The Most Influential People Across History

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#2151

Lawrence Schiffman

Lawrence Schiffman
#27160
Overall Influence
1948 - Present (76 years)
Lawrence Harvey Schiffman is a professor at New York University ; he was formerly Vice-Provost of Undergraduate Education at Yeshiva University and Professor of Jewish Studies . He had previously been Chair of New York University's Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies and served as the Ethel and Irvin A. Edelman Professor in Hebrew and Judaic Studies at New York University . He is currently the Judge Abraham Lieberman Professor of Hebrew and Judaic Studies at New York University and Director of the Global Institute for Advanced Research in Jewish Studies. He is a specialist in th...
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#2152

Donald J. Harreld

#92596
Overall Influence
Donald James Harreld is a former professor of history with a dual appointment in European studies at Brigham Young University . Harreld specializes in the early modern history of the Netherlands. He was also the executive director of the Sixteenth Century Society and Conference from 2008–2018. Harreld teaches a course for The Teaching Company on economic history. Herreld holds undergraduate and masters degrees and a Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota.
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#2153

Kenneth Manning

Kenneth Manning
#18709
Overall Influence
1947 - Present (77 years)
Kenneth R. Manning is an American academic professor and author. He is currently the Thomas Meloy Professor of Rhetoric and of the History of Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology . Early life and education Born in Dillon, South Carolina and educated in local schools, Manning eventually moved to North Haven, Connecticut, soon afterwards. Manning entered Harvard University in 1966 and completed his Bachelor of Arts in 1970, his Master of Arts in 1971, and his Ph.D. in 1974. His dissertation, The Emergence of the Weierstrassian Approach To Complex Analysis, was supervised by I....
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#2154

Ranginui Walker

#37159
Overall Influence
1932 - 2016 (84 years)
Ranginui Joseph Isaac Walker was an influential New Zealand academic, author, and activist of Māori and Lebanese descent. "I think he was the Māori commentator for a very long period," his biographer, Professor Paul Spoonley, has said. Walker wrote about the struggles for Māori land rights and cultural identity and, says Spoonley, "confront[ed] Pakeha about their lack of understanding and prejudices to Māori" in his books and regular columns for the weekly New Zealand Listener and the monthly Metro magazine throughout the 1980s and 1990s.
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#2155

Leon Fink

#61132
Overall Influence
1948 - Present (76 years)
Leon Fink is a Distinguished Professor in the Department of History at the University of Illinois at Chicago. A historian, his research and writing focuses on labor unions in the United States, immigration and the nature of work. He is the founding editor of Labor: Studies in Working-Class History, the premier journal of labor history in the United States.
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#2156

Hartwin Brandt

#86887
Overall Influence
1959 - Present (65 years)
Hartwin Brandt is a German ancient historian. Hartwin Brandt studied history, German studies and Latin philology at the University of Kiel from 1979 to 1985. After his first Staatsexamen in 1985, he received his doctorate from Frank Kolb in 1986 and then his habilitation in 1991 from the University of Tübingen, where he was a research assistant from 1986 until 1992. Brandt was an acting professor at the University of Leipzig in 1992/3. Since 1993 he has been regular professor of ancient history, first at Chemnitz University of Technology and then since 2002 at the university of Bamberg.
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#2157

Robert D. Richardson

#13458
Overall Influence
1934 - 2020 (86 years)
Robert Dale Richardson III was an American historian and biographer. Early life Richardson was born in Milwaukee, and brought up in Medford, Massachusetts, and Concord, Massachusetts. He graduated from Exeter, in 1952, and from Harvard University, with a PhD.
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#2158

Guillaume Piketty

#66455
Overall Influence
1965 - Present (59 years)
Guillaume Piketty is a French historian. His specialty is the 20th century history of Europe, especially the Second World War and the French Resistance. He received his doctorate from Institut d'études politiques in 1998 for his thesis "Itinéraire intellectuel et politique de Pierre Brossolette" he has specialized in studies of the resister Pierre Brossolette and in the history of the Free French movement during the Second World War.
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#2159

