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#1151

Haskell Wexler

#60739

Overall Influence

1922 - 2015 (93 years)

Haskell Wexler, ASC was an American cinematographer, film producer, and director. Wexler was judged to be one of film history's ten most influential cinematographers in a survey of the members of the International Cinematographers Guild. He won the Academy Award for Best Cinematography twice, in 1966 and 1976, out of five nominations. In his obituary in The New York Times, Wexler is described as being "renowned as one of the most inventive cinematographers in Hollywood."

#1152

Norman Johnston

#92154

Overall Influence

1918 - 2015 (97 years)

Norman J. Johnston was a Professor in the Departments of Architecture, Landscape Architecture, and Urban Planning in the University of Washington College of Built Environments. Education Johnston was born in Seattle and raised in Olympia, Washington. His father, Jay Johnston, was the resident supervisor during the construction of the Washington State capitol complex. Johnston enrolled at the University of Washington, planning to study architecture, but graduated in 1942 with a B.A. in art. He subsequently earned his B.Arch. from the University of Oregon, graduating in 1949. He earned a Master of Urban Planning in 1959 and a Ph.D.

#1153

Noelle W. Arnold

#131762

Overall Influence

Noelle W. Arnold, Ph.D. , is a Senior Associate Dean, Professor and the director of the EdD in Educational Administration program in the College of Education and Human Ecology at Ohio State University. She is the first female African American president of the University Council for Educational Administration, an academic organization for those researching educational administration in North America. A former administrator at the district and state level, she has served as a consultant for National Public Radio and throughout the United States advising districts in school improvement, culture a...

#1154

David R. Cole

#133306

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (57 years)

David R Cole is an Australian researcher in the fields of literacies, globalization, critical thinking, the philosophy of education and Gilles Deleuze. He is currently employed by the University of Western Sydney as Associate Professor in Literacies, English and ESL in the Centre for Educational Research as the Globalisation theme leader.

#1155

Werner Hofmann

#71903

Overall Influence

1928 - 2013 (85 years)

Werner Hofmann was an Austrian art historian, cultural journalist, writer, curator and museum director, who is "considered by his colleagues as one of the most distinguished European scholars of modern art and its ideology."

#1156

Naoyuki Kinoshita

#74998

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (70 years)

Naoyuki Kinoshita is a Japanese art historian. He currently works in the University of Tokyo. He was born in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture and graduated from the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music. He took part in publishing the book The History of Japanese Photography as an essayist along with Kōtarō Iizawa. He is also known for his research of Nishiki-e such as Yoarashi Okinu.

#1157

Liselotte Dieckmann

#79838

Overall Influence

1902 - 1994 (92 years)

Liselotte Dieckmann was a German-American art historian and scholar of comparative literature. Life Background and early years Charlotte "Liselotte" Dieckmann was born in Frankfurt on October 31, 1902. Max Neisser , her father, was an experimental bacteriologist who in 1909 accepted a professorship at the university. Max Neisser later became Frankfurt University's first ever Professor of Hygiene. Liselotte's mother, Emma Eleonore Hallgarten-Neisser , was youngest of the four recorded children of the banker-philanthorpist Charles Hallgarten and his wife Elise. Liselotte Neisser embarked...

#1158

Louisa Elizabeth Allen

#171372

Overall Influence

1972 - Present (52 years)

Louisa Elizabeth Allen is a New Zealand sex education academic. She is currently a full professor at the University of Auckland. Academic career After a 2000 PhD titled Exploring relationships' : a study of young people's sexual subjectivities, knowledge and practices.' at the University of Cambridge, she moved to the University of Auckland, rising to full professor.

#1159

David Gebhard

#45175

Overall Influence

1927 - 1996 (69 years)

David S. Gebhard was a leading architectural historian, particularly known for his books on the architecture and architects of California. He was a long-time faculty member at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and was dedicated to the preservation of Santa Barbara architecture. Gebhard was also known for his archaeological work recording and documenting the multiple styles of pictographs in the Lower Pecos Canyonlands on the border of Texas and Mexico.

#1160

Elnora M. Gilfoyle

#111377

Overall Influence

1934 - Present (90 years)

Elnora M. Gilfoyle is a retired American occupational therapist, researcher, educator, and university administrator. She worked at several hospitals before accepting a professorship at Colorado State University, later serving as Dean of the College of Applied Human Sciences and Provost/Academic Vice President at that university. She is also a past president of the American Occupational Therapy Association. With research interests in child development, developmental disabilities, and child abuse, she has led studies on the state and federal levels. The co-author of two books and many articles,...

