Dan Warner is the former Director for The Michael and Sara Moskau Institute of Archaeology and the Center for Archaeological Research, and former professor of Old Testament and Archaeology at the biblically inerrantist New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, and is a co-director of the Tel Gezer Water System excavation and preservation project. He has also served various roles on other excavations at Tel Kabri, Megiddo, Tell el-Far'ah, Gerar, and Ashkelon.
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Ettore Paratore
1907 - 2000 (93 years)
Ettore Paratore was an Italian Latinist and academic. Paratore was born in Chieti, Italy; his father was a doctor and science teacher, while his mother was a professor. He completed his studies in literatures at the University of Palermo in 1927. He later became a professor of Latin literature at the University of Catania. After moving to Rome, he started teaching Greek and Latin grammar at the Sapienza University of Rome.
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Thomas Havens
1939 - Present (85 years)
Thomas Robert Hamilton Havens is an American Japanologist. Havens is from Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, and graduated from Princeton University in 1961 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in history, followed by a master's degree from the University of California, Berkeley in 1962. He remained at Berkeley to earn a doctorate in history in 1965, and began his teaching career at Connecticut College. While on the Connecticut College faculty, he was awarded a Guggenheim fellowship in 1976. Havens joined the University of Illinois faculty in 1990, where he taught for two years before accepting a teaching position at Berkeley.
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Cyprian Broodbank
1964 - Present (60 years)
Cyprian Broodbank, is a British archaeologist and academic. Since October 2014, he has been Disney Professor of Archaeology at the University of Cambridge and director of the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research. From 2010 to 2014, he was Professor of Mediterranean Archaeology at University College London.
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Caitlin E. Buck
1964 - Present (60 years)
Caitlin E. Buck is a British archaeologist and statistician specialising the application of Bayesian statistics to archaeology, and known for her work in radiocarbon dating. She is a professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Sheffield.
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David M. Halperin
1952 - Present (72 years)
David M. Halperin is an American theorist in the fields of gender studies, queer theory, critical theory, material culture and visual culture. He is the cofounder of GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, and author of several books including Before Pastoral and One Hundred Years of Homosexuality .
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Christopher Gaffney
1962 - Present (62 years)
Christopher F. Gaffney is a British archaeological geophysicist and is currently Pro Vice-Chancellor for Research and Innovation at the University of Bradford. Gaffney's research interests are based on understanding how geophysical data can aide archaeology in the understanding of the life and culture of ancient peoples. In pursuing these research goals he has pursued research in challenging environments where technical excellence and novel methodological approaches can lead to enhanced interpretation of the past. In doing so, Gaffney has undertaken research and managed surveys within Britain and across the world.
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John Bennet
1957 - Present (67 years)
Donald John Logan Bennet, , known as John Bennet, is a British archaeologist, classicist, and academic, who specialises in the Aegean civilisations. He has been Professor of Aegean Archaeology at the University of Sheffield since 2004, and was Director of the British School at Athens from 2015 to 2022. He previously taught at the University of Cambridge, the University of Wisconsin–Madison and the University of Oxford.
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Dilip Kumar Chakrabarti
1941 - Present (83 years)
Dilip Kumar Chakrabarti is an Indian archaeologist, Professor Emeritus of South Asian Archaeology at Cambridge University, and a Senior Fellow at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Cambridge University. He is known for his studies on the early use of iron in India and the archaeology of Eastern India.
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Anthony Harding
1946 - Present (78 years)
Anthony Harding is a British archaeologist specialising in European prehistory. He was a professor at Durham University and the University of Exeter and president of the European Association of Archaeologists between 2003 and 2009. Following his doctoral research on Mycenaean Greece, Harding's work has mainly concerned the European Bronze Age, including major studies of prehistoric warfare and the prehistory of salt.
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Terence Turner
1935 - 2015 (80 years)
Terence Turner was an anthropologist. He was professor emeritus of anthropology at the University of Chicago. Turner did extensive ethnographic and activist work with the Kayapo from central Brazil. He also used an anthropological understanding to address broader regional and global development.
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Yukiko Koga
1969 - Present (55 years)
Yukiko Koga is an anthropologist teaching at Yale University. She previously taught at CUNY's Hunter College. She specializes in legal anthropology, urban space, post-colonial & post-imperial relations, history & memory, and transnational East Asia .
