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Anna Czekanowska-Kuklińska
1929 - 2021 (92 years)
Anna Czekanowska-Kuklińska – Polish musicologist and ethnographer, professor at the University of Warsaw, daughter of anthropologist Jan Czekanowski. She applied statistical-mathematical methods for analysis of folk music.
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Christophe Moulherat
Christophe Moulherat is a French scholar, anthropologist, scientific analyst. He is a textile expert. Academics Christophe Moulherat holds a Doctoral degree in archaeology, prehistory, and anthropology from the Sorbonne University Paris.
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Lilly Kahil
1926 - 2002 (76 years)
Lilly Louise Kahil was a Swiss-French archaeologist and classicist of Egyptian-German descent. She was the founder of the Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae, an encyclopedia of ancient Greek, Etruscan and Roman mythology.
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Oksana Bulgakowa
1954 - Present (70 years)
Oksana Bulgakowa is a professor of film history and film analysis at the University of Mainz. Career Born in Nikopol, Soviet Union, Bulgakowa completed in 1977 a five-year study of film theory and history at Allunionsinstitut of Cinematography in Moscow, and then followed her husband Dietmar Hochmuth in the DDR where a Szenaristenlehrgang at the graduated Academy of Film and Television in Potsdam-Babelsberg.
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Izaly Zemtsovsky
1936 - Present (88 years)
Izaly Iosifovich Zemtsovsky is a Russian-born American ethnomusicologist. He is a visiting professor at Stanford University. Zemtsovsky is known in ethnomusicology for his wide range of subjects of study, including the theory of melodic formulas, rhythmic formulas, comparative research of various regions of the world, study of musical universals and the importance of musical data in ethno-genetic reconstructions.
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Georges Tate
1943 - 2009 (66 years)
Georges Tate was a French historian and professor of ancient history and archaeology at the Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines University, Doctor of Arts and correspondent of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres. He was a specialist on the history of late antiquity and Early Middle Ages in Near East.
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Tone Hellesund
1967 - Present (57 years)
Tone Hellesund is a Norwegian ethnologist who specializes in gender studies. After working at the Norwegian Museum of Cultural History , she undertook a four-year doctorate with funding from the Research Council of Norway. As of April 2022, she is Professor of Cultural Studies at the Department of Archaeology, History, Cultural Studies and Religion at the University of Bergen.
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Nimet Özgüç
1916 - 2015 (99 years)
Nimet Özgüç was a Turkish archaeologist. In her era, she and her husband were the dominant Turkish academics and archaeologists. She was made an honorary member of the Turkish Academy of Sciences in 1996 and was awarded the Grand Prize of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism in 2010 for her contributions to archaeology in the country.
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Teresa Porzecanski
1945 - Present (79 years)
Teresa Porzecanski is an Uruguayan anthropologist, profesor and writer. From an Ashkenazi and Sephardic Jewish family , her works have included a focus on the Jewish communities of Uruguay, afrodescendant minorities, prejudice and ethnic issues. She has been is a professor at the Catholic University of Uruguay., Universidad de la Republica, CLAEH, and various universities in Argentina, Brazil, Perú, México, United States, Puerto Rico, Sweden, and Israel.
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Monique Desroches
1948 - Present (76 years)
Monique Desroches is a Canadian ethnomusicologist from Quebec who specializes in the music of the West Indies and the Mascarene Islands in the Indian Ocean. Early life Desroches was born in Grand-Mère in Quebec on March 18, 1948. From 1968 to 1974, Desroches was part of a folk group, "Les Contretemps" who released two LPs and three 45s and toured in Canada, the United States and Japan.
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Véronique Schiltz
1942 - 2019 (77 years)
Véronique Schiltz was a French archaeologist, historian of art, and literary translator. She was a specialist in steppes art, in particular that of the Scythians, concentrating on the history and culture of steppe peoples between the first millennium BCE and the first millennium CE. She was a member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres from 2011, and an Officer of the Legion of Honour.
