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List of the most influential people in Education,

#1101

Sheila Riddell

#120220

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (71 years)

Sheila Riddell , is an academic at the University of Edinburgh and Director of the Centre for Research in Education Inclusion and Diversity . She has also been Director of the Strathclyde Centre for Disability Research, University of Glasgow. Her research interests include equality and social inclusion in education and adult education, with particular reference to gender, social class and disability

#1102

Jacob Rooksby

#96417

Overall Influence

1982 - Present (42 years)

Jacob Rooksby is the dean of the Gonzaga University School of Law, assuming the role in 2018. He previously served as an associate dean of administration and associate professor of law at Duquesne University School of Law in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Rooskby also worked in the private sector before entering academia, as an attorney at McGuireWoods, LLP and Cohen & Grigsby.

#1103

Sheila Blair

#62940

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (76 years)

Sheila S. Blair is a Canadian-born American art historian and educator. Blair has served as the dual Norma Jean Calderwood University Professor of Islamic and Asian Art at Boston College, along with her husband, Jonathan M. Bloom.

#1104

Dele Jegede

#125325

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (79 years)

Dele Jegede is a Nigerian-American painter, art historian, cartoonist, curator, art critic, art administrator, and teacher. Jegede was a Senior Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC, . He taught at Spelman College, Atlanta as Visiting Fulbright Scholar , when he curated the exhibition, Art By Metamorphosis. Listed in Kelly and Stanley's "Nigerian Artists: A Who's Who & Bibliography," Jegede was Professor and Chair of the Department of Art, Indiana State University, Terre Haute and Professor of Art at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, . He retired as Professor Emeritus in May 2015.

#1105

John Gage

#74367

Overall Influence

1938 - 2012 (74 years)

John Stephen Gage, FRSA, FBA was an art historian known for his work on the use of colour in art. He was an authority on the work of J. M. W. Turner, about which he wrote three books and edited a collection of the artist's letters.

#1106

John Chandler

#102030

Overall Influence

1923 - Present (101 years)

John Wesley Chandler was an American educator who was the 15th president of Hamilton College, from 1968 to 1973 and the 12th president of Williams College, from 1973 to 1985. He was also president of the Association of American Colleges and Universities from 1985 to 1990.

#1107

Joe Dante

#35134

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (78 years)

Joseph James Dante Jr. is an American film director, producer, editor and actor. His films—notably Gremlins alongside its sequel, Gremlins 2: The New Batch —often mix the 1950s-style B movie genre with 1960s radicalism and cartoon comedy.

#1108

Jonathan M. Bloom

#80534

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (74 years)

Jonathan Max Bloom is an American art historian and educator. Bloom has served as the dual Norma Jean Calderwood University Professor of Islamic and Asian Art at Boston College, along with his wife, Sheila Blair.

#1109

Jenny Ozga

#163845

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (76 years)

Jennifer E Ozga is a British education policy researcher. She is Professor Emerita in the Department of Education at the University of Oxford. She was Professor of Sociology of Education at Oxford from 2010 to 2015 and has also worked at the University of Edinburgh, University of Strathclyde, Keele University, UWE Bristol, and the Open University. Ozga was elected as a fellow of the British Academy in 2013.

#1110

Emmanuel Karooro

#127578

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (79 years)

Professor Emmanuel Karooro is a Ugandan educator, academic and academic administrator, who serves as the Vice-Chancellor at Ibanda University, a private co-educational institution of higher learning in the Western Region of Uganda.

#1111

Pearl Duncan

#90255

Overall Influence

Pearl Maud Duncan Booth was an Australian teacher, anthropologist and academic. A Gamilaraay woman, she was the first known tertiary-qualified Indigenous teacher in Australia. She was named a Queensland Great in 2008.

#1112

Kendra Stearns O'Donnell

#99489

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (80 years)

Kendra Stearns O'Donnell is an American educator and painter who served as the 12th principal of Phillips Exeter Academy. Biography She attended Emma Willard School, graduating in 1960, Barnard College, graduating in 1965, and Columbia University, where she received an M.A. and Ph.D. degree in English. As an assistant professor of English at Princeton University, entering the faculty in 1971, she received, as the first woman to do so, the title of university marshal. She served as a program officer at the Markle Foundation, the program director of the Arthur Vining Davis Foundations, and as a consultant and special assistant to the president of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund.

#1113

David Alan Mellor

#66001

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (76 years)

David Alan Mellor was a British curator, professor and writer. He was awarded the Royal Photographic Society's J. Dudley Johnston Award and Education Award. Life and career David Mellor — as he was called before he began using his full name professionally to avoid confusion with the politician of the same name — grew up in Leicester as the child of a lorry-driver and a hairdresser; he attended school intermittently due to his severe asthma. As an undergraduate he studied art at Sussex University under Quentin Bell. During this time Asa Briggs, then Vice-Chancellor of the University, received the archive of Mass-Observation from Tom Harrisson.

