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#5701

Lindy Grant

#151354

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (73 years)

Lindy M. Grant, , is professor emerita of medieval history at the University of Reading, an honorary research fellow of the Courtauld Institute of Art, and a former president of the British Archaeological Association. Grant is a specialist in Capetian France and its neighbours in the 11th to 13th centuries.

#5702

Bernard Rosenthal

#108120

Overall Influence

1934 - Present (91 years)

Bernard Rosenthal is an American scholar and historian, professor emeritus of English at Binghamton University, specializing in the history of the Salem witchcraft trials and the writings of Herman Melville. Rosenthal received his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign in 1968, and was a Fulbright lecturer at Tampere University in Finland in 1996-97.

#5703

Roy Bridges

#167446

Overall Influence

1932 - Present (93 years)

Roy C Bridges was a noted historian the main focus of whose academic work was the British institutions and personnel which were established in East Africa in the middle years of the nineteenth century. He was Professor of History at the University of Aberdeen where he taught from 1964 to 1997. From 2002 to 2008 he was the President of the Hakluyt Society. He was also a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and the Royal Historical Society.

#5704

John L. Thomas

#131734

Overall Influence

1926 - 2005 (79 years)

John "Jack" Lovell Thomas was the George L. Littlefield Professor of American History at Brown University, Rhode Island, USA. He entered Bowdoin College, Maine in 1944 to study history. He then taught for a year at Washington Academy, East Machias, Maine before enrolling for a year at Columbia University, New York, where he was awarded an M.A. degree in 1950. He then taught for four years at Barnard College, New York and for a further five at Brown University, where he received his Ph.D. After a further three years teaching at Harvard University he returned to Brown University as Littlefield ...

#5705

David Gaunt

#147244

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (81 years)

David Gaunt is a historian and professor at Södertörn University's Centre for Baltic and East European Studies and Member of Academia Europaea. Gaunt's book about the Assyrian genocide, Massacres, Resistance, Protectors, was described as "the most important book that has been published in recent years".

#5706

Leonard Gilchrist Wilson

#179218

Overall Influence

1928 - 2018 (90 years)

Leonard Gilchrist Wilson was a Canadian-American historian of science, specializing in the history of medicine and biology and the history of nineteenth century geology. He is best known for his 1972 biography of Charles Lyell.

#5707

Fozia Bora

#139094

Overall Influence

1972 - Present (53 years)

Fozia Bora is a lecturer in Middle Eastern history and Islamic history at the School of Languages, Cultures and Societies at the University of Leeds. Her research and teaching is concerned primarily with Arabic history and historiography, in particular, Arabic historiography of the 6th-9th Islamic centuries . In 2021, she was named as one of the university's 'Women of Achievement'.

#5708

Halvard Bjørkvik

#179890

Overall Influence

1924 - 2021 (97 years)

Halvard Bjørkvik was a Norwegian historian. Career He was born in Finnøy. He was manager of the Norwegian Museum of Cultural History from 1975, and was appointed adjunct professor at the University of Oslo from 1984, promoted to professor in 1990. His research focused on the agrarian history. He was decorated with the King's Medal of Merit in gold in 2006.

#5709

Andrej Kotljarchuk

Andrej Kotljarchuk

#153154

Overall Influence

1968 - Present (57 years)

Andrej Kotljarchuk is a Swedish historian of Belarusian descent. His research focuses on ethnic minorities and role of experts’ communities, mass violence and the politics of memory. Kotljarchuk holds a PhD degree in history from Stockholm University and a candidate of historical science degree from the Russian Academy of Sciences . Currently he is a university lecturer at the Department of History of the Stockholm University and a senior researcher at the School of Historical and Contemporary Studies, Södertörn University.

#5710

Wolfgang Weber

#168738

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (75 years)

Wolfgang Eduard Josef Weber is a German historian. He is the director and executive scientific secretary of the Institute for European Cultural History at the University of Augsburg and a professor of modern and contemporary history, especially European cultural history.

#5711

Gábor Kósa

#119296

Overall Influence

1971 - Present (54 years)

Gábor Kósa is a Hungarian historian of religions, an associate professor at the Faculty of Humanities of the Eötvös Loránd University, Department of Chinese Studies. Career Born in Budapest, Gábor Kósa holds MA degrees in English from the School of English and American Studies of the Faculty of Humanities of the ELTE, Chinese and religious studies . In 2006 he defended his doctoral dissertation entitled ʻThe Terminological Analysis of Chinese Texts Related to Manichaeism’ .

