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Torgny Säve-Söderbergh
1914 - 1998 (84 years)
Torgny Säve-Söderbergh was a Swedish writer, translator, and professor of Egyptology at Uppsala University from 1950 to 1980. He was the younger brother of paleontologist Gunnar Säve-Söderbergh.
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Judith Barringer
1959 - Present (65 years)
Judith Barringer is an American classical archaeologist and Professor of Greek Art and Archaeology at the University of Edinburgh. She studies the archaeology, art and culture of ancient Greece from the Archaic to Hellenistic periods.
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Susanne Bickel
1960 - Present (64 years)
Susanne Bickel is a Swiss Egyptologist. She studied Egyptology in Geneva and then worked at the French Institute of Oriental Archaeology in Cairo and the Swiss Institute of Egyptian Antiquity. She has worked as an archaeologist on multiple sites in Middle and Upper Egypt. Since 2000 she has been a lecturer at the University of Freiburg and since 2006, professor of Egyptology at the University of Basel where she is an expert on Ancient Egyptian deities and demons. Susanne Bickel's research focuses on religion and Egyptian archaeology, particularly the documentation of Egyptian temples. Bickel ...
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Gabrielle Démians d'Archimbaud
1929 - 2017 (88 years)
Gabrielle Démians d'Archimbaud was a French archaeologist specialising in deserted medieval villages and religious buildings. She was a pioneer of the study of material culture in the Middle Ages and Professor emerita of History of Art.
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Pearce Paul Creasman
1981 - Present (43 years)
Pearce Paul Creasman is an American archaeologist in the fields of Egyptology, maritime archaeology, and dendrochronology. In recognition of his work he has been made a fellow of the Explorer's Club, the Royal Geographical Society, and the Linnean Society, among others. From 2009 to 2020, he was a professor and curator at the University of Arizona, where he served as director of the Egyptian Expedition. Beginning in 2020, he was appointed executive director of the American Center of Oriental Research. He has been conducting archaeological and environmental research in Egypt and Sudan since 2004 and is editor of the peer-reviewed Journal of Ancient Egyptian Interconnections.
Go to ProfileMichelle Alexander is a bioarchaeologist with an interest in multi-faith societies and is Senior Lecturer in Bioarchaeology at the University of York. Research Alexander specialises in the study of medieval diet through stable isotope analysis. She was part of the research team for the European Research Council funded project The Archaeology of Regime Change: Sicily in Transition, which explored the changes in population in medieval Sicily. She is part of the research team for the Urban Ecology Zanzibar project. She is project lead for the Faith in Food, Food in Faith Network funded by the Arts & Humanities Research Council.
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James M. Freeman
1936 - Present (88 years)
James M. Freeman is an American anthropologist, and professor at San Jose State University. Life He graduated from Northwestern University, Harvard University with an MA, and a Ph.D. in Social Relations in 1968.
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Elisabeth Ettlinger
1915 - 2012 (97 years)
Elisabeth Ettlinger, was a German-born archaeologist and academic, who specialised in archaeology of the Roman provinces and Roman Switzerland. From 1964 to 1980, she taught at the University of Bern, having emigrated to Switzerland in the 1930s to escape Nazi Germany. Her research centred on Roman ceramics such as Terra Sigillata, and she co-founded Rei Cretariae Romanae Fautores, a learned society dedicated to Roman pottery: she was its secretary, vice-president and then served as its president from 1971 to 1980. From September 1963 to June 1964, she was a member of the Institute for Advan...
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Begoña Aretxaga
1960 - 2002 (42 years)
Begoña Aretxaga was a Basque anthropologist known for her work on Northern Ireland and Basque country. She studied at the University of the Basque Country and Princeton University where she lectured. She also worked at Harvard University and near the end of her life she taught at the University of Texas at Austin.
