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Theodore Levin
1951 - Present (73 years)
Theodore Craig Levin is an American ethnomusicologist. He is a professor of music at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire and earned his undergraduate degree at Amherst College and obtained his Ph.D. from Princeton University. Levin has focused his research on the people of the Balkans, Siberia, and Central Asia. His recordings from these regions have been released on various labels.
Go to ProfileSusan Jane Deacy is a classical scholar who has been Professor of Classics at the University of Roehampton since January 2018. She researches the history and literature of the ancient Greek world, with a particular focus on gender and sexuality, ancient Greek mythology and religion, and disability studies. She is also an expert on the teaching of subjects which are potentially sensitive, including sexual violence, domestic violence, and infanticide; she was project leader on the initiative 'Teaching Sensitive Subjects in the Classics Classroom'. She is also series editor of Routledge's Gods an...
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Anna Maria Bietti Sestieri
1942 - 2023 (81 years)
Anna Maria Bietti Sestieri was an Italian contemporary archaeologist based at the Università del Salento whose research focused on Italian prehistory. Education and career Bietti Sestieri received her undergraduate degree in Etruscology after studying at Rome under Massimo Pallottino from 1964 to 1966.
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Elizabeth Lyding Will
1924 - 2009 (85 years)
Elizabeth Lyding Will was an American Classical archaeologist and a leading expert on Roman amphorae. She spent her long career teaching at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and Amherst College.
Go to ProfileDaniel Maudlin, FSA Scot, is a historian and academic. Since 2012, he has been Professor of History at the University of Plymouth. Career Maudlin graduated from the University of St Andrews in 1996 with a first-class Master of Arts degree in art history and landscape archaeology. He then worked at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, before returning to St Andrews in 1998 to complete a doctorate supported by the British Academy; his PhD was awarded in 2002 for his thesis "Highland planned villages: the architecture of the British Fisheries Society".
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Patricia Wright
1944 - Present (80 years)
Patricia Chapple Wright is an American primatologist, anthropologist, and conservationist. Wright is best known for her extensive study of social and family interactions of wild lemurs in Madagascar.
Go to ProfileGojko Johansen Barjamovic is Senior Lecturer on Assyriology at Harvard University. He is a specialist in the political and social history of Assyria in the 2nd and 1st millennia BC, and particularly trade and the development of early markets. He has also worked on absolute dating and the chronology of the Ancient Near East. He was a member of the team that used statistical methods to interrogate the records of ancient merchants found at Kültepe/Kanesh near the modern Turkish city of Kayseri to locate the probable location of ancient cities.
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Amy C. Smith
1966 - Present (58 years)
Amy C. Smith is the current Curator of the Ure Museum of Greek Archaeology and Professor of Classical Archaeology at Reading University. She is known for her work on iconography, the history of collections, and digital museology.
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Helene J. Kantor
1919 - 1993 (74 years)
Helene J. Kantor was a Near Eastern Archeologist and Art Historian in the Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations of the Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago, best known for her work at Chogha Mish from 1961 through 1978.
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Benny Peiser
1957 - Present (67 years)
Benny Josef Peiser is a social anthropologist specialising in the environmental and socio-economic impact of physical activity on health. He was a senior lecturer in the School of Sport and Exercise Sciences at Liverpool John Moores University and is a visiting fellow at the University of Buckingham.
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Nancy Wilkie
1942 - 2021 (79 years)
Nancy Clausen Wilkie was an American archaeologist. She served as president of the Archaeological Institute of America between 1998 and 2002, and worked on archaeological projects in Greece, Egypt, Sri Lanka and Nepal.
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Diana E. Marsh
1986 - Present (38 years)
Dr. Marsh is an Assistant Professor of Archives and Digital Curation in the College of Information Studies and an affiliate faculty in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Maryland, College Park... Her current research focuses on discovery, use, and access for Native American and Indigenous communities, based on projects undertaken at the American Philosophical Society and the Smithsonian’s National Anthropological Archives. Source
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Michael Walsh
1949 - Present (75 years)
Michael A. Walsh is an American music critic, author, screenwriter, media critic, historian, and cultural-political consultant. Career Walsh began his journalism career as a reporter and later music critic in 1972 at the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle in upstate New York. He was named chief classical music critic of the San Francisco Examiner in November 1977, where in 1980 he won an ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award for music criticism. He became music critic of Time magazine in the spring of 1981, where his cover story subjects included James Levine, Vladimir Horowitz and Andrew Lloyd Webber. He...
