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#1951

Daniel Tobin

#101624

Overall Influence

1997 - Present (27 years)

Daniel Tobin is an American poet, scholar, editor, and essayist. Life Daniel Tobin was born in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, New York to Gerard Tobin and Helen Ruane Tobin. Both parents were of Irish ancestry, and his upbringing in Brooklyn and his ancestral links to Ireland inform his poetry, scholarship, and teaching.

#1952

Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen

Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen

#181272

Overall Influence

Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen is an American educator and author. She is the founder and president of the Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen Foundation, a private operating foundation that describes itself as a philanthropic "innovation lab", and founded the Silicon Valley Social Venture Fund , a venture philanthropy fund. She is also the author of Giving 2.0: Transform Your Giving and Our World.

#1953

Hans J. Van Miegroet

#108548

Overall Influence

Hans Joris Van Miegroet is an art historian and educator. Primarily a scholar of the art market in Europe, Van Miegroet is currently Professor of Art and Art History at Duke University. Career Van Miegroet graduated from the University of Ghent with a Master of Arts in Art History in 1983, and then moved to the United States to earn a Doctor of Philosophy from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1988. His master's thesis was on the artist Konrad Witz, and he wrote a doctoral dissertation on Gerard David, supervised by Burr E. Wallen. In that year, Van Miegroet was hired as Assistant...

#1954

Fedja Anzelewsky

#174399

Overall Influence

1919 - 2010 (91 years)

Fedja Erik Allan Anzelewsky was a German art historian, best known for his internationally recognised monographs on Albrecht Dürer. Works Miniaturen aus der Toggenburg-Chronik aus dem Jahre 1411. Klein, Baden-Baden 1960.Miniaturen aus deutschen Handschriften. Klein, Baden-Baden 1961.Dürer und seine Zeit. Meisterzeichnungen aus dem Berliner Kupferstichkabinett. Ausstellungskatalog. Staatliche Museen Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin 1967.Albrecht Dürer. Das malerische werk. Deutscher Verlag für Kunstwissenschaft, Berlin 1971, . Neuausgabe: Albrecht Dürer. Das malerische Werk. Band 1: Tafelband. Band 2: Textband.

#1955

Krista McCracken

#185609

Overall Influence

Krista McCracken is a Canadian public historian, educator, curator and archivist known for their work raising awareness about the history of the Canadian Indian residential school system. Career McCracken holds an MA in public history from the University of Western Ontario. They work Researcher/Curator at Arthur A. Wishart Library and Shingwauk Residential Schools Centre, an archival repository and cross-cultural education centre within Algoma University where they have worked since 2010. McCracken's research focuses on community archives, residential schools, research and access. In their rol...

#1956

Marie-Jo Bonnet

#50883

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (75 years)

Marie-Josèphe Bonnet is a French specialist in the history of women, history of art, and history of lesbians. She has also published books in the history of the French resistance and occupation. Biography

#1957

Glòria Bordons

#180211

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (71 years)

Glòria Bordons de Porrata-Doria is a Spanish art historian, pedagogue, and philologist. She is considered an expert on the works of Joan Brossa, having published three books on his works.

#1958

Rhea Anastas

#161333

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (55 years)

Rhea Anastas is an art historian, critic, curator and an associate professor at the Department of Art, University of California, Irvine. She was also one of the founding members of Orchard, an experimental artist-run gallery in the Lower East Side in New York.

#1959

Sarah Cook

#88107

Overall Influence

1974 - Present (50 years)

Sarah Cook is a Scotland-based Canadian scholar. She is well known as a historian and curator in the field of New Media art. Cook was a Research Fellow at the University of Sunderland, where she worked with the research institute CRUMB – Curatorial Resource for Upstart Media Bliss, that she co-founded with Beryl Graham in 2000, and taught on the MA Curating course. In 2013 she was appointed as a Reader and Dundee Research Fellow at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, University of Dundee. As part of her role as Dundee Fellow she founded and curated LifeSpace Science Art Research Gallery in the School of Life Sciences, University of Dundee .

#1960

Adam Brooks

#113650

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (68 years)

Adam Brooks is a Canadian film director, screenwriter, and actor. He is best known for writing and directing Definitely, Maybe and for writing screenplays for French Kiss , Wimbledon , and Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason . His first film as a writer-director Almost You won the Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival in 1985.

