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#1601

Milton Glick

#126767

Overall Influence

1937 - 2011 (74 years)

Milton Don Glick was an American educator, researcher and academic administrator who served as 15th president of the University of Nevada, Reno from 2006 until his death on April 16, 2011. Education Glick was born in Memphis, Tennessee, to parents Lewis Glick and Sylvia Kleinman Glick. He studied chemistry at Augustana College in Rock Island, Illinois and received his bachelor's degree in 1959. He earned his doctorate in chemistry from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1965. He completed his academic trainings with two years of post-doctoral studies at Cornell University.

#1602

Jean Bony

#90392

Overall Influence

1908 - 1995 (87 years)

Jean Victor Edmond Paul Marie Bony was a French medieval architectural historian specialising in Gothic architecture. He was Slade Professor of Fine Art at the University of Cambridge from 1958 to 1961, Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge, and Professor of Art at the University of California at Berkeley, from 1962 to 1980.

#1603

Doris Davenport

#90677

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (75 years)

Doris Davenport, sometimes styled as doris davenport , is a writer, educator, and literary and performance poet. She wrote an essay featured in This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color entitled "The Pathology of Racism: A Conversation with Third World Wimmin." She also focuses her efforts on poetry and education.

#1604

Elizabeth Sears

#171342

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (72 years)

Elizabeth Langsford Sears is the George H. Forsyth Jr. Collegiate Professor of History of Art at the University of Michigan. She is known for the study of European medieval art and the historiography of art.

#1605

Larry Boylan

#176802

Overall Influence

1908 - 1997 (89 years)

Laurence Charles Boylan was an American educator most notably for serving as an administrator at what is now known as Emporia State University. Before serving as president of the Kansas State Teachers College , Boylan was the Dean of Graduate Studies at KSTC and served at a couple of different institutions before coming to Emporia.

#1606

Dana Claxton

#131795

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (65 years)

Dana Claxton is a Hunkpapa Lakota filmmaker, photographer, and performance artist. Her work looks at stereotypes, historical context, and gender studies of Indigenous peoples of the Americas, specifically those of the First Nations. In 2007, she was awarded an Eiteljorg Fellowship for Native American Fine Art.

#1607

Pao-sheng Hsu

#75304

Overall Influence

Pao-sheng Hsu is a mathematics educator, Career Hsu completed her PhD under George Bachman at Polytechnic University in 1975; her dissertation was titled An Application of Compactification: Some Theorems on Maximal Ideals.

#1608

Stephen V. Tracy

#106347

Overall Influence

1941 - Present (83 years)

Stephen Victor Tracy is an American scholar of Classics specializing in ancient Greek Epigraphy. Inscriptions are one of the most important classes of primary evidence that comes down to us from antiquity. Tracy is best known for devising a method for recognizing the work of individual inscribers. It was long thought that the intractability of the medium made this impossible. But by treating the inscribed letters as a kind of handwriting he has been able to establish careers for many cutters, to join discrete fragments, to date inscriptions more accurately than in the past, and often the...

#1609

Bette Talvacchia

#81381

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (73 years)

Bette Lou Talvacchia is an American art historian and educator. Talvacchia is the Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor of Art History Emeritus at the University of Connecticut. Career Talvacchia earned a Master of Arts in art history from the University of Texas at Austin in 1975. There, she wrote a thesis on the Italian Futurist artists Giacomo Balla and Filippo Tommaso Marinetti. Talvacchia then continued on to Stanford University to receive a Doctor of Philosophy in Art History in 1981. Her doctoral dissertation was on the work of Giulio Romano from the Ducal Palace in Mantua, under t...

#1610

Marcia Pointon

#99756

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (81 years)

Marcia Pointon is a historian of British art. She trained at the University of Manchester, receiving her PhD there in 1974. From 1975, she was at the University of Sussex, becoming Professor of the History of Art in 1989. In 1992, she moved to the University of Manchester to take the Pilkington Professorship in the History of Art, a position she held until 2002. She now works as a free-lance consultant and researcher.

