Aida Esther Bueno Sarduy is an Afro-Cuban anthropologist, documentary filmmaker and professor at New York University. Career Sarduy has a PhD in social anthropology from the Complutense University of Madrid. Her PhD thesis examined women's leadership in Afro-descendant religions like the Xangô religion in Recife. From 1999 to 2009 she was a researcher at the Center for Studies on Migration and Racism at Complutense University. She has continued to study the history of black women in South America, and taught at NYU, Hamilton College and Stanford.
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Roger Mercer
1944 - 2018 (74 years)
Roger James Mercer was a British archaeologist whose work concentrated on the Neolithic and Bronze Age of the British Isles. Biography Between 1970 and 1973 he led the excavations at Carn Brea in Cornwall. and then went on to direct the excavations at Hambledon Hill and Grimes Graves, a Neolithic flint mine.
Go to ProfileAlvin Wolfe is an American anthropologist, a Distinguished University Professor Emeritus from University of South Florida, and an Elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
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Douglass Parker
1927 - 2011 (84 years)
Douglass Stott Parker, Sr. was an American classicist, academic, and translator. Early life Born in LaPorte, Indiana, the son of Cyril Rodney Parker and Isobel Parker, Douglass received an undergraduate degree from the University of Michigan and a doctorate from Princeton University. He was also a Fellow at the Center for Hellenic Studies in 1961-1962, its inaugural year, and a Guggenheim Scholar.
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Karin Margarita Frei
1973 - Present (51 years)
Karin Margarita Frei is an Argentinean-Danish archaeological scientist. She is a research professor in archaeometry at the National Museum of Denmark in Copenhagen. She has developed new methodologies for using isotopes to trace human and animal mobility, including the high time-resolution tracing technique for human hair and finger nails as well as ancient wool.
Go to ProfileSusan K Harrington is an early-medieval archaeologist and Honorary Senior Lecturer at University College London. Career From 2006 to 2009 she was the research assistant on the Leverhulme Trust funded project 'Beyond the Tribal Hidage: Anglo-Saxon kingdoms in southern England AD 400-750'. She subsequently was part of the research team on the 'People and place: the making of the Kingdom of Northumbria AD 300-800' project at the University of Durham, also funded by the Leverhulme Trust.
Go to ProfileTiina Manne is an archaeologist and zooarchaeologist. She is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Queensland. Biography Manne completed her BSc in Archaeology and Zoology at James Cook University in 1997. She has a MSc in marine geology from the University of Miami and a PhD in anthropology from the University of Arizona. Her research focusses on the faunal assemblages and the earliest inhabitants of Australia. In January 2020 she warned that the unusually intense 2019–20 Australian bushfire season may have damaged thousands of Aboriginal sites across Australia.
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Mauro Cristofani
1941 - 1997 (56 years)
Mauro Cristofani was a linguist and researcher in Etruscan studies. Biography Cristofani was a student of Massimo Pallottino and would himself teach at the University of Pisa, University of Siena and, his final post, at the University of Naples Federico II. He was a member of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei and was held in high regard as Pallottino's scholarly heir. During his thirty-year career he dominated the fields of Etruscan archaeology and, especially, epigraphy. He directed the Istituto per l'Archeologia Etrusco-Italica of the Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche and was president of...
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Ann Jannetta
1932 - Present (92 years)
Ann Bowman Jannetta is an American academic, historian, author, Japanologist and Professor of History Emerita at the University of Pittsburgh. Selected works In a statistical overview derived from writings by and about Ann Jannetta, OCLC/WorldCat encompasses roughly 4 works in 10+ publications in 1 language and 500+ library holdings Epidemics and mortality in Tokugawa Japan: 1600-1868 Public health and the diffusion of vaccination in Japan The vaccinators: smallpox, medical knowledge, and the "opening" of Japan
Go to ProfileAdria Jean LaViolette is an American archaeologist at the University of Virginia. She is a specialist in Swahili archaeology and is the joint editor of The Swahili World . Early life and education Adria LaViolette is one of the four children of Paul A. LaViolette, Jr., and Jean Scully LaViolette.
