Angelique Corthals is a biomedical researcher and forensic anthropologist. She is an associate professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York . Her focus in biomedicine is the etiology of autoimmune diseases; as of 2020 she has been studying whether or not COVID-19 originated zoonotically in bats.
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Barbro Klein
1938 - 2018 (80 years)
Barbro Klein was a Swedish professor of ethnology. After a bachelor's degree at the University of Stockholm in 1961, she obtained a scholarship to study at Indiana University where she received her Ph.D. in folklore studies and anthropology in 1970 under the direction of Richard Dorson. She returned to Scandinavia in 1983, to take a position at the University of Stockholm. Klein was Director emerita of the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study , and a member of the executive board of the American Folklore Society. In 2017, she was awarded the H. M. The King's Medal for “significant contributio...
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Phyllis Williams Lehmann
1912 - 2004 (92 years)
Phyllis Williams Lehmann, was an American classical archaeologist who specialised in the Samothrace temple complex, where she discovered a third statue of Winged Victory , which is kept today at the Archaeological Museum of Samothrace and recovered missing fingers of the hand of the famous Winged Victory of Samothrace at the Louvre.
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Carol Laderman
1932 - 2010 (78 years)
Carol Laderman was a groundbreaking medical anthropologist, specializing in the study of pregnancy and childbirth practices, shamanism, and Southeast Asian cultures, particularly Malayss in rural Terengganu, Malaysia. She was also a critically acclaimed writer and a longtime professor and lecturer who had just been re-elevated to Chairmanship of the Department of Anthropology at City College at the time of her death.
Go to ProfileChris Wright is a visual anthropologist holding the position of lecturer at Goldsmiths College, and professor at the Free University of Berlin. Wright originally trained as an artist before becoming Photographic Archivist at the Royal Anthropological Institute in 1992. He has published on a number of topics including the relationship between art and anthropology and photography in the Solomon Islands.
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Wang Tao
1962 - Present (62 years)
Tao Wang is a Chinese–British archaeologist and art historian specialising in early Chinese art. He is also known for his work on early inscriptions on oracle bones and ritual bronzes. He is married to numismatist and translator Helen Wang.
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Miranda Aldhouse-Green
1947 - Present (77 years)
Miranda Jane Aldhouse-Green, is a British archaeologist and academic, known for her research on the Iron Age and the Celts. She was Professor of Archaeology at Cardiff University from 2006 to 2013. Until about 2000 she published as Miranda Green or Miranda J. Green.
Go to ProfilePatricia Elizabeth Sawin is an American folklorist who focuses her research and teaching on informal narrative, festival, folklore theory, and the culture of adoptive families. She is an associate professor in the Department of American Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where she coordinates the MA program in Folklore. She is a member of the executive board of the American Folklore Society.
Go to ProfileCynthia Ling Lee is an American dancer, choreographer, and scholar. She performs in contemporary, postmodern, and classical Indian dance techniques. Her research focuses on queer and postcolonial experiences in Asian diasporic performance.
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Ellen Lewin
1946 - Present (78 years)
Ellen Lewin is an American author, anthropologist, and academic. Lewin, a lesbian, focuses her work on areas of motherhood, sexuality, and reproduction. Lewin is a professor of anthropology at the University of Iowa. She is a recipient of the Ruth Benedict Prize.
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Norma Goldman
1922 - 2011 (89 years)
Norma Wynick Goldman was an American classics scholar, author, professor at Wayne State University, and president of the Detroit Classical Association. Her works include textbooks of the Latin language as well as studies of Roman lamps, the architecture of the Janiculum Hill in Rome, and Roman costumes.
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Joseph Coleman Carter
1941 - Present (83 years)
Joseph Coleman Carter is an American archaeologist, author, and academic specializing in Greek art and the study of ancient Greek colonies. He is the founder and director of the Institute of Classical Archaeology, a research unit associated with the University of Texas at Austin, and the non-profit Center for the Study of Ancient Territories.
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Tamati Reedy
1936 - Present (88 years)
Sir Tamati Muturangi Reedy is a New Zealand Māori academic and former public servant and rugby union player. He served as secretary of the Department of Maori Affairs between 1983 and 1989, during which time he was involved in the Māori loans affair. He was the foundation dean and professor of the School of Māori and Pacific Development at the University of Waikato in 1996, and was later the professor of Māori sustainable enterprise in the School of Management at Waikato. He was knighted, for services to education, in 2011.
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Marcel Otte
1948 - Present (76 years)
Marcel Otte is a professor of Prehistory at the Université de Liège, Belgium. He is a specialist in Religion, Arts, Sociobiology, and the Upper Palaeolithic times of Europe and Central Asia. In the book Speaking Australopithecus he argues from the archaeological point of view Benozzo's hypothesis that human language appeared with Australopithecus, between 4 and 3 million years ago.
