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List of the most influential people in Education,

#701

Rosemarie Allen

#80127

Overall Influence

Rosemarie Allen is an American academic who specializes in diversity, equity, and inclusion. She is an associate professor of early childhood development at the Metropolitan State University of Denver and president and chief executive officer for the Institute for Racial Equity and Excellence.

#702

Jon Dellandrea

#69450

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (75 years)

Jon Samuel Dellandrea, is a Canadian author and art historian, and a former hospital foundation executive and university executive and educator. He is a senior fellow at Massey College, chair emeritus of the Art Canada Institute, and a Member of the Order of Canada. The CEO of the Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre Foundation in Toronto from 2012 to 2021, Dellandrea has formerly held the positions of pro-vice-chancellor at the University of Oxford, and vice president of advancement at the University of Toronto, and was chancellor of Nipissing University from 2006 to 2012.

#703

Gary Cziko

#16392

Overall Influence

Gary Cziko is an American researcher, and author in the field of educational psychology at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign who has worked on the philosophical model known as perceptual control theory – a model whose original developer, William T. Powers, was his mentor. He has written two introductory books on the subject, and in 1995 he introduced the concept of "universal selectionism" into the PCT model.

#704

M. Elizabeth Graue

#99491

Overall Influence

M. Elizabeth Graue is Sorenson professor of Curriculum and Instruction, in the School of Education at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. She is the former Associate Director for Faculty, Staff, and Student Development at the Wisconsin Center for Education Research. Graue's areas of interest include school readiness, class size reduction, preK policy, preparing teachers for inclusive home-school relations, and qualitative research methods.

#705

Fred Moten

#17214

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (62 years)

Fred Moten is an American cultural theorist, poet, and scholar whose work explores critical theory, black studies, and performance studies. Moten is Professor of Performance Studies at New York University and Distinguished Professor Emeritus at University of California, Riverside; he previously taught at Duke University, Brown University, and the University of Iowa. His scholarly texts include The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning & Black Study which was co-authored with Stefano Harney, In the Break: The Aesthetics of the Black Radical Tradition, and The Universal Machine . He has published num...

#706

Patricia Fortini Brown

#110116

Overall Influence

1936 - Present (88 years)

Patricia Fortini Brown is Professor Emerita of Art & Archaeology at Princeton University. Venice and its empire, from the late middle ages through the early modern period, has been the primary site of her scholarly research, with a focus on how works of art and architecture can materialize and sum up significant aspects of the culture in which they were produced. Her recent work has focused on Venetian territories in the Mediterranean and the Terraferma, particularly the Friuli.

#707

Aparna Sen

#34351

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (79 years)

Aparna Sen is an Indian film director, screenwriter and actress who is known for her work in Bengali cinema. She has received several accolades as an actress and filmmaker, including nine National Film Awards, five Filmfare Awards East and thirteen Bengal Film Journalists' Association Awards. For her contribution in the field of arts, the Government of India honoured her with Padma Shri, the country's fourth highest civilian award.

#708

John Barkley Means

#100465

Overall Influence

1939 - Present (85 years)

John Barkley Means was an American professor of Liberal Arts at Temple University from 1968 to 2003. He joined the foreign language faculty at that university on completion of doctoral studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Means was founding director of the Center for Critical Languages and, in later years, served as director of Temple University's Institute for Languages and International Studies. Initially focusing on the development of Luso-Brazilian programs at Illinois and Temple, in the 1970s Means's professional interests broadened to include the development of n...

#709

Robert Neuman

#47857

Overall Influence

Robert Michael Neuman is a professor of art history at Florida State University, where he specializes in early modern European art, with an emphasis on social and religious history, gender studies, and the intersection of high art and popular culture. His scholarship encompasses all media - painting, sculpture, architecture, prints, decorative arts, and costume.

#710

Carl Kaestle

#96337

Overall Influence

1940 - 2023 (83 years)

Carl Frederick Kaestle is a Professor of Education, History, and Public Policy emeritus at Brown University. His historical research has focused on the development of American schools, particularly in the 1800s. He has worked at the University of Chicago and University of Wisconsin–Madison and is a former president of the National Academy of Education.

#711

Michael J Hannafin

Michael J Hannafin

#124159

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (74 years)

Michael J. Hannafin was professor of instructional technology and director of Learning and Performance Support Laboratory at the University of Georgia. He obtained a Ph.D. in educational technology from the Arizona State University. Along with Kyle Peck, he developed the field of computer-aided instruction as distinguished from computer-based instruction. He received the AERA SIG- IT Best Paper Award in 2007.

