. Education Bulbeck gained a degree in economics from the University of Adelaide , a Master of Arts and a Ph.D. in sociology from the Australian National University, and an LL.B. from the University of Queensland .
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Lisa Lowe
1955 - Present (69 years)
Lisa Lowe is Samuel Knight Professor of American Studies Yale University, and an affiliate faculty in the programs in Ethnicity, Race, and Migration and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. Prior to Yale, she taught at the University of California, San Diego, and Tufts University. She began as a scholar of French and comparative literature, and since then her work has focused on the cultural politics of colonialism, immigration, and globalization. She is known especially for scholarship on French, British, and United States colonialisms, Asian migration and Asian American studies, race and ...
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Chris Scarre
1954 - Present (70 years)
Christopher John Scarre, FSA is an academic and writer in the fields of archaeology, pre-history and ancient history. He is Professor of Archaeology at the University of Durham and was head of its archaeology department 2010-2013.
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Janet Johnson
1944 - Present (80 years)
Janet Helen Johnson is an American Egyptologist and academic, specializing in Egyptian language and the Late Period of ancient Egypt. Since 2003, she has been Morton D. Hull Distinguished Service Professor of Egyptology at the University of Chicago. She was Director of Chicago's Oriental Institute from 1983 to 1989.
Go to ProfileShelley P. Haley is the Edward North Chair of Classics and Professor of Africana Studies at Hamilton College, New York, and President of the Society for Classical Studies. She is an expert in applying Black feminist and critical race approaches to the study and teaching of Classics.
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Renya K. Ramirez
1959 - Present (65 years)
Renya Katarine Ramirez is a Ho-Chunk American anthropologist, author, and Native feminist. She is a professor of anthropology at University of California, Santa Cruz. Ramirez has written 2 books on Native American culture.
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Zahra Kamalkhani
1954 - Present (70 years)
Zahra Kamalkhani is an Iranian anthropologist. Zahra Kamalkhani was educated at the University of Tehran, University of Bergen and SOAS. She started teaching the anthropology of gender and Middle Eastern studies at the University of Bergen in 1986, completing her PhD there in 1996. She has lived in Bergen since 1981. She subsequently conducted post-doctoral research at Edith Cowan University and the University of Western Australia.
Go to ProfileKatherine Jane McAuliffe is a Canadian psychologist who is a professor of psychology at Boston College, studying evolutionary anthropology and how children develop a sense of fairness. McAuliffe has conducted studies with children at a range of international sites in an effort to characterize cross-cultural similarities and variations.
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Olaf H. Olsen
1928 - 2015 (87 years)
Olaf Heymann Olsen was a Danish historian and archaeologist. He is known to have primarily worked in medieval and Viking Age archaeology. Olaf Olsen was born in Copenhagen. He was the son of Albert Olsen and Agnete E. Bing . He became a student in 1946, earned MSc. in history and geography in 1953. In 1966, he received a degree in philosophy at the University of Copenhagen. Olaf Olsen became an assistant at the National Museum of Denmark in Copenhagen in 1950. He became museum superintendent at the National Museum in 1958. He was appointed as a professor of medieval archaeology at Aarhus University in 1971.
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Edward Hagen
1962 - Present (62 years)
Edward Harold Hagen is an American biological anthropologist and professor in the Department of Anthropology at Washington State University Vancouver, where he has taught since 2007. His research has focused on evolutionary explanations for mental health phenomena and substance use. He has studied the Yanomamo people of Venezuela, West African Pygmies, and the Aka people of the Congo Basin.
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Betty Jane Belanus
1954 - Present (70 years)
Betty Jane Belanus is an American writer and folklorist. Belanus completed her graduate work in folklore at Indiana University and has been with the Smithsonian Institution since 1987, ultimately working with the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage as an education specialist. Part of her work with the Smithsonian has been the curating of programs for the Smithsonian's annual Folklife Festival, including the 2009 Wales program. She has worked on "Smithsonian Inside Out", on the occupational life of the Smithsonian.
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Kenneth St Joseph
1912 - 1994 (82 years)
John Kenneth Sinclair St Joseph, was an English archaeologist, geologist and Royal Air Force veteran who pioneered the use of aerial photography as a method of archaeological research in Britain and Ireland. He was Professor of Aerial Photographic Studies at the University of Cambridge from 1973 to 1980.
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K. Christopher Beard
1962 - Present (62 years)
K. Christopher Beard is an American paleontologist, an expert on the primate fossil record and a 2000 MacArthur Fellowship "Genius" Award Winner. Beard's research is reshaping critical debates about the evolutionary origins of mammals, including primates, routinely questioning current thinking about their geographical origins. Dr. Beard is the former Curator of the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, and Mary R. Dawson Chair of Vertebrate Paleontology, at University of Pittsburgh. He is currently Distinguished Foundation Professor, Senior Curator at the University of Kansas. He was co-author with Dan Gebo about an extinct primate from China.
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David M. Wilson
1931 - Present (93 years)
Sir David Mackenzie Wilson, FBA is a British archaeologist, art historian, and museum curator, specialising in Anglo-Saxon art and the Viking Age. From 1977 until 1992 he served as the Director of the British Museum, where he had previously worked, from 1955 to 1964, as an assistant keeper. In his role as director of the museum, he became embroiled in the controversy over the ownership of the Elgin Marbles with the Greek government, engaging with a "disastrous" televised debate with Greek Minister of Culture Melina Mercouri.