John Dickie

#51616
Overall Influence
1963 - Present (61 years)
Professor John Dickie is a British author, historian and academic who specialises in Italy. Education Born in Dundee, he was brought up in Leicestershire and went to Loughborough Grammar School. He studied Modern Languages at Pembroke College, Oxford, obtaining a Bachelor's degree with first class honours. He continued his studies at the University of Sussex, completing a Master's degree and becoming a Doctor of Philosophy.
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#2160

Ruth Schwartz Cowan

Ruth Schwartz Cowan
#37470
Overall Influence
1941 - Present (83 years)
Ruth Schwartz Cowan is an American historian of science, technology and medicine noted for her research on the history of human and medical genetics, as well as on the history of household technologies. She is also the author of a widely used textbook on the social history of American technology.
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#2161

William J. Eccles

#55093
Overall Influence
1917 - 1998 (81 years)
William John Eccles was a Canadian historian and academic, specialising in the history of New France. Early life and education Born in Thirsk, North Yorkshire, England, his family immigrated to Canada in the 1920s. He studied at McGill University. Following graduation, he did post-graduate studies at McGill under historian Edward Robert Adair. He later dedicated his book Canada under Louis XIV to Adair.
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#2162

Thomas J. Weiss

#45633
Overall Influence
1942 - Present (82 years)
Thomas J. Weiss is an emeritus professor of Economics at the University of Kansas and a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. His research has investigated colonial economic growth and development and the growth of service sector. His work has been recognised by The Cliometric Society via their awarding him a Clio Can in recognition his of exceptional support of cliometrics. Between 1988 and 1992 he served as one of the two co-editors of the Journal of Economic History.
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#2163

John van Wyhe

#47196
Overall Influence
1971 - Present (53 years)
John van Wyhe , is a British historian of science, with a focus on Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace, at the National University of Singapore. He holds various academic and research positions, ranging from founder and director of The Complete Works of Charles Darwin Online, Scientific Associate, The Natural History Museum , a Fellow of the Linnean Society and a Member of the British Society for the History of Science. He has given more than 50 public lectures on Darwin in more than a dozen countries. He lectures and broadcasts on Darwin, evolution, science and religion and the history of science around the world.
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#2164

Dale K. Van Kley

#80817
Overall Influence
1941 - 2023 (82 years)
Dale K. Van Kley was an American historian and Professor of History at The Ohio State University. Van Kley wrote numerous books and articles, and taught and conducted research throughout North America and Europe. his prize-winning book The Religious Origins of the French Revolution: From Calvin to the Civil Constitution, 1560-1791 . While extensive and diverse, the bulk of his life's work has focused on the contributions that Augustinian theology made to the concepts of liberty that underlay the Enlightenment and finally informed the French Revolution. In April 2005, Shanti Singham of Willi...
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#2165

Arundhati Virmani

#27408
Overall Influence
1957 - Present (67 years)
Arundhati Virmani is an Indian historian. She was a reader in history at Delhi University until 1992. She teaches at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Marseille. Biography Arundhati Virmani was born in New Delhi, on 26 June 1957. She did her schooling from Lady Irwin School and Convent of Jesus and Mary, Delhi. She graduated with a degree in history from Indraprastha College. As a student of Delhi University, she obtained a French fellowship in 1981 to prepare her Ph.D. thesis in French history at the Sorbonne in Paris. Under the supervision of Maurice Agulhon, Professor at ...
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#2166

Diane Purkiss

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Overall Influence
1961 - Present (63 years)
Diane Purkiss is an Australian historian, and Fellow and Tutor of English at Keble College, Oxford. She specialises in Renaissance and women's literature, witchcraft and the English Civil War. Purkiss was born in Sydney, New South Wales, and was educated at Roseville College, Our Lady of the Rosary Convent, and Stuartholme School. She received a BA with first class Honours from the University of Queensland and D.Phil. from Merton College, Oxford. She became lecturer in English at the University of East Anglia in 1991, and lecturer in English at the University of Reading in 1993. In 1998 she...
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#2167