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Ibrahim Sirkeci
1972 - Present (52 years)
İbrahim Sirkeci is a British Turkish social scientist, currently Director of International Business School, Manchester, UK. Previous he was the Head of Enterprise Subject Group at Salford Business School, University of Salford, Manchester, UK. He served as a Professor at various British universities including his 16 years long service at the European Business School London, Regent's University London, and was the Director of Regent's Centre for Transnational Studies.
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Barri Jones
1936 - 1999 (63 years)
Geraint Dyfed Barri Jones was a classical scholar and archaeologist. Born in St Helens to Welsh-speaking parents, he attended High Wycombe Royal Grammar School from 1947–54, and won a Welsh Foundation Scholarship to read classics at Jesus College, Oxford.
Go to ProfileGlynis Eleanor Jones FBA is a British archaeobotanist, who is Professor of Archaeology at the University of Sheffield. Biography Jones graduated from Cardiff University with a degree in zoology, before working as a science teacher in the UK and Greece. Next, Jones worked as a research assistant at the British School at Athens, before undertaking an MPhil and then PhD in Archaeology at the University of Cambridge. After completing her PhD, Jones worked in the Department of Urban Archaeology, Museum of London, before commencing an academic post at the University of Sheffield in 1984. In 2004 Jon...
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Sim Bong-geun
1943 - Present (81 years)
Sim Bong-geun is an archaeologist, university professor and administrator at Dong-A University in Greater Busan, South Korea. Sim was appointed as the 12th president of Dong-A University in 2007. Sim received his bachelor's and master's degrees at Dong-A University and earned his PhD from Kyushu University in Fukuoka, Japan.
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Audrey Meaney
1931 - 2021 (90 years)
Audrey Lilian Meaney was an archaeologist and historian specialising in the study of Anglo-Saxon England. She published several books on the subject, including Gazetteer of Early Anglo-Saxon Burial Sites and Anglo-Saxon Amulets and Curing Stones .
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Faye V. Harrison
1951 - Present (73 years)
Faye Harrison is a professor of African-American Studies and Anthropology and Faculty Affiliate for the Program on Women & Gender in Global Perspectives, the Center for Latin American & Caribbean Studies and the Center for African Studies, all for the University of Illinois. She earned her B.A. from Brown University and a Ph.D from Stanford University. Harrison’s research interests have taken her to Nigeria, South Africa, Japan, Jamaica, Denmark and many more countries. She has explored racism and human rights, gendered division of labor, gang politics and criminality, and feminism. She has been honored many times for her contributions to the field of anthropology.
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Schuyler Cammann
1912 - 1991 (79 years)
Schuyler Van Rensselaer Cammann was an anthropologist best known for work in Asia. Early life Cammann was born on February 2, 1912, in New York City. He was the son of Herbert Schuyler Cammann and Katharine Van Rensselaer Fairfax . His father, a great-grandson of Robert Fulton, inventor of the steamboat, was involved in real estate and insurance business he established in 1907. His sister, Katharine Schuyler Cammann, was married to Howard S. Lipson of Sugar Hill, New Hampshire.
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Dennis Harding
1940 - Present (84 years)
Dennis William Harding, , known as D. W. Harding, is a British archaeologist and academic, specialising in the British Iron Age. Having taught at the University of Durham from 1966 to 1977, he was then Abercromby Professor of Archaeology at the University of Edinburgh from 1977 to 2007.
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Sharon N. DeWitte
2000 - Present (24 years)
Sharon Nell DeWitte is an American bioarchaeologist. She is a professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of South Carolina and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Her research interests include the Black Death.
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James B. Stoltman
1935 - 2019 (84 years)
James B. Stoltman was an American archaeologist who specialized in the American Midwest. Stoltman was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He was a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he was chairman of the anthropology department. He worked as an assistant professor from 1965-1970, an associate professor from 1970-1974, a full professor from 1974-1998, and a professor emeritus from 1998-2019.
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Robert J. Smith
1927 - 2016 (89 years)
Robert John Smith was an American anthropologist who taught at Cornell University, specializing in the anthropology of Japan. In 1974, he was named Goldwin Smith Professor of Anthropology. The Japanese government bestowed the Order of the Rising Sun on him in 1993. He was president of the Association for Asian Studies in 1988. He retired in 1997.