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Adolfas Tautavičius
1925 - 2006 (81 years)
Adolfas Tautavičius was a Lithuanian archaeologist and habilitated doctor. In 1950 Adolfas Tautavičius graduated from Vilnius University and after four years he defended his thesis, Rytų Lietuva I m.e. tūkstantmetyje . In 1997, he became habilitated doctor with the work Vidurinysis geležies amžius Lietuvoje . From 1962 to 1987, he was the head of the archaeology department of the Lithuanian Institute of History. Among other excavations Tautavičius researched the Vilnius Castle Complex, Klaipėda Castle, and Trakai Peninsula Castle sites. Tautavičius wrote more than 600 academic publications a...
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Carsten Peter Thiede
1952 - 2004 (52 years)
Carsten Peter Thiede OCF KStJ was a German archaeologist and New Testament scholar. He was also a member of PEN and appointed a Knight of Justice of the Order of St John. He taught as professor of New Testament times and history at the Staatsunabhängige Theologische Hochschule in Basel and at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Beersheba, Israel. He often advanced theories that conflicted with the consensus of academic and theological scholarship.
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John D. Ray
1945 - Present (79 years)
John David Ray is a British Egyptologist and academic. He is the current Sir Herbert Thompson Professor of Egyptology at the University of Cambridge. His principal field of interest covers the Late and Hellenistic periods of Egypt, with special reference to documents in the demotic script, and he is also known for deciphering the Carian script, a writing system used by Anatolian mercenaries who fought for the late-period Egyptians.
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Dylan Miner
1976 - Present (48 years)
Dylan Miner is an American artist and assistant professor at Michigan State University. Art As an artist, Miner has exhibited at the Institute of American Indian Arts, the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, National Museum of Mexican Art, Native American Rights Fund, La Galería de la Raza, and Nokomis Center. His working-class comics are included in Studs Terkel’s Working: A Graphic Adaptation and Wobblies: A Graphic History of the Industrial Workers of the World. In 2005, as part of the centennial celebrations of the founding of the IWW, Miner’s two-person exhibition with Carlos Cortéz Koyokuikatl traveled throughout North America and the world.
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Jack L. Davis
1950 - Present (74 years)
Jack L. Davis is Carl W. Blegen Professor of Greek Archaeology at the University of Cincinnati in Ohio and is a former Director of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens. Brief biography Jack L. Davis has directed or co-directed regional archaeological projects in several areas of Greece, including the Nemea Valley, the island of Keos, and Messenia near the Palace of Nestor . In addition he has directed regional studies and excavations in Albania in the hinterlands of the ancient Greek colonies of Dyrrachium/Epidamnos and Apollonia. Davis is a recognized authority in the archaeology of the Aegean Islands.
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Andrew Lear
1958 - Present (66 years)
Andrew Lear is an American author, Classicist, historian of gender and sexuality, and public historian. His academic research focuses on concepts of gender and sexuality in ancient Greek poetry and art. His book on male-male erotic scenes in ancient Athenian vase-painting , was positively reviewed: it greatly expanded the number of known scenes and proposed a sophisticated framework for their interpretation. He has written articles on topics including gender ideals in the work of Greek poets Anacreon and Theognis, as well as book reviews for Classical World. Lear is seen as an expert on the c...
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Annie Nicolette Zadoks-Josephus Jitta
1904 - 2000 (96 years)
Annie Nicolette Zadoks-Josephus Jitta was a Dutch numismatist and archaeologist. Early life and education Annie Nicolette Josephus Jitta was born in Amsterdam in 1904. Her Jewish family originated in Bamberg in Bavaria, but moved to Amsterdam in 1812, where her ancestor Nathan Joseph adopted the surname Jitta in response to Louis Bonaparte's edict that all inhabitants of the Low Countries should be registered with a family name. She attended schools in Amsterdam , Utrecht and The Hague, before taking an art history degree at the University of Leiden. She gained her PhD in 1932 under the supervision of Professor G.