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Marie Louise Stig Sørensen
1954 - Present (70 years)
Marie Louise Stig Sørensen is a Danish archaeologist and academic. She is Professor of European Prehistory and Heritage Studies at the University of Cambridge and Professor of Bronze Age Archaeology at the University of Leiden. Her research focuses on Bronze Age Europe, heritage, and archaeological theory.
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Alan Greaves
1969 - Present (55 years)
Alan Greaves is a lecturer at the University of Liverpool, UK, who specialises in the Bronze and Iron Ages of Anatolia. Career In 2005 he was made a National Teaching Fellow by the UK Higher Education Academy.
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James S. Bielo
1980 - Present (44 years)
James S. Bielo is an American socio-cultural anthropologist, specializing in the Anthropology of Religion, the Anthropology of Christianity, American Religion, Urban Anthropology, Linguistic Anthropology, and the study of Material Religion. He is an associate professor of Religious Studies at Northwestern University. He was awarded his Ph.D. in anthropology in 2007 from Michigan State University. With Carrie M. Lane, he is the series founder and co-editor of the “Anthropology of Contemporary North America" book series at the University of Nebraska Press. He is one of the founders of the Anthr...
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Diane Gifford-Gonzalez
Diane Gifford-Gonzalez is an American archaeologist who specializes in the field of zooarchaeology. Her research has included fieldwork near Lake Turkana, northwestern Kenya, and her research often touches on the question of animal domestication and the origins and development of African pastoralism.
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Elaine Salo
1962 - 2016 (54 years)
Elaine Rosa Salo was a South African anthropologist, scholar and activist, who specialised in gender studies and African feminism. She taught at the University of the Western Cape, the University of Cape Town, the University of Pretoria, and, until her death from cancer, at the University of Delaware.
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Carolina Mallol
1973 - Present (51 years)
Carolina Mallol was born in Barcelona, Spain in 1973, and is a professor and researcher of archaeological science at the University of La Laguna in Tenerife, Spain. Education Mallol graduated from Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Spain with her BA and MA in Geography and History, followed by an MA in 1999 then PhD in Anthropology at Harvard University in 2004. She was awarded a National Science Foundation grant for her PhD research, comprising a geoarchaeological study of three Lower Paleolithic sites.
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William Kelso
1941 - Present (83 years)
William M. Kelso, C.B.E., Ph. D., F.S.A. , often referred to as Bill Kelso, is an American archaeologist specializing in Virginia's colonial period, particularly the Jamestown colony. Personal life A native of Lakeside, Ohio, Kelso earned a B.A. in History from Baldwin-Wallace College, an M.A. in Early American History from the College of William and Mary, and a Ph.D in Historical Archaeology from Emory University.
Go to ProfileJoanna Bruck is an archaeologist and academic, who is a specialist on Bronze Age Britain and Ireland. Since 2020, she has been Professor of Archaeology and Head of the School of Archaeology at University College Dublin. She was previously Professor of Archaeology at the University of Bristol between 2013 and 2020.
Go to ProfileDr. Andrea Abrams is an American anthropologist, Associate Professor, President of the Association of Black Anthropologists and Author of God and Blackness: Race, Gender and Identity in a Middle Class Afrocentric Church. Andrea is currently an associate professor of Anthropology, Gender Studies and African American Studies at Centre College in Danville, Kentucky, as well as the Chair of the Gender Studies Program. In 2018, she was named associate vice president for diversity affairs & special assistant to the president, and in 2021 was named vice president for diversity, inclusion, and equity.
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Nigel Davies
1920 - 2004 (84 years)
Dr. Claude Nigel Byam Davies was a British anthropologist and historian who specialised in the study of the cultures of pre-Columbian America, publishing 12 academic works on the Aztec, Inca and Toltec societies. In addition to his academic work, Davies also served with the Grenadier Guards during the Second World War, briefly sat as an MP for Epping and as the managing director of Windowlite Ltd.
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Rosana Pinheiro-Machado
Rosana Pinheiro-Machado is a Brazilian anthropologist, currently a professor at the School of Geography at University College Dublin. She has been a lecturer at the Department of Social & Policy Sciences at the University of Bath and studies the economic and political effects of trade in the Global South, particularly in Brazil and China. She is also a columnist for The Intercept.
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E. Patrick Johnson
1967 - Present (57 years)
E. Patrick Johnson is the dean of the Northwestern University School of Communication. He is the Annenberg University Professor of Performance Studies and professor of African-American studies at Northwestern University. Johnson is the founding director of the Black Arts Consortium at Northwestern. His scholarly and artistic contributions focus on performance studies, African-American studies and women, gender and sexuality studies.