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Chloë Duckworth
1981 - Present (43 years)
Chloë N. Duckworth is a British archaeological scientist and reader in the School of History, Classics and Archaeology, Newcastle University, and a presenter of The Great British Dig. Education After receiving her BA in Archaeology, Duckworth was awarded funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council to study for an MSc and subsequently a PhD at the University of Nottingham. Her PhD, awarded in 2011, was supervised by Julian Henderson and was titled The created stone: chemical and archaeological perspectives on the colour and material properties of early Egyptian glass, 1500–1200 B.C....
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Dan-el Padilla Peralta
1984 - Present (40 years)
Dan-el Padilla Peralta is an associate professor of classics at Princeton who researches and teaches the Roman Republic and early Empire, as well as classical reception in contemporary American and Latin American cultures. An immigrant from the Dominican Republic, he rose from poverty and homelessness to show promise, according to one faculty member, as "one of the best classicists to emerge in his generation."
Go to ProfileCosimo Zene is an Italian anthropologist and Professor in the Study of Religions and World Philosophies at SOAS, University of London. He is known for his works on anthropology of religion. Books Dialoghi Nulesi - Storia, Memoria, identita' di Nule nell'antropologia di Andreas F. W. Bentzon, Nuoro, Italy: Edizioni ISRE 2009The Rishi of Bangladesh. A History of Christian Dialogues, London: Routledge Curzon 2002
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Israel Roll
1937 - 2010 (73 years)
Israel Roll was an Israeli archaeologist and academic. Archaeology career Israel Roll was the director of the Apollonia-Arsuf excavations and one of the directors of the Roman Temple dig at Kedesh. He completed his bachelor's degree at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. His Ph.D. thesis on the cult of Mithras is from the Sorbonne.
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George Paul Meiu
1984 - Present (40 years)
George Paul Meiu is Professor of Anthropology and Chair of the Institute of Social Anthropology at the University of Basel. He is an Associate of the Department of African and African American Studies and the Hutchins Center at Harvard University, where, until 2022, he has been a tenured, full professor. Meiu’s research and teaching focus on sexuality, gender, and kinship; ethnicity, belonging and citizenship; mobility, memory, and materiality; and the political economy of postcolonial East Africa and postsocialist Eastern Europe. Source
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Percival Turnbull
1953 - 2016 (63 years)
Percival David Turnbull was a British archaeologist. Early life Percival was born in Coxhoe, County Durham, in 1953. His father was a miner. He studied at the Institute of Archaeology, University of London, graduating in 1975.
Go to ProfileWilliam O'Brien is an Irish archaeologist well known for his research on the evolution of Bronze Age societies and the appearance of metallurgy in Ireland. O'Brien is a professor at University College Cork and an elected member of the Royal Irish Academy.
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Jean-Pierre Adam
1937 - Present (87 years)
Jean-Pierre Adam is a French architect and archaeologist specialising in ancient architecture. Biography Adam was born in Paris. Following a special diploma from the School of Architecture in 1965, he entered the ancient architecture department of the CNRS. He produced several monumental studies in France and worldwide, and became director of the Office of Ancient Architecture of Paris, located in the north tower of the Castle of Vincennes.
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Eleri Cousins
1987 - Present (37 years)
Eleri H Cousins is an archaeologist and Lecturer in Roman History at the University of Lancaster. Biography Cousins' undergraduate study, in Archaeology and Classics, was at Stanford University. Subsequently, she studied for a master's degree and PhD at the University of Cambridge. She was a lecturer at the University of St Andrews before moving to her current role at Lancaster in 2019. Cousins was elected as a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London on 17 June 2021.
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Franziska Lang
1959 - Present (65 years)
Franziska Lang is an archaeologist and professor at the Technische Universität Darmstadt. Education Lang got an M.A. from the Free University of Berlin in 1987, and a doctor of philosophy degree in 1991 from the Free University of Berlin.
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Remco Breuker
1972 - Present (52 years)
Remco Erik Breuker is a Dutch historian, author, academic, and translator specializing in Korea and Northeast Asia, focusing on medieval Korean and Northeast Asian history and contemporary North Korean affairs. He is currently a professor of Korean studies at Leiden University.
Go to ProfileSally Ann Worrell is a British archaeologist specialising in Romano-British material culture. Education Worrel studied at Durham University, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1994 and a Master of Arts degree in 1997.
Go to ProfileLutgarde Vandeput is the Director of the British Institute at Ankara. Education and early career Vandeput studied classical archaeology at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven with a Masters thesis on "Splijttechnieken in de Oudheid: een kritische statusquaestionis van het onderzoek in het oostelijke deel van de Middellandse Zee." She completed her doctorate in 1994 with a thesis on "The Architectural Decoration at Sagalassos. Local Development within the Framework of Anatolian Architecture. The Imperial Period."
