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Burton MacDonald
1939 - Present (85 years)
Burton MacDonald was a Canadian biblical archaeologist specialising in the archaeology of Jordan. He was a professor at St. Francis Xavier University from 1965 to 2005, then a Senior Research Professor, and was made Professor Emeritus in the Religious Studies department in 2017.
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Elizabeth Slater
1946 - 2014 (68 years)
Elizabeth Slater was a British archaeologist specialising in archaeometallurgy. She was the first female professor of archaeology appointed by the University of Liverpool, where she held the Garstang Chair in Archaeology from 1991 to 2007.
Go to ProfileSusan Greaney is a British archaeologist specialising in the study of British prehistory. She is a senior properties historian with English Heritage. She was elected as a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London on 27 June 2019.
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Birgit Arrhenius
1932 - Present (92 years)
Birgit Arrhenius is a Swedish archaeologist and professor emeritus at Stockholm University. She was a professor of laboratory archaeology, and the first head of the university's Archaeological Research Laboratory. Her work has studied places including Helgö and Mälaren, and she has researched prehistoric pressblech and garnet cloisonné work. Arrhenius is a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, and was in 1992 the recipient of the Royal Patriotic Society's Gösta Berg Medal.
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Duane W. Roller
1946 - Present (78 years)
Duane W. Roller is an American archaeologist, author, and professor emeritus of classics, Greek and Latin at the Ohio State University. Education Roller received his Bachelor of Arts degree in letters from the University of Oklahoma in 1966. In 1968, he received his Master of Arts in Latin from the same institution. He obtained his PhD in classical archaeology from Harvard University in 1971.
Go to ProfileMargarita Gleba is an archaeologist and expert on early textiles and other organic materials. Gleba holds a BS in biology and art history from Rutgers University, followed by a MA and PhD in archaeology from Bryn Mawr College, the latter supervised by Jean MacIntosh Turfa. Her research uses scientific methods in archaeology and focuses on the pre- and protohistory of the peoples and cultures of the Mediterranean region, in addition to the archaeology of organic materials.
Go to ProfileMirjana Roksandic is a Serbian and Canadian paleoanthropologist. She is a professor at the University of Winnipeg. Education She has a Ph.D. from Simon Fraser University. Publications Position of skeletal remains as a key to understanding mortuary behaviorGreater sciatic notch as a sex indicator in juvenilesThe cultural dynamics of shell-matrix sitesPaleoanthropology of the Balkans and Anatolia : Human Evolution and its Context
Go to ProfileChristine E. Morris is an Irish classical scholar, who is the Andrew A. David Professor in Greek Archaeology and History at Trinity College Dublin. An expert on religion in the Aegean Bronze Age, her work uses archaeological evidence to examine the practice and experience of belief. She is a member of the Standing Committee for Archaeology for the Royal Irish Academy.
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John L. Jackson Jr.
1971 - Present (53 years)
John L. Jackson Jr. is an American anthropologist, filmmaker, author, and university administrator. He is currently the Provost and Richard Perry University Professor at the University of Pennsylvania. Jackson is the author of Harlemworld: Doing Race and Class in Contemporary Black America ; Real Black: Adventures in Racial Sincerity ; Racial Paranoia: The Unintended Consequences of Political Correctness ; Thin Description: Ethnography and the African Hebrew Israelites of Jerusalem . He has also directed films that explore questions of race, diaspora, migration, and media.
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Martin Robertson
1911 - 2004 (93 years)
Charles Martin Robertson , known as Martin Robertson, was a British classical scholar and poet. He specialised in the art and archaeology of Ancient Greece, and was best known for his 1975 publication, A History of Greek Art.
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Roxanne Varzi
1971 - Present (53 years)
Roxanne Varzi is an Iranian-born American cultural anthropologist, filmmaker, sound artist, writer, playwright, and educator. She is a full professor of anthropology and film and media studies at University of California, Irvine . Varzi is known for her various works in media, including books, film documentaries, sound performances, and theatrical plays.