#1961

Walter B. Denny

#99592

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (82 years)

Walter Bell Denny is an American art historian and educator. A scholar of Islamic art, Denny is a University Distinguished Professor of Art History at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Career Denny graduated cum laude from Oberlin College with a Bachelor of Arts in 1964. He then earned a Master of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy in Art History from Harvard University in 1965 and 1971, respectively. Denny wrote a doctoral dissertation on ceramics from the Rüstem Pasha Mosque.

#1962

Jacqueline Jung

#186537

Overall Influence

Jacqueline E. Jung is a Professor in the department of history of art at Yale University. Jung's first book, The Gothic Screen: Sculpture, Space, and Community in French and German Cathedrals, ca. 1200-1400, received the Samuel and Ronnie Heyman Prize for Outstanding Scholarly Publication at Yale and was a co-winner of the John Nicholas Brown Prize from the Medieval Academy of America. Her second book, Eloquent Bodies: Movement, Expression, and the Human Figure in Gothic Sculpture, received the Gustav Ranis International Book Prize from Yale University's MacMillan Center for International Studies.

#1963

Denise van Outen

Denise van Outen

#168172

Overall Influence

1974 - Present (50 years)

Denise van Outen is an English actress, singer, dancer and presenter. She presented The Big Breakfast, played Roxie Hart in the musical Chicago both in the West End and on Broadway and finished as runner-up in the tenth series of the BBC One dancing show Strictly Come Dancing.

#1964

Alice Faye

#122816

Overall Influence

1915 - 1998 (83 years)

Alice Faye was an American actress and singer. A musical star of 20th Century-Fox in the 1930s and 1940s, Faye starred in such films as On the Avenue and Alexander's Ragtime Band . She is often associated with the Academy Award–winning standard "You'll Never Know", which she introduced in the 1943 musical film Hello, Frisco, Hello.

#1965

Linnar Priimägi

#107555

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (70 years)

Linnar Priimägi is an Estonian art historian, journalist, literary critic, poet and actor. He graduated from Tartu State University in philology, Estonian Academy of Arts and Tallinn University . Priimägi is a docent at Tallinn University. He has taught German language, art history and theory of literary criticism at the University of Tartu, history of philosophy at the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre, and cultural history at Tallinn Pedagogical University and Tallinn University.

#1966

Christine Mitchell

#179020

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (73 years)

Christine I. Mitchell is an American filmmaker and bioethicist and until her retirement in September 2022, the executive director of the Center for Bioethics at Harvard Medical School . Education Mitchell studied nursing at Boston University, where she earned both bachelor's and master's degrees in the field. She then studied philosophical and religious ethics and the ethics of care at Harvard University and the Harvard Divinity School, where she earned a master's degree.1969 – Narragansett Regional High School, Baldwinville, Massachusetts, diploma1973 – Boston University, School of Nursing,...

#1967

Gunter Pauli

#169905

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (68 years)

Gunter Pauli is an entrepreneur, economist, and author born in 1956 in Antwerp . He is best known for his main work, The Blue Economy. He has lived on 4 continents, is fluent in 7 languages, is a resident of Japan since 1994 and spends most of his time in South Africa.

#1968

Mark Cheetham

#168728

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (70 years)

Mark Arthur Cheetham is professor in the department of Art History at the University of Toronto. Cheetham is a specialist in writing about art in modern and contemporary art. Selected publications Theory Between the Disciplines: Authority Vision Politics. Coeditor with Martin Kreiswirth. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1990.Remembering Postmodernism: Trends in Recent Canadian Art. Oxford and Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1991. Second, revised ed. OUP, 2012.The Rhetoric of Purity: Essentialist Theory and the Advent of Abstract Painting. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press , 1991.La Mémoire Postmoderne: Essai sur l’art canadien postmoderne.

#1969

Joseph Tussman

#74404

Overall Influence

1914 - 2005 (91 years)

Joseph Tussman was an American educator. He was chair of the philosophy department at University of California, Berkeley, a prominent educational reformer, and a key figure in the campus controversy over the 1950s loyalty oath.

#1970

Élisabeth Lebovici

#94990

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (71 years)

Élisabeth Lebovici is a French art historian, journalist, and art critic. Biography Élisabeth Lebovici completed her studies in Paris and New York, where she was enrolled in the Independent Study Program at the Whitney Museum of American Art. In 1983, she defended her thesis L'Argent dans le discours des artistes américains, 1980-81 [Money in the discourse of American artists, 1980-81] at the Université Paris X.

