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List of the most influential people in Anthropology,

#2301

Ron Brunton

#178045

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (81 years)

Dr Ron Brunton is an Australian anthropologist. He was the director of Encompass Research Pty Ltd, and was on the Board of the public broadcaster, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation for a five-year term from 1 May 2003.

#2302

Pierre Cabanes

#104432

Overall Influence

1930 - 2023 (93 years)

Pierre Cabanes was a French epigraphist and historian, professor emeritus of the history of antiquity at the University of Paris X-Nanterre, President of the University Clermont-Ferrand II , and head, from 1992, of the French Archaeological and Epigraphic Mission in Albania.

#2303

Sofia Voutsaki

#148235

Overall Influence

Sofia Voutsaki is Professor of Greek Archaeology at the University of Groningen and a specialist in the archaeology of the Bronze Age Aegean and classical Greece. She has directed excavations and surveys in the Argolid and at the Mycenaean site of Ayios Vasileios near Sparta, and has also published works on social change, mortuary archaeology, archaeological science, and the history of 19th- and 20th-century Greek archaeology.

#2304

Maria Hopf

#103883

Overall Influence

1914 - 2008 (94 years)

Maria Hopf was a pioneering archaeobotanist, based at the RGZM, Mainz. Career Hopf studied botany from 1941–44, receiving her doctorate in 1947 on the subject of soil microbes. She then worked in phytopathology and plant physiology. From 1952–56 she studied glume wheat grain and glume anatomy at the Max Planck institute for Zuchtungsforschung in Berli-Dahlem. Hopf was introduced to the study of the history of cultivated plants by Elisabeth Schiemann. She then moved to the Romisch Germanisches Zentral Museum in Main, working first as a scientific assistant, before being appointed as the head of the newly founded division of archaeobotany in 1961.

#2305

Chen Tiemei

#92779

Overall Influence

1935 - 2018 (83 years)

Chen Tiemei was a Chinese physicist and archaeologist, considered a pioneer in scientific archaeology and a founder of quantitative archaeology in China. He was a professor and Director of the Scientific Archaeology Laboratory at Peking University.

#2306

Rosemary Hennessy

#101822

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

Rosemary Hennessy is an American academic and socialist feminist. She is a Professor of English and Director of the Center for the Study of Women, Gender, and Sexuality at Rice University. She has been a part of the faculty at Rice since 2006.

#2307

Bo Ruberg

#170339

Overall Influence

Bo Ruberg is an American game studies scholar and associate professor at the University of California, Irvine in the Klein College of Media and Communication. They are known for their work on queer theory and video games. They are the author of Video Games Have Always Been Queer, The Queer Games Avant-Garde, and Sex Dolls at Sea: Imagined Histories of Sexual Technologies, as well as the editor of Queer Game Studies. From 2023 to 2027, they are the co-editor-in-chief, with Liz Elcessor, of the Journal of Cinema and Media Studies. They are also one of the co-founders of the Queerness in Games C...

#2308

Chiara Bonacchi

#178393

Overall Influence

Chiara Bonacchi is an archaeologist. She is Senior Lecturer at the University of Stirling. Career Bonacchi has a BA in Archaeology and an MA in Medieval Archaeology from the University of Florence. She gained her PhD in Public Archaeology from University College London. She is an International Executive Committee member of the Association of Critical Heritage Studies and sits on the advisory board of the Journal of Open Archaeology Data.

#2309

Adriana Kaplan Marcusán

Adriana Kaplan Marcusán

#160683

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (70 years)

Adriana Kaplan Marcusán is an Argentine anthropologist and Director of the NGO Wassu Gambia Kafo and the Wassu Foundation of the Autonomous University of Barcelona. She is expert in sexual and reproductive health with a focus on the prevention of female genital mutilation .

#2310

Joan J. Taylor

#171187

Overall Influence

1940 - 2019 (79 years)

Joan J. Taylor was an American archaeologist specialising in the prehistory of the British Isles. She was known for her work on Bronze Age gold working, especially her 1980 monograph Bronze Age Goldwork of the British Isles.

