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Giovanni Lilliu
1914 - 2012 (98 years)
Giovanni Lilliu , was a renowned archeologist, academician, publicist and politician and public figure and an expert of the Nuragic civilization. Largely due to his scientific and archeologic work in the Su Nuraxi di Barumini in Sardinia, Italy, the site was inscribed on the UNESCO list of World Heritage Sites in 1997.
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Paul Ashbee
1918 - 2009 (91 years)
Paul Ashbee was a leading British archaeologist, noted for his many excavations of barrows, or burial mounds, and for co-directing the Sutton Hoo digs from 1964 to 1972. He was also president of the Just William Society. He died of cancer on 19 August 2009, aged 91.
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Sabine Gaudzinski-Windheuser
1965 - Present (59 years)
Sabine Gaudzinski-Windheuser is a German archaeologist. She is a professor at the Johannes Gutenberg-University, Mainz and Director of the Monrepos Archaeological Research Centre and Museum for human behavioural Evolution of the Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum at Monrepos Castle in Neuwied, Germany.
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Elizabeth Simpson
1947 - Present (77 years)
Elizabeth Simpson is an archaeologist, art historian, illustrator, and professor emerita at the Bard Graduate Center, New York, NY, where she taught for 25 years. She is director of the project to study, conserve, and publish the large collection of rare wooden artifacts from Gordion, Turkey, which date to the eighth century BC. In this capacity, she is a consulting scholar in the Mediterranean Section, University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia. She received her PhD in classical archaeology from the University of Pennsylvania in 1985.
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Celia Applegate
1959 - Present (65 years)
Celia Stewart Applegate is professor and William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of History and Affiliate Faculty of Musicology and Ethnomusicology at the Blair School of Music, both at Vanderbilt University. A scholar of modern German history, Professor Applegate has previously taught history at Smith College and the University of Rochester, where she served as director of the Susan B. Anthony Center for Women's Studies and held an Affiliate Faculty position in the Department of Musicology at the Eastman School of Music.
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Stéphane Breton
1959 - Present (65 years)
Stéphane Breton is a French filmmaker, photographer and anthropologist. He shoots his films alone, taking care of the cinematography, the sound, and everything else himself. This allows him to get close to things and people and, most of all, to give a presence to his own gaze in his film.
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Jesse Byock
1945 - Present (79 years)
Jesse L. Byock is Professor of Old Norse and Medieval Scandinavian Studies in the Scandinavian Section at the University of California, Los Angeles . He received his Ph.D. from Harvard University. An archaeologist and specialist in the archaeology, history and language of the Viking Age, he is Professor at UCLA’s Cotsen Institute of Archaeology.
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Anna Marguerite McCann
1933 - 2017 (84 years)
Anna Marguerite McCann was an American art historian and archaeologist. She is known for being an early influencer—and the first American woman—in the field of underwater archaeology, beginning in the 1960s. McCann authored works pertaining to Roman art and Classical archaeology, and taught both art history and archaeology at various universities in the United States. McCann was an active member of the Archaeological Institute of America, and received its Gold Medal Award in 1998. She also published under the name Anna McCann Taggart.
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Greta Arwidsson
1906 - 1998 (92 years)
Greta Arwidsson was a Swedish archaeologist. Alongside other work, she is known for her study of the Valsgärde graves, published from the 1940s until the 1970s. Early life and education Greta Arwidsson was born on 5 July 1906, in Uppsala, Sweden. Her father's line traced to a soldier who died in the Battle of Napue in 1714; her great-grandfather, Adolf Ivar Arwidsson, was a historian and intellectual, her grandfather, Thorsten Adolf Arwidsson , a cartographer and naval officer, and her father, Ivar Arwidsson , a zoologist. Both parents worked at the Nordic Museum. Her mother, Anna Arwidsson ,...
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Jean-Philippe Warren
1970 - Present (54 years)
Jean-Philippe Warren is a Canadian sociologist from Quebec. Biography Warren is a professor of sociology at Concordia University in Montreal, and he holds degrees from Université Laval, the University of Montreal and the Ecole Normale Supérieure, in Paris. The history of social sciences, social movements, indigenous peoples, and the Catholic Church are all of particular interest to him. He has written studies on Quebec sociologist Fernand Dumont, painter Paul-Émile Borduas, and Honoré Beaugrand.