#1971

Lorenz Dittmann

#128667

Overall Influence

1928 - 2018 (90 years)

Lorenz Dittmann was a German art historian. Dittmann studied history of art at the University of Munich. In 1955 he completed a Ph.D. dissertation on Grünewald’s color, supervised by Ernst Strauss. In 1958, he moved to the Kunsthistorisches Institut of the RWTH Aachen University, where he wrote a Habilitationsschrift on "Style, Symbol, and Structure" in 1965.

#1972

Michael Schopper

#183365

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (82 years)

Michael Schopper is a German bass-baritone in opera and concert, and an academic teacher. Michael Schopper was educated with the Regensburger Domspatzen and studied on a scholarship of the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes church music and voice at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater München. He won a first prize of the ARD International Music Competition in 1968, which resulted in an international career. His operatic parts have included Osmin in Mozart's Die Entführung aus dem Serail, Ochs in Der Rosenkavalier by Richard Strauss, and the Wagner parts Sachs in Die Meistersinger von Nürnb...

#1973

Anke Voss-Hubbard

#187613

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (64 years)

Anke Voss-Hubbard is an archivist, writer and feminist. Early life and education Voss-Hubbard is a native of Germany and holds degrees in history and archival preservation and management. She attended the University of Massachusetts in Amherst for her BA in History and MA in United States Political, Social, and Women’s History. She completed her Master's in Library Science at New York State University in Albany.

#1974

Semavi Eyice

#59504

Overall Influence

1922 - 2018 (96 years)

Mustafa Semavi Eyice was a Turkish art historian and archaeologist, who specialised in the study of Byzantine and Ottoman art in Istanbul. Professor Eyice is widely regarded as the pioneer of Byzantine studies in Turkey.

#1975

Avril Henry

#116576

Overall Influence

1935 - 2016 (81 years)

Avril K. Henry was an English activist who campaigned for the legalisation of voluntary euthanasia and former professor of English medieval culture at the University of Exeter. In her works Dr. Henry researched theory of typology.

#1976

Barbara L. Craig

#181369

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (81 years)

Barbara L. Craig is an archivist, archival educator and scholar. She has contributed to the scholarly literature of archival theory and professional practice in the areas of appraisal, the ethnographic study of practicing archivists and users of archives, and the history of archives in her study of the impact of technology on the record-keeping practices of the British Civil Service before 1960. She has an MA in history from McMaster University, a certificate in Principles and Administration of Archives from Library and Archives Canada, and a Certificate in Records Management from the Government of Ontario.

#1977

Rainer Rochlitz

#72995

Overall Influence

1946 - 2002 (56 years)

Rainer Rochlitz was a French translator and art historian. A specialist in aesthetics, Rochlitz contributed a great deal in publicizing the writings of Georg Lukács, Walter Benjamin and Jürgen Habermas in France. He was a researcher at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in Paris and director of seminars at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales.

#1978

Marvin Banks Perry Jr.

#112544

Overall Influence

1918 - 1994 (76 years)

Marvin Banks Perry Jr. was an American academic and college administrator who served as president of Goucher College and Agnes Scott College. He also was a professor of English at Washington and Lee University and at the University of Virginia.

#1979

Judith E. Stein

#117294

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (81 years)

Judith E. Stein is a Philadelphia-based art historian and curator, whose academic career has focused on the postwar New York art world. She has written a biography of the art dealer Richard Bellamy, as well as feature articles regarding artists including Jo Baer, Red Grooms, Lester Johnson, Alfred Leslie and Jay Milder.

#1980

Saori Hayami

#159514

Overall Influence

1991 - Present (33 years)

is a Japanese voice actress and singer affiliated with I'm Enterprise. As a singer, she is signed to Warner Bros. Home Entertainment. Hayami won the 10th Seiyu Awards for Best Supporting Actress. Her most notable roles include Miyuki Shiba in The Irregular at Magic High School, Yukino Yukinoshita in My Youth Romantic Comedy Is Wrong, As I Expected, Leona in Dragon Quest: The Adventure of Dai, Himawari Uzumaki in Boruto: Naruto Next Generations, Shinobu Kochō in Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, Ryuu Lion in Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?, Yor Forger in Spy × Family, Yamato in ...