#2311

Ma Chengyuan

#73381

Overall Influence

1927 - 2004 (77 years)

Ma Chengyuan was a Chinese archaeologist, epigrapher, and president of the Shanghai Museum. He was credited with saving priceless artifacts from destruction during the Cultural Revolution, and was instrumental in raising funds and support for the rebuilding of the Shanghai Museum. He was a recipient of the John D. Rockefeller III Award, and was awarded the Legion of Honour by French President Jacques Chirac.

#2312

Louise Furey

#190039

Overall Influence

Margaret Louise Furey is a New Zealand archaeologist. Formerly a consulting archaeologist, she is now Curator of Archaeology at Auckland War Memorial Museum. Biography Furey completed her BA and MA at University of Auckland in anthropology . In 2005 she was awarded a Doctor of Science by the university for her research in archaeological science .

#2313

Nanno Marinatos

#59732

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

Nanno Marinatos is Professor Emerita of Classics and Ancient Mediterranean Studies at the University of Illinois Chicago, whose research focuses on the Minoan civilisation, especially Minoan religion.

#2314

Lamia Al-Gailani Werr

#80948

Overall Influence

1938 - 2019 (81 years)

Lamia Al-Gailani Werr was an Iraqi archaeologist specialising in ancient Mesopotamian antiquities. Al-Gailani was born in Baghdad and completed her education in Iraq and the United Kingdom. Her doctoral study of Old Babylonian cylinder seals was considered a landmark in the field. Based in London, in her later career she was known for maintaining links between British and Iraqi archaeology under the Saddam Hussein regime, and her efforts to preserve cultural heritage in the aftermath of the Iraq War. She was closely involved in the reconstruction of the National Museum of Iraq, where she had ...

#2315

Robbie Ethridge

#61664

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (71 years)

Robbie Franklyn Ethridge is an American anthropologist and author. She is a professor of anthropology at the University of Mississippi. Education In 1996, Ethridge received a PhD from the University of Georgia.

#2316

Shahrokh Razmjou

Shahrokh Razmjou

#38770

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (61 years)

Shahrokh Razmjou is an Iranian archaeologist and historian, specializing in Achaemenid Archaeology and History. He received his PhD in Achaemenid Archaeology at the University of London. He established the Inscriptions Hall and the Centre for Achaemenid Studies at the National Museum of Iran. He was curator of Ancient Iran in the Department of the Middle East, British Museum and during this time, he produced a new updated translation of the text on the Cyrus Cylinder from Babylonian to Persian. He also excavated the ancient man-made caves of Niyasar, Kashan. He is currently teaching at the ...

#2317

Eszter Bánffy

#109702

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (69 years)

Eszter Bánffy, is a Hungarian prehistorian, archaeologist, and academic. Since 2013, she has been Director of the Romano-Germanic Commission at the German Archaeological Institute. She is also a professor at the Archaeological Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

#2318

David Sutton Phelps Jr.

#172704

Overall Influence

1930 - 2009 (79 years)

David Sutton Phelps Jr. was an American professor and anthropologist. He was born in Fort Pierce, Florida. From 1970–1996 Phelps taught anthropology at East Carolina University, which named an archaeology lab after him. Before teaching at East Carolina University Phelps had taught at Tulane University, Florida State University, and Briefly at the University Of Georgia, respectively in that order.

#2319

Maria Fadiman

#71018

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (57 years)

Maria Grace Fadiman is an American ethnobotanist and Professor of Geosciences at Florida Atlantic University. Biography Fadiman is the daughter of documentary filmmaker Dorothy Fadiman and psychologist and author James Fadiman. Clifton Fadiman was her granduncle, She is a distant cousin of Anne Fadiman and of William James Sidis, a child prodigy.

#2320

Katharina C. Rebay

#146398

Overall Influence

1977 - Present (49 years)

Dr Katharina Rebay is an archaeologist and researcher in the School of Archaeology & Ancient History, University of Leicester. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Vienna. Presently, Dr. Rebay is part of the Leverhulme Trust-funded project Tracing Networks: Craft Traditions in the Ancient Mediterranean and Beyond. She is also an associate member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences .

