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John Creighton
1964 - Present (60 years)
John Creighton is a British archaeologist and assistant professor at the University of Reading. His research focuses on the Late Iron Age and Early Roman period of north-western Europe. Education Creighton received a PhD from Durham University in 1992 entitled The circulation of money in Roman Britain from the first to third century, supervised by John Casey. He studied under the Leslie Brooks Fellowship and resided in a room just above the St Cuthbert's Society wine cellar.
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Ana Mariella Bacigalupo
Ana Mariella Bacigalupo is a Peruvian anthropologist. She is a full professor at the State University of New York at Buffalo and has previously taught throughout the USA and in Chile. Her research primarily focuses on the shamans or machis of the Mapuche community of Chile, and the ways shamanic practices and beliefs are affected by and influence communal experiences of state power, mythical history, ethics, gender, justice, and identity.
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Elizabeth Reitz
1946 - Present (78 years)
Elizabeth Jean "Betsy" Reitz is a zooarchaeologist and Professor Emerita in the Georgia Museum of Natural History and the Department of Anthropology at the University of Georgia. She was born in 1946 in Lake Alfred, Florida. She attended Florida Presbyterian College from 1966 to 1967. She received her BA , MA , and her PhD in Anthropology from the University of Florida. Her dissertation was directed by Elizabeth Wing. In 2012, she was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and in 2014, she was named to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She was t...
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Masao Yamaguchi
1931 - 2013 (82 years)
Masao Yamaguchi was a Japanese anthropologist. Overviews Yamaguchi was born in Bihoro, Hokkaidō. A key figure in the introduction of structural anthropology to Japan, Yamaguchi was also noted for his engagements with political questions such as the Japanese emperor system and assimilation policies. Yamaguchi was also noted as a writer on the concepts of hermaphroditism and the trickster, and performed fieldwork in Asia, Africa, and elsewhere.
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Sharon Stocker
1901 - Present (123 years)
Sharon Stocker is an American archaeologist who is best known, along with her husband, archaeologist Jack L. Davis, for leading an international team of researchers who discovered a previously undisturbed tomb of a Bronze Age warrior in southwest Greece. The 3500 year old intact grave was named the Griffin Warrior Tomb by the research team during the initial excavation in May 2015.
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Kathryn B. H. Clancy
Kathryn Bridges Harley Clancy is an American biological anthropologist who specialises in reproductive health. She is Associate Professor at the University of Illinois, in the Department of Anthropology. Her additional research and policy advocacy work focuses on sexual harassment in science and academia.
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Himanshu Prabha Ray
1947 - Present (77 years)
Himanshu Prabha Ray is an Indian Sanskrit scholar, historian, and archaeologist. Her interests areas are marine archaeology, history, and culture of South Asia. Ray is a recipient of the Anneliese Maier research award of the Humboldt Foundation for collaborative research with the Distant Worlds Programme and an Honorary Professor of the Distant Worlds Programme, Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich, Germany. She has also served as a professor in the Centre for Historical Studies at Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi, India. Ray was appointed as the Chairperson of the National Monument...
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Catriona Kelly
1959 - Present (65 years)
Catriona Helen Moncrieff Kelly, FBA is a British academic specialising in Russian culture. From 1996 to 2021, she was Professor of Russian at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of New College. In 2021, she was elected senior research fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge and honorary professor of the University of Cambridge.
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Paul Richards
1945 - Present (79 years)
Paul Richards is an emeritus professor of technology and agrarian development at Wageningen University, The Netherlands, and adjunct professor at Njala University in central Sierra Leone. He was formerly a professor in the Department of Anthropology, University College London for many years, and previously taught anthropology and geography, at the School of Oriental and African Studies, and the University of Ibadan, Nigeria.
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Bradley P. Stoner
1959 - Present (65 years)
Bradley P. Stoner is an American sociocultural anthropologist and Head of the Department of Public Health Sciences at Queen's University. He is the former president of the American Sexually Transmitted Diseases Association and is regarded as an expert on the study of sexually transmitted infections.
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Jorrit Kelder
1980 - Present (44 years)
Jorrit Kelder , is a Dutch archaeologist and ancient historian. He is known especially for his work on Mycenaean political structures, and in particular his argument that the Mycenaean world was a single, unified state .
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Mina Weinstein-Evron
1949 - Present (75 years)
Mina Weinstein-Evron is an Israeli archaeologist. She is a professor of archaeology at University of Haifa. Evron joined the faculty at University of Haifa as the head of the department of archaeology in 1991. She researches the prehistory of the Levant and Old World, palynology of the Eastern Mediterranean and Old World, the Quaternary period, and the agricultural revolution, including food production and sedentism. Evron completed a B.A. in social work, cum laude, at Bar-Ilan University in 1973. She earned a B.A. in archaeology and prehistory, cum laude, at Tel Aviv University . In 1976, she earned an M.A.