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Axel Seeberg
1931 - 2011 (80 years)
Axel Seeberg was a Norwegian archaeologist. He was a professor of classical archaeology at the University of Oslo. Biography Seeberg was born in Oslo, Norway. He attended upper secondary school at Ullern and graduated with a degree in art. After finishing his secondary education in 1949, he studied classical archaeology in Oslo, as well as the 1952-53 semester at University College London under T.B.L. Webster . After graduating, Seeberg worked at the University of Oslo from 1956. From 1974 to 2001 he served as a professor of classical archaeology.
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Kevin Dettmar
1958 - Present (66 years)
Kevin J. H. Dettmar is an American cultural critic who specializes in British and Irish modern literature and contemporary popular music. He is the W.M. Keck Professor of English at Pomona College and the director of the college's humanities studio.
Go to ProfileRamilisonina is an archaeologist from Madagascar. His work has focused on the prehistory of Madagascar, especially the period between the fifteenth and nineteenth centuries. His work with Mike Parker Pearson of the University of Sheffield has also contributed to the study of megalithic monuments in Europe.
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MaryAnn Bin-Sallik
1940 - Present (84 years)
MaryAnn Bin-Sallik is a Djaru Elder and Australian academic, specialising in Indigenous studies and culture. She was the first Indigenous Australian to gain a doctorate from Harvard University. Early life and nursing Bin-Sallik was born in Broome, Western Australia, on 2 November 1940. She moved with her family to Darwin, Northern Territory, at age nine. On leaving school she trained as a nursing sister at Darwin Hospital, where she was the first Indigenous person to graduate in 1961. She then spent 17 years nursing in Aboriginal settlements in the Northern Territory.
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Wim van Es
1934 - Present (90 years)
Willem Albertus "Wim" van Es is a Dutch archaeologist. Between 1965 and 1988 he was director of the Rijksdienst voor het Oudheidkundig Bodemonderzoek. Life Van Es was born in 1934 in Groningen. He studied classical archaeology and prehistory at the University of Groningen. From 1956 to 1965 he worked at the Biological-Archaeological Institute at the same university. From 1957 to 1958 he was also acting curator at the Drents Museum. From 1962 to 1965 he was curator at the Groninger Museum. He obtained his PhD at the University of Groningen in 1967 with a dissertation titled: "Wijster, a native...
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Elizabeth Caskey
1910 - 1994 (84 years)
Elizabeth Gwyn Caskey was a Canadian-American classical scholar, professor, and archaeologist, known for her work in the excavations at Lerna and Kea, which are of importance to Greek prehistory. As an archaeologist she worked with her husband, Jack Caskey, on excavations where she supervised the trenches of every annual dig and their fortifications. She also wrote summaries of the excavations. After her marriage ended she excavated at Pylos. She was a Professor of Classics at Randolph-Macon College who became Professor Emeritus in 1981.
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Sakuji Yoshimura
1943 - Present (81 years)
Sakuji Yoshimura is a Japanese Egyptologist. He currently is Director of the Institute of Egyptology, Waseda University, Tokyo. He is the first president of an online college Cyber University. Publications Non-destructive pyramid investigation, 1987
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Suzanne Dixon
1946 - Present (78 years)
Suzanne Dixon is an Australian classical scholar, widely recognised as an authority on women's history and particularly marriage and motherhood. Career Dixon's career spans posts at the Australian National University as well as the University of Queensland, where she was first reader, then Professor, in Classics and Ancient History. Her expertise on the position of women in the ancient world was recognised by the BBC History website, by whom she was asked to curate an educational resource on Roman women. Amy Richlin, currently professor of Classics at the University of California, Los Angeles, has cited Dixon as a great influence in shaping her own work on gender politics.
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Tullia Linders
1925 - 2008 (83 years)
Tullia Linders was a Swedish archaeologist. Life Tullia Linders studied Latin and Ancient Greek already at the equivalent of high school and later at university continued her studies in the classical languages and classical studies. She got a licentiate degree in 1954 and thereafter spent several years as a school teacher in Latin and Ancient Greek. At the same time she kept ties to the university, conducted research and spent time travelling and studying in the Mediterranean area. During this time she also published articles on archaeological and art historical issues, notably on ceramics and tombstones.
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Delia Pemberton
1954 - Present (70 years)
Delia Pemberton is an author and lecturer in Egyptology, formerly with the British Museum and Birkbeck College, University of London, UK. Best known for her work in museum education, she has published a number of popular works on ancient Egypt and related topics for both adults and children.
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Sianne Ngai
1971 - Present (53 years)
Sianne Ngai is an American cultural theorist, literary critic, and feminist scholar. From 2000 to 2007 she was an Assistant Professor of English at Stanford University, from 2007-2011 an Associate Professor of English at UCLA, and from 2011 to 2017 Professor of English at Stanford University. She joined the faculty of the University of Chicago in fall 2017. Ngai earned her B.A. from Brown University in 1993 and her Ph.D from Harvard in 2000.