#2321

Basil Megaw

#179169

Overall Influence

1913 - 2002 (89 years)

Basil Richardson Stanley Megaw was a British archaeologist. He was the first Director of the School of Scottish Studies at Edinburgh. Life He was born on 22 June 1913 in Belfast the son of Arthur S. Megaw and his wife, Helen Bertha Smith. He was educated at Mourne Grange then Campbell College in Belfast. He then obtained a place at Peterhouse, Cambridge where he graduated BA in Archaeology and Anthropology in 1935. His brothers Eric Megaw and Peter Megaw were also notable in their fields.

#2322

Panas Karampampas

#189435

Overall Influence

Panas Karampampas is a social anthropologist at Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences, Athens, while in the past he has worked at the Università Ca’ Foscari, Venezia, at the University of Peloponnese, the University of Thessaly and at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales – EHESS, Paris. Previously he was a guest lecturer in the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of St. Andrews, where he also completed his PhD and a visiting scholar at the Faculty of Social Sciences of the National Research University - Higher School of Economics , Moscow. Since 2018,...

#2323

Dawn Hadley

#139197

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (59 years)

Dawn Marie Hadley is a British historian and archaeologist, who is best known for her research on the Anglo-Saxon and Viking-Age periods, the study of childhood, and gender in medieval England. She is a member of the Centre for Medieval Studies and the department of archaeology at the University of York.

#2324

Jelena Porsanger

Jelena Porsanger

#54993

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (59 years)

Jelena Porsanger is a Russian-born Norwegian Sami ethnographer who researches Sami culture and history. From 2011 to 2015, she was the rector of the Sámi University of Applied Sciences in Kautokeino, Norway.

#2325

Lisa-Marie Shillito

#174368

Overall Influence

Lisa-Marie Shillito is a British archaeologist and senior lecturer in landscape archaeology as well as director of the Wolfson Archaeology Laboratory and Earthslides at Newcastle University. Her practical work focuses on using soil micromorphology, phytolith analysis and geochemistry in order to understand human behaviour and landscape change. Her work includes the Neolithic settlements of Çatalhöyük in Turkey and Ness of Brodgar and Durrington Walls in Britain, but also Crusader castles and medieval settlements in Poland and the Baltic and in the Near East.

#2326

Vera Evison

#174509

Overall Influence

1918 - 2018 (100 years)

Vera Ivy Evison was a British archaeologist and professor of archaeology at Birkbeck College, University of London. She was a specialist in Post-Roman Britain and early-Medieval England Career Evison attended Lewisham Prendergast school until 1937, following this with a series of evening classes, in subject including archaeology, before studying BA English language and literature. Her studies were supported by working as a secretary for Kathleen Kenyon at the London University Institute of Archaeology. In 1947 she went to study archaeology in Stockholm under Nils Åberg. She also worked as a ...

#2327

Michele Filippo Fontefrancesco

#190238

Overall Influence

1983 - Present (43 years)

Michele Filippo Fontefrancesco is an Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology at the University of Gastronomic Sciences. His interested in economic anthropology and and anthropology of food.

#2328

Chelsea Watego

#47659

Overall Influence

Chelsea Joanne Ruth Watego is an Aboriginal Australian academic and writer. She is a Mununjali Yugambeh and South Sea Islander woman and is currently Professor of Indigenous Health at Queensland University of Technology. Her first book, Another Day in the Colony, was published in 2021.

#2329

Wulf Raeck

#110326

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

Wulf Raeck is a German archaeologist, specializing in classical archaeology. Education Wulf Raeck studied at the University of Bonn, Hamburg University, and the University of Göttingen. His areas of study were classical archaeology, ancient history, classical philology, and art history.

#2330

Sara Goodacre

#67076

Overall Influence

Sara L. Goodacre is a research geneticist and Professor of Evolutionary Biology and Genetics at the University of Nottingham. She is the lead for the Open Air Laboratories, a citizen science project that engages people with the outdoor environment and Deputy Director of the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Doctoral Training Programme.