Go to ProfileBrendan J. Hokowhitu is a New Zealand academic who is of Māori, Ngāti Pūkenga descent and as of 2019 is a full professor at the University of Waikato. Academic career After a 2001 PhD titled 'Te mana Māori : Te tātari i ngā kōrero parau' at the University of Otago, Hokowhitu moved to the University of Alberta in Edmonton and then to the University of Waikato, rising to full professor.
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Trevor Watkins
1938 - Present (86 years)
Trevor Watkins is a British archaeologist and emeritus professor of Near Eastern prehistory at the University of Edinburgh. He has worked extensively on the Neolithic Revolution in Southwest Asia, including translating Jacques Cauvin's seminal work The Birth of the Gods and the Origins of Agriculture into English. He excavated the site of Qermez Dere in Iraq in the 1980s.
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Josiah Heyman
1958 - Present (66 years)
Josiah McConnell Heyman is an American anthropologist and professor of anthropology at the University of Texas at El Paso, where he is also an Endowed Professor of Border Trade Issues and the director of the Center for Interamerican and Border Studies. He is known for his studies of the United States-Mexico border, which he has been studying for over 30 years. He has also researched the increasing extent to which the border has been enforced by the United States Border Patrol.
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Thomas King
1943 - Present (81 years)
Thomas King is a Canadian writer and broadcast presenter who most often writes about First Nations. Early life and education Thomas Hunt King was born in Roseville, California, on April 24, 1943. He self-identifies as being of Cherokee, Greek, and German descent. King says his father left the family when the boys were very young, and that they were raised almost entirely by their mother. In his series of Massey Lectures, eventually published as a book The Truth About Stories , King tells that after their father's death, he and his brother learned that their father had two other families, nei...
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Alexander H. Joffe
1959 - Present (65 years)
Alexander H. Joffe Alex Joffe is an archaeologist and historian of the Near East. Joffe graduated from Cornell University in 1981 with a B.A in History and received a Ph.D. in Near Eastern Studies from the University of Arizona in 1991.
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Alice Gorman
1964 - Present (60 years)
Alice Gorman is an Australian archaeologist, heritage consultant, and lecturer, who is best known for pioneering work in the field of space archaeology and her Space Age Archaeology blog. Based at Flinders University, she is an expert in Indigenous stone tool analysis, but better known for her research into the archaeology of orbital debris, terrestrial launch sites, and satellite tracking stations. Gorman teaches modern material culture studies, cultural heritage management, and Australian stone tools. Gorman is also a founding member of the Archaeology, Science and Heritage Council of For...
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Heather Lechtman
1935 - Present (89 years)
Heather Lechtman is an American materials scientist and archaeologist, and Director at the Center for Materials Research in Archaeology and Ethnology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She specializes in prehistoric technology of the Andean area of South America, and in particular metallurgy.
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Avi Gopher
1953 - Present (71 years)
Avi Gopher is an Israeli archaeologist. He is a professor at the University of Tel Aviv. Biography Avraham Gopher completed his B.A. at Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1978, M.A. in 1981 and PhD in 1986. He specialises in prehistoric Israel.
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Michel Tibon-Cornillot
1936 - 2020 (84 years)
Michel Tibon-Cornillot was a French philosopher and anthropologist. He directed research at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences . He had an interest in the evolution of technology in the field of biology, leading to his authoring of the book Les Corps transfigurés.
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Itziar Aretxaga
1965 - Present (59 years)
Itziar Aretxaga Méndez is a Spanish and Mexican astrophysicist who works in Mexico as a researcher at the National Institute of Astrophysics, Optics and Electronics . Her research interests include galaxy formation and evolution, active galactic nuclei, starburstss, and supernovae.
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Philip Betancourt
1936 - Present (88 years)
Philip P. Betancourt is an American archaeologist, author, and a specialist in the Aegean Bronze Age. He was the Laura H. Carnell Professor of Art History and Archaeology at Temple University's Tyler School of Art and was an adjunct professor at the University of Pennsylvania in the Graduate Group in the Art and Archaeology of the Mediterranean World and the Department of the History of Art. He previously served as the Director of the Institute for Aegean Prehistory. Betancourt received his Ph.D. in Archaeology from the University of Pennsylvania. He was elected a Fellow of the American Aca...
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Cynthia Tse Kimberlin
Cynthia Tse Kimberlin is an American ethnomusicologist. She is the executive director and publisher of the Music Research Institute and MRI Press, based in Point Richmond, California. Her primary area of expertise is the music of Africa, in particular Ethiopia and Eritrea.
