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Nathalie Magnan
1956 - 2016 (60 years)
Nathalie Magnan was a media theoretician and activist, a cyber-feminist, and a film director. She taught at both universities and art schools, and is known for initiating projects linking Internet activism and sailing with the Sailing for Geeks project. She also co-organised the Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Film Festival in 1984. She died at home of breast cancer.
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Karen Brooks Hopkins
Karen Brooks Hopkins is the president emerita of Brooklyn Academy of Music, having served as its president from 1999 to 2015. Previously she was an adjunct professor for the Brooklyn College Program for Arts Administration. In the spring of 1995, Hopkins served as the executive producer of the Bergman Festival, which celebrated the life and work of Swedish director Ingmar Bergman.
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Marika Gombitová
1956 - Present (70 years)
Marika Gombitová is a Slovak singer-songwriter and musician. Once a member of Modus, Gombitová started to gain early acclaim as a former female vocalist of the group. Nevertheless, she gradually developed her public image as a solo artist, making own debut on short play in 1977. Subsequently, after topping the local music charts with "Študentská láska" , her debut set entitled Dievča do dažďa saw its eventual results on OPUS Records. The album's lead "Vyznanie", earned several music awards; most notably at the 4th Intervision Song Contest held in Poland . In years to come later, the love ant...
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Cecilia Ballí
1976 - Present (50 years)
Cecilia Ballí is an American journalist and anthropologist who writes about the borderlands of Texas, security and immigration. She is a writer-at-large for Texas Monthly, and has been published in Harper’s Magazine and The New York Times Magazine as an independent journalist. She has been an assistant professor at the University of Texas at Austin and from 1998 to 2000 was a staff writer at the San Antonio Express-News.
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Adria Bernardi
1957 - Present (69 years)
Adria Bernardi is an American novelist and translator. Awards 2014 Independent Publisher Book Bronze Award, essay/creative nonfiction, Dead Meander Kore Press, 2012.2010-2011 Christopher Isherwood Foundation Fellowship2009 “If looking up to God you find any way that’s pervious,” Margie: The American Journal of Poetry. First place. Lucia Perillo judge2008 Recommended Book Award, The Boston Authors Club, Openwork2007 Raiziss/de Palchi Translation Award2002 Worcester Cultural Commission, Creative and Performing Arts Fellowship2000 Drue Heinz Literature Prize recipient, selected by Frank Conroy19...
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Ingedore Grünfeld Villaça Koch
1933 - 2018 (85 years)
Ingedore Grünfeld Villaça Koch was a Brazilian linguist known for her work on text linguistics. She was a professor at the University of Campinas for almost three decades and an emerita researcher of the Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development. Koch is considered "one of the most respected figures of Brazilian linguistics" and her works are viewed as fundamental to the development of text linguistics in Brazil. She was one of the founders of the Latin American Association of Discourse Studies.
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Susan Milan
1947 - Present (79 years)
Susan Milan is an English professor of flute of the Royal College of Music, classical performer, recording artiste, composer, author and entrepreneur. Biography Susan Milan was born in London, the daughter of civil servants. Between 1958 and 1963, she became a Junior Exhibitioner at the Royal College of Music. During 1960 to 1966, she was a member of the London Schools Symphony Orchestra. From 1963 to 1967, she was a scholar of the Royal College of Music, graduating with honours, where she became a professor of Flute in 1984. From 1966 to 1972, she attended Marcel Moyse master classes in Bo...
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Mary Ann Feldman
1933 - 2019 (86 years)
Mary Ann Feldman was an American music critic. Born Mary Ann Janisch in St. Paul, Minnesota, Feldman grew up in the Frogtown neighborhood of the city. Her parents were the proprietors of a small restaurant there. She was educated at the University of Minnesota, where she studied journalism and music history and received a BA in 1954. While there she wrote music reviews for the Minnesota Daily under the pseudonym "V. I. Olin". In 1957 she completed her MA in musicology at Columbia University, which she had chosen for the opportunity to study with Paul Henry Lang. In 1983 she received a Ph.D. f...
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Sally McConnell-Ginet
1950 - Present (76 years)
Sally McConnell-Ginet is Professor Emerita of Linguistics at Cornell University. She is known for her work on the language of gender and sexuality. Education and career McConnell-Ginet earned degrees in philosophy and mathematics before turning to linguistics, receiving a PhD from the University of Rochester in 1973. She joined the faculty of Cornell University in 1973, with a dual appointment in women's studies and philosophy. She went on to serve as director of Women's Studies and founding co-director of Cognitive Studies, and chair of Modern Languages and Linguistics, as well as the later ...