#1611

Margaret F. Alexander

#83052

Overall Influence

Margaret Forbes Alexander is a Scottish nurse, educator, researcher and writer. She is emeritus professor at the School of Nursing and Community Health at Glasgow Caledonian University . She began her nursing career as a student nurse at The Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh. In 1980, she received a Ph.D. from the University of Edinburgh for her thesis on “Nurse education". She went on to head GCU's Department of Nursing and Community Health until 1996. She was made a Fellow of the Royal College of Nursing in 1992.

#1612

Inés Katzenstein

#174484

Overall Influence

1970 - Present (54 years)

Inés Katzenstein is an Argentine curator, art historian, and art critic who specializes in Latin American art. Early life and education Katzenstein was born in Argentina. Katzenstein has a B.A. in communications from the University of Buenos Aires. In 2001, Katzenstein received an M.A. in curatorial studies from the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College.

#1613

Hulleah Tsinhnahjinnie

Hulleah Tsinhnahjinnie

#168170

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (72 years)

Hulleah J. Tsinhnahjinnie is a Seminole-Muscogee-Navajo photographer, museum director, curator, and professor. She is living in Davis, California. She serves as the director of the C.N. Gorman Museum and teaches at University of California, Davis.

#1614

Charles Hope

#71239

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (79 years)

Charles Archibald Hope is a British art historian who was director of The Warburg Institute from 2001 to 2010. He was succeeded by Peter Mack. He is a specialist in Italian art of the 15th and 16th centuries, especially Venetian painting.

#1615

Hassana Alidou

#120967

Overall Influence

1963 - 2023 (60 years)

Hassana Alidou was a Nigerien diplomat who served as Ambassador to the United States and Canada from 2015 to 2019. She then became the first scholar in residence for the Union Institute and University Institute for Social Justice.

#1616

Daniel Berg

#76353

Overall Influence

1929 - Present (95 years)

Daniel Berg is a educator, scientist and was the fifteenth president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Education Daniel Berg was born on June 1, 1929, in New York City. In 1946, he graduated from Stuyvesant High School and in 1950 graduated from City College of New York with a B.S. in physics and chemistry. He earned M.S. and Ph. D. degrees in physical chemistry from Yale University in 1951 and 1953 respectively.

#1617

Javaregowda

#148988

Overall Influence

1915 - 2016 (101 years)

Devegowda Javaregowda , known as De Ja Gou or simply Javaregowda, was an Indian Kannada writer, folklorist, researcher, scholar and academic. He was disciple of authors T.N. Srikantaiah and Kuvempu. His literary career spans over decades in which he wrote over thirty-four biographies in Kannada language and other works including children's literature. He campaigned for the promotion of Kannada language. He had received Pampa Prashasti , Padma Shri and the Karnataka Ratna awards for his contributions in literature and education. He became a centenarian in 2015 and died on 30 May 2016.

#1618

Marjorie Mbilinyi

#179425

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (81 years)

Marjorie Mbiliniyi is a scholar, feminist and gender activist. She was born in New York and studied educational sciences before settling in Dar-es-Salaam and became a citizen of Tanzania after married a Tanzanian. She worked at the Department of Education at Dar-es-Salaam university. Mbiliniyi has dedicate herself to collaborate with and organize women to fight against patriarchy and neo-liberalism in Tanzania and beyond. She worked as a lecturer at the University of Dar es Salaam where she retired in 2003. After her retirement from academia, she served as the Principal Policy Analyst at the...

#1619

Su Friedrich

#125361

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (70 years)

Su Friedrich is an American avant-garde film director, producer, writer, and cinematographer. She has been a leading figure in avant-garde filmmaking and a pivotal force in the establishment of Queer Cinema.

#1620

Marie Bell

#104884

Overall Influence

1922 - 2012 (90 years)

Marie Bell was a New Zealand educationalist, lecturer and teacher who had a career lasting almost three-quarters of a century. Her career was governed by a child-friendly and progressive outlook that she was exposed to at Wellington Teachers' College. Bell was a supervisor and teacher who introduced a child-led education philosophy to allow children to learn in their own development and interests into New Zealand schools. She also worked for various associations, committees, conferences, commissions and educational boards to further early childhood learning.