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René Rebuffat
1930 - 2019 (89 years)
René Rebuffat was a French historian and archaeologist, specializing in ancient Africa. He conducted archaeological excavations at Thamusida in Morocco, to in Libya, and in the Sebou basin in Morocco. He also worked on archaeological sites of Aléria and Jublains.
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Teresa del Valle
1937 - Present (87 years)
Teresa del Valle Murga is a Spanish anthropologist, best known for her work in the fields of gender studies and feminism in Spain, in her publications Mujer vasca. Imagen y realidad , Culturas oceánicas: Micronesia , Género y sexualidad , Gendered Anthropology , and Perspectivas feministas desde la antropología social . She was the recipient of a Emakunde Award for Equality in 2010.
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P. Gregory Warden
1950 - Present (74 years)
P. Gregory Warden is an American archaeologist, President and Professor of archaeology at Franklin University Switzerland, and expert on Etruscan art, archaeology, and ritual, Roman architecture and Greek archaeology. He is the inaugural Mark A. Roglán Director of the Custard Institute for Spanish Art and Culture at Southern Methodist University.
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Lixin Guo
1968 - Present (56 years)
Lixin Guo is a Chinese anthropologist and archaeologist, as well as professor at the Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou. He has also given lectures at the Department of History, National Chung-cheng University in Chiayi, Taiwan.
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Anna Birgitta Rooth
1919 - 2000 (81 years)
Anna "Anta" Birgitta Rooth was the first Swedish professor of ethnology at Uppsala University. She is known for her research into folklore, especially the Cinderella story. Early life and education Anna Birgitta Rooth was born on 15 May 1919, in Ängelholm, Sweden, to Hildegard Sofia Helena and Nore Valfrid Waldermarson. She had two brothers, Bertil and Bo Waldemarson. Rooth enjoyed reading as a child and at 19, gained a school-leaving certificate at Lunds privata elementarskola, allowing her to attend Lund University the same year.
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Brian Dobson
1931 - 2012 (81 years)
Brian Dobson was an English archaeologist, teacher and scholar. His specialisms were Hadrian's 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 Reader Emeritus of Durham University.
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Jan Jansen
1962 - Present (62 years)
Dr. Jan Jansen of Leiden University, Netherlands, is a historian and anthropologist specialising in the oral history of sub-Saharan Africa, particularly Mali. Jansen is the managing editor of History in Africa, the journal of the African Studies Association. He is also a founding editor of Mande Worlds, published by LIT Verlag, Munster/Hamburg, and African Sources for African History, published by Brill, Leiden.
Go to ProfileMelanie Giles is a British archaeologist and academic, specialising in Iron Age Britain. She is a Professor in European Prehistory at the University of Manchester. Education Giles completed her BA in Archaeology and MA in Landscape Archaeology at the University of Sheffield. Her PhD, undertaken at the University of Sheffield was supervised by Mike Parker Pearson and John Barrett. She investigated the Iron Age landscapes of East Yorkshire. The thesis was titled Open-weave, close-knit' : archaeologies of identity in the later prehistoric landscape of East Yorkshire.
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Lyn Parker
1956 - Present (68 years)
Lynette Parker is an Australian social and cultural anthropologist. She is an Emerita Professor and an elected fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia. She has studied contemporary Indonesia and in particular Bali.
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Barbara Herrnstein Smith
1932 - Present (92 years)
Barbara Herrnstein Smith is an American literary critic and theorist, best known for her work Contingencies of Value: Alternative Perspectives for Critical Theory. She is currently the Braxton Craven Professor of Comparative Literature and English and director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies in Science and Cultural Theory at Duke University, and also Distinguished Professor of English at Brown University.
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Véronique Dasen
1957 - Present (67 years)
Véronique Dasen is a Swiss archaeologist and Professor in Classical Archaeology and Art History at the University of Fribourg. Her research is led in a multidisciplinary and anthropological perspective. Her research interests range from ancient iconography and material culture, the history of the body, of medicine and magical practices to gender studies, history of childhood, and ludic culture .
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Anna Pujol Puigvehi
1947 - Present (77 years)
Anna Pujol Puigvehí . Historian, professor and archaeologist. Bachelor of Arts from the University of Barcelona , with the thesis “The Indiketes as the literary and archaeological sources”, Dr. summa cum laude in History from the Autonomous University of Barcelona with the doctoral thesis on the “Pre-Roman Population of the Northeast of the Iberian Peninsula. Genesis and development of Iberian culture in the Girona and south of France lands” . She has taught at the Autonomous University of Barcelona for over 15 years, and has been Associate professor of Archaeology and Ancient History of the UOC .
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Susan Cachel
1949 - Present (75 years)
Susan Cachel is an American anthropologist, paleontologist, and researcher who specializes in primate evolution. In 2009, she was named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science for her work in the field of primate evolution.