#1981

Steve LaSpina

#179682

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (70 years)

Steven Frank LaSpina is an American jazz bassist who plays both upright and electric bass. Life and career Steve LaSpina was born in Wichita Falls, Texas; his father and grandfather both played in dance bands. He attended the University of Illinois and DePaul University, and first began playing professionally in Chicago in the 1970s. He played with Bunky Green, Larry Novak, Joe Daley , and Chet Baker . In 1978 he also began working with Marian McPartland, with whom he would collaborate until 1986.

#1982

Morten Parker

#186001

Overall Influence

1919 - 2014 (95 years)

Morten Parker was a Canadian director, producer and writer. Biography Parker was born and raised in a Jewish family in Winnipeg, Manitoba, attended the University of Winnipeg and began his career as a journalist. In 1942, his girlfriend, filmmaker Gudrun Bjerring, was hired by the National Film Board of Canada . The two moved to Ottawa and, in 1947, Parker was also hired by the NFB. They married in 1944 . They made several films together, notably The Stratford Adventure , which was nominated for an Oscar.

#1983

David M. Morgan

#84868

Overall Influence

David M. Morgan became Chancellor of Deakin University on 1 January 2006, following the retirement of his predecessor Dr Richard Searby, QC. He retired from the position in December 2016 and was replaced by John Stanhope.

#1984

Ellen Gates D'Oench

#179973

Overall Influence

1930 - 2009 (79 years)

Ellen Gates D'Oench , known as "Puffin", was Curator Emerita of the Davison Art Center at Wesleyan University, Connecticut. A Wesleyan graduate magna cum laude, she curated the Davison Art Center from 1979 until 1998.

#1985

Barbara Elefant-Raiskin

#185094

Overall Influence

1930 - 2013 (83 years)

Barbara Elefant-Raiskin was a Jewish American-Israeli educator, university lecturer, poet, painter, author of children's literature and textbooks. Early life Elefant-Raiskin was born in Mukachevo, then in Czechoslovakia, to Joseph-Meir and Sarah Elefant. Her father was an Orthodox Rabbi and teacher. In 1936 her family moved to Ada, Serbia. While staying there they became stateless, since the part of Czechoslovakia they had lived in had been taken over by Nazi allied Hungary. The family managed to emigrate to the U.S. in 1939, just before the outbreak of World War II. On the way to the U.S. th...

#1986

Sandy Heslop

#137545

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (75 years)

Thomas Alexander "Sandy" Heslop, , publishing as T. A. Heslop, is a British academic who specialises in the art and architecture of medieval England. He is Professor of Visual Arts at the University of East Anglia . He was Slade Professor of Fine Art at the University of Cambridge for the 1997/1998 academic year.

#1987

Chick Strand

#146534

Overall Influence

1931 - 2009 (78 years)

Mildred "Chick" Strand was an American experimental filmmaker, "a pioneer in blending avant-garde techniques with documentary". Chick Strand contributed to the movement of women's experimental cinema in the early 1960s1970's. Strand's film making and directing approach incorporates personal elements from her own life experiences and societal forces and realities. The film Elasticity is an example of Strand's attempts at autobiographical work that also incorporates Strand's specific standpoint on certain social issues. Feminist issues and anthropological inquiries about the human condition are frequent themes in Strand's films.

#1988

George L. Hersey

#141229

Overall Influence

1927 - 2007 (80 years)

George Leonard Hersey was an American art historian. Hersey was an expert on Italian Renaissance art and architecture, as well as 19th century American art and architecture. His work discussed the relationship between biology and sexuality to art and architecture.

#1989

Cloé Madanes

#10090

Overall Influence

1940 - Present (84 years)

Cloé Madanes is a teacher in family therapy and brief therapy. She has teamed up with Tony Robbins since 2002 to train strategic interventionists for finding solutions to interpersonal conflicts, preventing violence, and contributing to the creation of a more cohesive and civil community.

#1990

Carol Herselle Krinsky

#59820

Overall Influence

1937 - Present (87 years)

Carol Herselle Krinsky is an American architectural historian. She graduated from Erasmus Hall High School, studied at Smith College and New York University, . Krinsky is a professor of twentieth-century architectural history at New York University and a former President of the Society of Architectural Historians.

#1991

Margaret Cool Root

#93561

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (77 years)

Margaret Cool Root is Professor of Near Eastern Art and Archaeology at the University of Michigan. She is an expert on the Achaemenid empire of ancient Persia and its interactions with Greece, and has published widely on Near Eastern material culture.