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Lucinda Backwell
1966 - Present (58 years)
Lucinda Backwell is an archaeologist and a member of the Academy of Science of South Africa. She obtained her MSc in palaeoanthropology from the University of the Witwatersrand Medical School in 2000. Her PhD in palaeoanthropology was awarded in 2004, making her the first South African woman to be awarded a PhD in palaeoanthropology at a local institution. In 2011, she was promoted to senior researcher at the Evolutionary Studies Institute of the University of the Witwatersrand, where she taught introductory courses on human evolution and taphonomy, and supervised postgraduates on various topics, including fossil assemblages from caves in the Cradle of Humankind.
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Bruce Jackson
1936 - Present (88 years)
Bruce Jackson is an American folklorist, documentary filmmaker, writer, photographer. He is SUNY Distinguished Professor and the James Agee Professor of American Culture at the University at Buffalo. Jackson has edited or authored books published by major trade and university presses. He has also directed and produced five documentary films. He is an Associate Member of The Wooster Group .
Go to ProfileSara Perry is an archaeologist. Her research focuses on public archaeology and the use of digital media in archaeology and heritage. She is the Director of Research and Engagement at Museum of London Archaeology.
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Irwin Rovner
1941 - Present (83 years)
Irwin Rovner is an American archaeologist who initiated the study and use of phytoliths in archaeology. He is retired from the faculty of North Carolina State University. Rovner is CEO of Binary Analytical Consultants, which provides expert vision and computer-assisted morphometric analysis of micro- and macro- remains and artifactss in support of archaeological investigations.
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Sauro Gelichi
1954 - Present (70 years)
Sauro Gelichi is a Medieval archaeologist and a professor at Ca' Foscari University of Venice. He has published widely on his subject and supervised various excavations. In 2004 he was appointed Honorary Inspector Archaeologist with expertise on the Middle Ages for the Emilia-Romagna region.
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Birgitta Hoffmann
1969 - Present (55 years)
Birgitta Hoffmann is an archaeologist and adult education teacher. Her research covers the Roman military, especially the Roman frontiers and ancient glass and beads of the first millennium AD. Education and career Hoffmann studied at the University of Durham under Brian Dobson before studying at the University of Freiburg for her PhD.
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Carol Breckenridge
1942 - 2009 (67 years)
Carol A. Breckenridge was an American anthropologist and associate professor of history at the New School for Social Research, author of many books and articles on colonialism and the political economy of ritual; state, polity, and religion in South India; society and aesthetics in India since 1850; culture theory; and cosmopolitan cultural forms. In 1988 Breckenridge and fellow founding editor Arjun Appadurai started Public Culture, a field-defining academic journal in the areas of globalization and transnational cultural studies.
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Maureen Carroll
1953 - Present (71 years)
Maureen Carroll is a Canadian archaeologist and academic. She is the Chair in Roman Archaeology at the University of York. Career Carroll received a BA in Classical Studies from Brock University and a MA in Classical Archaeology from Indiana University. Carroll received a PhD in Classical Archaeology from Indiana University and Freie Universität. Carroll was subsequently based at Cologne University and the Romisch-Germanisches Museum. In 1998 Carroll was appointed as a lecturer in Roman Archaeology at the University of Sheffield. In 2020, she was appointed Chair of Roman archaeology at the U...
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Andrew Jolivette
1975 - Present (49 years)
Andrew Jolivétte is an American sociologist and author. He is a professor at the University of California, San Diego, where he is chair of the department of Ethnic Studies. He is the co-chair of UC Ethnic Studies Council.
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Grégor Marchand
1968 - 2023 (55 years)
Grégor Marchand was a French academic and archeologist. He specialized in prehistory and lithic technology. He served as a research director for the French National Centre for Scientific Research and was a professor at the University of Rennes 1.