#5712

Jenny Davidson

#149952

Overall Influence

1971 - Present (54 years)

Jenny Davidson is an American historian and writer who writes about 18th-century literature, etiquette and culture. She is currently a professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. She was a Guggenheim Fellow during 2005-2006 and was named a visiting scholar to The American Academy of Arts and Sciences that same year. Davidson was awarded the Mark Van Doren Award in 2010 for her commitment to undergraduate instruction.

#5713

Hryhoriy Nemyria

#98442

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (65 years)

Hryhoriy Mykhailovych Nemyria is the First Deputy Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Parliament of Ukraine and Deputy Chairman of the Batkivshchyna. Family Nemyria is married to his wife Lyudmila Nemyrya; he has a son Mykhailo, and a daughter.

#5714

Olufunke Adeboye

Olufunke Adeboye

#175919

Overall Influence

Olufunke Adeboye is a Nigerian professor of Social History at the Department of History and Strategic Studies of the University of Lagos, Nigeria, where she is also the incumbent Dean of the Faculty of Arts. Adeboye's research interests include gender in Africa, pre-colonial and colonial Nigerian history, nineteenth and twentieth century Yoruba society, African historiography, and Pentecostalism in West Africa. In 2013, she won the Gerti Hesseling Prize awarded by AEGIS for the best journal article published in a European African Studies journal by an African scholar.

#5715

Ros Pesman

#91945

Overall Influence

1938 - Present (87 years)

Roslyn Louise "Ros" Pesman, was the first female Challis Professor of History at the University of Sydney and the first woman to be elected chair of the academic board at the university. Early life and family Roslyn Cooper was born in Leeton, New South Wales, on 24 June 1938 to Robert Hewitson Cooper and Dulcie May Butler. She attended the MLC School, Burwood, graduating in 1956, going on to receive a Bachelor of Arts in history at the University of Sydney in 1959 and a Doctor of Philosophy in 1965 from the University of London, where she was the junior fellow of the Warburg Institute from 1963–65.

#5716

Charles-Edouard Levillain

#174671

Overall Influence

1971 - Present (54 years)

Charles-Édouard Levillain , FRHistS, MAE, is a French historian of early modern Britain and the Low Countries. He is currently professor of British history at Université Paris Cité . Education and career Levillain was educated at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris. He holds a BA in History from the Sorbonne and a degree in Public Law and Administration from Sciences Po. He obtained his PhD from the Sorbonne Nouvelle University in 2003.

#5717

Charles W. Eagles

#138344

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (79 years)

Charles W. Eagles is an American historian. He is the William F. Winter Professor of History Emeritus at the University of Mississippi and the author of several books about the civil rights movement.

#5718

Anne Salmond

#146005

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (80 years)

Dame Mary Anne Salmond is a New Zealand anthropologist, environmentalist and writer. She was New Zealander of the Year in 2013. In 2020, she was appointed to the Order of New Zealand, the highest honour in New Zealand's royal honours system.

#5719

Bogusław Tadeusz Kopka

Bogusław Tadeusz Kopka

#155227

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (56 years)

Bogusław Tadeusz Kopka – a Polish historian, PhD, a professor at the Akademia Zamojska; an associate professor at the Warsaw University of Technology Faculty of History and Social Sciences and at the Warsaw Family Alliance Institute of Higher Education.

#5720

Marenglen Verli

#150266

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (74 years)

Marenglen Verli is an Albanian historian and scholar. Since 2009, he is a member of the Academy of Sciences of Albania. Life Verli was born in Tirana on 19 December 1951. After finishing the high school "Petro Nini Luarasi", he entered the Faculty of History-Philology of the University of Tirana, History-Geography branch. During 1973–79 he worked as teacher in the town of Laç. In 1979 he started in the Institute of History in Tirana , holding the position of the "scientific personnel" until 2013. In 1985 he revived the title "Kandidat i shkencave historike" , and "Doktor i Shkencave" in 1994, in 1997 "Associated Professor", and in 2001 "Professor".