#1161

Patricia Mainardi

#48917

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (82 years)

Patricia "Pat" Mainardi is a leading authority on nineteenth-century European art and European and American modernism, and a pioneering professor of women's studies. Career and activism Pat Mainardi was part of the radical feminist group Redstockings. In 1970, she contributed the essay, "The Politics of Housework," to the anthology Sisterhood is Powerful. It had originally been published by Redstockings earlier that year. In 1977, Mainardi became an associate of the Women's Institute for Freedom of the Press . WIFP is an American nonprofit publishing organization. The organization works to i...

#1162

Andrzej Tomaszewski

Andrzej Tomaszewski

#65390

Overall Influence

1934 - 2010 (76 years)

Andrzej Stanisław Tomaszewski was a Polish historian of art and culture, architect, urban planner and archaeologist, investigator of medieval architecture and art in Poland and abroad . He was considered one of the most important and influential international scientists in the preservation and conservation of cultural heritage.

#1163

Bernard Langer

#112658

Overall Influence

1932 - Present (92 years)

Bernard Langer was a Canadian surgeon and educator. In 2015, he was inducted into the Canadian Medical Hall of Fame. Biography Born in Toronto, he received an MD from the University of Toronto, interned at the Toronto General Hospital and completed training as a surgeon at the University of Toronto. Langer subsequently pursued training in oncology at MD Anderson Hospital in Houston and in liver transplantation at Brigham Hospital in Boston.

#1164

Ziya Selçuk

#107495

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (63 years)

Ziya Selçuk is a Turkish politician and educator. He is the former Minister of National Education. He was formerly a professor of education at Gazi University. Early life and education Selçuk was born on 1 Mayıs 1961 in Emirler village in Gölbaşı, Ankara. He graduated from Ankara University Faculty of Educational Sciences, subsequently completing his master's degree in developmental psychology. In 1989, he completed his doctoral studies at Hacettepe University, on guidance and psychological counseling. He was promoted to associate professorship and professorship at Gazi University Faculty of...

#1165

Leland M. Roth

#73855

Overall Influence

1940 - Present (84 years)

Leland M. Roth is a leading American architectural historian who is the Marion Dean Ross Distinguished Professor of Architectural History emeritus in the Department of the History of Art and Architecture in the University of Oregon College of Design at the University of Oregon. His prodigious publication and teaching career began at The Ohio State University, then Northwestern University, and the University of Oregon, where he taught courses on U.S. architecture, eighteenth-century European architecture, Native American architecture, Oregon architecture, and the history of how music was performed and heard within architectural space.

#1166

Jonathan Crary

#12120

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (73 years)

Jonathan Crary is an art critic and essayist, and is Meyer Schapiro Professor of Modern Art and Theory at Columbia University. His first notable works were Techniques of the Observer: On Vision and Modernity in the 19th Century , and Suspensions of Perception: Attention, Spectacle and Modern Culture . He has published critical essays for over 30 Exhibition catalogues, mostly on contemporary art. His style is often classified as observational mixed with scientific, and a dominant theme in his work is the role of the human eye.

#1167

Andrew Dolkart

#27740

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (73 years)

Andrew Scott Dolkart is a professor of Historic Preservation at the Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation and served as the Director of the school's Historic Preservation Program from 2008 to 2016.

#1168

Luca Giuliani

#103121

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (74 years)

Luca Giuliani is a professor at the Humboldt University specialising in Greek and Roman archaeology. Career Giuliani was curator at the Berliner Antikensammlung from 1982 to 1992. He was a lecturer at the Freie Universität Institute of Classical Archaeology between 1986 and 1991 and became Professor of Greek and Roman archaeology at the University of Freiburg in 1992 through to 1998 and then at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich to 2007. Since April 2007 he has been the Rector of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin .

#1169

Kenneth Anger

#28704

Overall Influence

1927 - 2023 (96 years)

Kenneth Anger was an American underground experimental filmmaker, actor, and author. Working exclusively in short films, he produced almost 40 works beginning in 1937, nine of which have been grouped together as the "Magick Lantern Cycle". Anger's films variously merge surrealism with homoeroticism and the occult, and have been described as containing "elements of erotica, documentary, psychodrama, and spectacle". He has been called "one of America's first openly gay filmmakers", with several films released before homosexuality was legalized in the U.S. Anger also explored occult themes in ma...