#1114

Clément Chéroux

Clément Chéroux

#67176

Overall Influence

1970 - Present (54 years)

Clément Chéroux is a French photography historian and curator. He is Chief Curator of Photography at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. He has also held senior curatorial positions at the Centre Pompidou in Paris and at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Chéroux has overseen many exhibitions and books on photographers and photography.

#1115

Charles Hollenberg

#108947

Overall Influence

1930 - 2003 (73 years)

Charles H. Hollenberg was a Canadian physician, educator and researcher. Born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, he received a Bachelor of Science in 1950 and a Doctor of Medicine in 1955 from the University of Manitoba. In 1960, he joined the Department of Medicine at McGill University. From 1970 to 1981, he was the Sir John and Lady Eaton Professor of Medicine and Chair of the Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, and Physician-in-Chief of the Toronto General Hospital.

#1116

Richard A. Cash

Richard A. Cash

#45750

Overall Influence

1941 - Present (83 years)

Richard Alan Cash is an American global health researcher, public health physician, and internist. He is a Senior Lecturer in International Health at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in Boston.

#1117

Jeremy Kilpatrick

#149767

Overall Influence

1935 - 2022 (87 years)

Jeremy Kilpatrick was an American mathematics educator. He received the Felix Klein Medal for 2007 from ICMI . He graduated from Chaffey two-year college in California , then he went to the University of California at Berkeley to earn an A.B degree in mathematics and after an M.A degree in education. He received his M.S. in mathematics in 1962 and his PhD degree in mathematics education in 1967, both from Stanford University, where he was also a research assistant in the SMSG . His dissertation was supervised by Edward Begle with George Pólya and Lee Conbrach in the doctoral committee, and addressed eight graders’ problem-solving heuristics.

#1118

Donald D. Deshler

#129394

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (77 years)

Donald D. Deshler is a leading expert on the education of special needs children. He is professor emeritus in the School of Education and was the director of the Center for Learning on Education at the University of Kansas. He was also the Gene A. Budig Professor of Special Education at the University of Kansas.

#1119

Gao Minglu

#69192

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (75 years)

Gao Minglu is a scholar in Chinese contemporary art. He is the Chair of the Department of Art History, Professor for Distinguished Service, and Chair of Art and is an instructor at the University of Pittsburgh. He is also distinguished professor at Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts.

#1120

E. Jennifer Monaghan

#81997

Overall Influence

1933 - 2014 (81 years)

E. Jennifer Monaghan , also known as Jennifer Monaghan, was an educator and historian. She was regarded as the leading expert on literacy education in early America. She published three books and dozens of book chapters and journal articles.

#1121

Tamati Reedy

#90763

Overall Influence

1936 - Present (88 years)

Sir Tamati Muturangi Reedy is a New Zealand Māori academic and former public servant and rugby union player. He served as secretary of the Department of Maori Affairs between 1983 and 1989, during which time he was involved in the Māori loans affair. He was the foundation dean and professor of the School of Māori and Pacific Development at the University of Waikato in 1996, and was later the professor of Māori sustainable enterprise in the School of Management at Waikato. He was knighted, for services to education, in 2011.

#1122

Catherine Odora Hoppers

Catherine Odora Hoppers

#135212

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (67 years)

Catherine Alum Odora Hoppers is a Ugandan-born Professor in Development Education in South Africa. She has worked in Sweden and now is based in South Africa. Life Odora Hoppers was born in Uganda. She studied in Uganda, Zambia and Sweden. She has a doctorate in international pedagogy from Stockholm University. She has worked as an international policy adviser to UNESCO and to World Intellectual Property Organization and the governments of South Africa and Uganda.

#1123

Caroline Gipps

#120205

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (76 years)

Caroline Victoria Gipps was Vice-chancellor of the University of Wolverhampton from 2005 to 2011. Gipps read Psychology at Bristol University and before her appointment at Wolverhampton had been dean of research at the Institute of Education and Deputy Vice-chancellor at Kingston University.

#1124

Pierre Amandry

#55289

Overall Influence

1912 - 2006 (94 years)

Pierre Amandry was a French hellenist, especially interested in ancient Greece and its relationships with south-west Asia. He was born at Troyes on December 31, 1912, and died in Paris on February 21, 2006. A large part of his work was on the site of Delphi, excavated by the French School at Athens, of which he was secretary general from 1941 to 1948 and director from 1969 to 1981.