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Arlene Stein
1959 - Present (65 years)
Arlene Stein is an American sociologist and author best known for her writing about sex and gender, the politics of identities, and collective memory. She is Distinguished professor of sociology at Rutgers University where she directs the Rutgers University Institute for Research on Women. Stein has also taught at the University of Essex and at the University of Oregon.
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Valdis Muktupāvels
1958 - Present (66 years)
Valdis Muktupāvels is a Latvian ethnomusicologist, composer, musician, teacher and doctor of art criticism. Muktupāvels graduated 1980 from the University of Latvia and acquired a specialty in chemistry in 1983. He completed the Jāzeps Vītols Latvian Academy of Music in 1996 with a doctorate in art criticism. Muktupāvels has worked for the University of Latvia since 1989; since 1999 at the Art History and Philology Faculty, and since 2002 as a professor.
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Marc Lamont Hill
1978 - Present (46 years)
Marc Lamont Hill is an American academic, author, activist, and television personality. He is a professor of urban education at the CUNY Graduate Center in New York City. Hill is the host of UpFront on Al Jazeera English, VH1 Live! on VH1, and Basketball Wives reunion shows. He is also a BET News correspondent. Previously he was the first host of the syndicated television show Our World with Black Enterprise, the host of HuffPost Live, and a political commentator for CNN and Fox News. In November 2018, Hill was fired from his position at CNN after remarks before the United Nations on the Isra...
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Fiona McHardy
1970 - Present (54 years)
Fiona McHardy is a Professor of Classics and also the Head of History and Classics in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Roehampton. In 2003 she started work at Roehampton where she was responsible for building up the BA Classical Civilisation. Her research interests include ancient and modern Greek literature, folk poetry, anthropology and culture. She teaches modules on ancient Greek language, literature and culture.
Go to ProfileAnne Pattel-Gray is an Aboriginal Australian theologian and author who is an expert on Black theology. She is a descendant of the Bidjara people of Queensland and was the first Aboriginal person to earn a PhD at the University of Sydney.
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Li Yih-yuan
1931 - 2017 (86 years)
Li Yih-yuan was a Taiwanese anthropologist. A native of Quanzhou, Fujian, born in 1931, Li moved to Taiwan in 1948 and graduated from National Taiwan University in 1953. Two years later, he began working at Academia Sinica. In 1960, Li earned his master's degree from Harvard University. He was elected to membership within Academia Sinica in 1984. That same year, he founded the College of Humanities and Social Sciences at National Tsing Hua University, serving as dean of the college until 1990. Li remained on the faculty until 1999, a year after he had retired from Academia Sinica. He later taught at National Taiwan University as an adjunct professor.
Go to ProfileColin Haselgrove, FBA, FSA is a British archaeologist and academic specialising in Iron Age Britain and Europe. He is currently Professor of Archaeology at the University of Leicester. He was the Head of the School of Archaeology & Ancient History at Leicester from 2006 to 2012 and was previously Professor of Archaeology at Durham University. He is the Chair of the Archaeology Section of the British Academy.
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Stephanie Wynne-Jones
Stephanie Wynne-Jones is an Africanist archaeologist, whose research focuses on East African material culture, society and urbanism. She is Professor and Deputy Head of the Department of Archaeology at the University of York. She previously worked as assistant director of the British Institute in Eastern Africa and remains a Trustee and Member of the BIEA Governing Council. In 2016, Wynne-Jones was elected to Fellowship of the Society of Antiquaries of London. Wynne-Jones is one of the Core Group at the Danish National Research Foundation Centre of Excellence in Urban Network Evolutions , Aarhus University.
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Arthur Segal
1946 - Present (78 years)
Arthur Segal is an Israeli archaeologist. he was born in Poland and immigrated to Israel in 1965. He completed his university studies at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and his post doctorate at the Institute of Classical Studies, University of London . Between 1977 and 1982 he lectured at Ben Gurion University of the Negev in Beer Sheba and between 1983-2014 he was faculty member at the University of Haifa.