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Derek Keene
1942 - 2021 (79 years)
Derek John Keene, FRHistS , was an English urban historian. He was founding director of the Centre for Metropolitan History from 1987 to 2002 at the Institute of Historical Research and then Leverhulme Professor of Comparative Metropolitan History until retirement in 2008; since which he was Emeritus Professor of Metropolitan History and an honorary fellow of the IHR.
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Stephen Urice
1950 - Present (74 years)
Stephen K. Urice is a law professor at the University of Miami School of Law in Coral Gables, Florida. Career Urice's 1981 doctoral dissertation formed the basis of his book, Qasr Kharana in the Transjordan , which presented the findings of his work as director of a Jordanian-American archaeological expedition at that early Islamic site. Urice entered Harvard Law School and graduated with the Class of 1984.
Go to ProfileAnna Marie Prentiss is an American archaeologist and Regents Professor of Anthropology at the University of Montana. She is known for her works on the history of the Great Plains, Pacific Northwest, and Arctic regions of North America.
Go to ProfileEwan Campbell is a Scottish archaeologist and author, who serves as the senior lecturer of archaeology at the University of Glasgow. An author of a number of books, he is perhaps best known as the originator of the historical revisionist thesis that the Dál Riata did not originate from Ireland. He has also authored works about Dunadd and Forteviot.
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Lotte Hedeager
1948 - Present (76 years)
Lotte Hedeager is a Danish archaeologist who is Professor of Archaeology at the University of Oslo. Biography Lotte Hedeager was born in Copenhagen on 24 February 1948. She gained her MA in prehistoric archaeology at the University of Copenhagen in 1978, and her PhD at the University of Århus in 1990. In 1996, Hedeager was appointed Professor of Archaeology at the University of Oslo. She specializes in the study of Iron Age Scandinavia. She is a fellow of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.
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Olga Palagia
1949 - Present (75 years)
Olga Palagia is Professor of Classical Archaeology at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and is a leading expert on ancient Greek sculpture. She is known in particular for her work on sculpture in ancient Athens and has edited a number of key handbooks on Greek sculpture.
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Donna Carol Kurtz
1943 - Present (81 years)
Donna Kurtz is an American classicist specializing in Greek art. Born in Cincinnati, Ohio, she took her BA at the University of Cincinnati and her MA as a Woodrow Wilson Scholar at Yale. She read for a DPhil at Somerville College of the University of Oxford with a Marshall Scholarship, which she received in 1968 with her thesis The iconography of the Athenian white-ground lekythos under the supervision of Martin Robertson. This formed the partial basis for her first individual monograph, Athenian white lekythoi: patterns and painters, a standard reference work for the white-ground lekythos.
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Edgar Peltenburg
1942 - 2016 (74 years)
Edgar Peltenburg was a Canadian archaeologist who specialised in excavations in Scotland, Syria and Cyprus. He was emeritus professor of archaeology at the University of Edinburgh. External links
Go to ProfileLucinda Ramberg is an American anthropologist whose work focuses on gender, sexuality, religion and health. She was awarded multiple prizes in 2015 for her first book, Given to the Goddess: South Indian Devadasis and the Sexuality of Religion. Ramberg is associate professor in anthropology and director of graduate studies in the Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies program at Cornell University.
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Amanda Claridge
1949 - 2022 (73 years)
Amanda Jacqueline Claridge FSA was a British professor of Roman archaeology at Royal Holloway, University of London. Her research interests included "Roman archaeology, especially art, marble sculpture and the marble trade; Roman architecture and urbanism; topography and monuments of the city of Rome and Latium; Antiquarian studies in 16th and 17th century Rome."
Go to ProfileEugenia Georges is an American anthropologist and Professor of Anthropology at Rice University. She is known for her works on the cultural study of reproduction, medical anthropology, economic development, and labor migration.