#712

Robert J. Marzano

#131016

Overall Influence

#713

Theodore Stebbins

#51858

Overall Influence

1938 - Present (86 years)

Theodore Ellis Stebbins, Jr. is an American art historian and curator. Stebbins is currently the Consultative Curator of American Art at the Harvard Art Museums. Career From 1977 to 1999, Stebbins was the John Moors Cabot Curator of American Paintings at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. During his tenure, he organized nineteen exhibitions ranging from John Singleton Copley in the 18th century to The Lane Collection and its important holdings of modern art. As curator, he guided the museum's acquisition of over three hundred paintings, from 17th century limners to Jackson Pollock and Andy Warhol.

#714

Evelyn Welch

#39092

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (65 years)

Evelyn Kathleen Welch is an American scholar of the Renaissance and Early Modern Period, and Vice Chancellor of the University of Bristol. Prior to her role as Vice Chancellor, Evelyn was the professor of Renaissance Studies, Provost, and Senior Vice President at King’s College London. She served as the Interim President and Principal of King's College London from February to June 2021.

#715

Lucien Golvin

#45698

Overall Influence

1908 - 2002 (94 years)

Lucien Camille Golvin was a noted French university professor who specialized in the study of art from the peoples of the Maghreb. Biography After spending his childhood at Yonne and his formative tertiary education years at Joigny, he left for Tunisia in 1929 to receive a professorship. After ten years, he received a nomination to be Regional Director of the Arts and Tradition at Sfax. His knowledge of tribal Arab culture and personable self, led to take the organization to new heights. There, he founded the Dar Jellouli Museum and during the sombre years of the Second World War, received a ...

#716

Irene Tarimo

#51352

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (60 years)

Irene Aurelia Tarimo is a Tanzanian environmental scientist and educator. She currently serves as Head of Department of environmental studies at the Open University of Tanzania , where she is also a lecturer and a researcher. She previously served as OUT Director in the Lindi Region since 2007 to 2015.

#717

Frances Spalding

#28595

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (74 years)

Frances Spalding is a British art historian, writer and a former editor of The Burlington Magazine. Life Frances Crabtree studied at the University of Nottingham and gained her PhD for a study of Roger Fry. She taught art history at Sheffield City Polytechnic before becoming a freelance writer and curator. She returned to academic work to take up the post of professor of Art History at Newcastle University in 2000.

#718

Karen R. Harris

#131465

Overall Influence

#719

Nell K. Duke

#99688

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (24 years)

Nell K. Duke is a contemporary educator and literacy researcher with an interest in informational text, early literacy development, and reading comprehension instruction, with an emphasis on children living in poverty. She is currently a professor of language, literacy, and culture and a faculty associate in the combined program in education and psychology at the University of Michigan.

#720

Douglas K. Hartman

Douglas K. Hartman

#100081

Overall Influence

Douglas K. Hartman is an American scholar in the field of education. He is a professor of technology & human learning in the College of Education at Michigan State University. He has a joint appointment in the Departments of Educational Psychology & Educational Technology and Teacher Education. His research focuses on the use of digital technologies for human learning in a number of domains .

#721

Francisco Calvo Serraller

#29596

Overall Influence

1948 - 2018 (70 years)

Francisco Calvo Serraller was a Spanish art historian. Life He was born in 1948 in Madrid. Career Calvo Serraller completed his Doctorate in Philosophy and Literature specializing in History at the Complutense University. He was a member of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando from 2001 until his death. He was Director of the Prado Museum. He was a regular contributor to the newspaper El País, since its founding in 1976.

#722

André-François Bourbeau

#103978

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (71 years)

Andre-Francois Bourbeau is a noted Canadian survival expert and professor emeritus at the Université du Québec à Chicoutimi. Bourbeau co-founded the survival skills Outdoor Adventure Program at that university and taught there for more than 30 years. The students at the Université du Québec à Chicoutimi have affectionately given Bourbeau the nickname "Doc Survival" due to his skills.

#723

Saul Fenster

#19449

Overall Influence

Saul K. Fenster was the sixth president of New Jersey Institute of Technology from 1978 until 2002. Education Fenster got his BS from City College of New York, MS from Columbia University, and PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Michigan.

#724

Russell W. Rumberger

#132632

Overall Influence

#725

Marilyn Leask

#90346

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (74 years)

Marilyn Leask is an academic and author who researches in education in the UK. She is Professor of Education at De Montfort University, and was previously Professor of Educational Knowledge Management at the University of Bedfordshire and a professor at Brunel University. Many of her works involve the educational use of information and communications technology .