#1992

James Hilton

#84761

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (65 years)

James Loyd Hilton is an American psychologist, educator, and academic administrator. Hilton served as University Librarian and Dean of Libraries at the University of Michigan since September 1, 2013. He was also Vice Provost for Academic Innovation, responsible for developing strategies and policies around educational technology and other cross-campus digital education initiatives. He stepped down as head of the U-M Library on June 30, 2022.

#1993

John Kaplan

#158778

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (65 years)

John Kaplan is an American photographer who won the 1992 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography "for his photographs depicting the diverse lifestyles of seven 21-year-olds across the United States". Kaplan attended Mount Pleasant High School in Wilmington, Delaware, graduating in 1977. Kaplan graduated with a bachelor's degree in journalism from E. W. Scripps School of Journalism at Ohio University in 1982 and later graduated with a master's degree in journalism from the school in 1998. In 1999 he became a faculty member at the University of Florida's College of Journalism and Communications.

#1994

Maaya Sakamoto

#128571

Overall Influence

1980 - Present (44 years)

is a Japanese actress and singer. She made her debut as a voice actress in 1992 as the voice of Chifuru in the anime Little Twins, and became known as the voice of Hitomi Kanzaki in The Vision of Escaflowne. Other major roles in anime include Leila Malcal in Code Geass: Akito the Exiled, Jeanne d'Arc in Fate/Apocrypha, Shiki Ryōgi in The Garden of Sinners, Eto in Tokyo Ghoul, Riho Yamazaki in Nightwalker: The Midnight Detective, Moe Katsuragi in Risky Safety, Princess Tomoyo in Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle, Haruhi Fujioka in Ouran High School Host Club, Sayaka Nakasugi in Birdy the Mighty, Cie...

#1995

Christy Anderson

#107915

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (55 years)

Christy Anderson is an architectural historian with a special interest in the buildings of the Renaissance and Baroque. She is currently a professor of Art and Architecture at University of Toronto. She graduated from Johns Hopkins University with a B.A., from University of Massachusetts Amherst with an M.A. in the History of Art, and from Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a PhD from the School of Architecture in the History, Theory and Criticism of Art, Architecture and Urbanism Program. She taught at Yale University from 1995 until 2004. She has lectured at the Courtauld Institute...

#1996

Alma Jadallah

#186057

Overall Influence

Alma Abdul-Hadi Jadallah, is a social scientist, internationally recognized mediator, facilitator and trainer, as well as a scholar-practitioner and educator with close to twenty years of experience in the field of conflict analysis and resolution, research and applied practice, peacebuilding, conflict prevention, and transformation. Since 2005, she has been the President and Managing Director of Kommon Denominator Inc., a private consulting firm.

#1997

Akira Asada

#15111

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (67 years)

Akira Asada is a Japanese postmodern critic and curator, whose interests include contemporary arts, the history of social thought, and economic philosophy. He is currently the Dean of the Graduate School at the Kyoto University of Art and Design. Until March 2008, he served as an associate professor of economics at the Institute of Economic Research at Kyoto University . Asada is widely recognized as the author of the bestselling book, "構造と力─記号論を超えて ", which was published in 1983. He holds a position as a member of the supervisory committee at NTT InterCommunication Center, and was a co-editor...

#1998

Robert Arellano

Robert Arellano

#170636

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (55 years)

Robert Arellano is an American author, musician and educator from Talent, Oregon. His literary production includes pioneering work in electronic publishing, graphic-novel editions for Soft Skull Press/Counterpoint, and five novels published by Akashic Books. His guitar-playing for Bonnie 'Prince' Billy is featured on 'I See a Darkness', which Pitchfork magazine named one of the Top 10 albums of the 1990s, and since the 1980s he has been writing and recording songs for solo projects and his group Havanarama.

#1999

David Solkin

#92146

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (73 years)

David Hersh Solkin, FBA is the Walter H. Annenberg Professor of the History of Art at the Courtauld Institute, which he joined in 1986. In 2007, Solkin became the institute's first dean and deputy director. Solkin is an expert in the art of J. M. W. Turner.

#2000

Tom Barbash

#50193

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (74 years)

Tom Barbash is an American writer of fiction and nonfiction, as well as an educator and critic. Speaker, panelist, and interviewer Barbash has served as host for onstage events for The Commonwealth Club, Litquake, BookPassage, and the Lannan Foundation.

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