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Inger Zachrisson
1936 - Present (88 years)
Inger Zachrisson is a Swedish archaeologist specializing in the history of the Sami people. As Associate Professor of Archaeology at Uppsala University and former curator of Stockholm's History Museum, she has researched Sami archaeology and history since the Iron Age.
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Niv Horesh
1971 - Present (53 years)
Niv Horesh is a researcher at Western Sydney University, Australia. He was also Visiting Professor in China Studies at the School of Government and International Affairs at Durham University, United Kingdom. Besides his academic work, he is also a frequent commentator on current affairs in newspapers such as the South China Morning Post and Haaretz.
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Jack Santino
1947 - Present (77 years)
Jack Santino is an academic folklorist. His work He is a Professor of Popular Culture at Bowling Green State University and is Director of the Bowling Green Center for Culture Studies. His work has primarily focused on ritual, celebrations, and holidays as well as occupational culture and popular music. He has been a featured expert on a television special produced by The History Channel, about Hallowe'en.
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John Brady Kiesling
1957 - Present (67 years)
John Brady Kiesling is a former U.S. diplomat and the author of Diplomacy Lessons: Realism for an Unloved Superpower and the ToposText classics/archaeology mobile application. Diplomat An archaeologist/ancient historian by training, Kiesling entered the foreign service in 1983. He supported the multilateralist foreign policy of former President George H. W. Bush and the limited purposes of the 1991 Gulf War.
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Frances Lynch
1938 - Present (86 years)
Frances Lynch is a Welsh archaeologist. She is an Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of History, Welsh History and Archaeology at Bangor University and the author of several volumes on the archaeology and prehistory of Wales.
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Martine Segalen
1940 - 2021 (81 years)
Martine Segalen was a French ethnologist. A specialist on family matters and European culture, she was a professor for multiple universities. Biography Segalen began working as a professor in the sociology department at Paris Nanterre University in 1996. She would go on to direct the sociology department and the program. She had graduated from Sciences Po in 1960, in addition to her doctorate in ethnology in 1984. From 1971 to 1996, she was a researcher at the French National Centre for Scientific Research and was Director of the Centre d'ethnologie française from 1986 to 1996. In 2015, she ...
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Tony Pollard
1965 - Present (59 years)
Tony Pollard is an archaeologist specialising in the archaeology of conflict. He is Director of the Centre for Battlefield Archaeology at the University of Glasgow and archaeological co-director of the charity Waterloo Uncovered. He is the co-presenter of the BBC series Two Men in a Trench, co-founder of the Journal of Conflict Archaeology, and guest expert on Time Team.
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Phebe Fjellström
1924 - 2007 (83 years)
Phebe Maria Fjellström née Lindgren was a Swedish ethnologist. She is remembered for her pioneering research into the culture of the Sámi peoples of northern Sweden, including their relationship with those in neighbouring Nordic counties. In particular, she took a special interest in Sámi silverware. She went on to research the Swedish colonization of the San Joaquin Valley in California. In 1981, she was appointed professor of ethnology at Umeå University where she remained until her retirement in 1990, both teaching and undertaking further research.
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K. Tsianina Lomawaima
1955 - Present (69 years)
K. Tsianina Lomawaima is an interdisciplinary researcher of Indigenous Studies, anthropology, history, and political science. She is a professor in the School of Social Transformation at Arizona State University. She specializes in the interaction between sovereign Native nations and U.S. federalism, the status of Native people as U.S. citizens, and federal Indian policy particularly in education. Her historical focus is the early 20th century. From 1972 to 1974, Lomawaima studied art and pre-medical studies at DePauw University. In 1976 she obtained a B.A. degree in anthropology at the University of Arizona, followed by an M.A.
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Katherine Spencer Halpern
Katherine Spencer Halpern was an American anthropologist and educator. Early life Katherine Spencer was born in Reading, Massachusetts. She earned a bachelor's degree at Vassar College in 1935, and a master's degree at the University of Chicago in 1944, and completed doctoral studies at the University of Chicago in 1952 with a dissertation titled Mythology and Values: An Analysis of Navaho Chantway Myths.