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Roland Étienne
1944 - Present (80 years)
Roland Étienne is a French archaeologist and historian specialising in the history of Greek archaeology, ancient architecture and Hellenistic history. Career A graduate of the École normale supérieure , Étienne taught ancient history in the Universities of Nanterre and Montpellier and conducted archaeological research in Greece and Turkey.
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Manuel Vasquez
1962 - Present (62 years)
Manuel A. Vasquez is a prominent Salvadoran scholar of religion and society. As Andrew W. Mellon post-doctoral fellow at Wesleyan University's Center for the Americas and former faculty at the University of Florida, he has focused on the interplay between religion and globalization in the Americas, particularly in Latin America and among U.S. Latinos.
Go to ProfileDavid John Blackman is a British archaeologist specialising in ancient maritime history. He was a founder of the Committee for Nautical Archaeology in 1964, and was its Chair from 1975 to 1976. He served as Director of the British School at Athens between 1996 and 2002. He is currently a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Ancient Documents, University of Oxford.
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Mitzi Waltz
1962 - Present (62 years)
Mitzi Waltz is a scholar of media and disability studies. As of 2020, she is a research associate at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Waltz was formerly an associate lecturer in autism studies at the Autism Centre of Sheffield Hallam University in the United Kingdom. Before her appointment in 2012, she was a lecturer in autism studies at the Autism Centre for Education and Research , University of Birmingham and a senior lecturer at the University of Sunderland.
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Gian Pietro Brogiolo
1946 - Present (78 years)
Gian Pietro Brogiolo is professor of Medieval archaeology at the University of Padua and editor-in-chief of the European Journal of Post-Classical Archaeologies. He is one of the founders of the journals Archeologia Medievale and Archeologia dell'Architettura.
Go to ProfileCarole E. Hill is an American anthropologist and educator. She is a professor emerita at Georgia Southern University in Statesboro, Georgia. She chaired the anthropology department at Georgia State University in Atlanta.
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Robert Hamilton
1905 - 1995 (90 years)
Robert William Hamilton, FBA was a British archaeologist and academic. He was senior lecturer in Near Eastern archaeology at the University of Oxford from 1949 to 1956 and a fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford, from 1959 to 1972. He was keeper of the Ashmolean Museum from 1962 to 1972.
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Peter M. Fischer
1946 - Present (78 years)
Peter M. Fischer is an Austrian-Swedish archaeologist. He is a specialist on Eastern Mediterranean and Near Eastern archaeology, and archaeometry. He belongs to the University of Gothenburg and is associated with the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Sweden. He is the founder and director of the Swedish Jordan Expedition , the Palestinian-Swedish Expedition at Tall al-Ajjul, Gaza . He became the director of the Swedish Cyprus Expedition in 2009 and carried out excavations at Hala Sultan Tekke since 2010. He is member/corresponding member of The Royal Society of Arts and Sciences in Gothenburg, Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities.
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Andreas Zimmermann
1951 - Present (73 years)
Andreas Zimmermann , is a German archaeologist. His scholarly focus is the Neolithic, in particular the LBK. Zimmermann studied geology, archaeology, and Egyptology at universities in Cologne and Tübingen. His 1982 dissertation was on the lithic material from the LBK site Langweiler 8. In 1992, he produced his habilitation from Frankfurt University, on the exchange of flint artifacts in central Europe during the Neolithic. Until becoming an emeritus in 2016, he was a professor at the Institut für Ur- und Frühgeschichte at Cologne University starting in 1997.
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Andrea Berlin
1955 - Present (69 years)
Andrea M. Berlin is an archaeologist and the James R. Wiseman Chair in Classical Archaeology in the Department of Archaeology at Boston University. She also holds a faculty position in the Elie Wiesel Center for Jewish Studies at Boston University. Before that she held positions at academic institutions, among which were the Morse-Alumni Distinguished Teaching Professor of Archaeology in the Department of Classical and Near Eastern Studies at the University of Minnesota. She received her PhD in 1988 from the University of Michigan.