David Fieldhouse

#55608
Overall Influence
1925 - 2018 (93 years)
David Kenneth Fieldhouse, FBA was an English historian of the British Empire. Fieldhouse was born to missionary parents in Mussoorie, northern India. He was sent to England for his education at Dean Close School, Cheltenham, from 1938 to 1943. Fieldhouse then completed naval service, before reading history at The Queen's College, Oxford.
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#2168

A. N. Sherwin-White

#53432
Overall Influence
1911 - 1993 (82 years)
Adrian Nicolas Sherwin-White, FBA was a British academic and ancient historian. He was a fellow of St John's College, University of Oxford and President of the Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies. His most important works include a study of Roman citizenship based on his doctoral thesis, a treatment of the New Testament from the point of view of Roman law and society, and a commentary on the letters of Pliny the Younger.
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#2169

Meg Jacobs

#66770
Overall Influence
1969 - Present (55 years)
Meg Jacobs is a historian of U.S. political history and political economy. She is a Senior Research Scholar at the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs and in the Department of History at Princeton University.
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#2170

Allan M. Brandt

#58409
Overall Influence
1953 - Present (71 years)
Allan Morris Brandt is a historian of medicine and the Amalie Kass Professor of History of Medicine and Professor of the History of Science at Harvard University. He is an author of several books, including The Cigarette Century: The Rise, Fall, and Deadly Persistence of the Product that Defined America, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction.
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#2171

John Frederick Schwaller

#72844
Overall Influence
1948 - Present (76 years)
John Frederick Schwaller is an American historian of Latin America, specializing in colonial Mexico, religion, and indigenous peoples. He has written monographs on religion in Mexico, edited scholarly editions of important colonial Mexican texts, and has coordinated and edited anthologies of articles on religion. His administrative service includes being President of State University of New York at Potsdam from 2006 to 2013 and Director of the Academy of American Franciscan History, 1993–95. He is currently professor of history at University of Albany, State University of New York.
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#2172

Paul R. Bartrop

#17380
Overall Influence
1955 - Present (69 years)
Paul R. Bartrop is an Australian historian of the Holocaust and genocide. From August 2012 until December 2020 he was Professor of History and Director of the Center for Judaic, Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Florida Gulf Coast University, Fort Myers, Florida. Between 2020 and 2021 he was an honorary Visiting Professorial Fellow at the University of New South Wales, Canberra . In April 2021 he became Professor Emeritus of History at Florida Gulf Coast University, and in 2022 he became an honorary Principal Fellow in History at the University of Melbourne. During the academic year of 2011-2012 he was the Ida E.
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#2173

Kathleen Belew

Kathleen Belew
#48671
Overall Influence
1981 - Present (43 years)
Kathleen Belew is an American tenured associate professor of history at Northwestern University, and an international authority on the white power movement. She is the author of Bring the War Home , co-edited A Field Guide to White Supremacy with Ramón A. Gutiérrez, and contributed essays to The Presidency of Donald J. Trump: A First Historical Assessment and the New York Times bestseller Myth America: Historians Take on the Biggest Lies and Legends about Our Past . Her forthcoming book, to be published by Random House, is titled Home at the End of the World. She has written for The New Yor...
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#2174

Carter Eckert

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Overall Influence
Carter J. Eckert is an American academic and the Yoon Se Young Professor of Korean History at Harvard University. Early life and education Eckert was born in Chicago, Illinois. He attended Lawrence University, where he studied Western ancient and medieval history. Eckert then undertook graduate studies, earning a Master of Arts in 1968.
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#2175