#1170

Mary Bradburn

#84027

Overall Influence

1918 - 2000 (82 years)

Mary Bradburn was a British mathematics educator who became president of the Mathematical Association for the 1994–1995 term. Education and career Bradburn was born on 17 March 1918 in Normanby in North Yorkshire, the daughter of a marine engineer and a Scotswoman. She attended a school that didn't approve of girls studying mathematics, but allowed her to progress through the mathematics curriculum at her own rate, several years ahead of the other students.

#1171

Gail Tremblay

#77939

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (79 years)

Gail Tremblay was an American writer and artist from Washington State. She is known for weaving baskets from film footage that depicts Native American people, such as Western movies and anthropological documentaries. She received a Washington State Governor's Arts and Heritage Award in 2001.

#1172

John Michael Montias

#45804

Overall Influence

1928 - 2005 (77 years)

John Michael Montias was a French-born American economist and art historian, known for his contributions to cultural economics, particularly related to Dutch Golden Age painting. Montias was part of the Annales School of historians. He was Professor of Economics Emeritus at Yale University.

#1173

Nasir Abbas Nayyar

Nasir Abbas Nayyar

#62481

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (59 years)

Nasir Abbas Nayyar is a Pakistani Urdu language writer, critic, columnist and essayist. He has written books on poetry, literary theory and post colonial study of Urdu literature. He has produced some important books on structuralism and postmodernism and their influence on Urdu literature. A book on life and poetics of Majid Amjid is another his significant contribution. His most famous work is on Postcolonial Study of Urdu Literature published by Oxford University Press, Karachi, Pakistan titled Mabad Nau Abadiat and Urdu Adab ki Tashkeel e Jadid. His books on post colonialism proved groun...

#1174

Ernest T. Pascarella

#171859

Overall Influence

#1175

Norbert Miller

#72538

Overall Influence

1937 - Present (87 years)

Norbert Miller is a German scholar of literature and art. He was professor of literary studies at the Technische Universität Berlin from 1973 and retired in 2006. Life Born in Munich, Miller grew up in Berlin, Vienna and Munich and studied literature, musicology and art history in Frankfurt and Berlin. Around 1958 he came into contact with Walter Höllerer in Frankfurt, who became his teacher and friend. From 1962 to 1965 Miller was Höllerer's assistant at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt am Main. Later he joined Hans Mayer as his assistant.

#1176

T. J. Demos

#63745

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (58 years)

T.J. Demos is an art historian and cultural critic who writes on contemporary art and visual culture, particularly in relation to globalization, politics, migration and ecology. Currently a Professor in the Department of History of Art and Visual Culture at UC Santa Cruz, and the founding director of the Center for Creative Ecologies, he is the author of several books, including Against the Anthropocene: Visual Culture and Environment Today , Decolonizing Nature: Contemporary Art and the Politics of Ecology , The Migrant Image: The Art and Politics of Documentary during Global Crisis , and Return to the Postcolony: Spectres of Colonialism in Contemporary Art .

#1177

Tim Barringer

#83119

Overall Influence

Tim Barringer is the Paul Mellon professor of the history of art at Yale University. Selected publications Opulence and Anxiety: Landscape Paintings from the Royal Academy. Kineton, Warwickshire: Compton Verney, 2007.Men at Work: Art and Labour in Victorian Britain. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006.Art and the British Empire. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2007. Art and Emancipation in Jamaica: Isaac Mendes Belisario and his Worlds. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007. "Sonic Spectacles of Empire: The Audio-Visual Nexus, Delhi-London, 1911-12" in E. Edwards, et al., eds., Sensible Objects: Material Culture, the Senses, Colonialism, Museums.

#1178

Hyla Willis

#94526

Overall Influence

Hyla Willis is an American artist. She is a founding member of subRosa, a feminist art collective and teaches media arts at Robert Morris University. In her work and teaching, Willis uses the cultural and political economies of graphic design, creative experimentation, and acoustic ecology.

#1179

Barbara W. Woodlee

#122201

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (78 years)

Barbara W. Woodlee is an American college administrator. She was president of Kennebec Valley Community College in Fairfield, Maine, from 1984 to 2012, and since 2013 has served as chief academic officer of the Maine Community College System. She was the first woman president in both the state technical college and community college systems. She was inducted into the Maine Women's Hall of Fame in 2015.