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Klaus Siebenhaar
1952 - Present (72 years)
Klaus Siebenhaar is a German university lecturer, publisher and cultural manager. In addition to his academic career at the FU Berlin, where he was director of an institute of Communication Science and Applied Cultural Studies from 1988, Siebenhaar worked for several publishing houses and theatres as an editor and publisher. He then founded his own publishing house, , as well as the Institute for Culture and Media Management at the university.
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John McRay
1931 - 2018 (87 years)
John Robert McRay was an archaeologist, and professor emeritus of New Testament at Wheaton College . He directed archaeological excavations in Israel, and "his articles have appeared in [several] encyclopedias and dictionaires". He "has lectured widely on archaeology and the Bible at various colleges, universities, professional meetings and churches in the United States".
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Wilhelm Alzinger
1928 - 1998 (70 years)
Wilhelm Alzinger was an Austrian classical archaeologist. Life Alzinger studied classical archaeology at the University of Vienna from 1946 and earned his doctorate under Hedwig Kenner and Arthur Betz with a thesis on Roman burial grounds in Austria. From 1952, Alzinger was a member of staff at the Austrian Archaeological Institute. In 1967 he was named a State Archaeologist of the first class. In 1970 he was promoted to professor at the University of Vienna with a work on Augustan architecture in Ephesus, teaching there alongside his role at the AAI as a lecturer and then as an associate professor .
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Jean Le Patourel
1915 - 2011 (96 years)
Hilda Elizabeth Jean Le Patourel was a British archaeologist. She specialised in the ceramics and pottery of Yorkshire. She later expanded her field of research to include moated sites and the archaeological remains of dog collars.
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Daniel Cazés
1939 - 2012 (73 years)
Daniel Cazés Menache was a Mexican anthropologist and gender studies scholar. Works "Indigenismo en México. Pasado y presente", en Historia y sociedad "El pueblo matlatzinca de San Francisco Oxtotilpan y su lengua" prólogo de El desarrollo del subdesarrollo, de A. G. Frank Tres culturas en agonía Los revolucionarios Epigraphie Maya et linguistique mayanne "Memorias de mi relación con el feminismo y las feministas", en Fem La Universidad Autónoma de Puebla en 1981 La restructuración de la Universidad Autónoma de Puebla "Con el feminismo en casa" en DobleJornada , suplemento del periódico La Jo...
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William Andrew McDonald
1913 - 2000 (87 years)
William Andrew "Bill" McDonald was a Canadian archaeologist. Educated at the University of Toronto and at Johns Hopkins University, he took part in the early excavations of Carl Blegen at the Mycenaean site known as the "Palace of Nestor" at Pylos, where he excavated the first Linear B tablets discovered in mainland Greece.
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Harvey Weiss
1945 - Present (79 years)
Harvey Weiss is an archaeologist who teaches at Yale University. Biography Weiss received his B.A. from The City College, CUNY in 1966, and his Ph.D. degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1976.
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Christian Greco
1975 - Present (49 years)
Christian Greco is an Italian Egyptologist. Since 2014, he has been the director of Museo Egizio at Torino. Biography Born in Arzignano, near Vicenza, to a family of Sicilian origins, Christian Greco graduated in 1994 with top marks at Liceo ginnasio Antonio Pigafetta. Admitted to Collegio Ghislieri of Pavia, he graduated in 1999 in Classics with a thesis on the archaeology of the ancient Near East at Università degli Studi di Pavia and, subsequently, in Egyptology at Leiden University in the Netherlands. He obtained his PhD in Egyptology from Università di Pisa in 2008.
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Ingeborg Scheibler
1929 - Present (95 years)
Ingeborg Scheibler is a German classical archaeologist. Ingeborg Scheibler was granted her doctorate at the University of Tübingen on 17 April 1956 by Bernhard Schweitzer for her thesis Studien zur Komposition der frühgriechischen Flächenkunst. Die symmetrische Bildform und ihre Geschichte . In 1956/7 she received the Reisestipendium des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts. Subsequently, she was active in the Kerameikos excavation. She achieved her habilitation in 1971 at the University of Munich with her work Griechische Lampen . In Munich she was head conservator at the Museum für Abgüsse ...