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Ronald S. Stroud
1933 - 2021 (88 years)
Ronald S. Stroud was a Canadian historian, academic, archeologist, and epigraphist. He was the brother of philosopher Barry Stroud. Biography Stroud was the brother of philosophy professor Barry Stroud. After graduating from the University of Toronto in 1957, he studied at the University of California, Berkeley, where he earned his doctorate in 1965. He then became an assistant professor there in 1969, and a full professor in 1972. He was awarded as a Klio Distinguished Professor of Classical Studies in 2001 and retired in 2007. In 1979, he became co-editor of Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum.
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Judith Herrin
1942 - Present (82 years)
Judith Herrin is an English archaeologist, byzantinist, and historian of Late Antiquity. She was a Professor of Late Antique and Byzantine Studies and Constantine Leventis Senior Research Fellow at King's College London .
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Veronica Seton-Williams
1910 - 1992 (82 years)
Veronica Seton-Williams FSA, was a British-Australian archaeologist who excavated in Egypt and the Near East, as well as in Britain. She studied history and political science at the University of Melbourne and then Egyptology and prehistory at University College London.
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Vijay Mishra
1945 - Present (79 years)
Vijay Chandra Mishra is an academic, author and cultural theorist from Fiji. He is currently a professor at Murdoch University, Australia. Academic and professional career Born in Suva, Fiji on 4 May 1945 to Hari Mishra and Lila Mishra, Vijay was educated at Lelean Memorial School where he completed his Senior Cambridge Higher School Certificate in the First Division. Following this he did his New Zealand University Entrance Examination at Suva Grammar School where he won both the Arts and the History Prize. A British colonial scholarship took him to Victoria University of Wellington and to Christchurch Teachers’ College from which institutions he gained, respectively, a B.A.
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Susan Hanley
1939 - Present (85 years)
Susan B. Hanley is an American academic, author, Japanologist and Professor Emerita of History at the University of Washington. Career Hanley was a Professor of Japanese Studies and History at the University of Washington. Her primary area of academic research and writing is the material culture of Tokugawa society.
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Moni Nag
1925 - 2015 (90 years)
Moni Nag was an Indian anthropologist specialising in the politics of sexuality. Education and career Born in India, Nag earned a master's degree in statistics from the University of Calcutta in 1946 and a PhD in anthropology from Yale University in 1961. He started his career in the Indian Statistical Institute and worked on the Anthropological Survey of India before joining the Department of Anthropology at Columbia University in New York in 1966; he was a lecturer and later an adjunct professor and headed the social demography section in the International Institute for the Study of Human Reproduction.
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Nicola Terrenato
1963 - Present (61 years)
Nicola Terrenato is an Italian scholar of ancient Italy. Terrenato was born in Rome. A Classical archaeologist teaching in the Interdepartmental Program in Classical Art and Archaeology at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor Michigan, United States, Terrenato's expertise includes the Romanization of Italy and the archaeology of Etruria. He is the Director of the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology. He has excavated at Rome , at Volterra and in the Cecina Valley, and in Basilicata. Terrenato is the director of the Cecina Valley Survey in Northern Tuscany. Since 2007, Terrenato has been director of the Gabii Project at the site of the ancient city of Gabii, approximately east of Rome.
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R. R. R. Smith
1954 - Present (70 years)
Roland Ralph Redfern "Bert" Smith, is a British classicist, archaeologist, and academic, specialising in the art and visual cultures of the ancient Mediterranean. Since 1995, he has been Lincoln Professor of Classical Archaeology and Art at the University of Oxford.
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Richard L. Zettler
1949 - Present (75 years)
Richard L. Zettler is an American archaeologist of Early Bronze-Age Mesopotamia, with special interests in urban development and the organization of complex societies. At the University of Pennsylvania, he is a professor in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at the University of Pennsylvania and serves as Associate Curator-in-Charge of the Penn Museum’s Near East section. Working in partnership with colleagues from the University of Mosul and with Iraq’s State Board of Antiquities and Heritage, Zettler secured a three-year grant from the U.S. State Department in 2018...