Thomas von der Dunk

Thomas von der Dunk
#39118
Overall Influence
1961 - Present (63 years)
Thomas von der Dunk is a Dutch cultural historian, writer, and columnist who has written for de Volkskrant and HP/De Tijd. Von der Dunk was raised in Bilthoven, and from 1979 to 1988 studied art history at the University of Amsterdam. He was a doctoral candidate in the history department at Leiden University , and received his Ph.D. in 1994, having written a dissertation on the political and ideological characteristics of the cult of monuments in the Holy Roman Empire between the fourteenth and the eighteenth century. He worked at Utrecht University from 1994 to 1999, and from 1999 to 2002 ag...
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#2176

Eric Jones

#63949
Overall Influence
1936 - Present (88 years)
Eric Lionel Jones is a British-Australian economist and historian, known for his 1981 book The European Miracle. Jones received a doctorate in economic history from the Oxford University. From 1970 to 1975, he was professor of economics at Northwestern University in United States. From 1975 to 1994 he was a professor of economics and economics history at La Trobe University, in Australia. Jones has also had visiting appointments at Yale, Manchester, Princeton, University of Berlin and the Center for Economic Studies at Munich.
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#2177

Herbert H. Rowen

#46328
Overall Influence
1916 - 1999 (83 years)
Herbert Harvey Rowen , was a noted American historian of Early Modern Europe and "arguably the most important English-speaking historian of the Dutch Republic since John Lothrop Motley." Early life and education The son of Joseph M. Rowen, a teacher, and his wife, Sarah Gordon Rowen, Herbert Rowen was educated entirely in New York City, from his first year in grade school through his doctorate. He earned his [B.S.S.] degree in 1936 at City College of New York. In 1938, he became assistant to the manager of Converters Paper Company in Newark, New Jersey and, two years later, on 28 June 1940, he married Mildred Ringel , with whom he later had three children.
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#2178

Brian Stock

Brian Stock
#34602
Overall Influence
1939 - Present (85 years)
Brian Stock is an American historian. He is a historian of modes of perception between the ancient world and the sixteenth century. He was Rouse Ball Student at Trinity College, Cambridge, and Senior Fellow at the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, Toronto, before joining the graduate faculty of the University of Toronto, where he taught history and literature until 2007. He is a Canadian and French citizen.
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#2179

Dennis Deletant

Dennis Deletant
#50524
Overall Influence
1946 - Present (78 years)
Dennis Deletant is a British-Romanian historian of the history of Romania. As of 2019, he is Visiting Ion Rațiu Professor of Romanian Studies at Georgetown University and Emeritus Professor of Romanian Studies at the UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies . He is the author of numerous works on the history of Romania including Ceaușescu and the Securitate: Coercion and Dissent in Romania, 1965-89 ; Romania under Communist Rule ; Communist Terror in Romania: Gheorghiu-Dej and the Police State, 1948-1965 ; and Ion Antonescu: Hitler's Forgotten Ally .
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#2180

Dirk H. A. Kolff

#43693
Overall Influence
1938 - Present (86 years)
Dirk Herbert Arnold Kolff is a Dutch historian and Indologist. Born at Rotterdam in the Netherlands, Kolff earned a doctorate degree from the Leiden University in 1983 with a doctoral thesis on the research subject of armed peasantry in northern India. He is a professor emeritus of modern South Asian history and the former Chair of Indian History at the Leiden University.
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#2181

Keith Sinclair

#32433
Overall Influence
1922 - 1993 (71 years)
Sir Keith Sinclair was a New Zealand poet and historian. Academic career Sinclair was the oldest child of Ernest Duncan Sinclair and Florence Pyrenes Kennedy. Born and raised in Auckland, Sinclair was a student at Auckland University College, which was then part of the University of New Zealand. He was awarded a master's degree in 1946 and PhD at the college and was made a professor of history at the University of Auckland in 1963.
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#2182