#1180

Merimeri Penfold

#84921

Overall Influence

1921 - 2014 (93 years)

Merimeri Penfold was a New Zealand Māori educator. She is thought to have been the first Māori woman to teach Māori language at a New Zealand university. Biography Penfold was born at Te Hāpua to Te Mutunga Rapata Hoterene and Maro Heteraka in 1920. She was a member of the Ngāti Kurī iwi. She was educated at Queen Victoria School in Auckland and Auckland Girls' Grammar School. After qualifying as a teacher, she taught at schools around the North Island before returning to university to complete a Bachelor of Arts degree.

#1181

Frank Leon Roberts

Frank Leon Roberts

#133092

Overall Influence

1982 - Present (42 years)

Frank Leon Roberts is an American activist, writer, political commentator, and college professor at Amherst College, known for his involvement in the #BlackLivesMatter movement. Roberts is a former faculty member at New York University's Gallatin School of Individualized Study, where his course "Black Lives Matter: Race, Resistance, and Populist Protest" received national attention for being one of the first such courses offered on a university campus. He has been a frequent media commentator on issues related to the intersections of race and gender in American public life.

#1182

Kurt Weitzmann

#15444

Overall Influence

1904 - 1993 (89 years)

Kurt Weitzmann was a German turned American art historian who was a leading figure in the study of Late Antique and Byzantine art in particular. He attended the universities of Münster, Würzburg and Vienna before moving to Princeton in 1935, due to Nazi persecution. He is well known for the time he spent researching the icons and architecture at Saint Catherine's Monastery in Egypt. He was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1964 and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1978.

#1183

Edward D. Eddy

#118473

Overall Influence

1921 - 1998 (77 years)

Edward Danforth "Ted" Eddy, Jr. was an American educator and college administrator. From 1949 to 1960, he was at the University of New Hampshire in various administrative capacities. In 1960, he became president of Chatham College in Pittsburgh, and in 1977 he was appointed Provost of Pennsylvania State University. In 1983, he was selected as the ninth president of the University of Rhode Island and served until his retirement in 1991.

#1184

Michael Ernest Sweet

Michael Ernest Sweet

#65665

Overall Influence

1979 - Present (45 years)

Michael Ernest Sweet is a Canadian photographer, writer, and educator. He is the author of two books of street photography, The Human Fragment and Michael Sweet's Coney Island. Teaching Sweet was born and raised on his family's horse farm in Martock, Nova Scotia. He taught in public schools in Montreal, Quebec, from 2003 to 2015 and founded Learning for a Cause, which earned him two of Canada's highest civilian honors for service to education, A Prime Minister's Awards for Teaching Excellence and the Queen Elizabeth Diamond Jubilee Medal. Sweet was also a national finalist for a 2011 Governor...

#1185

Michael Squire

#123876

Overall Influence

1980 - Present (44 years)

Michael Squire FBA is a British art historian and classicist. He became the Laurence Professor of Classical Archaeology in the University of Cambridge in 2022. He is a Senior Research Fellow at Trinity College, and was elected Fellow of the British Academy in 2022.

#1186

Lynn D. Dierking

#168137

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (68 years)

Lynn Diane Dierking is a Sea Grant Professor in Free-Choice Learning, Science & Mathematics Education in the College of Science at Oregon State University. She is also the Associate Dean for Research in the College of Education at Oregon State.

#1187

Allen Meadors

#103640

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (77 years)

Allen Coats Meadors is an American professor and university administrator. Meadors has served as Dean of the College of Public Health at the University of Oklahoma and of the College of Health, Social and Public Services at Eastern Washington University, CEO at Penn State Altoona, Chancellor at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke and President of the University of Central Arkansas .

#1188

Rosemary Barrow

Rosemary Barrow

#103563

Overall Influence

1968 - 2016 (48 years)

Rosemary Julia Barrow was a Welsh art historian who specialised in classical themes in Victorian art and the painting of Lawrence Alma-Tadema in particular, whose reputation she attempted to restore.

#1189

Caroline Vout

#102443

Overall Influence

1972 - Present (52 years)

Caroline Vout is a British classicist and art historian. she is a Professor in classics at the University of Cambridge and a fellow of Christ's College. In 2021 she became Director of the Museum of Classical Archaeology, Cambridge.

#1190

Sydney Joseph Freedberg

#61280

Overall Influence

1914 - 1997 (83 years)

Sydney Joseph Freedberg was an American art historian and curator, mainly of Italian Renaissance painting. Freedberg was born in Boston and attended the Boston Latin School. He graduated from Harvard College in 1939, and acquired a doctoral degree a year later. One of his mentors was Bernard Berenson. He taught Fine Arts at Harvard from 1954 to 1983. At the time of his retirement in 1983 he was the Arthur Kingsley Porter Professor of Fine Arts at Harvard. He became chief curator from 1983 to 1988 of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC upon retiring from Harvard.