#1621

Vanessa Green

#170999

Overall Influence

Vanessa Ann Green is a New Zealand educational theorist and academic. She is currently a full professor at the Victoria University of Wellington. Academic career After a 1993 Master's in Education thesis titled 'The effects of non-sexist literature on children's sex-typed toy-play behaviour' and a 1998 PhD titled 'Gender and social competence as predictors of social interaction in a limited resource situation,' both from the Queensland University of Technology, Green worked at the University of Texas at Austin and the University of Tasmania before moving to Victoria University of Wellingto...

#1622

William Brazziel

#182847

Overall Influence

1926 - 2010 (84 years)

William Ferris Brazziel Jr. was an African-American educational scholar. He was a professor of higher education in the Neag School of Education at the University of Connecticut for twenty-seven years until his retirement in 1996. Before joining the University of Connecticut, he served as director of general studies at Norfolk State University.

#1623

Alejandro Anreus

#116757

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (64 years)

Alejandro Anreus is a curator, art historian and critic who has focused his research on Latin American Art. Though he began his career as an artist, Anreus is now an art historian and poet, and is professor of art history and Latin American/Latino Studies at William Paterson University. Among his many accomplishments, Anreus is a two-time recipient of the Oscar B. Cintas Foundation and has worked as a curator with public collections such as the Montclair Art Museum and the Jersey City Museum during his career.

#1624

Walter Cahn

#99720

Overall Influence

1933 - 2020 (87 years)

Walter Benedict Cahn was a German-born American medievalist and art historian who taught at Yale University as Carnegie Professor of the History of Art. Cahn was born in Karlsruhe on 24 September 1933 to Otto and Frieda Cahn. His Jewish family was deported to what would become Vichy France in 1938, and after surviving World War II there, he reached the United States in 1948. Walter Cahn was educated at the Pratt Institute from 1952 to 1956. He served from 1956 to 1958 in the United States Army Medical Corps, at Walter Reed Hospital in Washington, DC. In 1958, he enrolled at the Institute of Fine Arts of New York University, completing his Ph.D.

#1625

John Smith

#162619

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (72 years)

John Smith is a British avant garde filmmaker noted for his use of humour in exploring various themes that often play upon the film spectator's conditioned assumptions of the medium. His film The Girl Chewing Gum has been called one of the most important avant-garde films of the 20th century.

#1626

Jane Torr

#120679

Overall Influence

Jane Torr is an Australian academic in the fields of early childhood language and literacy development in home and early childhood education and care settings. She is an honorary associate in the department of educational studies at Macquarie University, where she has been teaching and researching for over 30 years. Torr's research draws on systemic functional linguistic theory to explore the relationship between context and meaning in adult-child interactions, and the implications for children's learning. She has published over 50 peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters, as well as p...

#1627

Cécile Fromont

#50310

Overall Influence

Cécile Alice Fromont is a French-born American art historian and educator. Fromont is currently Professor of African and South Atlantic Art at Yale University. Career Born in Martinique, Fromont initially received a degree from Sciences Po in International Relations in 2002. She then continued on to Harvard University to receive degrees in Art History: a Master of Arts in 2004 and a Doctor of Philosophy in 2008. She wrote a doctoral dissertation under Suzanne Blier and Thomas B. F. Cummins titled "Under the Sign of the Cross in the Kingdom of Kongo: Shaping Images and Molding Faith in Early Mo...

#1628

Gaston Allaire

#170097

Overall Influence

1916 - 2011 (95 years)

Joseph Georges-Émile Gaston Allaire was a Canadian musicologist, organist, pianist, composer, and music educator of American birth. His compositional output includes several preludes for organ, an organ work on French carols, some motets and other choral works, a communion service, a prelude and fugue for string orchestra, and a polyphonic mass. He also wrote Suite laurentienne for orchestra from which the Poème and the Menuet were premiered by the Quebec Symphony Orchestra in 1949, and composed the music for the 1953 film The Man on the Beach. His Marche and Petite Suite were both written ...

#1629

Randall Bass

#139602

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (65 years)

Randall Bass is an associate professor of English and vice provost at Georgetown University, and Executive Director of Center for New Design of Learning & Scholarship . He was visiting scholar at Ball State University.

#1630

Roscoe C. Brown Jr.