Peter W. Fay

#60049
Overall Influence
1924 - 2004 (80 years)
Peter Ward Fay was a noted historian and authority on India and China. He was a professor at the California Institute of Technology from 1955 until his retirement in 1997. Professor Fay received his bachelor's degree from Harvard in 1947, where his studies were interrupted to serve in Italy during World War II. Afterwards, he attended Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar and then returned to Harvard for his PhD, which he received in 1954. After a brief period teaching at Williams College, he came to Caltech, where he remained for the rest of his career. At Caltech, Fay taught a variety of ...
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#2183

Frank J. Frost

#79579
Overall Influence
1929 - Present (95 years)
Frank J. Frost is an American scholar of Ancient Greek history, archaeologist, politician, and novelist. Early life and education Born in Washington, DC, in 1929 to businessman Frank J. Frost Sr., and Eugenia Frost, Frank Frost grew up in Palo Alto, CA. After high school and some college, he served in the US Army during the Korean War. He returned to the USA from Korea and earned his B.A. at the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1955. He then went to the University of California, Los Angeles where he earned a Ph.D. in History in 1961 .
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#2184

Noël Riley Fitch

Noël Riley Fitch
#41691
Overall Influence
1937 - Present (87 years)
Noël Riley Fitch is a biographer and historian of expatriate intellectuals in Paris in the first half of the 20th century. She is the author of several books on Paris as well as three biographies: Sylvia Beach and the Lost Generation , translated into Japanese, Spanish, German, Italian and French; Anaïs: The Erotic Life of Anaïs Nin , published in French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, and Polish, and nominated for the Grand prix des lectrices de Elle; and she is the first authorized biographer of Julia Child, with Appetite for Life: the Biography of Julia Child . The Ernest Hemingway book, a b...
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#2185

Paweł Machcewicz

Paweł Machcewicz
#35412
Overall Influence
1966 - Present (58 years)
Paweł Mateusz Machcewicz is a Polish historian and university professor. Biography Machcewicz graduated in 1989 from the Department of History at the University of Warsaw. In 1990 he became a research analyst at the Institute of History of the Polish Academy of Sciences. In 1993 Machcewicz defended the doctorate, and in 2000 received a post-doctoral degree in humanities in the field of Political Theories. He was a grant recipient from the Fulbright Foundation of the Georgetown University and from the Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs among others. In 2009 Machcewicz received a title of the Professor of Humanities at the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń.
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#2186

Nino Luraghi

#61373
Overall Influence
1964 - Present (60 years)
Nino Luraghi is an Italian historian of ancient Greece, who holds the Wykeham Professorship of Ancient History at Oxford University. Life Luraghi is the son of Raimondo Luraghi , an Italian resistance fighter and historian. He studied at the universities of Venice and Rome, where he received his doctorate in 1992 with a thesis on archaic tyrannies.
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#2187

William J. Bouwsma

#72232
Overall Influence
1923 - 2004 (81 years)
William James Bouwsma was an American scholar and historian of the European Renaissance. He was Sather Professor of History Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley and president of the American Historical Association in 1978.
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#2188

Walter Johnson

Walter Johnson
#44931
Overall Influence
1967 - Present (57 years)
Walter Johnson is an American historian, and a professor of History and of African and African-American Studies at Harvard University, where he has also directed the Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History.
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#2189

Jeremy Catto

#60191
Overall Influence
1939 - 2018 (79 years)
Robert Jeremy Adam Inch Catto was a British historian who was a Rhodes fellow and tutor in Modern History at Oriel College, Oxford, where he was also senior dean. Catto was a Brackenbury Scholar in History at Balliol College, Oxford, where he graduated with first-class honours. He held a master's degree and a doctorate From 1964 to 1969 he was employed as a tutor at Hatfield College, Durham. During this time he became acquainted with Mark Lancaster and Bryan Ferry, who were then art students in nearby Newcastle.
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#2190