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Margaret Rose Vendryes
1955 - Present (71 years)
Margaret Rose Vendryes was a visual artist, curator, and art historian based in New York. Early life and education Vendryes was born on March 16, 1955, in Kingston, Jamaica. She began her studies in costume design before moving to fine art and earning a Bachelor's degree at Amherst College, graduating in 1984. She went on to earn her MA in Art History in 1992 from Tulane University and her PhD from Princeton University in 1997 where she focused on African American art history and was the first Black woman to earn a PhD in art history from Princeton.
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Angelica Domröse
1941 - Present (85 years)
Angelica Domröse is a German actress, who became famous in the role of Paula in Heiner Carow's film The Legend of Paul and Paula. Her biological father was a prisoner of war from France. Life After training as a shorthand typist Domröse worked in a state-run foreign trade enterprise in East Germany. In 1958 she was discovered by the director Slatan Dudow and in 1961 attended the film university Potsdam-Babelsberg. In 1966 she joined the Berliner Ensemble, where among other things she performed in Brecht's Dreigroschenoper, Schwejk im zweiten Weltkrieg and Die Tage der Commune, as well as in Helmut Baierl's Frau Flinz.
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Renate Bartsch
1939 - Present (87 years)
Renate Irmtraut Bartsch is a German philosopher of language. She was a professor at the University of Amsterdam between 1974 and 2004. Career Bartsch was born on 12 December 1939 in Königsberg. She earned her Doctor title at Heidelberg University in 1967 with a thesis titled: "Grundzüge einer empiristischen Bedeutungstheorie". Bartsch worked as professor of philosophy of language at the University of Amsterdam from 1974 until she retired in 2004.
Go to ProfileCopper Giloth is a new media artist based in Amherst, Massachusetts. Giloth's work involves digital media, mobile art, virtual environments, animations, videos, painting, and installations, and have been influenced by elements of her life such as her parents. She, along with Darcy Gerbarg, helped organize art exhibitions that showed alongside the SIGGRAPH conference, marking the exhibitions as the first to be shown at the conference. Giloth has been described as "one of the leading exponents of computer art".
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Thecla Schiphorst
1955 - Present (71 years)
Thecla Schiphorst is a Canadian digital media artist and academic. Work Schiphorst was a founding developer of the dance and choreography software Lifeforms, alongside Tom Calvert. Using LifeForms, she collaborated over along period with the American dancer and choreographer Merce Cunningham.
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Alice Faye
1915 - 1998 (83 years)
Alice Faye was an American actress and singer. A musical star of 20th Century-Fox in the 1930s and 1940s, Faye starred in such films as On the Avenue and Alexander's Ragtime Band . She is often associated with the Academy Award–winning standard "You'll Never Know", which she introduced in the 1943 musical film Hello, Frisco, Hello.
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Christiane Lemke
1951 - Present (75 years)
Christiane Lemke is a German politician and professor of political science. She holds the chair in international relations and European studies at Leibniz University Hannover. In 1991–1992, she was a Visiting Krupp Chair in the department of government at Harvard University and from 2010 to 2014 she held the Max Weber Chair at New York University. She is currently also a visiting professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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Erica Muhl
1961 - Present (65 years)
Erica Muhl is an American composer and conductor who was the president of Berklee College of Music until July 24th, 2023. She formerly served as dean of the USC Jimmy Iovine and Andre Young Academy, and was previously dean of the University of Southern California Roski School of Art and Design before being accused of “strategic dismantlement of a formerly renowned studio arts program” by the 2015 graduating class. She received an Award in Music from the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1999.
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Jawole Willa Jo Zollar
1950 - Present (76 years)
Jawole Willa Jo Zollar is an Americann dancer, teacher and choreographer of modern dance. She is the founder of the Urban Bush Women dance company. Biography One of six children, she was born Willa Jo Zollar in Kansas City, Missouri, to parents Alfred Zollar Jr. and Dorothy Delores Zollar. From age seven to seventeen, Zollar received her dance education from Joseph Stevenson, former student of Katherine Dunham. Zollar also had early training in Afro-Cuban and other native dance forms which later helped to shape her teaching aesthetic. After high school graduation she went on to receive a Bach...