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Charlotte Blindheim
1917 - 2005 (88 years)
Charlotte Blindheim was a Norwegian archaeologist. She was the first female member of the scientific staff at the University of Oslo to be permanently employed when she hired as the museum curator in 1946.
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Conrad Laforte
1921 - 2008 (87 years)
Conrad Laforte was a Québécois ethnologist and librarian. He created the Catalogue de la chanson folklorique française which contains 80,000 entries. Early life and education Laforte was born in Kénogami. He studied in Chicoutimi, the Université Laval, and finally the Université de Montréal.
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Bob Clarke
1964 - Present (60 years)
Bob Clarke is an English archaeologist and historian. He gained a PhD at Exeter and is published widely. Current themes of research include the use of selected space to enact organised events, and the landscape archaeology of defence.
Go to ProfileMike Seager Thomas is a British archaeologist and Honorary Research Fellow of the UCL Institute of Archaeology specialising in the study of stone in prehistoric archaeology and landscape archaeology.
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Ramón Mujica Pinilla
1956 - Present (68 years)
Ramon Elias Mujica Pinilla is a Peruvian anthropologist and served under three Presidents as Director of the National Library of Peru. Early life Ramon Mujica Pinilla is the son of Peruvian diplomat, founding publisher of Expreso de Lima and collector Manuel Mujica Gallo and museum docent Marisa Pinilla Sánchez Concha, daughter of Antonio Pinilla Rambaud a Spanish Consul of Spain in Peru. He graduated from New College of Florida in Sarasota, Florida. He did his postgraduate work at the National University of San Marcos.
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Ben Garrod
1982 - Present (42 years)
Ben Garrod is an English evolutionary biologist, primatologist and broadcaster. He has been Professor of Evolutionary Biology and Science Engagement at the University of East Anglia since 2019. Early life Garrod was born in Great Yarmouth, where he lived in the Elephant and Castle pub and attended East Norfolk Sixth Form College. , his parents are stewards at Great Yarmouth and Caister Golf Club.
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Philippe Jacquin
1942 - 2002 (60 years)
Philippe Jacquin was a French anthropologist. Scientific literature Jacquin published 20 books, including: American Indians, The Indian Policy of the United States , and The American people: origins, immigration, ethnicity. These are reference books on the history of Native Americans, including the blending of cultures and the initial conquest of the American West.
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Dai Morgan Evans
1944 - 2017 (73 years)
Dai Morgan Evans was a British archaeologist and academic, a professor at the University of Chester. He is best known for his television appearances in programmes such as Rome Wasn't Built in a Day.
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Tiziana Terranova
1967 - Present (57 years)
Tiziana Terranova is an Italian theorist and activist whose work focuses on the effects of information technology on society through concepts such as digital labor and commons. Terranova has published the monograph Network Culture. Politics for the Information Age, as well as a more extensive number of essays and speeches, and appeared as a keynote speaker in several conferences. She lectures on the digital media cultures and politics in the Department of Human and Social Sciences, at the University of Naples, 'L'Orientale'.
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Jadwiga Lipińska
1932 - 2009 (77 years)
Jadwiga Lipińska née Freyer was a Polish Egyptologist. Biography Lipińska was the daughter of Edward Freyer and Zofia Kodis, an artist. She graduated from the University of Warsaw with her masters and her doctorate as a student of Prof. Kazimierz Michalowski. Following her studies, she went on to work at the National Museum, Warsaw from 1958. She began as an assistant in the Gallery of Ancient Art and by 1991, she became curator of the Gallery of Ancient Art, a position she held until she retired in 2002. She also lectured at University of Warsaw, and Akademii Teologii Katolickiej in Warsaw and the University of Lodz.