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Ann Wheeler Harnwell Ashmead
1929 - Present (95 years)
Ann Wheeler Harnwell Ashmead is an American archaeologist who has co-authored comprehensive catalogues with the archaeologist Etruscologist Kyle Meredith Phillips, Jr. about the Greek Vase Painting collections of Bryn Mawr College and the Rhode Island School of Design . She has also written the main published catalogue for the Antiquities Collection of Haverford College . and many articles on Greek Vases.
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Jean Poirier
1921 - 2009 (88 years)
Jean Poirier was a French researcher, ethnologist, sociologist, and lawyer. He was a Doctor of Letters and Doctor of Law, member of the Society of Oceanists within the Musée de l'Homme, member of the Academy of Overseas Sciences, Director of the Department of Human Sciences of the University of Madagascar from 1961 to 1969 and professor at the Faculty of Letters of Nice from 1969 to his death.
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James N. Hill
1943 - 1997 (54 years)
James Newlin Hill was a prominent processualist archaeologist . Hill did most of his work in the American South West, published several papers on the Broken K Pueblo, Arizona. This study in particular has been described as "a classic example of how social organization may be reflected in the architectural segregation of pottery styles" . He believed that culture could be inferred from archaeological data.
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Andreas G. Heiss
1978 - Present (46 years)
Andreas G. Heiss is an Austrian archaeobotanist and research group leader at the Austrian Archaeological Institute at the Austrian Academy of Sciences. Originally from Schwaz, Tyrol, he studied at the University of Innsbruck and the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna .
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Liv Nilsson Stutz
1972 - Present (52 years)
Liv Nilsson Stutz is a full professor at Linnaeus University. She is a bioarchaeologist and archaeologist. Education She received her PhD in 2004 from Lund University. Career Nilsson Stutz is an editor of the journal Archaeological Dialogues. She was a panellist in the plenary session of the 2019 TAG conference.
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Paul Alan Yule
1947 - Present (77 years)
Paul Alan Yule is a German archaeologist at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg . His main work targets the archaeology of Oman, Yemen, previously India. Education and career Yule studied at the University of Minnesota , New York University and Marburg University. His dissertation, Early Cretan Seals, classified and dated the seals from the Early and Middle Bronze Ages of Minoan Crete. In 1995 his habilitationsschrift at Heidelberg University analysed some 365 pre-Islamic graves in the eastern central part of Oman
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Paul Berliner
1946 - Present (78 years)
Paul Franklin Berliner is an American ethnomusicologist, best known for specializing in African music as well as jazz and other improvisational systems. He is best known for his popular ethnomusicology book on the Zimbabwean mbira, The Soul of Mbira: Music and Traditions of the Shona People of Zimbabwe, for which he received the ASCAP Deems Taylor Award. He also published Thinking in Jazz: The Infinite Art of Improvisation for which he received The Society of Ethnomusicology's Alan Merriam Prize for Outstanding Book in Musicology. Berliner received his Ph.D. from Wesleyan University.
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Patricia Baker
1967 - Present (57 years)
Patricia "Patty" Anne Baker is an American archaeologist and academic. She is Head of the Department of Classical & Archaeological Studies at the University of Kent and Senior Lecturer in Classical & Archaeological Studies.
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David Shotter
1939 - 2021 (82 years)
David Colin Arthur Shotter was a British archaeologist and Professor of Roman Imperial History at the University of Lancaster. Career Shotter was born in London and educated at King's College School, London and the University of Southampton. He taught at Magee University College, Derry from 1964 to 1966 and was appointed Lecturer in the Department of Classics at the University of Lancaster in 1966.