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Sander Van Der Leeuw
1945 - Present (79 years)
Sander Ernst van der Leeuw is an archaeologist, historian, academic, and author. He is an Emeritus Foundation Professor of Anthropology and Sustainability, Director Emeritus of the Julie Ann Wrigley Global Institute of Sustainability, and the Founding Director of School of Human Evolution and Social Change at Arizona State University.
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Mónica Aguilar Bonilla
1980 - Present (44 years)
Mónica Aguilar Bonilla is a Costa-Rican archaeologist. She is a Professor of Archaeology and Anthropology in the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Costa Rica. Her current works are mainly about Costa Rican heritage. She has worked on documenting archaeological artifacts, artifacts repatriation, and application for World Heritage Status.
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Duan Qingbo
1964 - 2019 (55 years)
Duan Qingbo was a Chinese archaeologist. He served as the chief archaeologist of the Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor and Dean of the School of Cultural Heritage of Northwest University in Xi'an. He discovered the large-scale drainage system of Qin Shi Huang's mausoleum and a high-ranking noble tomb in the mausoleum precinct. He also spent over two years surveying more than of the Great Wall on foot.
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Roel Sterckx
1969 - Present (55 years)
Roel Sterckx FBA is a Flemish-British sinologist and anthropologist. He is the Joseph Needham Professor of Chinese History, Science, and Civilization at Cambridge University, and a fellow of Clare College.
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Camara Phyllis Jones
1955 - Present (69 years)
Camara Phyllis Jones is an American physician, epidemiologist, and anti-racism activist who specializes in the effects of racism and social inequalities on health. She is known for her work in defining institutional racism, personally mediated racism, and internalized racism in the context of modern U.S. race relations. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Jones drew attention to why racism and not race is a risk factor and called for actions to address structural racism.
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Elizabeth Fentress
1948 - Present (76 years)
Elizabeth Barringer Fentress is a Roman archaeologist who specialises in Italy and North Africa. She has collaborated on the excavation of numerous sites in the Western Mediterranean and published their results. She is also the originator and scientific director of the online database of excavations in Italy, Bulgaria and elsewhere Fasti Online , and editor of its journal Fasti Online Documents & Research . In 2021 she was awarded the Archaeological Institute of America's 2022 gold medal for distinguished archaeological achievement.
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Su Bingqi
1909 - 1997 (88 years)
Su Bingqi was a Chinese archaeologist and co-founder of Peking University's archaeology program. He was China's major archaeological theoretician for 50 years, and regarded in his later years as the paramount authority in the archaeology of China. He was best known for his "regional systems and cultural types" model of Chinese Neolithic cultural development, which rejected the traditional view of Chinese culture radiating from the core Central Plain region and has been widely adopted. It was further developed by Kwang-chih Chang as the Chinese Interaction Sphere model.
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Peter Akkermans
1957 - Present (67 years)
Peter M. M. G. Akkermans is a Dutch archaeologist and Professor of Ancient Near Eastern archaeology at Leiden University. Akkermans was awarded his doctorate for work on the late Neolithic period in Syria. He was a curator at the Netherlands National Museum of Antiquities between 1990 and 2009 and has directed and been involved with excavations in Syria, Turkey, Germany and Bulgaria. His most important work has been on the Pre-pottery Neolithic B, Neolithic, Halaf and Bronze Age site of Tell Sabi Abyad, including surveys of the Balikh Valley area in northern Syria. He published an extensive compilation of Syria's archaeology with Glenn M.
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M. W. Barley
1909 - 1991 (82 years)
Maurice Willmore Barley M.A., F.S.A., F.R.Hist.S., was an English historian and archaeologist, specialising in medieval settlements and historic buildings. Barley was born and raised in Lincoln; his father was a prominent member of the Workers' Educational Association. Barley studied history at Reading, taking a Dip. Ed in 1932. Here he met his future wife, Diana. Barley taught at a school in Grimsby, then went to work at University College, Hull in the Department of Local History. At this time he also taught local history and archaeology at adult education classes in Lindsey and East Yorkshire.