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Pascale Ballet
1953 - Present (71 years)
Pascale Ballet is a French Egyptologist, and a Professor of Art History and Archaeology of Antiquity at the University of Poitiers. The subject of her thesis obtained in June 1980 under the leadership of Jean Leclant was on terracotta figurines from Egypt and the Mediterranean in the Hellenistic and Roman times, in which she is an expert.
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Jacqueline M. Newman
1932 - Present (92 years)
Jacqueline M. Newman is a professor emeritus at Queens College-CUNY, specializing in Chinese cuisine, history, gastronomy, and food culture. Considered a trailblazer in the field, Newman has authored numerous books on the subject of Chinese cuisine and is the editor-in-chief of the Flavor and Fortune, a periodical focusing on the science and art of Chinese cuisine. She has also served on the awards committee of James Beard Foundation and on Board of Directors of the Food Exhibition Museum in Suzhou, China.
Go to ProfileCheryl Thompson is a Canadian academic known for studying the Black beauty industry and blackface in Canada. She is an assistant professor at Toronto Metropolitan University in the school of performance.
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Geoffrey B. Waywell
1944 - 2016 (72 years)
Geoffrey B. Waywell was British archaeologist who served as Professor of Classical Archaeology at King's College London, Director of the Institute of Classical Studies, University of London, and a specialist in Greek and Roman sculpture.
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Amanda Villepastour
1958 - Present (66 years)
Amanda Villepastour is an Australian ethnomusicologist and former professional musician. She is best known for being the keyboardist of the Australian new wave band Eurogliders between 1980 and 1987, and for her 21st-century research work and publications on Yorùbá music in Nigeria, and Afro-Cuban religious music in Cuba.
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Georgina Kleege
1956 - Present (68 years)
Georgina Kleege is an American writer and a professor of English at University of California, Berkeley. Kleege was diagnosed as legally blind, with macular degeneration, at age 11. Kleege has written classic essays and memoirs in the field of disability studies on blindness and teaches a range of classes at Cal Berkeley with a specialization in creative writing and disability studies. She is best known for her autobiographical collection of essays in 1999 with her book titled Sight Unseen, where she compared her view of the world to the world's view of blindness. Her work often explores the r...
Go to ProfileCaroline Jane Goodson is an archaeologist and historian at the University of Cambridge, previously at Birkbeck College, University of London. In 2003 she won the Rome Prize for medieval studies of the American Academy in Rome. In archaeological work, Goodson is most closely associated with the Villa Magna site in Italy where she has been field director since 2006.
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Jamal Badawi
1939 - Present (85 years)
Jamal A. Badawi is an Egyptian-Canadian author, preacher and speaker on Islam. Life Badawi completed his undergraduate studies at Ain Shams University in Cairo. He left for the United States in the 1960s and completed his Masters and doctorate, both in the department of Business Administration, at Indiana University Bloomington. He has been serving as a volunteer imam of the local Muslim community in the Halifax Regional Municipality since 1970. He cites Hassan al-Banna as an influence.
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Aaron Demsky
1938 - Present (86 years)
Aaron Demsky is professor of biblical history at Bar-Ilan University. He is an epigrapher noted for his work on onomastics. Demsky is the winner of the 2014 Bialik Prize for his book, Literacy in Ancient Israel.
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Pere Pau Ripollès Alegre
1958 - Present (66 years)
Pere Pau Ripollès Alegre is a Spanish archaeologist and numismatist. Career Ripollès studied at the University of Valencia for a first degree in history and geography and a PhD in archaeology. His thesis was titled “La circulación monetaria en la Tarraconense Mediterránea“. He remained at the University of Valencia as From 1980 to 1984 he was assistant professor at the Department of Prehistory and Archaeology , Associate Professor , and professor . His habilitation thesis focussed on the minting of coins in the Iberian city of Saitabi.
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Ann Olga Koloski-Ostrow
1949 - Present (75 years)
Ann Olga Koloski-Ostrow is an American archaeologist known for her studies of hydraulic engineering in the ancient world. She works at Brandeis University as a professor of classical studies, the Kevy and Hortense Kaiserman Endowed Chair in the Humanities, and co-director of graduate studies in Ancient Greek and Roman Studies.