Karin Johannisson

Karin Johannisson
#75414
Overall Influence
1944 - 2016 (72 years)
Karin Johannisson was a Swedish idea historian who was Professor of the History of Science and Ideas at Uppsala University. She was a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. Early life Karin Johannisson was born in Gothenburg on 11 October 1944. Her mother Lore Johannisson, née Schmidt, was a German medical student who had met and married the Swedish lecturer Tore Johannisson when he worked at the University of Marburg. The couple had three children; Karin was the youngest. They moved to Lund in 1939, and then to Gothenburg when Tore Johannisson was appointed Professor of Scandinavia...
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#2191

Peter Wende

#84371
Overall Influence
1936 - 2017 (81 years)
Peter Wende was a German historian who was a professor at the University of Frankfurt am Main and later director of the German Historical Institute London from September 1994 to August 2000.
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#2192

Kathleen M. Brown

#59154
Overall Influence
1960 - Present (64 years)
Kathleen M. Brown is an American historian specializing in early American and Atlantic history, the history of comparative race, gender, and sex, and the history of abolition and human rights. She is currently the David Boies Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania.
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#2193

Mansoureh Ettehadieh

Mansoureh Ettehadieh
#62625
Overall Influence
Mansoureh Ettehadieh is an Iranian historian and publisher. She obtained MA and PhD degrees from the University of Edinburgh in 1956 and 1979, respectively. Her PhD thesis was "Origin and development of political parties in Persia 1906-1911". From 1963 until her retirement in 2000, she taught in the History Department at Tehran University.
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#2194

N. J. Higham

#37773
Overall Influence
1951 - Present (73 years)
Nicholas John Higham, is a British archaeologist, historian, and academic. He was Professor of Early Medieval and Landscape History at the University of Manchester, and is now an emeritus professor.
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#2195

Carolyn Steedman

#66370
Overall Influence
1947 - Present (77 years)
Carolyn Kay Steedman, FBA is a British historian, specialising in the social and cultural history of modern Britain and exploring labour, gender, class, language and childhood. Since 2013, she has been Emeritus Professor of History at University of Warwick, where she had previously been a Professor of History since 1999. Steedman graduated from the University of Sussex with an undergraduate degree in English and American Studies in 1968, and then completed a master's degree at Newnham College, Cambridge, in 1974. She was a teacher from then until 1982, when she joined the Institute of Educati...
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#2196

Heidrun E. Mader

#28519
Overall Influence
Heidrun E. Mader is a German Protestant theologian and historian of early Christianity and its literature, and a professor at the University of Cologne, Germany, holding a chair of Biblical Literature and its Reception History.
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#2197

Thomas F. Madden

Thomas F. Madden
#59926
Overall Influence
1960 - Present (64 years)
Thomas Francis Madden is an American historian, a former chair of the history department at Saint Louis University in St. Louis, Missouri, and director of Saint Louis University's Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies.
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#2198

Jacob Lassner

#43787
Overall Influence
1935 - Present (89 years)
Jacob Lassner is an American writer and Jewish studies academic. He is the Philip M. & Ethel Klutznick Professor of Jewish civilization Emeritus at Northwestern University and former Director of the Crown Family Center for Jewish Studies. Lassner specializes in Medieval Near Eastern history with an emphasis on urban structures, political culture and the background to Jewish-Muslim relations.
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#2199

Patrick O'Farrell

#54568
Overall Influence
1933 - 2003 (70 years)
Patrick James O'Farrell was a historian known for his histories of Roman Catholicism in Australia, Irish history and Irish Australian history. Early life and family O'Farrell was born on 17 September 1933, in Greymouth, New Zealand, into an Irish Catholic family. He was educated at the Marist Brothers High School, Greymouth, and at Canterbury University College, where he graduated Master of Arts with second-class honours in history in 1956.
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John M. Cooper

#45488
Overall Influence
1940 - Present (84 years)
John Milton Cooper Jr. is an American historian, author, and educator. He specializes in late 19th and early 20th-century American political and diplomatic history with a particular focus on presidential history. His 2009 biography of Woodrow Wilson was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, and biographer Patricia O'Toole has called him "the world's greatest authority on Woodrow Wilson." Cooper is Professor Emeritus at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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