Roscoe C. Brown Jr.

#169968

Overall Influence

1922 - 2016 (94 years)

Dr. Roscoe Conkling Brown Jr. was one of the Tuskegee Airmen and a squadron commander of the 100th Fighter Squadron of the 332nd Fighter Group. Career He was appointed to this position in June 1945, which was after VE Day . During combat, he served as a flight leader and operations officer only. He graduated from the Tuskegee Flight School on March 12, 1944, as member of class 44-C-SE and served in the U.S. Army Air Forces in Europe during World War II. During this period, on March 24, 1945, mission to Berlin Captain Brown shot down a German Me 262 jet fighter and several days later, on March 31, a Fw 190 fighter .

#1631

Nancy Marie Mithlo

#108598

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (63 years)

Nancy Marie Mithlo is a Chiricahua Apache curator, writer and professor. Her exhibitions have been shown at the Venice Biennale. Mithlo has worked as the chair of American Indian Studies at the Autry National Center Institute and as a professor of gender studies and American Indian Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is the author and editor of several books about Native Americans and indigenous art.

#1632

Ann J. Lane

#78440

Overall Influence

1931 - 2013 (82 years)

Ann J. Lane was an American educator, historian, and author that was considered to be a pioneer in the fields of women’s history and women’s studies. Before retiring in 2009 she worked at the University of Virginia as a professor of History and director of Women’s Studies.

#1633

Patricia Mayayo

Patricia Mayayo

#127503

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (57 years)

Patricia Mayayo Bost is a Spanish art historian, professor, and researcher. Her areas of research and study include the historiography of feminist and queer art, the history of women artists, and contemporary artistic practices.

#1634

Peredrij Ganna Romanivna

#179608

Overall Influence

1925 - 2019 (94 years)

Professor Peredrij Ganna Romanivna was a Ukrainian writer, linguist and educator. She wrote more than 100 works, including school textbooks. She became professor Emeritus of Cherkasy National University which emerged from Cherkasy Pedagogical Institute .

#1635

Michael Brynntrup

Michael Brynntrup

#173589

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (65 years)

Michael Brynntrup is a German experimental filmmaker and media artist living in Berlin. Besides experimental films and video installations, his better-known works also include electrography, digital art and internet art projects. Since 2006 he has been Professor for Film/Video at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste Braunschweig.

#1636

Albert Elsen

#58825

Overall Influence

1927 - 1995 (68 years)

Albert Edward Elsen, Jr. was an American art historian and educator. A scholar of the work of Auguste Rodin, Elsen was the Walter A. Haas Professor in the Humanities at Stanford University. Career Born in New York City to Albert Sr. and Julia Louise Huseman, Elsen served as a sergeant major in the United States Army during the World War II European Theater of Operations from 1945 to 1946. He then earned three degrees from Columbia University: a Bachelor of Arts in 1949, a Master of Arts in 1951, and a Doctor of Philosophy in 1955. Elsen wrote a doctoral dissertation on The Gates of Hell of the sculptor Auguste Rodin, under the supervision of Meyer Schapiro.

#1637

Catherine R. Gira

#128780

Overall Influence

1932 - 2019 (87 years)

Catherine Russell Gira was an American educator and administrator who was president of Frostburg State University from 1991 to 2006. Biography Gira was born in Fayette City, Pennsylvania on October 30, 1932. She received a bachelor's degree from California University of Pennsylvania, a master's degree from Johns Hopkins University and a Ph.D. from American University.

#1638

Ralph Fertig

#97915

Overall Influence

1930 - 2019 (89 years)

Ralph Fertig was an American social justice activist, lawyer, educator and author who in 1973 was described by the Washington Post as, the "conscience of Washington, D.C." When he died in 2020, The Los Angeles Times said he was "the conscience of L.A.".

#1639

Dale Clark Farran

#185274

Overall Influence

Dale Clark Farran is the Antonio and Anita Gotto Chair in Teaching and Learning and Interim Director of the Peabody Research Institute at Vanderbilt University. Her research includes the only randomized control trial of a statewide prekindergarten program.