#726

Achille Bonito Oliva

Achille Bonito Oliva

#20349

Overall Influence

1939 - Present (85 years)

Achille Bonito Oliva is an Italian art critic and historian of contemporary art. Since 1968 he has taught history of contemporary art at La Sapienza, the university of Rome. He has written extensively on contemporary art and contemporary artists; he originated the term Transavanguardia to describe the new direction taken in the late 1970s by artists such as Sandro Chia, Francesco Clemente, Enzo Cucchi, Nicola De Maria, and Mimmo Paladino. He has organised or curated numerous contemporary art events and exhibitions; in 1993 he was artistic director of the Biennale di Venezia.

#727

Robert Lue

#82230

Overall Influence

1964 - 2020 (56 years)

Robert A. Lue was a researcher and an academic. On 1 March 2013, he became the inaugural Richard L. Menschel Faculty Director of the Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning at Harvard University. He was formerly professor of the practice of molecular and cellular biology, and the director of life sciences education at Harvard University. Since 2008, he was the Faculty Director of the Harvard-Allston Education Portal. He was recognized for his contributions to molecular animation.

#728

George Keller

#70468

Overall Influence

1928 - 2007 (79 years)

George Keller was an American scholar of higher education, Professor of Higher-Education Studies at the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education, from which he retired in 1994. Biography Born and raised in Union City, New Jersey, Keller obtained his BA and MA from Columbia University, where he served as an assistant dean and editor of the school's alumni magazine. His work covering the Columbia University protests of 1968 earned him the Atlantic Monthly’s award as Education Writer of the Year. He also received a U.S. Steel Foundation Award for distinguished service to higher education from Lyndon B.

#729

Robert Eugene Yager

#133337

Overall Influence

#730

Natalie Kampen

#49523

Overall Influence

1944 - 2012 (68 years)

Natalie Kampen was an American art historian and women's studies professor. She was born Natalie Boymel on February 1, 1944 in Philadelphia to Pauline and Jules Boymel. She received her bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of Pennsylvania in 1965 and 1967, respectively. She went on to attend Brown University, receiving her PhD in 1976. Her thesis analyzed depictions of Roman working women in second and third century reliefs from Ostia Antica. Boymel taught at the University of Rhode Island from 1969 to 1988. She taught women's studies and art history at Barnard College.

#731

Peter Robert Woods

#133502

Overall Influence

#732

Theodora J. Kalikow

#48806

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (82 years)

Theodora June "Theo" Kalikow is an American academic, university president, author, and women's rights advocate. Holder of a master's degree and PhD in philosophy, she taught at Southeastern Massachusetts University for 17 years before becoming Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Northern Colorado in 1984. From 1984 to 1987 she was Dean of Plymouth State College in New Hampshire. She then served as 13th President of the University of Maine at Farmington from 1994 to 2012, and Interim President of the University of Southern Maine from 2012 to 2014. She was inducted in...

#733

Candy Dawson Boyd

#79420

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (78 years)

Candy Dawson Boyd is an American writer, activist, and educator. She is an author of more than six children's books focused on African-American youth. Early life and education Boyd was born in 1946 in Chicago, Illinois. Her birth name is Marguerite Cecille Dawson. Her parents were Mary Ruth Ridley and Julian Dawson. Boyd had two siblings and she was the oldest of the three. Her mother and father divorced. Boyd was raised by her mother. They lived in South Chicago. Boyd attended racially segregated elementary and middle schools. The library she used was also segregated. The library books were used from white schools that no longer wanted them.

#734

Michael James Prince

#133825

Overall Influence

#735

David K. Cohen

#133905

Overall Influence

#736

Edward P. Alexander

#85453

Overall Influence

1907 - 2003 (96 years)

Edward Porter Alexander was an American historian, museum administrator, educator and writer. He served for nearly 30 years as vice-president for interpretation at Colonial Williamsburg and founded the Museum Studies program at the University of Delaware, which he directed for its first six years.

#737

Nina Turner

#70035

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (57 years)

Nina Hudson Turner is an American politician and television personality. A member of the Democratic Party, she was a Cleveland City Council member from 2006 to 2008 and a member of the Ohio Senate from 2008 until 2014. Turner was the Democratic nominee for Ohio Secretary of State in 2014, but lost in the general election against incumbent Jon Husted, receiving 35.5 percent of the vote. A self-described democratic socialist, her politics have been variously described as progressive, left-wing, or far-left.

#738

W. Taylor Reveley IV

W. Taylor Reveley IV

#66674

Overall Influence

1974 - Present (50 years)

Walter Taylor Reveley IV is a Virginia educator and lawyer who became the 26th president of Longwood University, a public liberal arts college in Farmville, Virginia, in 2013. A scholar of the U.S. presidency, Reveley was previously the managing director of the University of Virginia's Miller Center, and as the coordinating attorney for the National War Powers Commission, co-chaired by U.S. Secretaries of State James Baker and Warren Christopher.