#1125

Fadia Nasser-Abu Alhija

#163304

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (69 years)

Fadia Nasser-Abu Alhija is an Arab educator, and professor at Tel Aviv University. From 2012 to 2016, she was a member of the Higher Education Council in Israel. Life In 1977, she graduated from Tel Aviv University. In 1997, she received her Ph.D. from the University of Georgia.

#1126

Peter Anker

#151065

Overall Influence

1927 - 2012 (85 years)

Peter Martin Anker was a Norwegian museum director, art historian and critic. Personal life He was born in Bergen as a son of chief physician Herman Anker and Charlotte Amalie Meyer . He was married to Liv Løberg , but the marriage was dissolved. From October 1973 he was married to Inger Kiær, a daughter of Herman L. Løvenskiold, but that marriage was dissolved too. In April 1987 he married his third wife, Inger-Johanne Brautaset.

#1127

David Dickinson

#97416

Overall Influence

David Dickinson is an American scholar in educational development, strategy and understanding, currently the Margaret Cowan Chair at Vanderbilt University. He graduated from Harvard Graduate School of Education.

#1128

John Newman

#49928

Overall Influence

1936 - 2023 (87 years)

John Arthur Newman was an English architectural historian. He was the author of several of the Pevsner Architectural Guides and was the advisory editor to the series. Life and career John Arthur Newman was born on 14 December 1936, and lived most of his life in Kent. He was educated at Dulwich College and Oxford University where he read Greats . In 1959 he became a classics teacher at Tonbridge School. In 1963 he left his teaching post to study for a diploma in the history of European art at the Courtauld Institute of Art, which he passed with distinction. In 1966 he was appointed a full-tim...

#1129

Eva Olsson

#111278

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (64 years)

Eva Olsson is a Swedish physicist who is a professor at Chalmers University of Technology. She is a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and part of the selection committee for the Nobel Prize in Physics.

#1130

Julie Dash

#72774

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (72 years)

Julie Ethel Dash is an American filmmaker, music video and commercial director, author, and website producer. Dash received her MFA in 1985 at the UCLA Film School and is one of the graduates and filmmakers known as the L.A. Rebellion. The L.A. Rebellion refers to the first African and African-American students who studied film at UCLA. Through their collective efforts, they sought to put an end to the prejudices of Hollywood by creating experimental and unconventional films. The main goal of these films was to create original Black stories and bring them to the main screens. After Dash had w...

#1131

Emanuel Bosák

#166746

Overall Influence

1924 - 2011 (87 years)

Emanuel Bosák was a Czech physical educationalist and sports official. He was born in Jičín, and studied physical education at the Charles University in Prague. He spent his entire career, until 1990, at the Faculty of Physical Education and Sport of the same university; from 1964 to 1967 he served as pro-dean of his faculty. He served as a member of the IAAF European Commission from 1952 to 1970, of the IAAF Council 1968 until 1972, as president of the Czechoslovak Association of Physical Education and the Czechoslovak Olympic Committee from 1967 to 1970 and Minister of Sports from 1969 to 1...

#1132

Hsu Shu-hsiang

#43768

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (63 years)

Hsu Shu-hsiang is a Taiwanese academic administrator and politician. Hsu Shu-hsiang is the elder son of Hsu Wen-tsu. His younger brother Hsu Shu-po has served on the Legislative Yuan. Hsu Shu-hsiang graduated from Soochow University with a degree in political science, and pursued graduate study in the same subject in the United States, earning a master's degree at Ohio State University and a doctorate at Colorado State University. Hsu has headed the educational institution TransWorld University twice, and overseen it through three name changes. Hsu took office as Minister of Examination on 1 ...

#1133

Bronwen Cowie

#168566

Overall Influence

Bronwen Cowie is a New Zealand academic. As of 2018, she is a full professor at the University of Waikato. Academic career After a 2000 PhD titled 'Formative assessment in science classrooms' at the University of Waikato, Cowie joined the staff, rising to full professor.

#1134

Sue McKemmish

#78841

Overall Influence

Professor Sue McKemmish is an Australian archivist and scholar in the field of archival science. She is currently the Associate Dean Graduate Research for the Faculty of Information Technology at Monash University, Melbourne.

#1135

Jo-Ann Archibald

#144850

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (74 years)

Jo-Ann Archibald, also known as Q’um Q’um Xiiem , is an Indigenous studies scholar from the Sto:lo First Nation in British Columbia, Canada. Archibald completed her Bachelor of Education at the University of British Columbia in 1972, followed by her Master's degree and Ph.D. at Simon Fraser University. Archibald was a member of the Board of Directors at the First Nations House of Learning at UBC and was also its Director from 1993 to 2001.