#1640

Sandy Fife Wilson

Sandy Fife Wilson

#152652

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (74 years)

Sandy Fife Wilson is a Muscogee art educator, fashion designer and artist. After graduating from the Institute of American Indian Arts and Northeastern Oklahoma State University, she became an art teacher, first working in the public schools of Dewey, Oklahoma. When Josephine Wapp retired as the textile instructor at the Institute of American Indian Arts, Wilson was hired to teach the design courses. After three years, in 1979, she returned to Oklahoma and taught at Chilocco Indian School until it closed and then worked in the Morris Public School system until her retirement in 2009.

#1641

Vilma Mesa

#99953

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (61 years)

Vilma María Mesa Narváez is a Colombian-American mathematics educator whose research topics have included secondary-school curriculum development, college-level calculus instruction, mathematics in community colleges, international perspectives in mathematics education, and inquiry-based learning. She is a professor of education and mathematics at the University of Michigan, where she is affiliated with the Center for the Study of Higher and Post-secondary Education.

#1642

Amy Meyers

#82079

Overall Influence

Amy R. Weinstein Meyers is an American art historian. Meyers is the former Director of the Yale Center for British Art in New Haven and Chief Executive Officer of the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art in London.

#1643

Kermit S. Champa

#86590

Overall Influence

1939 - 2004 (65 years)

Kermit Swiler Champa was an American art historian and educator. A scholar of Impressionism, Champa was the Andrea V. Rosenthal Professor of the History of Art and Architecture at Brown University from 1970 to 2004.

#1644

Saundra McGuire

#169136

Overall Influence

Saundra Yancy McGuire is the Director Emerita of the Center for Academic Success and a retired professor of chemistry at Louisiana State University. She is best known for her work on science education, having written several papers and books on the subject. Her interests focus on improving student learning by involving faculty in metacognitive learning strategies.

#1645

Madeline H. Caviness

#152185

Overall Influence

1938 - Present (86 years)

Madeline Harrison Caviness, FMAoA, FSA is a British-American scholar of European medieval art, and an expert on glass painting and medieval women as viewers of art. She is a Professor Emeritus at Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts.

#1646

Aaron Doering

#185382

Overall Influence

#1647

Moira Roth

#94511

Overall Influence

1933 - 2021 (88 years)

Moira Roth was a feminist art historian and art critic who was Trefethen Professor of Art History at Mills College in Oakland, California from 1985 to 2017. She taught at the University of California, San Diego from 1974 to 1985. She was educated at the London School of Economics in England, and received a B.A. in sociology and an M.A. from New York University and a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley in 1974. She wrote extensively on contemporary art, editing The Amazing Decade: Women and Performance Art in America 1970-1980, A Source Book, published by Astro Artz . Her collection...

#1648

Dixon Hearne

#110629

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (76 years)

Dixon Hearne is an American educator and writer of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. He has published an education text , four short story collections: Delta Flats: Stories in the Key of Blues and Hope; Plantatia: High-toned and Lowdown Stories of the South; Native Voices, Native Lands; and When Christmas was Real, and edited several anthologies. His novella, From Tickfaw to Shongaloo is forthcoming from Southeast Missouri State University Press. It was previously named the sole runner-up in the international creative writing competition sponsored by the Pirates Alley Faulkner Society in New Orleans.

#1649

Craig Hugh Smyth

#102334

Overall Influence

1915 - 2006 (91 years)

Craig Hugh Smyth was an American art historian who studied Renaissance art, with a special emphasis on the artist Bronzino. During World War II, he established the Allied Munich Central Collecting Point for Nazi-looted art, as part of the Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives program.

#1650

Madeleine Gagnon

#30300

Overall Influence

1938 - Present (86 years)

Madeleine Gagnon is a Quebec educator, literary critic and writer. Biography She was born in Amqui in the valley of the Matapedia River and was educated at the Collège Notre-Dame d'Acadie in Moncton, at the Université de Montréal and the Université d'Aix-en-Provence. From 1969 to 1982, she taught literature at the Université du Québec à Montréal. She later served as a visiting professor and writer-in-residence at the Université de Montréal, at the Université de Sherbrooke, at the Université du Québec à Montréal and at the Université du Québec à Rimouski.

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