#739

Ray B. Browne

#42254

Overall Influence

1922 - 2009 (87 years)

Ray Broadus Browne , was an American educator, author, and founder of the academic study of popular culture in the United States. He was Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Bowling Green State University in Bowling Green, Ohio. He founded the first academic Department of Popular Culture at BGSU in 1972, and is the founding editor of the Journal of Popular Culture, the Journal of American Culture, and the Popular Press . He also founded the Library for Popular Culture Studies at BGSU , the Popular Culture Association, and the American Culture Association. His particular area of specializatio...

#740

Edith Pfau

#72073

Overall Influence

1915 - 2001 (86 years)

Sister Edith Pfau, S.P., was an American painter, sculptor, and art educator known for her religious works and commissions. Born Alberta Henrietta Pfau in Jasper, Indiana, she began drawing at a very early age. Later in her life she recalled, "I always was attracted to faces. I find faces everywhere, even in scribbles on the wall."

#741

Hirokazu Yoshikawa

#134370

Overall Influence

#742

Thomas Charles Reeves

#134471

Overall Influence

#743

Robert Hobbs

#64858

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (78 years)

Robert Carleton Hobbs is an American art historian and curator specializing in twentieth-century art. Since 1991 he has held the Rhoda Thalhimer Endowed Chair of American Art in the School of Arts, Virginia Commonwealth University, a highly ranked art department. Since 2004 he has served as a visiting professor at Yale University. He has held positions at Cornell University, University of Iowa, Florida State University, and Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art in Iran, and is known for a number of books, in-depth essays, and exhibitions.

#744

Carlos Alberto Torres

#115453

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (74 years)

Carlos Alberto Torres Novoa is a distinguished professor. He was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on October 1, 1950. He is a political sociologist of education, a published poet and short story author. He did his undergraduate work in sociology in Argentina , his graduate work in Mexico and the United States , and post-doctoral studies in educational foundations in Canada . He is a Professor of Social Science and Comparative Education at the UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies.

#745

Michael R. Eraut

#134535

Overall Influence

#746

Vanessa Siddle Walker

#84624

Overall Influence

Vanessa Siddle Walker is the Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of African American Educational Studies at Emory University and was president of the American Educational Research Association in 2019–20. Walker has studied the segregation of the American educational system for twenty-five years and published the non-fiction work The Lost Education of Horace Tate: Uncovering the Hidden Heroes Who Fought for Justice in Schools.

#747

Jyotindra Jain

#50182

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (81 years)

Jyotindra Jain is an Indian art historian and cultural historian, and museologist. A scholar on folk and ritual arts of India, he was the director of the National Crafts Museum, New Delhi, member secretary and professor , at Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts , New Delhi, and also professor at the School of Arts and Aesthetics at Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi. He has published a number of books on Indian folk art, including, Ganga Devi: Tradition and Expression in Mithila Painting, Other Masters: Five Contemporary Folk and Tribal Artists of India and Kalighat Painting: Images fro...

#748

Petri Salo

#112282

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (60 years)

Petri Salo is Finnish educational researcher, and public figure in adult education. He is a professor in adult education at the Åbo Akademi University, Vaasa . Previously he has worked as Assistant Professor and Professor of adult education besides his institution also at University of Tampere. From the beginning of 2007, he is the chief editor for the Finnish scientific journal Aikuiskasvatus .

#749

Dan Cruickshank

Dan Cruickshank

#11919

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (75 years)

Daniel Gordon Raffan Cruickshank is a British art historian and BBC television presenter, with a special interest in the history of architecture. Professional career Cruickshank holds a BA in Art, Design and Architecture and was formerly a visiting professor in the Department of Architecture at the University of Sheffield and a member of the London faculty of the University of Delaware. He is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Artists, a member of the executive committee of the Georgian Group and on the Architectural Panel of the National Trust, and is an Honorary Fellow of ...

#750

Sterling Dow

#87816

Overall Influence

1903 - 1995 (92 years)

Sterling Dow was an American classical archaeologist, epigrapher, and professor of archaeology at Harvard University. After secondary education at Phillips Exeter Academy, Dow matriculated in 1921 at Harvard University and graduated there in 1925 with a bachelor's degree in philosophy. As the winner of the Fiske Scholarship, Dow spent the academic year 1925–1926 studying ancient history at Trinity College, Cambridge. Returning to Harvard in 1926, he graduated with M.A. in 1928 and Ph.D. in history in 1936. His doctoral supervisor was the Canadian ancient historian William Scott Ferguson . Dow married Elizabeth Sanderson Flagg in 1931.

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