#1191

John Tomlinson

#96931

Overall Influence

1932 - 2005 (73 years)

John Race Godfrey Tomlinson FCP was a British educationalist. After serving as Director of Education for Cheshire from 1972 to 1984, he was Professor of Education at the University of Warwick from 1985 to 1997.

#1192

Isabella Dryden

#98237

Overall Influence

1917 - Present (107 years)

Isabella Dryden is a Canadian educator known for teaching computer classes at the age of 102. She also supervised the business education curriculum used in Manitoba's public school system and is credited with making business studies a degree course at Manitoba's main university.

#1193

Jaleh Mansoor

#112752

Overall Influence

1975 - Present (49 years)

Jaleh Mansoor is an Iranian-born Canadian art historian, critic, and theorist of modern and contemporary art. She is an associate professor in the faculty of Art History, Visual Art and Theory at the University of British Columbia.

#1194

Verna Kirkness

#128666

Overall Influence

1935 - Present (89 years)

Verna Jane Kirkness, is a Cree scholar, pioneer and lifelong proponent of indigenous language, culture and education who has been influential in Canadian indigenous education policy and practice. She is an associate professor emeritus at the University of British Columbia and resides in Winnipeg. Kirkness has received numerous awards for her outstanding contributions spanning five decades including the Order of Canada in 1998. Kirkness had an important impact on Canadian indigenous education policy and practice. She is the author of "numerous books and articles on the history of Indigenous education." The University of Manitoba's Verna J.

#1195

Myra Strober

#78123

Overall Influence

1940 - Present (84 years)

Myra H. Strober is professor of education, emerita, for the school of education, at Stanford Graduate School of Business, Stanford, California, US. She also sits on the editorial board of Feminist Economics, and was the president of the International Association for Feminist Economics from 1997 to 1999.

#1196

Georges Didi-Huberman

Georges Didi-Huberman

#36843

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (71 years)

Georges Didi-Huberman FBA is a French philosopher and art historian. Biography Georges Didi-Huberman was born on 13 June 1953 in Saint-Étienne. He has been a scholar at the French Academy in Rome and resident in the Berenson Foundation of Villa I Tatti in Florence. He teaches at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences, where he has been a lecturer since 1990.

#1197

Zhu Zuxiang

#92999

Overall Influence

1916 - 1996 (80 years)

Zhu Zuxiang was a Chinese soil scientist and politician. He is considered as the founder of modern soil chemistry in China. Life Zhu was born in Cixi City , Zhejiang on 5 October 1916. In 1934, Zhu graduated from Ningbo Xiaoshi Middle School. In 1938, Zhu graduated from the School of Agricultural Sciences of Zhejiang University. In 1946, Zhu earned MSc from Michigan State University , United States. In 1948, Zhu obtained PhD from MSU.

#1198

Deepak Shimkhada

Deepak Shimkhada

#80085

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (79 years)

Deepak Shimkhada is a Nepalese-American with a diverse professional background. He currently serves as an adjunct professor at Chaffey College in Rancho Cucamonga, California, and has previously held visiting and adjunct positions at several U.S. universities, including Scripps College, Claremont Graduate University, California State University, Northridge, University of the West, and Claremont School of Theology. His teaching career began in 1980, and while he has retired from full-time teaching, he continues to teach Asian art part-time at Chaffey College.

#1199

Elizabeth A. T. Smith

Elizabeth A. T. Smith

#89986

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (66 years)

Elizabeth A. T. Smith is an American art historian, museum curator, writer, and presently the executive director of the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation. She has formerly held positions as a curator at the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art , the chief curator and deputy director of programs at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, and the executive director, curatorial affairs, at the Art Gallery of Ontario. She is the author of numerous books on art and architecture, including Blueprints for Modern Living: History and Legacy of the Case Study Houses; Lee Bontecou: A Retrospective, Hele...

#1200

Lucille Watahomigie

#108575

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (79 years)

Lucille Watahomigie is a Hualapai educator and linguist and native speaker of the Hualapai language. Biography After receiving her bachelor's degree in elementary education from Northern Arizona University, she returned to the Hualapai community of Peach Springs and became a teacher at the Peach Springs School. She went on to receive her master's degree at the University of Arizona, where she then worked as a professor for three years before returning to the Hualapai Nation in 1975 to found the Hualapai bilingual and bicultural education program in response to community demand. In 1982, she c...

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