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Sylwester Czopek
1958 - Present (66 years)
Sylwester Czopek is the rector of Rzeszów University. He is an archaeologist and museologist. In 2011 Czopek received the Knight's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta. Bibliography Sylwester Czopek — OPI
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Maria Paula Survilla
1964 - 2020 (56 years)
Maria Paula Survilla , also known as Paŭlina Survilla, was an American professor of ethnomusicology and an ethnocultural activist of Belarusian descent. Biography Survilla was born in Madrid, Spain to Janka and Ivonka Survilla, anti-communist activists who had left Belarus because of conflicts caused by World War II. They moved to France for a few years and then to Spain. Paula inherited her mother's natural affinity for learning new languages and became fluent in French, Spanish and Belarusian as a child.
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Suzanne Frey-Kupper
1958 - Present (66 years)
Suzanne Frey-Kupper is a classical archaeologist and numismatist from Switzerland, who is Professor of Classics and Ancient History at the University of Warwick. She specialises in the study of Greek, Roman and Punic coinage, in particular examining their role in historical processes and as social agents.
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Gerhard Koeppel
1936 - 2012 (76 years)
Gerhard M. Koeppel was a German-born historian of Roman art and a specialist in the study of Roman historical relief sculpture. Koeppel studied at the University of Cologne and under the ancient art historian Heinz Kähler. Gerhard Koeppel was a member of the Archaeological Institute of America, the Classical Society of the American Academy in Rome, the Deutscher Archäologenverband, and Corresponding Member of the Deutsches Archaeologisches Institut. He was Resident Scholar at the American Academy in Rome , Professor-in-Charge of the Intercollegiate Center for Classical Studies in Rome , and Director of the American Academy Summer School .
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Owen Ashmore
1920 - 1995 (75 years)
Owen Ashmore was a British industrial archaeologist at the University of Manchester who was Secretary and Vice-President of the Lancashire and Cheshire Antiquarian Society, Treasurer of the Chetham Society and a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries.
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Paola Pruneti
1937 - Present (87 years)
Paola Pruneti , Italian papyrologist and palaeographer. Pruneti worked at the University of Florence. She is a member of the Editor Committee of Analecta Papyrologica, a journal edited by the Department of Philology and Linguistic of the University of Messina.
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Panos Valavanis
1954 - Present (70 years)
Panos Valavanis is a Greek classical archaeologist. Panos Valavanis studied at the University of Athens and the University of Würzburg. Since 1980 he has worked at the University of Athens, where since 2000 he has been a professor extraordinarius in classical archäeology. Valavanis does research on Greek pottery and Greek vase painting, on the architecture and topography of ancient Athens, on ancient technology, and on ancient sports. For his book Games and Sanctuaries in Ancient Greece, a foreword was written by John Boardman.
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Anne Rasmussen
1959 - Present (65 years)
Anne K. Rasmussen is an American educator and ethnomusicologist. Much of her research focuses on Arab music in the US and Islamic ritual and performance. She has been the director of the William & Mary Middle Eastern Music Ensemble since 1994. Rasmussen was named the William M. and Annie B. Bickers Professor of Middle Eastern Studies in 2014.
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Graeme Turner
1947 - Present (77 years)
Graeme Turner is an Australian professor of cultural studies and an Emeritus Professor at the University of Queensland. During his institutional academic career he was a Federation Fellow, a President of the Australian Academy of the Humanities, founding Director of the Centre for Critical and Cultural Studies at the University of Queensland, and Convenor of the ARC Cultural Research Network.
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Consuelo Mata Parreño
1954 - Present (70 years)
Consuelo Mata Parreño is a Spanish Teacher who specialises in Iberian material culture. She is currently the head teacher of the Department of Archaeology at the University of Valencia. Notable work Mata, along with Helena Bonet Rosado and Joan Bernabeu Auban, published early work on the organisation of Iberian polities in the Valencian Community, arguing for hierarchical relationships between oppida in region.
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