#2331

Hans-Georg Stephan

Hans-Georg Stephan

#103235

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

Hans-Georg Stephan is a German university professor specializing in European medieval archaeology and post-medieval archaeology. Biography Stephan was born in Beverungen in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. He studied archaeology, European ethnology , and historical ancillary sciences at the University of Münster, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and Cardiff University. After that, he worked at the University of Kiel and in Lübeck as city archaeologist until 1977. From then until 2004, he worked at the University of Göttingen's Department of Prehistory and Early History . He completed his habilitation in 1992.

#2332

Shimon Gibson

#76331

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (68 years)

Shimon Gibson is a British-born archaeologist living in North Carolina, where he is a Professor of Practice in the Department of History at University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Life Gibson was the lead archaeologist excavating a wilderness cave he associated with John the Baptist in 2000 and later wrote The Cave of John the Baptist. Such claim has been criticized by other scholars and, according to Hershel Shanks, "few, if any, scholars in Israel think this cave has anything to do with John the Baptist". He later led a team that found a 10-line ritual cup at Mount Zion.

#2333

Dale Kinkade

#59985

Overall Influence

1933 - 2004 (71 years)

M. Dale Kinkade was a linguist known especially for his work on Salishan languages. Born July 18, 1933, in Hartline, Washington, he graduated from Peshastin High School in 1950. He received his B.A. from the University of Washington in 1955 and his M.A. in 1957. He then moved to Indiana University, where he received his Ph.D. in 1963. After serving for three years in the United States Army, he taught at Washington State College from 1961 to 1964, and the University of Kansas from 1964 to 1973 before moving to the University of British Columbia where he remained until his retirement in 1998 ...

#2334

Valentine Rossilli Winsey

#179440

Overall Influence

1923 - 2007 (84 years)

Valentine Rossilli Winsey, born Valentina Diane Rossilli was an American speech and drama teacher, historian of immigration, anthropologist, sociologist, psychologist and women's rights activist. After completing a thesis on Italian American migration to New York City, she became a student of Buckminster Fuller, developing his idea of a 'World Game'. She taught anthropology at Pace College. Refused tenure at Pace, she brought a lawsuit against the university for sex discrimination. She later published a genealogical guide, and research on a variety of sociological and psychological topics, in...

#2335

Elayne Rapping

#105489

Overall Influence

1938 - 2016 (78 years)

Elayne Antler Rapping was an American critic and analyst of popular culture and social issues. She authored several books covering topics such as media theory, popular culture, women's issues, and the portrayal of the legal system on television. As a regular contributor to such publications as The Nation, The Progressive, and The New York Times, she wrote on a wide variety of cultural issues including film and movie reviews.

#2336

Filippo Coarelli

#46017

Overall Influence

1936 - Present (90 years)

Filippo Coarelli is an Italian archaeologist, Professor of Greek and Roman Antiquities at the University of Perugia. Born in Rome, Coarelli was a student of Ranuccio Bianchi Bandinelli. Coarelli is one of the foremost experts on Roman antiquities and the history of early Rome. A leading expert on the topography of ancient Rome, Coarelli produced a series of books from the 1980s and 1990s that have altered modern thinking about how Roman topography developed. His work on Italian monumental sanctuaries of the late Roman Republic is considered standard.

#2337

Nancy Edwards

#91448

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (72 years)

Nancy Margaret Edwards, is a British archaeologist and academic, who specialises in medieval archaeology and ecclesiastical history. Since 2008, she has been Professor of Medieval Archaeology at Bangor University.

#2338

Phillip Brian Harper

#181432

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (65 years)

Phillip Brian Harper is a literary scholar and cultural critic. He currently serves as Program Director for Higher Learning at The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and was previously Dean for the Graduate School of Arts and Science at New York University. Harper is best known for his work in modern and contemporary literature, African American literature and culture, and gender and sexuality studies.

#2339

Cynthia Damon

#124510

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (69 years)

Cynthia Ellen Murray Damon is a Professor of Classical Studies at the University of Pennsylvania and has written extensively on Latin literature and Roman historiography, having published translations and commentaries on authors such as Caesar and Tacitus.

#2340

Stephen T. Asma

#154222

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (60 years)

Stephen T. Asma is Professor of Philosophy and Distinguished Scholar at Columbia College Chicago. He is also a Senior Fellow of the Research Group in Mind, Science, and Culture at Columbia College Chicago.