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Janet Richards
1959 - Present (65 years)
Janet Richards is an American Egyptologist and academic. Biography Richards started her higher education at Northwestern University then continued it at Universite de Paris-IV and l'École du Louvre, which led her to her doctorate degree in anthropology and Oriental studies at University of Pennsylvania. Some of her previous occupations were education coordinator at Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, field director for the Pennsylvania-Yale Abydos North Cemetery Project, and curatorial assistant, Egyptian Section at University of Pennsylvania Museum.
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Lin Foxhall
1961 - Present (63 years)
Lin Foxhall, FSA, MBE, is a Professor of archaeology and ancient Greek History. She has written on women, men, and gender in the classical world. She is an Honorary Professor at the University of Leicester, and in 2017 she was appointed to the Rathbone Chair of Ancient History and Classical Archaeology at the University of Liverpool.
Go to ProfileJane Balme is a Professor of Archaeology at the University of Western Australia. She is an expert on early Indigenous groups and Australian archaeology. Biography Balme studied for an undergraduate degree in Anthropology at the University of Western Australia, graduating in 1979. Balme worked on cave sites in south west Australia for the Western Australian Museum and became interested in archaeology.
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Pierre Amandry
1912 - 2006 (94 years)
Pierre Amandry was a French hellenist, especially interested in ancient Greece and its relationships with south-west Asia. He was born at Troyes on December 31, 1912, and died in Paris on February 21, 2006. A large part of his work was on the site of Delphi, excavated by the French School at Athens, of which he was secretary general from 1941 to 1948 and director from 1969 to 1981.
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Andrew Wilson
1968 - Present (56 years)
Andrew Ian Wilson is a British classical archaeologist and Head of School of Archaeology at the University of Oxford. He was director of the Oxford Institute of Archaeology from 2009 to 2011. Wilson's main research interests are the economy of the Roman world, Greek and Roman water supply, and ancient technology.
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Jennie R. Joe
1941 - Present (83 years)
Jennie R. Joe (born 1941) is an American academic, medical anthropologist, and fellow of the Society for Applied Anthropology. Initially trained as a nurse, she was one of the health clinic workers during Occupation of Alcatraz in 1969. She is a professor in the Departments of Family and Community Medicine and American Indian Studies at the University of Arizona. Joe was one of the inaugural board members for the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian and serves on the board of the Urban Indian Health Commission. She graduated from the University of New Mexico as a public health ...
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John Wymer
1928 - 2006 (78 years)
John James Wymer, was a British archaeologist and one of the leading experts on the Palaeolithic period. Biography Born near Kew Gardens in Surrey, Wymer was introduced to archaeology by his parents who would take him to gravel pits to search for ancient sites. He trained as a teacher but spent his spare time pursuing his passion for archaeology and never took a formal qualification in the discipline. In 1948 he married is first wife, Paula May, with whom he had five children.
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Jennifer Christine Nash
1980 - Present (44 years)
Jennifer Christine Nash is the Jean Fox O'Barr Professor of Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies at Duke University within its Trinity College of Arts and Sciences. Her research interests include Black feminist theory, feminist legal theory, Black sexual politics, black motherhood, black maternal health, race and law, and intersectionality.
Go to ProfileJacqueline Mulville is a British bioarchaeologist and Professor of Archaeology at Cardiff University. Mulville is a field archaeologist whose research focuses on osteoarchaeology, human and animal identities, and island archaeologies concentrated on Britain.
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Hermann A. Schlögl
1932 - 2023 (91 years)
Hermann Alexander Schlögl was a German actor and Egyptologist. Biography Born in Munich on 22 July 1932, Hermann was the youngest son of politician and the brother of historian . He studied literature and theatre at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, while at the same time taking acting lessons. He started off as an actor at the Theater Ulm and at the Wuppertaler Bühnen. He also took on roles in film, such as in Andreas Voest, directed by .
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Juichi Yamagiwa
1952 - Present (72 years)
Juichi Yamagiwa is a Japanese anthropologist and the former president of Kyoto University. Early life Yamagiwa received his bachelor's degree in science from Kyoto University in 1971. He then received his master's and Ph.D. degrees in science from the same university in 1977 and 1987 respectively.
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Tadeusz Czesław Malinowski
1932 - 2018 (86 years)
Tadeusz Czesław Malinowski was a Polish scientist and archaeologist specialising in the Bronze Age and early Iron Age. Early life and education Born in Poznań, Poland, Malinowski was the son of Czesława Malinowska and Czesław Pobóg Malinowski. His brother is Andrzej Paweł Malinowski, a Polish anthropologist.