Go to ProfileTina Chancey is a multi-instrumentalist specializing in early bowed strings from the rebec and vielle to the kamenj, renaissance fiddle, violas da gamba and pardessus de viole. Early life and education Born in Cleveland, Ohio to Communist parents, Chancey went into music at an early age, and attended Oberlin College. After three years at Oberlin, which had little early music in 1967-70, she moved to New York City to continue her education. She received her Bachelor's in Music and MA in performance from Queens College, City University of New York, her MA in Musicology from New York University, ...
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Tania León
1943 - Present (83 years)
Tania León is a Cuban-born American composer of both large scale and chamber works. She is also renowned as a conductor, educator, and advisor to arts organizations. Early years and education She was born Tania Justina León in Havana, Cuba, of mixed French, Spanish, Chinese, African, and Cuban heritage. It was her grandmother who recognized that her granddaughter liked music because of the way she reacted to music on the radio. She began studying the piano at the age of four and she attended Carlos Alfredo Peyrellade Conservatory, where she earned a B.A. in 1963, and the Alejandro García Caturla Conservatory, where she studied piano with Zenaida Manfugás.
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Shulamit Ran
1949 - Present (77 years)
Shulamit Ran is an Israeli-American composer. She moved from Israel to New York City at 14, as a scholarship student at the Mannes College of Music. Her Symphony won her the Pulitzer Prize for Music. In this regard, she was the second woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music, the first being Ellen Taaffe Zwilich in 1983. Ran was a professor of music composition at the University of Chicago from 1973 to 2015. She has performed as a pianist in Israel, Europe and the U.S., and her compositional works have been performed worldwide by a wide array of orchestras and chamber groups.
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Ljiljana Petrović
1939 - 2020 (81 years)
Ljiljana Petrović was a Serbian singer. She was born in Bosanski Brod, but was brought up in Novi Sad. She began to sing at local clubs and restaurants, and performed at a festival in Mali Lošinj in 1960, where she was noticed by the head of the artists and repertoire division at the record label Jugoton. In 1961, Petrović represented Yugoslavia in the Eurovision Song Contest 1961 with the song "Neke davne zvezde" . Petrović finished in 8th place receiving 9 points. Subsequently, she continued to record music until the late 1970s, at which point she retired from public life until the late 198...
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Donka Minkova
1944 - Present (82 years)
Donka Minkova is an American-Bulgarian linguist and Distinguished Research Professor at the University of California, Los Angeles. Books The History of Final Vowels in English English Words: History and Structure Alliteration and Sound Change in Early English A Historical Phonology of English
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Georgina Dobrée
1930 - 2008 (78 years)
Georgina Dobrée was an English clarinettist. She firstly played the violin and piano in her childhood years but dropped the violin and later took up the clarinet as a second instrument while studying in London. She began her professional musical career in 1951 and continued up until 1999 around several location. Her career also saw her set up her own record company and undertake a professorship role at the Royal Academy of Music.
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Adela Žgur
1909 - 1992 (83 years)
Adela Žgur was a Slovene academic, who prepared the first English textbooks for secondary students in Slovenia. Holding degrees in German and English language and literature, much of her published work was translation-based. During World War II, because of her work with the Liberation Front, she was imprisoned. At the end of the war, she served as a translator at the Paris Peace Conference of 1946. In 1951, she was awarded a Carnegie Fellowship and spent a year observing educational practices in the United States.
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Dorothy Revier
1904 - 1993 (89 years)
Dorothy Revier was an American actress. Early years Born as Doris Valerga in San Francisco on April 18, 1904, Revier was one of five siblings of the famous Valerga performing family of the Bay Area. Her mother was English and her father was Italian. She was educated in the public schools of Oakland before going to New York City to study classical dancing.
Go to ProfileElisabeth Holland is an American climate scientist who focuses on how the carbon and nitrogen cycles interact with earth systems. She has become a key player in the international climate debate. She is currently a professor of climate change at the University of the South Pacific. She is also the director of the Pacific Center for Environmental and Sustainable Development.
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Mary Turzillo
1940 - Present (86 years)
Mary A. Turzillo is an American science fiction writer noted primarily for short stories. She won the Nebula Award for Best Novelette in 2000 for her story "Mars is No Place for Children," published originally in Science Fiction Age. Her story "Pride," published originally in Fast Forward 1, was a Nebula award finalist for best short story of 2007.
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Judith Innes
1942 - 2020 (78 years)
Judith E. Innes was an American academic. She ended her career as professor emerita at the College of Environmental Design at the University of California, Berkeley. Her academic work focused on the areas of public policy, planning theory and process, collaborative planning, communicative planning, and multiple areas of urban planning including transportation and water planning. She held a Ph.D. in Urban Studies and Planning from MIT and a B.A. in English Literature from Harvard University. Innes died on April 14, 2020, aged 78.