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Mamdouh Eldamaty
1961 - Present (63 years)
Mamdouh Mohamed Gad Eldamaty is an Egyptian Egyptologist who has served in the government of Egypt as Minister of Antiquities from 2014 until 2016. He has also worked as Professor of Egyptology at the Department of Archaeology, Faculty of Arts, Ain Shams University in Cairo. On 15 May 2011, he became Cultural Counselor and Head of the Educational Mission at the Embassy of Egypt in Berlin. On 16 June 2014, it was announced that he was to be appointed as Minister of Antiquities, a position he held until March 2016 when he was replaced by Khaled al-Anani after a cabinet reshuffle.
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Adam Parker
1988 - Present (36 years)
Adam Parker is a research student at Open University and is currently the Assistant Curator of Archaeology at Yorkshire Museum. His research interests include the investigation of archeological evidence of magic in Roman Britain and how the use of magic applies to specific societal groups over time.
Go to ProfileRobert Van de Noort is a Dutch historian and archaeologist who is the Vice-Chancellor and the Chief Executive of the University of Reading. He is the chair of the Thames Regional Flood and Coastal Committee . He worked at the University of Exeter where he was the dean of the College of Social Sciences and International Studies. Van de Noort worked from 1988 to 1989 at the British School in Rome, from 1989 to 1991 at the Rotterdam Archaeology Unit, and then he went to the University of Hull . He is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London and a Principal Fellow of the Higher Education...
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Otto Schaden
1937 - 2015 (78 years)
Otto John Schaden was an American Egyptologist. He was the field director of the Amenmesse Tomb Project of the University of Memphis . In addition to his work on the tomb of Amenmesse in the main arm of the Valley of the Kings, he has also cleared and reinvestigated tombs WV23, WV24, and WV25 in the Western Valley.
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Maarten Jansen
1952 - Present (72 years)
Maarten Evert Reinoud Gerard Nicolaas Jansen is a Dutch academic and professor of Mesoamerican archaeology and history. As of 2007 Jansen holds the position of Dean of the Faculty of Archaeology at Leiden University, Netherlands. Jansen is an internationally renowned figure in pre-Columbian Mesoamerican studies, whose particular field of expertise concerns the culture, history and manuscripts of the Mixtec civilization from the Oaxacan region of central-southern Mexico.
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Cornelius Clarkson Vermeule III
1925 - 2008 (83 years)
Cornelius Clarkson Vermeule III was an American scholar of ancient art and curator of classical art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, from 1957 to 1996. He was also well known as a numismatist. He also used the pseudonyms Wentworth Bunsen, Isao Tsukinabe and Northwold Nuffler.
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Claudia Rapp
1961 - Present (63 years)
Claudia Rapp FBA is a German scholar of the Byzantine Empire. She is currently Professor of Byzantine Studies at the University of Vienna, a position she has held since 2011. Having studied at the Free University of Berlin, she then obtained her D.Phil. in Modern History at the University of Oxford in 1992. She was a Professor in the History Department of the University of California, Los Angeles between 1994 and 2011, before taking up her current post in Vienna. In 2012 she became the Director of the Division of Byzantine Research at the Austrian Academy of Sciences and became a Full Member of the Academy two years later.
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Oscar Kawagley
1934 - 2011 (77 years)
Angayuqaq Oscar Kawagley , best known as Oscar Kawagley, was a Yup'ik anthropologist, teacher and actor from Alaska. He was an associate professor of education at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks until his death in 2011. The Anchorage Daily News described him as "one of most influential teachers and thinkers".
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Jacques Cinq-Mars
1942 - 2021 (79 years)
Jacques Cinq-Mars Born: 1941/42 was a Canadian archaeologist specializing in Canada, especially Yukon. Cinq-Mars excavated the Bluefish Caves site in the Old Crow area from 1977 to 1987. His careful research showed the presence of humans in the Americas long before Clovis. His dates for the site are around 24,000 BP. Cinq-Mars began his work in the Old Crow area early in the 1970s. Although the Clovis-first hypothesis has substantially fallen out of favor, some archaeologists question the 24,000 BP date for human presence at Blue Fish Caves.
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