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Daniel Lieberman
1964 - Present (60 years)
Daniel E. Lieberman is a paleoanthropologist at Harvard University, where he is the Edwin M Lerner II Professor of Biological Sciences, and Professor in the Department of Human Evolutionary Biology. He is best known for his research on the evolution of the human head and the human body.
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Stefano Costa
1983 - Present (41 years)
Stefano Costa is an archaeologist officer at the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism. Costa specializes in Byzantium ceramics, Late Antiquity, and open data.
Go to ProfileRonika K. Power is an Australian archaeologist who is a Professor of Bioarchaeology in the Department of History and Archaeology and Director of the Centre for Ancient Cultural Heritage and Environment at Macquarie University. Power is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London and the Royal Society of New South Wales.
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Taima Moeke-Pickering
Taima Moeke-Pickering is a Canadian-New Zealand academic, a Māori, of Ngāti Pūkeko and Tuhoe descent and as of 2019 is a full professor at the Laurentian University. Academic career After years of working as a professor and administrator at the University of Waikato and years at Waikato Institute of Technology, Moeke-Pickering moved to Canada in 2006 to take up a position as an assistant professor in the School of Indigenous Relations at Laurentian University. She completed her PhD in 2010 titled 'Decolonisation as a social change framework and its impact on the development of Indigenous-based curricula for Helping Professionals in mainstream Tertiary Education Organisations'.
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Maria Floriani Squarciapino
1917 - 2003 (86 years)
Maria Floriani Squarciapino was an Italian classical archaeologist and professor at La Sapienza University in Rome, known for her work on the Roman port city of Ostia. Education Maria Floriano Squarciapino studied at La Sapienza University in Rome and was a student of Pietro Romanelli, graduating in 1939 with a thesis on the topic of the school of Aphrodisias. She also developed an interest in the archaeology of North Africa in the Roman period, and underwent training at the Scuola nazionale di Archeologi.
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Ina Isings
1919 - 2018 (99 years)
Clasina Isings was a Dutch archaeologist and classical scholar specialising in Roman glass. In 2009 the city of Utrecht awarded her a silver medal in recognition of the work she had done to help preserve the city's history.
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Kara Cooney
1972 - Present (52 years)
Kathlyn M. Cooney is an Egyptologist, archaeologist, professor of Egyptian Art and Architecture at UCLA and chair of the Department of Near Eastern Language and Cultures at UCLA. As well as for her scholarly work, she is known for hosting television shows on ancient Egypt on the Discovery Channel as well as for writing a popular-press book on the subject. She specialises in craft production, coffin studies, and economies in the ancient world.
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Mary Whitney Kelting
1950 - Present (74 years)
Mary Whitney Kelting is an American ethnographer and scholar of Jainism who is an Associate Professor of Religious Studies in the Department of Philosophy and Religion at Northeastern University, College of Social Sciences and Humanities
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Hermann Amborn
1933 - Present (91 years)
Hermann Amborn is a German anthropologist and ethnologist. With a regional focus on northern and eastern Africa, Amborn's research addresses the political organisation of society, the division of labour, agricultural ethnology, and ethics in applied anthropological research.
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Annette Imhausen
1970 - Present (54 years)
Annette Imhausen is a German historian of mathematics known for her work on Ancient Egyptian mathematics. She is a professor in the Normative Orders Cluster of Excellence at Goethe University Frankfurt.
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Edith Bruder
1948 - Present (76 years)
Edith Bruder is a French ethnologist who has specialized in the study of African Judaism and religious diasporas, new religious movements, and marginal religious societies. She is a research associate at the School of Oriental and African Studies , University of London; a research associate at the French National Center for Scientific Research ; and a research fellow at the Faculty of Theology's School of Biblical Studies and Ancient Languages, North-West University, South Africa.
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Dominik Hagmann
1989 - Present (35 years)
Dominik Hagmann is currently working on several projects primarily focusing on Roman archaeology in Austria and is a lecturer at the Department of Evolutionary Anthropology (University of Vienna)... As an archaeologist, Dominik focuses on provincial Roman studies in terms of settlement and landscape archaeology in Austria. Source
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Ségolène Vandevelde
1992 - Present (32 years)
Ségolène Vandevelde is a French prehistoric archeologist currently working as a Post-Doc at ArScAn Laboratory. Vandevelde is best known for inventing fuliginochronology, the study of soot deposits left by prehistoric life at archeological sites to date their occupation of the sites. Her current project is “Fuliginochronology: micro-chronological approach of sooted concretions in caves/rock shelters.”
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