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Brita Malmer
1925 - 2013 (88 years)
Brita Ingrid Maria Malmer , was a Swedish numismatist who specialized in the Viking Age. She was Sweden's first professor of numismatics. Biography Malmer was born in Malmö, where her father, Svante Alenstam, was a schoolteacher. Having graduated from high school in 1945, she studied history, archaeology, classical studies, art history and pedagogy at Lund University, and earned her bachelor's degree 1949. She received her licentiate degree in 1953 and her PhD in 1966 with a dissertation on the oldest Hedeby coins, Nordiska mynt före år 1000.
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Herbert Blau
1926 - 2013 (87 years)
Herbert Blau was an American director and theoretician of performance. He was named the Byron W. and Alice L. Lockwood Professor in the Humanities at the University of Washington. Early life and career Blau earned his bachelor's degree in chemical engineering from New York University . Later, he earned his master of arts in drama and doctorate in English and American literature , both from Stanford University.
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Ernest-Marie Laperrousaz
1924 - 2013 (89 years)
Ernest-Marie Laperrousaz was a French historian and archaeologist. As an archaeologist he worked at Qumran and Masada. He has published numerous books including works on Qumran and the context of the Dead Sea Scrolls.
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Mary Harlow
1956 - Present (68 years)
Mary Harlow, is an English archaeologist and classical scholar. Her research focuses on various aspects of Roman social history―such as age, family, dress and textiles―and their impact on the formation of ancient identity. Her approach strongly promotes interdisciplinary methods, using source materials to accompany the study of Roman dress.
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Klaus Schmidt
1953 - 2014 (61 years)
Klaus Schmidt was a German archaeologist and prehistorian who led the excavations at Göbekli Tepe from 1996 to 2014. Education and career Klaus Schmidt studied pre- and protohistory, as well as classical archaeology and geology at the universities of Erlangen and Heidelberg. He completed his doctorate in 1983 at the Heidelberg University under the direction of Harald Hauptmann. He received a travel stipend from the German Archaeological Institute from 1984 to 1986. From 1986 to 1995, he received a research stipend from the German Research Foundation and was employed at the Institute of pre- a...
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Miles Russell
1967 - Present (57 years)
Miles Russell, is a British archaeologist best known for his work and publications on the prehistoric and Roman periods and for his appearances in television programmes such as Time Team and Harry Hill's TV Burp.
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Brian Thom
1970 - Present (54 years)
Brian Thom is a Canadian anthropologist, former land claims negotiator and Indigenous title, rights and governance advisor. He is an associate professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Victoria, where in 2010 he founded the UVic Ethnographic Mapping Lab.
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Josephine Flood
1936 - Present (88 years)
Josephine Mary Flood, is an English-born Australian archaeologist, mountaineer, and author. Early life and education Josephine Flood was born Josephine Scarr in Yorkshire, England. She took a BA in Classics at Girton College, Cambridge, in 1959, later receiving an MA and a PhD from the Australian National University. Her PhD thesis was published as: The Moth Hunters: Aboriginal prehistory of the Australian Alps in 1980.
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Joanna Pfaff-Czarnecka
1956 - Present (68 years)
Joanna Pfaff-Czarnecka is a university professor in the Faculty of Sociology at Bielefeld University, Germany. She is a former Pro-Vice-Rector at Bielefeld University and former Dean of the Faculty of Sociology at the University.
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Patrick Edward McGovern
1944 - Present (80 years)
Patrick Edward McGovern is the scientific director of the Biomolecular Archaeology Laboratory for Cuisine, Fermented Beverages, and Health at the University of Pennsylvania Museum in Philadelphia, where he is also an adjunct professor of anthropology. In the popular imagination, he is known as the "Indiana Jones of Ancient Ales, Wines, and Extreme Beverages"
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Alexander Etkind
1955 - Present (69 years)
Alexander Etkind is a historian and cultural scientist. He is a professor of history and the Chair of Russia-Europe relations at the European University Institute. He is fellow of the European Institute for International Law and International Relations.
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Anthony Legge
1939 - 2013 (74 years)
Professor Anthony James Legge . was a British archaeologist and academic, who specialised in zooarchaeology. After attending the Cambridge High School for Boys, he began work at the Institute of Animal Physiology, Babraham, Cambridge, in the Pig Physiology unit with Dr Lawrence Mount. After National Service, Legge returned to the Babraham Institute, leaving there in 1966 to enter Churchill College, Cambridge, as a mature student. He graduated in 1969, being awarded the college Special Book Prize for merit. Legge then joined Eric Higgs' research group at Cambridge investigating the early origins of agriculture, where he specialised in archaeofaunal analysis.