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Barbara Kaim
1952 - Present (72 years)
Barbara Kaim is a Polish archaeologist, professor at the Faculty of Archaeology University of Warsaw. Her research focuses on the Achaemenid, Parthian and Sasanian periods in Iran and Central Asia. Professional career Barbara Kaim studied at the Institute of Archaeology . Since 1977 she worked as a Research Assistant. After completing her PhD in 1983, she began working as an assistant professor in the Department of Near Eastern Archaeology at the same institute. She did her habilitation in 2003, working on the architecture of Kushan period, and became a professor in 2005. On 18 April 2013,...
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Lorna Piatti-Farnell
1980 - Present (44 years)
Lorna Piatti-Farnell is an academic in New Zealand who researches popular media and cultural history. She is professor of film and popular culture at Auckland University of Technology . Academic career Lorna Piatti-Farnell was born in 1980. She was educated at Loughborough University, Leicestershire, graduating in 2009 with a PhD. She was employed by De Montfort University and Bishop Grosseteste University prior to moving to New Zealand where she joined AUT in 2010, being promoted to full professor, effective 1 January 2020.
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Luiz Eduardo Soares
1954 - Present (70 years)
Luiz Eduardo Soares , is a Brazilian anthropologist, philosopher and political scientist. Activities Between 1999 and 2000, Soares coordinated the department of public safety in Rio de Janeiro. Between January and October, 2003, he was the National Secretary of Public Security. Currently, he occupies the post of Secretary of Municipal Valuation of Life and Prevention of Violence at Nova Iguacu . He is a professor at ESPM in Rio de Janeiro.
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Robert Dodaro
1955 - Present (69 years)
Robert John Dodaro, OSA is an American priest of the Catholic Church. He is a specialist in the writings of St Augustine of Hippo. Dodaro is a 1973 graduate of St. Augustine Seminary High School in Holland, Michigan.
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Harald Hauptmann
1936 - 2018 (82 years)
Harald Hauptmann was a German archaeologist known for his excavation work in east and southeast Turkey at sites such as Norşuntepe. He also studied of pre-Islamic Pakistan. He was a professor at the University of Heidelberg and a foreign-member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts.
Go to ProfileHannah C. Cobb is an archaeologist at the University of Manchester, noted for her work on pedagogy, post-humanist theory, and diversity and equality in archaeology. Education Cobb undertook her PhD research at the University of Manchester, completed in 2008.
Go to ProfileMeriel McClatchie is an archaeologist specialising in archaeobotany. She is an associate professor at University College Dublin. Education McClatchie studied Archaeology and History at University College Cork, followed by a Masters degree also at University College Cork. McClatchie completed her PhD in 2009 at the Institute of Archaeology, University College London.
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Psyche Williams-Forson
Psyche Williams-Forson is an American scholar and writer from Virginia. She is currently the associate professor and chair of American Studies at the University of Maryland. Education Williams-Forson, who is African-American, holds a Ph.D. in American Studies from the University of Maryland , which are also the fields and institutions related to her Master's work in . Additionally, she completed a certificate in Women's Studies . In 1997, she received her bachelor's degree in English and African-American Studies.
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Zena Kamash
1977 - Present (47 years)
Zena Kamash FSA is a British Iraqi archaeologist and senior lecturer at Royal Holloway, University of London. Her research topics include water, food, memory, the Roman period in the Middle East and Britain.
Go to ProfileSteven L. Tuck is a professor of classics, who is currently head of classics at Miami University. He teaches many classics courses at Miami University, especially those relating to the arts. He received a Ph.D. in Classical Art and Archaeology from University of Michigan in 1997, and he is the author of the textbook A History of Roman Art.
