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Alan Sked
1947 - Present (77 years)
Alan Sked is a British Eurosceptic academic. He founded the Anti-Federalist League and its successor the UK Independence Party . He is Professor Emeritus of International History at the London School of Economics and has stood as a candidate in several parliamentary elections.
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Sucheng Chan
1941 - Present (83 years)
Sucheng Chan is a Chinese-American author, historian, scholar, and professor. She established the first full-fledged autonomous Department of Asian American Studies at a major U.S. research university and she was the first Asian American woman in the University of California system to hold the title of provost.
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W. H. McLeod
1932 - 2009 (77 years)
William Hewat McLeod was a New Zealand scholar who helped establish Sikh Studies as a distinctive field. Considered to be the most prominent Western historian of Sikhism, his publications had introduced higher criticism to Sikh sources for the first time and influenced generations of scholars. However, his scholarship remains controversial among traditional Khalsa scholars, who accuse him of disrespecting the religion and argue that Sikhism can't be studied using Western methodologies.
Go to ProfileRobert Allyn Scott is an American educator and academic administrator who served as ninth president of Adelphi University located in Garden City, New York from 2000–2015. Biography Robert Scott was a member of Bucknell University's class of 1961 with a B.A. in English and received his Ph.D. in Sociology and Organizational Ethnography from Cornell University. He started his career as a member of the Bucknell's Admissions staff in 1965. From 1969 to 1979, he worked at Cornell University, starting as Assistant Dean and then as Associate Dean and Senior Administrator of the College of Arts and Sciences.
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Takeshi Mizubayashi
1947 - Present (77 years)
Takeshi Mizubayashi is a professor in the Graduate School of Law at Hitotsubashi University, and professor emeritus of Tokyo Metropolitan University. His field of specialty is the history of law in Japan, though he is perhaps most well known for his arguments regarding the political organization of Tokugawa Japan.
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Tetsuo Najita
1936 - 2021 (85 years)
Tetsuo "Tets" Najita was an American historian. Biography A nisei, Najita was raised in Hawaii. He graduated from Grinnell College in 1958, and was named a Woodrow Wilson Fellow. While in Grinnell, he became a member of Phi Beta Kappa. Najita completed a doctorate at Harvard University in 1965.
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Karl Schweizer
1946 - Present (78 years)
Karl Wolfgang Schweizer is a historian specialising in eighteenth century European history. Education and academic career Schweizer was born in Germany and was educated at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, where he graduated with a BA in 1969, and in 1970 he earned his MA at the University of Waterloo. In 1976, he was awarded a PhD from the University of Cambridge, where he studied with Herbert Butterfield. His doctoral dissertation was titled "Frederick the Great, William Pitt and Lord Bute: The Origin, Development and Dissolution of the Anglo-Prussian Alliance, 1756–6...
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Michael Berkowitz
1959 - Present (65 years)
Michael Berkowitz is a UK-based American historian and professor of modern Jewish history at University College London. Early life Berkowitz was born in Rochester, New York. He earned a bachelor's degree from Hobart College in Geneva, New York, and a master's degree and PhD from the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
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Robert Denoon Cumming
1916 - 2004 (88 years)
Robert Denoon Cumming was a Canadian-American philosopher and historian of twentieth-century Continental philosophy, especially phenomenology. He taught at Columbia University from 1948 to 1985, when he retired as Frederick E. Woodbridge professor emeritus of philosophy.
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Bohdan Krawchenko
1946 - Present (78 years)
Bohdan Krawchenko is the former director of the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies of the University of Alberta, Canada. and former vice-rector of the National Academy for Public Administration under the President of Ukraine in Kyiv, Ukraine.
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Sterling Stuckey
1932 - 2018 (86 years)
P. Sterling Stuckey was an American professor of history, Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Riverside , specializing in American slavery, the arts and history, and Afro-American intellectual and cultural history.
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Michel Kaplan
1946 - Present (78 years)
Michel Kaplan is a French medieval historian, docteur d'État, professor emeritus and former president of Pantheon-Sorbonne University. He is a Byzantinist specialising in history of mentalities, rural space and hagiography of the Eastern Roman Empire.
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Rouben Paul Adalian
1955 - Present (69 years)
Rouben Paul Adalian is the Director of the Armenian National Institute in Washington, D.C., and a professor at the Elliott School of International Affairs of George Washington University and at Johns Hopkins University.
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Anne Harrington
1960 - Present (64 years)
Anne Harrington is an American science historian and the Franklin L. Ford Professor of the History of Science at Harvard University. Her primary research area is the history of psychiatry, neuroscience, and cognitive science.