#5721

Penny Russell

#179001

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (64 years)

Penelope Ann Russell, is an Australian social historian. She is Bicentennial Professor of Australian History at the University of Sydney. Early life and education Penelope Ann Russell was born in 1961 in Maryborough, Queensland, to teacher/librarian Mary Gertrude Russell and dentist Gerald Victor Russell. As a young child, she moved with her family to Ballarat and attended primary school and then Ballarat East High School, where she sat the Higher School Certificate in 1978. She completed a Bachelor of Arts with Honours at Monash University in 1982 with a her thesis "'Mothers of the Race': A Study of the First Thirty Women Medical Graduates from the University of Melbourne".

#5722

Abbott Gleason

#157222

Overall Influence

1938 - 2015 (77 years)

Abbott Gleason was professor emeritus of history and faculty member at the Watson Institute, Brown University. He graduated from Harvard University. Selected publications European and Muscovite: Ivan Kireevsky and the Origins of Slavophilism 1972Young Russia: The Genesis of Russian Radicalism in the 1860s 1980Totalitarianism: The Inner History of the Cold War 1995A Liberal Education 2010

#5723

William Deverell

#179629

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (63 years)

William Deverell is a historian of the American West and a professor of history at the University of Southern California, where he directs the Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West, and is Chair of the department of History at Dornsife College and Arts and Sciences.

#5724

Bronwen Neil

#177938

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (56 years)

Bronwen Neil FAHA is an Australian academic. She is a Professor of Ancient History at Macquarie University. She is an expert on Byzantine Greek and medieval literature, early Christianity, and ancient letter collections in Greek and Latin.

#5725

Bengt Holbek

#88370

Overall Influence

1933 - 1992 (59 years)

Bengt Holbek was a Danish folklorist known for his unorthodox approach to folklore theory. He wrote one of the definitive works of fairy tale scholarship entitled Interpretation of Fairy Tales . Biography Bengt Knud Holbek was born 1 April 1933 in Copenhagen and was the fourth of ten children. His father, Hans Holbek, was a civil engineer and his mother was named Elsebeth. He grew up in Ørholm and graduated from Lyngby Statskole in 1951.

#5726

Francesc Xavier Hernández Cardona

#93328

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (71 years)

Francesc Xavier Hernández Cardona is a Catalan historian, Professor of Didactics of Social Sciences of the University of Barcelona. In 1979 he got a degree in Philosophy and Literature, Section of Modern and Contemporary History, at the University of Barcelona, with the thesis entitled "The MLE and its development in Catalonia ", directed by Josep Termes.

#5727

Michael Stolz

#170670

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (65 years)

Michael Stolz is a Swiss and German medievalist and professor at the University of Bern. Biography Stolz read German and French in Munich, Poitiers and Bern. He submitted his doctoral thesis in Bern in 1993, with a thesis on the poetic techniques of the Marian poem Der Tum by the German 14th-century author Heinrich von Mügeln In 2000, he completed his habilitation on the literary representation of the seven Liberal arts in the Middle Ages.

#5728

Jacek Majchrowski

#120816

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (78 years)

Jacek Maria Majchrowski is a Polish politician, lawyer, historian, professor at the Jagiellonian University, and the current mayor of Kraków since 2002; making him the longest serving mayor in the history of the city, and the only one who was elected by the townspeople five times in a row.

#5729

Susan Stryker

#128594

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (64 years)

Susan O'Neal Stryker is an American professor, historian, author, filmmaker, and theorist whose work focuses on gender and human sexuality. She is a professor of Gender and Women's Studies, former director of the Institute for LGBT Studies, and founder of the Transgender Studies Initiative at the University of Arizona, and is currently on leave while holding an appointment as Barbara Lee Distinguished Chair in Women's Leadership at Mills College. Stryker serves on the Advisory Council of METI and the Advisory Board of the Digital Transgender Archive. Stryker, who is a transgender woman, is the author of several books about LGBT history and culture.

#5730

Melissa Klapper

#85913

Overall Influence

1973 - Present (52 years)

Melissa Rose Klapper is an American historian and storyteller. She is a professor of American and women's history at Rowan University. Klapper has authored books on American Jewish women's history and the history of children and youth in the United States.