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Chi-chi Nwanoku
1956 - Present (70 years)
Chinyere Adah "Chi-Chi" Nwanoku is a British double bassist and professor of Historical Double Bass Studies at the Royal Academy of Music. Nwanoku was a founder member and principal bassist of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, a position she held for 30 years.
Go to ProfileJenna Price is an Australian journalist and academic. As of 2021, she is a visiting fellow at the Australian National University and The Sydney Morning Herald columnist. She is one of the founders of the online feminist movement, Destroy The Joint.
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Usha Mangeshkar
1935 - Present (91 years)
Usha Mangeshkar is an Indian singer who has recorded many Marathi, Manipuri, Hindi, Bengali, Kannada, Nepali, Bhojpuri, Gujarati, Odia and Assamese songs. Career She came into the spotlight as a playback singer after singing some devotional songs for the low-budget movie Jai Santoshi Maa , which became an all-time blockbuster. She was nominated for the Filmfare Best Female Playback Singer award for her song "Main to Aarti" in that film. She sang the same songs for that movie's remake in 2006.
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Vicki Mayer
1971 - Present (55 years)
Vicki Mayer is professor of communication and media. She currently works at Tulane University in New Orleans Louisiana, where she holds the Louise Riggio Chair for Social Entrepreneurship and Innovation. Mayer is an influential academic for her research on media production and consumption, specifically relating to economic and political transformations in creative industries. Her writings on production range from student publishing, community media, ethnic journalism and urban sign production, and have significantly contributed to the Communication School of Liberal Arts. Mayer's most download...
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Natalie Clein
1977 - Present (49 years)
Natalie Clein is a British classical cellist. Her mother is a professional violinist. Her sister is the actress Louisa Clein. Early life and education Clein started playing the cello at the age of six, and attended Talbot Heath School in Bournemouth, Dorset. She studied with Anna Shuttleworth and Alexander Baillie at the Royal College of Music where she was awarded the Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother Scholarship. She has also studied with Heinrich Schiff in Vienna.
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Mindy Seu
1991 - Present (35 years)
Mindy Seu is an American designer and researcher whose work focuses on public engagement with digital archives. Seu is currently on the Faculty at Rutgers Mason Gross School of the Arts and also teaches at the Yale School of Art.
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Peggy Willis-Aarnio
1948 - 2016 (68 years)
Peggy Willis-Aarnio was an American choreographer, historian, author and teacher of classical ballet. She was a professional dancer in the early 1970s with the Ft. Worth Ballet in Fort Worth, Texas. She was the first American ballet teacher to be sanctioned as a "Certified Practitioner and Teacher of the Teaching Method of Classical Ballet" by the Vaganova Academy in Saint Petersburg, Russia.
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Maria Helena de Moura Neves
1931 - 2022 (91 years)
Maria Helena de Moura Neves was a Brazilian linguist known for her work on language use, especially functional approaches to Portuguese grammar. She also conducted research on the history and teaching of grammar. She was professor emerita at São Paulo State University, and also lectured at Mackenzie Presbyterian University. In 2022 she received the Ester Sabino Award in the Senior Researcher category.
Go to ProfileLouisa Hodge is a meteorologist and Emmy award-winning general assignment reporter for KCBS-2/KCAL-9 at CBS Studio Center in Studio City, California. She also hosted an adventure series where you could see her taking part in adventurous sports and activities in the Los Angeles area. Previously she spent two years working as a meteorologist/anchor/reporter for Independent TV KRON-4 in San Francisco and prior to KRON she was a TV anchor and reporter for Tribune Fox affiliate KTXL in Sacramento, CA. She was a weeknight reporter and weekend weather anchor for Fox 40 News at 10 with Teri Cox and Joe Orlando.
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LouAnn Gerken
1959 - Present (67 years)
LouAnn Gerken is a Professor of Psychology, Linguistics, and Cognitive Science at the University of Arizona. She is the author of a book on language development and has over 80 published articles and book chapters on the topic. Her education includes a B.A. in Psychology , an M.A. in Experimental Psychology , and a Ph.D. in Experimental Psychology .