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Marianne Hem Eriksen
1985 - Present (39 years)
Marianne Hem Eriksen is a professor at the University of Leicester School of Archaeology and Ancient History and Principal Investigator for an ERC Starting Grant, “Body-Politics: Personhood, Sexuality and Death in Iron and Viking Age Scandinavia.” Eriksen’s research focuses on the politics of the body and its connection to later pre-history Scandanavian architecture.
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Peter J. Brand
1967 - Present (57 years)
Peter James Brand is a Canadian Egyptologist from Toronto, Ontario. He is also a naturalized American citizen. He completed his PhD in 1998 at the University of Toronto with his dissertation The Monuments of Seti I: Epigraphic, Historical and Art Historical Analysis. This was later published by Brill in 2000 and is considered to be one of the most comprehensive studies on the reign of Seti I who is often eclipsed in history by the glorious 66-year reign of his son, Ramesses II. A Book reviewer called it "the first comprehensive study of the reign ever published." "It contains a catalogue of...
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Sydney Hervé Aufrère
1951 - Present (73 years)
Sydney Hervé Aufrère is a French Egyptologist, archaeologist, and director of research at CNRS. From 1973 to 1976 he worked in the Department of Egyptian Antiquities of the Louvre Museum, then for sixteen months , the "Centre for Documentation of Ancient Egypt" , Cairo. He participated from 1976 to 1980 in archaeological expeditions in the Valley of the Queens and the Ramesseum.
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Gad Rausing
1922 - 2000 (78 years)
Gad Rausing was a Swedish industrialist and archaeologist. Together with his brother Hans he inherited the Swedish packaging company Tetra Pak, founded by their father Ruben Rausing and by 2011 the largest food packaging company in the world by sales. In 1995 Gad bought out his brother's interest in the company in what was at the time the most extensive private buyout in Europe.
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Robert E. Brown
1927 - 2005 (78 years)
Robert Edward "Bob" Brown was an American ethnomusicologist who is credited with coining the term "world music". He was also well known for his recordings of music from Indonesia. Many of these recordings, among the first widely distributed and commercially available in the United States, inspired a generation of musicians to study and perform Indonesian gamelan music.
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Emma LaRocque
1949 - Present (75 years)
Emma LaRocque is a Canadian academic of Cree and Métis descent. She is currently a professor of Native American studies at the University of Manitoba. She is also a published poet, writing brief, imagist poems about her ancestral land and culture. LaRocque's works have critically engaged topics such as Indigenous identities, contemporary Indigenous literature, postcolonial literary criticism, decolonization and resistance, and Indigenous representation in Canadian history, literature, and popular culture.
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John Gater
2000 - Present (24 years)
John Gater is a British archaeological geophysicist who featured regularly on the Channel 4 archaeological television series Time Team. He was educated at the University of Bradford and graduated with a BSc Archaeological Sciences in 1979. He worked with British Gas , the Ancient Monuments Laboratory and Bradford University Research. In 1983 he became a member of the Institute of Field Archaeologists and is now also an associate editor for the Journal of Archaeological Prospection. In 1986 he founded Geophysical Surveys of Bradford , an independent consultancy in geophysics for archaeology, ...
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Dian Million
1950 - Present (74 years)
Dian Million, a Tanana Athabascan, is an associate professor In the Department of American Indian Studies at the University of Washington. Education, career and service Million received her Master of Arts in Ethnic Studies in 1998 and her Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley in 2004. Million is an Associate Professor in American Indian Studies and an Affiliated faculty in Canadian Studies, the Comparative History of Ideas Program, and the English Department at the University of Washington. She currently serves as the Chair for the Department of American Indian Studies.