#5731

Tom Licence

#121246

Overall Influence

Tom Oliver Licence FSA, FRHistS, is a British historian specialising in the period 950–1200, with an additional interest in Victorian consumer waste. He is Professor of Medieval History and Consumer Culture at the University of East Anglia and director of the Centre of East Anglian Studies.

#5732

Malcolm McKinnon

#107123

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (75 years)

Malcolm Arthur McKinnon is a New Zealand historian and political historian. McKinnon's work largely focuses on the history of New Zealand and New Zealand's international relations. McKinnon has held a number of editorial roles, including at New Zealand International Review and as theme editor of Te Ara: The Encyclopedia of New Zealand.

#5733

Franz Samelson

#107690

Overall Influence

1923 - 2015 (92 years)

Franz Samelson was a German-American social psychologist and historian of psychology. Samelson was born on September 23, 1923, in present-day Wroclaw, Poland . Prohibited by the laws of Nazi Germany from attending any German universities, he instead attended a photography school in Munich, where he later worked in a factory with prisoners of war. After World War II ended, he began working for the United States Army. He also enrolled at the University of Munich, where he received a diploma in psychology in 1952.

#5734

Yossi Goldstein

Yossi Goldstein

#172172

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (78 years)

Yossi Goldstein is an Israeli historian and biographer. Goldstein's research focuses on Modern Jewish History, the History of Zionism, and the History of the State of Israel. Goldstein is a professor at the Faculty of the Social Sciences and the Humanities at the Ariel University Center. He has published biographies of Eli Horovitz, Levi Eshkol, Yitzhak Rabin and Golda Meir.

#5735

Graeme Morton

#177623

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (58 years)

Graeme Morton is a Scottish academic historian who has occupied the Chair of Modern History at the University of Dundee since 2013. Career Morton completed a master of arts degree in economic and social history and sociology in 1989, and a doctorate of philosophy at the University of Edinburgh in 1993; his doctoral thesis was entitled Unionist-nationalism: the historical construction of Scottish national identity, Edinburgh, 1830–1860. He lectured at Edinburgh from 1992 until 2004, when he was appointed to the inaugural Scottish Studies Foundation Chair at the University of Guelph; while in this post, he was Director of the university's Centre for Scottish Studies.

#5736

Sydney F. Wise

#174442

Overall Influence

1924 - 2007 (83 years)

Sydney Francis Wise is a Canadian historian who became the official historian of the Canadian military in 1966. Career He joined the Royal Canadian Air Force in 1942 and became a pilot. He enrolled in the Royal Military College of Canada. After graduating he became a professor there, Queens College and Carleton University. In 1966, he was called upon and accepted the position of the official historian of the Canadian military. In 1989 he received the Order of Canada.

#5737

J. H. Burns

#114065

Overall Influence

1921 - 2012 (91 years)

James Henderson Burns was a Scottish historian of medieval and modern political thought who also studied utilitarianism and Jeremy Bentham. He was born in Linlithgow, West Lothian, the son of a manager of a paper mill. He was educated at George Watson's College before attending Edinburgh University, where he was awarded a BA . Due to poor eyesight, he was declared unfit for military service in the Second World War, and so worked as a sub-editor for the news department of the BBC. Abandoning his membership of the Communist Party, Burns converted to Roman Catholicism during the war and from 1...

#5738

Jorge Núñez Sánchez

Jorge Núñez Sánchez

#146941

Overall Influence

1947 - 2020 (73 years)

Jorge Núñez Sánchez was an Ecuadorian writer, historian, and professor. He was the author of 56 books and co-author of 66 other books. In 2010 he was awarded the Ecuadorian national prize Premio Eugenio Espejo in Culture.

#5739

John Henderson

#101673

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (76 years)

John S. Henderson is a professor of Italian Renaissance history at Birkbeck College, University of London. Selected publications Piety and Charity in Late Medieval Florence, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1994, xviii + 545 pages; revised paperback ed.: Chicago University Press, 1997, xviii + 533 pages.Italian translation: Pieta' e carita' nella Firenze del Basso Medioevo, Casa Editrice Le Lettere, Florence, 1998, pp. 545.The Great Pox. The French Disease in Renaissance Europe, with J. Arrizabalaga and R. French .The Renaissance Hospital. Healing the Body and Healing the Soul , xxxiv + 458 pages.Germ...