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Lynne Lancaster
1964 - Present (60 years)
Lynne C. Lancaster is an American Roman archaeologist specializing in Roman architecture and the topography of Rome. Biography Lancaster grew up in LaGrange, Georgia and graduated from LaGrange High school. She undertook her BArch at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, and her MPhil and DPhil at the University of Oxford. Lancaster was Professor in the Department of Classics and World Religions at Ohio University where she taught from 1997 to 2020 and was chair of the department 2017–18. From 2018 to 2021 Lancaster served as the Andrew W. Mellon Humanities at the American Academy in Rome.
Go to ProfileA member of the Mohawk tribe, Audra Simpson is a professor of anthropology at Columbia University. Simpson focuses on the politics of recognition, specifically the Kahnawà:ke Mohawk struggles in keeping their legal and cultural rights. Her book, Mohawk Interrupts, was celebrated by Indigenous studies scholars as a critical addition to education on tribal community and national identity. As an anthropologist, a career in a field that is notorious for exploiting and thinking of Natives only in the past tense, Simpson pushes against these notions by centering on Native epistemologies.
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Willem Jacob Verdenius
1913 - 1998 (85 years)
Willem Jacob Verdenius was a Dutch classicist. Life Born at The Hague on 3 April 1913, he completed his PhD thesis on Parmenides at Utrecht University in 1942. He became Professor of Greek language and literature at Utrecht University in 1947. In 1965 he became member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. He died at Zeist on 23 June 1998.
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Shannon Jackson
1967 - Present (57 years)
Shannon Jackson is the Cyrus and Michelle Hadidi Professor of Rhetoric and of Theater, Dance and Performance Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, Department Chair of History of Art, and former Associate Vice Chancellor of the Arts and Design. She also serves as Program Director of the Kramlich Collection and Kramlich Art Foundation.
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Alexis Heraclides
1952 - Present (72 years)
Alexis Heraclides is a Greek political scientist and public intellectual. He is the son of ambassador Dimitris Heraclides and dentist Zina Ficardou. From 2004 until 2019 he served as professor of International Relations and conflict resolution at the Panteion University.
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Su Bai
1922 - 2018 (96 years)
Su Bai was a Chinese archaeologist and bibliographer who served as the first head of the Department of Archaeology of Peking University from 1983 to 1988. Known for his pioneering research in the archaeology of Buddhism, he won the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Chinese Archaeology Association in 2016.
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Michael Jarrett
1934 - 1994 (60 years)
Michael Grierson Jarrett , also commonly known as Mike Jarrett, was a British archaeologist and gay rights activist. Specialising in the archaeology of Roman Britain , he spent much of his academic career at Cardiff University, where he was awarded a personal chair in 1980. Outside of academia, Jarrett was a prominent member of the Campaign for Homosexual Equality.
Go to ProfileHelène Whittaker is a Canadian-Norwegian archaeologist and scholar of antiquity. She is known for her work on the Bronze Age Aegean, ancient Greek and Roman language and culture, and Early Christianity. , she is professor of Classical Archaeology and Ancient History at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden.
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Nikolaos Platon
1909 - 1992 (83 years)
Nikolaos Platon was a renowned Greek archaeologist. He discovered the Minoan palace of Zakros on Crete. He put forward one of the two systems of relative Minoan chronology used by archaeologists for Minoan archaeology. It is based on the development of the architectural complexes known as "palaces" at Knossos, Phaistos, Malia, and Kato Zakros, and divides the Minoan period into Prepalatial, Protopalatial, Neopalatial, and Post-palatial periods. The other system is based on pottery styles, as suggested by Arthur Evans.
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Lawrence Shaw
1986 - Present (38 years)
Lawrence Shaw is a British archaeologist and the lead historic environment advisor for Forestry England. Shaw has worked and published on archaeological sites in Britain, Greece, Spain, the Cook Islands, and Easter Island.
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