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Elise Andaya
1976 - Present (48 years)
Elise L. Andaya is a cultural anthropologist who is currently employed as an Associate Professor of Anthropology by the University of Albany which is the state university of New York. Andaya studies Medical anthropology and gender anthropology and focuses on the effects of gender and citizenship on reproduction and access to healthcare in Cuba and the United States. She attended New York University in New York City, New York. She previously was on the Research Development Committee for the American Anthropological Association, and was a member at large for them from 2014–2017.
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Benjamin R. Teitelbaum
1983 - Present (41 years)
Benjamin Raphael Teitelbaum is an American ethnographer and political commentator. An associate professor of ethnomusicology at the University of Colorado, Boulder and former Head of Nordic Studies at the same institution. He is best known for his ethnographic research into far-right groups in Scandinavia and commentary on immigration, and is frequently cited as an expert in Scandinavian and American media.
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Ion Niculiță
1939 - 2022 (83 years)
Ion Niculiță was a Moldovan professor of archaeology, known for his contributions to the field of thracology. He was a relative of the Romanian archaeologist Vasile Pârvan. Academic career Returning to Moldova he was appointed lecturer in the Ancient and Medieval History Department. Advancing through the ranks, he became Chair of Archaeology and Ancient History in 1984, and between 1993 and 2002 he was Dean of the Faculty of History. In 1991 he obtained his habilitation in history for the work "Northern Thracians in the 6th through 1st Centuries BC".
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David Freidel
1946 - Present (78 years)
David Freidel is a U.S. archaeologist who studies the ancient Maya. He is known for his research at El Perú-Waka’ and his books with epigrapher Linda Schele. He is currently a professor at Washington University in St. Louis.
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Kathleen A. Deagan
1948 - Present (76 years)
Kathleen A. Deagan is an American archaeologist who primarily focuses on excavations in Florida and the Caribbean. Known for her historic archaeology which uncovered the colonial past of La Florida, and work in St. Augustine, she has received multiple awards and honors, including the Award of Merit in 1992 and the J. C. Harrington Award in 2004, both bestowed by the Society for Historical Archaeology.
Go to ProfileUmberto Albarella is an Italian-British archaeologist, prehistorian, and activist. He is professor of Zooarchaeology at the Department of Archaeology, University of Sheffield. Albarella's previous work has been based in Britain, Italy, Armenia, Greece, the Netherlands, Germany, Switzerland, France, and Portugal.
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Debora Diniz
1970 - Present (54 years)
Debora Diniz Rodrigues , is an anthropologist and law professor at the University of Brasilia, and a co-founder and researcher at Anis: Institute for Bioethics. She is also a researcher, writer and documentary filmmaker. Her research projects focus on bioethics, feminism, human rights and health. She was a visiting researcher at the University of Leeds, the University of Michigan, the University of Toronto, among other institutions.
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Gert Hekma
1951 - 2022 (71 years)
Gerhardus "Gert" Hekma was a Dutch anthropologist and sociologist, known for his research and publications, and public statements about sexuality. He taught gay and lesbian studies at the Faculty of Social and Behavioral Sciences of the University of Amsterdam from 1984 to 2017.
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Roger Lancaster
1959 - Present (65 years)
Roger Lancaster is a professor of anthropology and cultural studies at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia, where from 1999 until 2014 he directed the Cultural Studies PhD Program. He is known for his writing in LGBT studies, gender/sexuality, culture and political economy, and critical science studies. His research tries to understand how sexual mores, racial hierarchies, and class predicaments interact in a changing world.
Go to ProfileCamilla F. Speller is a biomolecular archaeologist, Assistant Professor in Anthropological Archaeology at the University of British Columbia Department of Anthropology. Education Speller obtained her BA from the University of Calgary with a double major in archaeology and biological anthropology. She completed her MA at Simon Fraser University in 2005, using aDNA analysis to examine the distribution of salmon species at the Northwest Plateau site of Keatley Creek in British Columbia Canada. She completed her PhD, completed at Simon Fraser in 2009 with a dissertation that applied ancient DNA te...
Go to ProfileSahana Udupa is a media anthropologist and professor at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich, Germany, with a research focus on digital global cultures, AI assisted content moderation, online extreme speech, and digital media politics. She serves on several editorial and advisory boards and regularly takes part in popular media and policy debates around online abuse and disinformation.
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Euan MacKie
1936 - 2020 (84 years)
Euan Wallace MacKie was a British archaeologist and anthropologist. He was a prominent figure in the field of Archaeoastronomy. Biography MacKie was educated at Whitgift School, Croydon between 1946 and 1954 and later graduated with a degree in Archeology & Anthropology from St. John's College at the University of Cambridge in 1959, and had a PhD from the University of Glasgow where he was an honorary research fellow. He was elected Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London in 1973. Keeper of Archaeology and Anthropology in 1974 and Deputy Director from 1986 - 1995, he took early part-time retirement in 1995 with full retirement in 1998.
Go to ProfileHinematau Naomi McNeill is a New Zealand academic and treaty negotiator. She is of Tapuika Māori descent. As of 2019, she is a full professor at the Auckland University of Technology. Early life and education McNeill was born in Rotorua. She studied her B.A. and M.A. in social anthropology at Auckland University and Waikato University. She is currently principal lecturer in Māori Studies at Auckland Institute of Technology.
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