#5740

Robert Addo-Fening

#103652

Overall Influence

1935 - Present (90 years)

Robert Yaw Addo Fening is a Ghanaian historian who has made major contributions in documenting the history of Akyem Abuakwa and of Ghana. He has been accorded the award of Okyeman Kanea in recognition of his historical works. For several years he taught at the University of Ghana.

#5741

Don C. Ohadike

#179512

Overall Influence

1941 - 2005 (64 years)

Don C. Ohadike, born in Nigeria in 1941, was one of the foremost scholars of Igbo history. Ohadike's work emphasized the importance of his inherited culture, which he demonstrated in part through his continued and passionate interest in rescuing oppressed voices of African peasants and other silenced groups. Ohadike was also an African patriot and a nationalist crusader. His work's core centered around safeguarding African identity in a changing world of cultural globalism. Ohadike died on 28 August 2005.

#5742

Melanie Oppenheimer

#171799

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (68 years)

Melanie Nivison Oppenheimer, is an Australian historian, who specialises in the history of volunteering, and a former actress. Early life and acting Oppenheimer was born in Sydney, New South Wales, and studied for a Bachelor of Arts degree at the University of New England . When UNE opened a drama department, she "fell in love with acting" and went on to enrol at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art in London before starting a career as an actress on Australian television. She played Sarah Carson, the daughter of lead character Jennifer Carson , on the television series Carson's Law fr...

#5743

José Luis Salcedo Bastardo

#177186

Overall Influence

1926 - 2005 (79 years)

José Luis Salcedo Bastardo was a Venezuelan historian and diplomat. He was born in Carúpano, and died in Caracas.

#5744

James Urry

#168240

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (76 years)

James Urry is a New Zealand anthropologist, historian, author and professor at the School of Social and Cultural Studies at Victoria University of Wellington in Wellington, New Zealand. Urry is considered an authority on the history of Russian Mennonites.

#5745

Ljiljana Radonić

#113639

Overall Influence

1981 - Present (44 years)

Ljiljana Radonić is a Croatian political scientist from Vienna. Since 2019, she is leading the five-year project financed by a European Research Council consolidator grant through the "Globalized Memorial Museums. Exhibiting Atrocities in the Era of Claims for Moral Universals" at the Austrian Academy of Sciences, of which she is a Junge Akademie member. She graduated in 2009 at the University of Vienna, and has been a lecturer at the university's Department of Political Science since 2004.

#5746

Renate Drucker

#98560

Overall Influence

1917 - 2009 (92 years)

Renate Drucker was a German archivist. She was in charge of the university archives at Leipzig University for 27 years between 1950 and 1977. She was qualified as a philologist and was also for many years an officer of the Liberal Democratic Party of Germany , one of several "bloc parties" controlled by the ruling East German Socialist Unity Party which were intended to broaden the régime's constitutional legitimacy.

#5747

Rufus Akinyele

#177446

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (66 years)

Rufus Taiwo Akinyele is a Nigerian professor of African History at the University of Lagos, and the Vice Chancellor of Maranatha University, Lagos. His research interests cut across the fields of African history, inter-group relations and border studies, and he has published numerous articles in several peer-reviewed journals in these areas. With his studies on the Oodua Peoples' Congress among others, he has earned recognition as one of the leading authorities on ethnic militia across the world. Akinyele is the convener of the International Multidisciplinary Conference on ‘Land and Developme...

#5748

Andrea Romano

#172017

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (58 years)

Andrea Romano is an Italian politician. Biography Andrea Romano attends secondary school by the Salesians in his hometown, Livorno, then he graduated in Pisa and obtained a research doctorate in Crisis and transformation of society in Turin.

#5749

Rod Preece

#108282

Overall Influence

1939 - 2021 (82 years)

Rodney John Charles Preece was a British-Canadian political philosopher and historian of animal rights and vegetarianism. He was professor emeritus in the Department of Political Science at Wilfrid Laurier University. Preece authored and edited 19 books on topics including animal rights and welfare, vegetarianism, German politics, socialization in Europe, and political theory.

#5750

Wendy Mayer

#97742

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (65 years)

Wendy Mayer is an Australian scholar in late antiquity and religion who is a research professor and associate dean for research at Australian Lutheran College, dean of research strategy for the University of Divinity, and honorary research fellow at the University of South Africa. She is known for her work on John Chrysostom and on early Christian preaching.

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