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Paul Waley
1950 - Present (74 years)
Paul Waley, a great-nephew of the scholar and translator Arthur Waley, is senior lecturer in human geography at the University of Leeds, and the author of books an articles on Tokyo and other topics in urban studies, the history of Japan and related fields.
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Ewa Mazierska
1964 - Present (60 years)
Ewa Mazierska is a reader in Contemporary Cinema, in the Department of Humanities of the University of Central Lancashire. Her publications include various articles in Polish and English and a number of monographs. She also co-edited Relocating Britishness .
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Heather Burke
1966 - Present (58 years)
Heather Burke is an Australian historical archaeologist and a Professor in the College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences at Flinders University. Early life and education Burke attended Mount Cotton State School and Marymount College . Burke obtained a bachelor's degree in archaeology from the University of New England in 1987, and a PhD from the same university in 1997. Her doctoral thesis investigated the expression of ideology through architectural style in the city of Armidale, New South Wales, during the period 1830–1930. It was published in 1999 as Meaning and Ideology in Historic...
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Helen Waterhouse
1913 - 1999 (86 years)
Helen Thomas Waterhouse, Lady Waterhouse was a British archaeologist and classical scholar specialising in prehistoric Laconia . Early life and education Helen Thomas was born 5 March 1913 in Chaldon, England. Her father was Frederick William Thomas an Oxford Professor of Sanskrit and Oriental Languages. She was initially educated at home with a tutor, but later attended Roedean School, a public boarding school for girls.
Go to ProfileMitra C. Emad is an American anthropologist and Distinguished University Teaching Professor at the University of Minnesota Duluth. She is known for her works on cultural constructions of the human body. Emad is a recipient of the Horace T. Morse-University of Minnesota Alumni Association Award. She is also an established somatic and yoga educator.
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Mary Thygeson Shepardson
1906 - 1997 (91 years)
Mary Thygeson Shepardson was an American anthropologist who researched and published extensively on the Navajo people of the American Southwest. Early life Shepardson was born in St. Paul, Minnesota on May 26, 1906, as the fourth child to suffragette Sylvie Thompson Thygeson and Nels Marcus Thygeson. Her parents were both described as educated and well-informed on social justice issues of the day, such as birth control, women's suffrage, and racial equality. Nels died when Shepardson was eleven, which was a devastating event for the family.
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Sarah Tarlow
1967 - Present (57 years)
Sarah Tarlow is a British archaeologist and academic. As professor of historical archaeology at the University of Leicester, Tarlow is best known for her work on the archaeology of death and burial. In 2012, Tarlow was awarded the chair in archaeology at the University of Leicester.
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Solange Macamo
1959 - Present (65 years)
Dr Solange Laura Macamo is lecturer of Archaeology and Heritage Management in the Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, Eduardo Mondlane University, Mozambique. From 2010 to 2016 she was also the National Director for Cultural Heritage, Ministry of Culture and Tourism, Mozambique.
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Lucile Eleanor St. Hoyme
1924 - 2001 (77 years)
Lucile Eleanor St. Hoyme was an American biological anthropologist who conducted research related to human variation, bioarcheology, and paleopathology. St. Hoyme served as an Assistant Curator in the Department of Anthropology at the National Museum of Natural History. St. Hoyme analyzed human remains excavated from the John Kerr Reservoir Basin using a new bioarcheological approach combining data from other disciplines. Beyond her work with the Smithsonian collections, St. Hoyme also worked on FBI forensic cases in the 1960s with National Museum of Natural History Anthropology Curator J. L...
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Ekrem Akurgal
1911 - 2002 (91 years)
Ekrem Akurgal was a Turkish archaeologist. During a career that spanned more than fifty years, he conducted definitive research in several sites along the western coast of Anatolia such as Phokaia , Pitane , Erythrai and old Smyrna .
Go to ProfileCatherine Frazee is a Canadian educator, activist, researcher, poet and writer. She is currently professor emerita in the School of Disability Studies at Toronto Metropolitan University . Prior to her retirement from Ryerson in 2010, she served for a decade as professor of distinction and as co-director of the Ryerson/RBC Institute for Disability Studies Research and Education. She is known for her role as Chief Commissioner of the Ontario Human Rights Commission from 1989 to 1992. Her father was prominent Canadian banker Rowland Cardwell Frazee.
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Alison Keith
1962 - Present (62 years)
Alison Keith is a classical scholar who is Professor of Classics and Women's Studies at the University of Toronto, where she has been a Fellow of Victoria University of Toronto since 1989. She is an expert on the relationships between gender and genre in Latin literature, and has published widely on topics including Latin epic poetry, Ovid, Propertius, and Roman dress.
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