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Todd Joseph Miles Holden
1958 - Present (66 years)
Todd Joseph Miles Holden is an American-born social scientist, essayist, philosopher, and novelist. He was the first tenured foreign professor at Tohoku University, one of Asia’s elite universities, where he taught for 26 years. His scholarship has been multi- and trans-disciplinary, embracing globalization, media studies, cultural studies, semiotics, advertising, television, Japanese popular culture, sociology, cultural anthropology, political communication, gender, identity, and digital youth. Between 2000 and 2009 he was a contributor to the international webzine PopMatters, writing a regu...
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Eric Birley
1906 - 1995 (89 years)
Eric Barff Birley, , was a British historian and archaeologist, particularly associated with the excavation of the forts of Hadrian's Wall, notably at Vindolanda. Early life and education Eric Birley was born in Eccles, Lancashire, on 12 January 1906.
Go to ProfileMartha Ellen Davis is an emeritus professor from the University of Florida, anthropologist and ethnomusicologist known for her multifarious work on African diasporic religion and music. Professor Davis' research has defied conventional tenets about Haitian and Dominican folk music, and her cultural preservation projects has raised awareness of the significance of the Samaná Americanos' enclave.
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Edwin M. Shook
1911 - 2000 (89 years)
Edwin M. Shook was an American archaeologist and Mayanist scholar, best known for his extensive field work and publications on pre-Columbian Maya civilization sites. Shook was born in Newton, North Carolina. At age 22 he took a job as a draftsman at the Carnegie Institution of Washington which was to lead him into Mesoamerican studies from 1934 to 1998. In 1955, he became the field director of the University of Pennsylvania's Tikal Project, overseeing and publishing extensive work at Tikal, the largest Classic Maya site. Other Maya sites Shook worked at include Uaxactun, Copán, Mayapan, Kam...
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Mary Marzke
1937 - 2020 (83 years)
Mary W. Marzke was an American anthropologist. Her research focuses on the evolution of the hominin hand. Early life and education Mary Marzke was born Mary Walpole in Oakland, California. While in middle school and high school, ski trips with her family friends the McCowns sparked an interest in anthropology as both Professor and Mrs. McCown were physical anthropologists. Professor McCown later went on to serve as one of her Ph.D. supervisors. In 1959, she graduated from the University of California, Berkeley with an A.B. in Anthropology. Following this, she attained her M.A. in anthropology from Columbia University in New York in 1961.
Go to ProfileHella Eckardt is an archaeologist who specialises in Roman archaeology and material culture and a professor at the University of Reading. Since 2018 she has been the Editor of the journal Britannia.
Go to ProfileDeborah James, is a South African anthropologist and academic, who specialises in South Africa, economic anthropology, political anthropology, and ethnography. Since 2008, she has been Professor of Anthropology at the London School of Economics in England.
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Simon Keay
1954 - 2021 (67 years)
Simon James Keay, FBA was a British archaeologist and academic. Keay specialized in the archaeology of the Roman Empire, particularly Roman Mediterranean ports, commerce and cultural change in Italy and Iberia.
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Sarah Green
1961 - Present (63 years)
Sarah Francesca Green is currently a professor of social and cultural anthropology at the University of Helsinki. She is a specialist on borders, spatial relations, gender and sexuality, and information and communications technologies. She has lived in Greece, the UK, US, Italy and currently lives in Helsinki, Finland. In September 2016, Green was awarded a European Research Council Advanced Grant to develop new research in the Mediterranean region. The project is called Crosslocations. She was also awarded an Academy of Finland Project, called Transit, Trade and Travel, which also concerns ...
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David Breeze
1944 - Present (80 years)
David John Breeze, OBE, FSA, FRSE, HonFSAScot, Hon MIFA is a British archaeologist, teacher and scholar of Hadrian's Wall, the Antonine Wall and the Roman army. He studied under Eric Birley and is a member of the so-called "Durham School" of archaeology. He was a close friend and colleague of the late Dr Brian Dobson.
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Bernard Bernier
1942 - Present (82 years)
Bernard Bernier is a Canadian anthropologist and Professor at the Université de Montréal, where he has been working since January 1970. His main topics of research are Japanese political economy, theories of social change, nationalism and social inequalities, and Watsuji Tetsurô's philosophy. Part of Bernier's work is devoted to debunking false ideas and clichés about Japan, such as the stereotype of a harmonious and homogeneous society.
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Lynn Bolles
1949 - Present (75 years)
Augusta Lynn Bolles is an anthropologist, professor of women's studies at the University of Maryland, and co-chair of The Cottagers' African American Cultural Festival. Biography She graduated from Syracuse University and earned a master's degree in sociocultural anthropology and a doctoral degree in anthropology from Rutgers University. She is the daughter of Augusta Beebe Bolles and George Bolles. She married James Mackin Walsh on February 9, 1980, in the Kirkpatrick Chapel of Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey.
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