#1136

Ernst Vegelin

#100393

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (55 years)

Jhr. Dr. Ernst Vegelin van Claerbergen is Head of the Courtauld Gallery, London. Selected publications David Teniers and the theatre of painting. London: Courtauld Institute of Art, 2006. Renoir at the theatre: looking at La loge. London: Courtauld Gallery in association with Paul Holberton Pub., 2008.

#1137

Herbert R. Kohl

#61005

Overall Influence

1937 - Present (87 years)

Herbert Ralph Kohl is an American educator best known for his advocacy of progressive alternative education and as the author of more than thirty books on education. He founded the 1960s Open School movement and is credited with coining the term "open classroom".

#1138

John Rewald

#14294

Overall Influence

1912 - 1994 (82 years)

John Rewald was an American academic, author and art historian. He was known as a scholar of Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, Cézanne, Renoir, Pissarro, Seurat, and other French painters of the late 19th century. He was recognized as a foremost authority on late 19th-century art. His History of Impressionism is a standard work.

#1139

Michelle Caswell

#65435

Overall Influence

Michelle Caswell is an American archivist and academic known for her work regarding community archives and approaches to archival practice rooted in anti-racism and anti-oppression. She is an associate professor of archival studies in the Department of Information Studies at University of California, Los Angeles and is the director of the school's Community Archives Lab.

#1140

Keith Hefner

#55122

Overall Influence

Keith Hefner is the founder and Executive Director of Youth Communication, an influential nonprofit organization publishing magazines and books by and for youth. The magazines are YCteen , written by New York City teens, and Represent , by and for foster youth. He is also a founder of Youth Liberation of Ann Arbor, a youth rights organization in Michigan.

#1141

Maggie George

#107148

Overall Influence

Maggie L. George is an American academic administrator and educator. She served as president of Diné College from August 2011 to January 2016. In 2006, George became the inaugural director of academic affairs and Indian education for the New Mexico Higher Education Department.

#1142

Corine Schleif

#38537

Overall Influence

Corine Schleif is a professor and art historian who researches, teaches and writes about Medieval art, Renaissance art, feminist art theory, and the motivations behind the creating and destroying of art. She is faculty at Arizona State University's School of Art.

#1143

Barnett Berry

#168871

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (68 years)

Barnett Berry is a research professor at the University of South Carolina, where he is the founding director of Accelerating for Learning and Leadership for South Carolina — an initiative launched in 2019, to marshal the resources of an entire R1 institution of higher education in service of high need school communities. Barnett's career includes serving as a high school teacher, a social scientist at the RAND Corporation, a professor at UofSC , a senior state education agency leader, and senior consultant with the National Commission on Teaching and America's Future, leading its state partne...

#1144

Martin Postle

#86464

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (74 years)

Martin Postle is a British art historian who is deputy director for collections and publications at the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, London, and a leading expert on the art of Sir Joshua Reynolds. He is a former curator at the Tate Gallery.

#1145

James W. Fraser

#92010

Overall Influence

James Walter Fraser is an American educationalist, pastor, and academic administrator. He is a professor of history and education and chair of the applied statistics, social science, and humanities department at the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development. Fraser is dean of education at the University of the People. He is a past president of the History of Education Society. Fraser was the pastor at Grace Church Federated from 1986 to 2006.

#1146

Susan MacLaury

#113933

Overall Influence

1901 - Present (123 years)

Susan MacLaury is the co-founder and executive director of the non-profit media company Shine Global, a licensed social worker, and a retired educator. She is also an Emmy-winning and Academy Award-nominated producer.

#1147

Leo Schmidt

#78317

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (71 years)

Leo Schmidt is a German curator of monuments and a historian of art and architecture. He is professor at the department of architectural conservation at the Brandenburg University of Technology. Early life and education Schmidt studied art history, classical archeology and history at the University of Freiburg and at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. In 1980 he gained his Doctor of Philosophie at the University of Freiburg with a thesis on the architecture of Holkham Hall.

#1148

Patricia Rubin

#109611

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (73 years)

Patricia Lee Rubin is an American art historian and a scholar of Italian Renaissance art. Early life and education Rubin received her BA from Yale University in 1975, where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. She received her MA from the Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London, in 1978, and her Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1986.

#1149

Neil Snider

#107374

Overall Influence

R. Neil Snider is a Canadian educator. He served as the president of Trinity Western University in Langley, British Columbia from 1974 until his retirement in 2006 and as president emeritus since that time. He was the longest-serving Canadian university president when he retired.

#1150

Brett Bigham

#164012

Overall Influence

Brett Bigham is an American educator. He has won multiple teaching awards for his work as a special education teacher. After publicly declaring that he was gay while accepting an award, Bigham began to have conflicts with his school district. These conflicts led to his firing which caused upheaval in Bigham's district and with Bigham eventually receiving a large financial settlement from the district. Bigham has authored several guidebooks for those with autism.

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