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Penelope Allison
1954 - Present (70 years)
Penelope 'Pim' Allison is an academic archaeologist specialising the Roman Empire and since 2015 has been professor of archaeology at the University of Leicester. She is also a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries and an Honorary Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities.
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Tara Brabazon
1969 - Present (55 years)
Tara Brabazon is Dean of Graduate Research and Professor of Cultural Studies at Charles Darwin University, in Darwin, Australia, moving from the same position at Flinders University in 2023. She has previously held academic positions in the UK, Australia, New Zealand and Canada, won six teaching awards, published 20 books, and written 250 refereed articles and contributed essays and opinion pieces on higher education and the arts.
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Gilbert Kaenel
1949 - 2020 (71 years)
Gilbert Kaenel , known as "Auguste", was a Swiss archaeologist and historian specialising in the protohistoric and classical periods. He was the director of the Cantonal Museum of Archaeology and History from 1985 to 2014 and a professor at the University of Geneva. Kaenel was known for his research on the La Tène culture in Switzerland, including his excavations at the eponymous site of La Tène.
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Ufuk Esin
1933 - 2008 (75 years)
Ufuk Esin was a Turkish archaeologist known for pioneering archaeological science in Turkey and for her excavations at Aşıklı Höyük. She was a professor at Istanbul University from 1966 until her retirement in 2000 and was instrumental in founding the Turkish Academy of Sciences.
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Stella Nyanzi
1974 - Present (50 years)
Stella Nyanzi is a Ugandan human rights advocate, poet, medical anthropologist, feminist, queer rights advocate, and scholar of sexuality, family planning, and public health. She was arrested in 2017 for insulting the Ugandan president. In January 2022, she was accepted to live in Germany on a writers-in-exile programme run by PEN Germany, with her three children.
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Deborah Pellow
1945 - Present (79 years)
Deborah Pellow is an American anthropologist. She is a professor emerita at Syracuse University’s Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs. She is known for her work on urbanization and the anthropology of space and place in West Africa, particularly in Ghana.
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Espen Aarseth
1965 - Present (59 years)
Espen J. Aarseth is a Norwegian academic specializing in the fields of video game studies and electronic literature. Aarseth completed his doctorate at the University of Bergen. He co-founded the Department of Humanistic Informatics at the University of Bergen, and worked there until 2003, at which time he was a full professor.
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Brian A. Sparkes
1933 - Present (91 years)
Brian A. Sparkes is a British classical archaeologist and art historian, specialising in the art of ancient Greece. For most of his academic career, he has been based at The University of Southampton, where he was professor of classical archaeology, and helped to found the department of archaeology.
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Kim Jeong-hak
1911 - 2006 (95 years)
Kim Jeong-hak was a Korean archaeologist. Born in Munch'ŏn, South Hamgyŏng Province, North Korea, Kim first studied archaeology and folklore at Keijo Imperial University, the colonial predecessor of Seoul National University. He also studied for a time at Harvard University in the United States.
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Vykintas Vaitkevičius
1974 - Present (50 years)
Vykintas Vaitkevičius is a Lithuanian archaeologist. Vaitkevičius graduated from the Vilnius University His research interests include Baltic and ancient Lithuanian religion, comprehensive studies of Lithuania and Belarus, and digitization of cultural heritage.
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Malcolm Todd
1939 - 2013 (74 years)
Malcolm Todd was an English archaeologist. Born in Durham, England, the son of a miner, Todd was educated in classics and classical archaeology at St David's College, Lampeter and Brasenose College, Oxford. He subsequently served as a reader and professor at the University of Nottingham and the University of Exeter respectively. During this time, Todd conducted notable excavations at sites of Roman Britain. He was later principal at Trevelyan College, Durham. Todd retired from Durham in 2000, and subsequently dedicated himself to research and writing. He was the author and editor of several ...
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Sarab Abu-Rabia-Queder
1976 - Present (48 years)
Sarab Abu-Rabia-Queder is an Israeli-Arab sociologist, anthropologist, and feminist activist with a specialty in gender studies. She is the first Bedouin woman in Israel to receive a doctorate, and to be promoted to Associate Professor. In June 2021, she was appointed Vice-President for Diversity and Inclusion at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
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Shadreck Chirikure
1978 - Present (46 years)
Shadreck Chirikure is a professor at the University of Cape Town, and holds a British Academy Global Professorship within the School of Archaeology at Oxford. He is a leading archaeologist, studying pyrotechnology and southern Africa.
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