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Peggy Fairbairn-Dunlop
Margaret Ellen Fairbairn-Dunlop is a Samoan-New Zealand academic. She is the first person in New Zealand to hold a chair in Pacific studies. Education Fairbairn-Dunlop studied at Victoria University of Wellington, graduating with a Master of Arts degree. She completed <big>a PhD at Macquarie University in Australia.</big>
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Fleur Kemmers
1977 - Present (47 years)
Fleur Kemmers is the Lichtenberg Professor for Coinage and Money in the Graeco-Roman World at Goethe University, Frankfurt. Education Kemmers undertook her undergraduate degree in archaeology in 1996 at the University of Amsterdam, and following her MA moved to Radboud University Nijmegen in 2000 to work on her PhD. Kemmers' doctoral work focused on Roman coins found at the legionary fortress of Nijmegen, examining the use and supply of coins in the Lower Rhine region in the first century AD. Kemmers completed her PhD in 2005 and the work was published as Coins for a legion. An analysis of th...
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Matthijs van den Bos
1969 - Present (55 years)
Matthijs Eduard Willem van den Bos is a scholar of Iranian and Shi'i Studies. He teaches in the Department of Politics at Birkbeck College of the University of London. Professor van den Bos has been a Visitor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, NJ, a fellow of the Institute for Migration and Ethnic Studies at the University of Amsterdam, and a fellow at the International Institute for the Study of Islam in the Modern World in Leiden. Before joining the University of London, van den Bos taught at the Universities of Utrecht and Amsterdam.
Go to ProfileAlinah Kelo Segobye is a social development activist and archaeologist, with specialisms in social development and HIV/AIDS and the future of studying the past in Africa and African archaeology. She is Dean of Human Sciences at the Namibia University of Science and Technology and an elected fellow of the African Academy of Sciences.
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Marjeta Šašel Kos
1952 - Present (72 years)
Marjeta Šašel Kos is a Slovene archaeologist and classical philologist. Biography Marjeta Šašel Kos was born on 20 April 1954. In 1980, she earned a master's degree in archaeology from the University of Ljubljana, and in 1989 a PhD in classical philology from the same university.
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Peter Jones
1942 - Present (82 years)
Peter Vaughan Jones MBE is a Cambridge graduate with a doctorate on Homer. He is a former senior lecturer in Classics at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, and co-founded with Jeannie Cohen the Friends of Classics charity. He used to be a teacher but is now employed as a writer, journalist and broadcaster. He is the brother of the late David E. H. Jones.
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Casey Dué Hackney
1974 - Present (50 years)
Casey Dué Hackney, sometimes cited or referred to as Casey Dué, is a professor of classical studies at the University of Houston, and the Executive Editor for the Center for Hellenic Studies. Her research interests centre around Homeric poetry, Greek tragedy and Greek oral traditions.
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Maïlys Richard
1987 - Present (37 years)
Maïlys Richard holds a Ph.D. in Geochronology and Prehistory from the National Museum of Natural History in Paris. Her dissertation dealt with the chronology of late Middle and early Upper Palaeolithic sites in Western Europe, using electron spin resonance and uranium-series dating methods... Her primary research theme is the chronology of population dynamics in Eurasia and Africa during the Middle and Late Pleistocene. Source
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Else Roesdahl
1942 - Present (82 years)
Else Roesdahl is a Danish archaeologist, historian and educator. She has mediated the history of the Vikings for most of her life, including coordination of notable exhibitions on the Viking Age and authoring several books on the subject. Roesdahl's books have been translated into several languages.
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Mikael Adolphson
1961 - Present (63 years)
Mikael "Mickey" Adolphson is a Swedish historian of medieval Japan. Adolphson is the Keidanren Professor of Japanese Studies at the University of Cambridge's Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies and a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge.
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Paolo Matthiae
1940 - Present (84 years)
Paolo Matthiae is an Italian archaeologist. He is a professor of History of Art of the Ancient Near East in the University of Rome La Sapienza; he has been Director of the Ebla Expedition since 1963—in fact, its discoverer—and has published many articles and books about Ebla and about the History of Art of Mesopotamia and Syria in general. In 1972 and 1973, Matthiae co-directed the excavation of Tell Fray in the Euphrates Valley that was to be flooded by Lake Assad, the reservoir of the Tabqa Dam which was being constructed at that time. He is a member of institutions as the Accademia Naziona...
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