#2341

Georgina Herrmann

#92142

Overall Influence

1937 - Present (89 years)

Georgina Herrmann, is a British retired archaeologist and academic, specialising in Near Eastern archaeology. Having worked as a civil servant, she later studied archaeology and spent the rest of her career as an active field archaeologist and lecturer. She was Reader in the Archaeology of Western Asia at University College London from 1994 to 2002.

#2342

Melissa J. Brown

#111903

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (63 years)

Melissa J. Brown is an American sociocultural anthropologist and historian specializing in China and Taiwan. She earned a bachelor's and a master's degree from Stanford University, and completed doctoral study at the University of Washington.

#2343

Elizabeth Grant

#117705

Overall Influence

1963 - 2022 (59 years)

Elizabeth Grant CF was an Australian architectural anthropologist, criminologist and academic working in the field of Indigenous Architecture. She was a Churchill Fellow and held academic positions at The University of Adelaide, as Associate Professor of Architecture and Urban Design at RMIT University's RMIT School of Architecture and Design, Adjunct Professor at the University of Canberra and the University of Queensland. She researched, wrote, and was an activist focused on architecture and design with Indigenous peoples as architectural practice and a social movement, and the observance of human rights in institutional architecture .

#2344

Mark Whittow

#122982

Overall Influence

1957 - 2017 (60 years)

Mark Whittow was a British historian, archaeologist, and academic, specialising in the Byzantine Empire. He was a university lecturer at the University of Oxford and a Fellow in Byzantine Studies at Corpus Christi College, Oxford.

#2345

Meaghan Morris

#29314

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

Meaghan Morris is an Australian scholar of cultural studies. She is currently a Professor of Gender and Cultural Studies at the University of Sydney. Life Born in Tenterfield, New South Wales, Morris was raised in Newcastle, New South Wales. Morris enrolled in a B.A. program in English and French at the University of Sydney. In Sydney, she met John Flaus, a film theorist and actor famous who would become a significant influence in the development of Australian cultural studies. She also became engaged in the work of British feminist scholar Juliet Mitchell and gave seminars on Mitchell's book...

#2346

Donald F. Brown

#181419

Overall Influence

1908 - 2014 (106 years)

Donald Freeman Brown was an American archaeologist who pioneered the core boring technique for surveying large archaeological sites, and discovered the location of Sybaris, a 6th-century Greek colony in Southern Italy. He was a founding member of the Massachusetts Archaeological Society, Assistant Curator of European Prehistory at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnography, editor-in-chief of C.O.W.A. , and professor emeritus of Anthropology at Boston University.

#2347

Paul Midford

#168279

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (61 years)

Paul Midford is an American political scientist who specializes in Japanese foreign policy. He teaches at the Meiji Gakuin University in Japan. Early life and education Midford holds a bachelor's degree from Pomona College from 1987, a master's degree in international politics from Columbia University from 1990, a master's degree in political science from the same institution from 2000 and a doctorate from 2001.

#2348

Hideshi Ishikawa

#154366

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (72 years)

is a Japanese archaeologist. Since 1978 he has been on the faculty of Meiji University, in the Archaeology Department. He is considered an expert in the Yayoi period and the Bronze-Iron Age history and culture of the Korean peninsula, and Jōmon culture and pottery. He has published several books and papers, including books about ruins of the Yayoi era and on agrarian society in ancient Japanese history .

#2349

Ricardo Eichmann

#96238

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (71 years)

Ricardo Francisco Eichmann is an Argentine-born German archaeologist. He was the director of the Orient Department of the German Archaeological Institute between 1996 and 2020 and previously a professor of Near Eastern archaeology at the University of Tübingen.

#2350

Martin Rundkvist

Martin Rundkvist

#78416

Overall Influence

1972 - Present (54 years)

Martin Rundkvist is a Swedish archaeologist and associate professor at the University of Łódź in Poland. His research focuses on the Bronze, Iron, and Middle Ages of Scandinavia, including significant excavations in the province of Östergötland.

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