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Janie Fricke
1947 - Present (79 years)
Jane Marie Fricke , known professionally as Janie Fricke, is an American country music singer, songwriter, record producer, and clothing designer. She has placed seventeen singles in the top ten of the US Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. Eight of these songs reached the number one spot on the Country music chart. She has also won accolades from the Academy of Country Music, Country Music Association and has been nominated four times from the Grammy Awards.
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Chita Rivera
1933 - Present (93 years)
Dolores Conchita Figueroa del Rivero Anderson , professionally known as Chita Rivera, is an American actress, singer and dancer who originated roles in Broadway musicals including Anita in West Side Story, Velma Kelly in Chicago, and the title role in Kiss of the Spider Woman. She is a ten-time Tony Award nominee and a three-time Tony Award recipient, including one for Lifetime Achievement. She is the first Latina and the first Latino American to receive a Kennedy Center Honor and is a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Her autobiography, Chita: A Memoir, was published in 2023.
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Julie Landsman
1953 - Present (73 years)
Julie Landsman is an American-born French horn player and teacher. Landsman was Principal Horn of the Metropolitan Opera from 1985-2010. Prior to her appointment with the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Landsman served as co-principal horn with the Houston Symphony, and has toured internationally with the New York Philharmonic and Orpheus Chamber Orchestra. Julie Landsman is on the faculties of The Juilliard School, the USC Thornton School of Music, and the Music Academy of the West. She formerly taught at the Bard College Conservatory of Music.
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Özge Samancı
1975 - Present (51 years)
Özge Samancı is a Turkish-American media artist, and associate professor at Northwestern University`s School of Communication. She creates media art installations and graphic novels. Her art installations merge computer code and bio-sensors with comics, animation, interactive narrations, performance, and projection art. Her installations use media arts to break down people's mental and emotional barriers and hear about environmental issues. Her graphic novels combine drawings with three-dimensional objects.
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Ella Mae Morse
1924 - 1999 (75 years)
Ella Mae Morse was an American singer of popular music whose 1940s and 1950s recordings mixing jazz, blues, and country styles influenced the development of rock and roll. Her 1942 recording of "Cow-Cow Boogie" with Freddie Slack and His Orchestra gave Capitol Records its first gold record. In 1943, her single "Get On Board, Little Chillun", also with Slack, charted in what would soon become the R&B charts, making her one of the first white singers to do so. Morse stopped recording in 1957 but continued to perform and tour into the 1990s. In 1960 she received a star on the Hollywood Walk of F...
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Eímear Noone
2000 - Present (26 years)
Eimear Noone is an Irish conductor and composer, best known for her award-winning work on video game music. She has conducted the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Royal Philharmonic, Orchestre National de Bretagne, the Sydney Symphony, the Danish National Symphony Orchestra, and several other national orchestras. Noone was the first woman to conduct at the Oscars on 9 February 2020, leading the orchestra in excerpts from the five nominated film scores. Noone was also the first woman to conduct at the National Concert Hall in Dublin, Ireland. A documentary about the life of Eimear Noone is curren...
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Eleanor Sokoloff
1914 - 2020 (106 years)
Eleanor Sokoloff was an American pianist and academic who formed a piano duo with her husband, Vladimir Sokoloff. She taught piano on the faculty of the Curtis Institute of Music from 1936 until her death in 2020.
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Alleen Pace Nilsen
1936 - Present (90 years)
Alleen Pace Nilsen is an American literary scholar, linguist, and one of the pioneers of both humor studies and children's literature studies. She is Professor Emeritus in the Department of English at Arizona State University, where she was previously the director of the English Education Program. Together with her husband Don Nilsen, she co-founded the International Society for Humor Studies.
Go to ProfileCarolyn Marvin is a professor and author that specializes in communication, culture and media, political communication, and technology and society. Marvin is currently the Frances Yates Emeritus Professor of Communication at the University of Pennsylvania's Annenberg School for Communication. Marvin is the author of two major publications, When Old Technologies Were New and Blood Sacrifice and the Nation: Totem Rituals and the American Flag.
Go to ProfileLis Lewis is an American voice teacher, author and performance coach. Lewis's clients include Miguel, Gwen Stefani, Rihanna, Courtney Love, Britney Spears, Colbie Caillat, Linkin Park, Demi Lovato, Tyson Ritter of The All-American Rejects, The Pussycat Dolls, Bryson Tiller, Iggy Azalea, and Jack Black.
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Diane Winston
1951 - Present (75 years)
Diane Winston is an American professor of Media and Religion at the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism at the University of Southern California, and an author. USC lists her current research interests as media coverage of Islam, religion and new media, and the place of religion in American identity.
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