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Mark Peattie
1930 - 2014 (84 years)
Mark R. Peattie was an American academic and Japanologist. Peattie was a specialist in modern Japanese military, naval, and imperial history. Career Peattie was a professor emeritus at the University of Massachusetts Boston and a research fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution. He was a visiting professor at the University of Hawaii in 1995.
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Shunsuke Tsurumi
1922 - 2015 (93 years)
Shunsuke Tsurumi was a Japanese philosopher, historian, and sociologist. Tsurumi Shunsuke was born in Tokyo in 1922. In 1937, his father sent him to study in the United States, where he enrolled at the Middlesex School in Concord, Massachusetts. At the age of 16, he applied to and was accepted into Harvard University, where he majored in philosophy, studying under Willard Van Orman Quine. Tsurumi had excellent grades, but in March 1942 he was arrested and had to complete his degree living in a detention center. In 1942, he succeeded in graduating with honors, but was thereafter deported on a p...
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Yuriy Kondufor
1922 - 1997 (75 years)
Yuriy Yuriyovych Kondufor was a Soviet and Ukrainian academician, historian, director of the NASU Institute of History of Ukraine in 1978–1993. He was a veteran of World War II . Kondufor was a chief editor of Ukrainian Historical Journal in 1979–1988.
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Maureen Ursenbach Beecher
1935 - Present (89 years)
Maureen Ursenbach Beecher is a historian and editor of the history of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints . She studied at Brigham Young University and the University of Utah. She worked in the History Department for the LDS Church from 1972 to 1980, and became a professor of English at BYU in 1981 while continuing her work in Mormon history at the Joseph Fielding Smith Institute for Church History. She published a popular book of Eliza R. Snow's writings.
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David Hollinger
1941 - Present (83 years)
David Albert Hollinger is the Preston Hotchkis Professor of History, emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley. His specialties are American intellectual history and American ethnoracial history.
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Bennett D. Hill
1934 - 2005 (71 years)
Bennett David Hill was a historian, a Benedictine monk and an author. Formative years Hill was born in Baltimore, Maryland in 1934 and moved to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania when he was ten. He earned advanced degrees from Harvard University and Princeton .
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Emmanuelle Loyer
1968 - Present (56 years)
Emmanuelle Loyer is a French historian, winner of the prix Femina essai 2015 for her biography of Claude Lévi-Strauss. Professor of Universities, Emmanuelle Loyer teaches contemporary history at Sciences-Po Paris.
Go to ProfileEuan Cameron is Henry Luce III Professor of Reformation Church History at Union Theological Seminary. He has a D.Phil from the University of Oxford. His work focuses on the Reformation and religion in the Late Middle Ages.
Go to ProfileJoya Chatterji is Professor of South Asian History and a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. She specialises in modern South Asian history and was the editor of the journal Modern Asian Studies for ten years.
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Jeffrey Richards
1945 - Present (79 years)
Jeffrey Richards is a British historian. Educated at Jesus College, Cambridge, he is Professor of Cultural History at Lancaster University. A leading cultural historian and film critic, he is the author of over 15 books on British cultural history. His books include The Popes and the Papacy in the Early Middle Ages 476–752 , and Sir Henry Irving: A Victorian Actor and His World . He is also a Companion of the Guild of St George.
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Michael Bentley
1948 - Present (76 years)
Michael John Bentley is an English historian of British politics in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He is Emeritus Professor of Modern History at the University of St Andrews. Early life and career Bentley was born in Rotherham, South Yorkshire, in 1948, the son of Peter and Jessie Bentley. He attended the University of Sheffield, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts degree in history in 1969, before proceeding to postgraduate study at St John's College, Cambridge.
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Marlène Laruelle
1972 - Present (52 years)
Marlène Laruelle is a French historian, sociologist, and political scientist specializing on Eurasia and Europe. She is Research Professor and Director of the Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies at the George Washington University . Laruelle is also a Co-Director of PONARS , Director of GW’s Central Asia Program, and Director of GW's Illiberalism Studies Program. She received her Ph.D. in history at the National Institute of Oriental Languages and Cultures and spent time as a post-doc in the area of political science at Sciences Po in Paris. She is Senior Associate Scholar at the Institut français des relations internationales .
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Ernst Engelberg
1909 - 2010 (101 years)
Ernst Engelberg was a German university professor and Marxist historian. He made a particularly noteworthy contribution with his two-volume biography of Otto von Bismarck which in the view of at least one commentator represented a paradigm shift for historiography in the German Democratic Republic.