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Harry Everett Smith
1923 - 1991 (68 years)
Harry Everett Smith was an American polymath, who was credited variously as an artist, experimental filmmaker, bohemian, mystic, record collector, hoarder, student of anthropology and a Neo-Gnostic bishop.
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Thomas Schneider
1964 - Present (60 years)
Thomas Schneider is a German Egyptologist. Life and career Thomas Schneider began his studies in 1984 at the University of Zurich, focusing on history, Egyptology and Hebrew. He transferred to the University of Basel in 1986, where he achieved a MA in Egyptology, Ancient History and Old Testament Studies in 1990. He carried out further study at the Collège de France in Paris before completing his PhD in Egyptology at the University of Basel in 1996. In 1999 he completed his habilitation at the same university.
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William Innes Homer
1929 - 2012 (83 years)
William Innes Homer was an American academic, art historian, and author. Homer was an expert in the life and works of painter Thomas Eakins. Academic career Homer received his B.A. from Princeton University in 1951. From Harvard University, Homer received his M.A. in 1954 and his Ph.D. in 1961. In 1961, Homer was hired as an assistant professor in the Art and Archaeology Department at Princeton. In 1964, he became an associate professor of Art History at Cornell University. In 1966, Homer came to the University of Delaware where he served as Chairman of the Art History Department from 1966 until 1981 and again from 1986 until 1993.
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Michael Atwood Mason
1966 - Present (58 years)
Michael Atwood Mason is an American folklorist and museum professional. He served as CEO and Executive Director of President Lincoln's Cottage. Up to February 2021 he was the Director of the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage.
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E. C. L. During Caspers
1934 - 1996 (62 years)
Elisabeth Christina Louisa During Caspers , known familiarly as Inez During Caspers, was a Dutch archaeologist. Education and career During Caspers was born in Amsterdam in 1934. She studied both Mesopotamian and South Asian archaeology at the University of Amsterdam, graduating with an MA in Sumerian and prehistoric archaeology in 1962. She then went on to the Institute of Archaeology in London, where she completed her PhD in 1969. Her thesis, supervised by Seton Lloyd, was on maritime trade between Mesopotamia and the Indus Valley in prehistory.
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Katherine Dunbabin
1941 - Present (83 years)
Katherine Dunbabin is an archaeologist specialising in Roman art and Professor Emerita of Classics at McMaster University. Career Dunbabin studied at the University of Oxford, and was awarded her doctorate in 1970. Her thesis was titled Studies in the mosaic pavements of Roman North Africa. When Dunbabin started her DPhil there was little English-language research into Roman art. Her first book, The mosaics of Roman North Africa: studies in iconography and patronage with the Clarendon Press, was published in 1978. It was based on her doctoral research. Barry Cunliffe described it as 'a contrib...
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Trudy Griffin-Pierce
1949 - 2009 (60 years)
Trudy Ann Griffin-Pierce was an American medical anthropologist, writer and artist. At the time of her death she was an associate professor of anthropology at the University of Arizona. Biography Trudy Ann Griffin was born 27 December 1949 in Spartanburg, South Carolina. She was of Catawba Indian heritage, and from a young age was fascinated with the Navajo people. Her father was in the U.S. Air Force, which saw the family move regularly. Her mother died when Griffin was 16.
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Kay Saunders
1947 - Present (77 years)
Kay Elizabeth Bass Saunders is an Australian historian and Emeritus Professor at the University of Queensland. Earlyl life and education Saunders was born in Brisbane, Queensland in 1947. She graduated with a BA and PhD from the University of Queensland .
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Diane Austin-Broos
1946 - Present (78 years)
Diane Joyce Austin-Broos is an anthropologist from Australia. She is a Professor Emeritus at the University of Sydney; her major research areas are Jamaica and Central Australia. Early life and education Austin-Broos was born in Melbourne in 1946, and attended Hartwell State School and the Methodist Ladies' College in Kew. She won a scholarship to the Australian National University, where she studied philosophy and oriental studies. She also complete a master's degree in philosophy, followed by a short time in a research position for Professor Henry Mayer at the University of Sydney. In 19...
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Lindsay Allason-Jones
Lindsay Allason-Jones, is a British archaeologist and museum professional specialising in Roman material culture, Hadrian's Wall, Roman Britain, and the presence and role of women in the Roman Empire. She is currently a visiting fellow at Newcastle University.
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Judy Birmingham
1932 - Present (92 years)
Jean Birmingham is a prominent English historical archaeologist, who has been based in Sydney, Australia, for most of her career. She is well known for her roles in the development of historical archaeology and cultural heritage management in Australia. In 2017 she was awarded a Member of the Order of Australia for her work in this field.
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Anne Strachan Robertson
1910 - 1997 (87 years)
Anne Strachan Robertson FSA FSAScot FRSE FMA FRNS was a Scottish archaeologist, numismatist and writer, who was Professor of Roman Archaeology at the University of Glasgow and Keeper of the Cultural Collections and of the Hunterian Coin Cabinet at the Hunterian Museum. She was recognised by her research regarding Roman Imperial coins and as "a living link with the pioneers of archaeological research".
Go to ProfileJane C. Desmond is currently a Professor of Anthropology and Gender and Women's Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Desmond is also a published author as well as the co-founder and director of the International Forum for U.S. Studies.
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Claude Rolley
1933 - 2007 (74 years)
Claude Rolley was a French archaeologist, emeritus at the University of Burgundy, writer on art, archaeology of Greece and Gaule. Selected publications « Une amphore inédite du Peintre à la Gorgone », in Bulletin de correspondance hellénique, année 1961, vol. 85, n°85, .« Deux têtes féminines d'époque classique », in Bulletin de correspondance hellénique, vol.89, n°89, 1965 .« Le Sanctuaire des dieux Patrôoi et le Thesmophorion de Thasos », in Bulletin de correspondance hellénique, n°89, 1965, « Antiquités, Donation Granville », in Bulletin des Musées Royaux d'Art et d'Histoire, vol.37, T. I...
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Whitney Battle-Baptiste
Whitney Battle-Baptiste is an American historical archaeologist of African and Cherokee descent. She is an associate professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and director of the W.E.B. Du Bois Center at the University. Battle-Baptiste's research focuses on "how the intersection of race, gender, class, and sexuality look through an archaeological lens".
Go to ProfileWendy Matthews is a British archaeologist and academic, specialising in Neolithic and Bronze Age Near Eastern archaeology and Geoarchaeology. She is an associate professor at the University of Reading since October 2000.
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Sarah Kenderdine
1966 - Present (58 years)
Sarah Kenderdine is a professor of Digital Museology at the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne , Switzerland, since 2017. She leads the laboratory for experimental museology , exploring the convergence of aesthetic practice, visual analytics and cultural data. Kenderdine develops interactive and immersive experiences for museums and galleries, often employing interactive cinema and augmented reality. She is a New Zealander and was born on the 2 January 1966 in Sydney.
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John Ryle
1952 - Present (72 years)
John Rowland Ryle OBE is a British writer, anthropologist, social activist, filmmaker, teacher and publisher, with an interest in the history and culture of Eastern Africa. He is co-founder of the Rift Valley Institute, and Legrand Ramsey Professor of Anthropology at Bard College, New York.
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Paul Rehak
1954 - 2004 (50 years)
Paul Rehak was an American archaeologist. Rehak's research interests extended from prehistoric and Classical Greece to Imperial Rome. Rehak was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, where he also attended the University of Michigan. In 1976 he received his B.A. cum laude in Classics and Archaeology. In 1980 he obtained his M.A. from Bryn Mawr College, writing on Mycenaean shrines under Machteld Mellink, and Ph.D. in 1985, writing on Roman sculpture under Brunilde Ridgway.
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Ward Keeler
1949 - Present (75 years)
Ward Keeler is an American anthropologist who conducted fieldwork in Java in Indonesia during the New Order area. He worked in predominantly Surakarta cultural areas, and studied wayang as a means of understanding specific manifestation of Javanese ways of thinking.
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