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Klaus Bringmann
1936 - 2021 (85 years)
Klaus Bringmann was a German historian, an author of books on Roman history, and a professor of antiquity. Works Roman history. From the beginnings to late antiquity. Oxford University Press, first Edition, Munich 1995; 10 Edition 2008, Storia romana, Il Mulino, Italian edition, Bologna 1998, .History of the Roman Republic. From the beginning to Augustus. CH Beck, Munich 2002, A History of the Roman Republic, English Translation, Polity Press, Cambridge 2007, .Augustus and the establishment of the Roman Empire, Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 2002, Crisis and the end of the Roman Republic . Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 2003, Emperor Julian.
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Hugh Dempsey
1929 - Present (95 years)
Hugh Aylmer Dempsey, was a Canadian historian, an author and the Chief Curator Emeritus of the Glenbow Museum in Calgary, Alberta. Dempsey authored more than 20 books, focusing primarily on the history of people of the Blackfoot Confederacy. He received an honorary doctorate from the University of Calgary and was made an honorary chief of the Kainai Blackfoot in 1967. For his contributions to the study of the Plains Indians, Dempsey was awarded membership in the Order of Canada in 1975.
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William H. Sewell Jr.
1940 - Present (84 years)
William H. Sewell Jr. is an American academic. He is the Frank P. Hixon Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of History and Political Science at the University of Chicago. Family Sewell is the son of William H. Sewell, a sociologist who served as the chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Madison from 1967 to 1968.
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Franklin Toker
1944 - 2021 (77 years)
Franklin K. Toker was a Canadian-American professor of the history of art and architecture at the University of Pittsburgh and the author of nine books on the history of art and architecture, ranging from the excavations he conducted under the famed Cathedral of Saint Maria del Fiore, Florence to 21st century American urbanism. A past president of the Society of Architectural Historians, in 1979 Toker was the winner of a Guggenheim Fellowship in Architecture, Planning, & Design.
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Geoffrey Till
1945 - Present (79 years)
Geoffrey Till is a British naval historian and emeritus Professor of Maritime Studies in the Defence Studies Department of King's College London. He is the Director of the Corbett Centre for Maritime Policy Studies.
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Richard Abels
1951 - Present (73 years)
Richard Abels FRHistS is professor emeritus of history at the United States Naval Academy. Abels is a specialist in the military and political institutions of Anglo-Saxon England. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society .
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Arnold K. Garr
1944 - Present (80 years)
Arnold Kent Garr was the chair of the department of Church History and Doctrine at Brigham Young University from 2006 to 2009. He was also the lead editor of the Encyclopedia of Latter-day Saint History.
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Osvaldo Silva
1940 - 2019 (79 years)
Osvaldo Silva Galdames was a Chilean historian active within the field of prehistory. He was a founder of the academic history journals Cuadernos de Historia and Revista de Historia Indígena, as well being a driving force behind the establishment of the Magíster de Historia con mención en etnohistoria at the University of Chile. At the same university he served as director of the department for Historical Science for many years. Among Silva's contributions to history was a proposal for a different chronology of the Inca rule in Chile.
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Klemens von Klemperer
1916 - 2012 (96 years)
Klemens Wilhelm von Klemperer was a historian of modern Europe and professor at Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts. He was a prominent member of the generation of young refugees and emigrants who fled Nazi Germany in the 1930s and established themselves as historians and often leading scholars in the United States. His teaching and writings focused on 20th century Germany and Central Europe, in particular the Nazi regime and the resistance to Hitler. In 1997, he was awarded the Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art, 1st class for his contribution and services to Austrian culture.
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Angus Mackay
1939 - 2016 (77 years)
Angus Mackay is a Scottish historian and Hispanist, specialising in Later Medieval Spain. Having spent four years as a lecturer in history at the University of Reading, most of his career has been at University of Edinburgh, where he was awarded Doctor of Philosophy in 1970 for his thesis, Economy and society in Castile in the Fifteenth Century. He became Professor of Medieval History there in 1986, taking over the Chair from his mentor, Denys Hay.
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Greg Dening
1931 - 2008 (77 years)
Greg Dening was an Australian historian of the Pacific. Dening was born in Newcastle, New South Wales. He was educated at two Jesuit schools: St. Louis School in Perth and Xavier College in Melbourne. He received an MA from the University of Melbourne and a PhD from Harvard University, where his doctoral dissertation was a historical ethnography of the Marquesas Islands. From the late 1960s he became the centre of an ethnographic history school called the 'Melbourne Group'. He taught sociology and history at La Trobe University, Melbourne and one semester of anthropology at the University of ...
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Mirosław Golon
1964 - Present (60 years)
Mirosław Golon is a Polish historian. Professor of Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, member of Institute of National Remembrance, Polish Historical Society and Toruń Scientific Society. Author of over 90 publications, his research interests center on the history of Poland during Stalinist period , Polish-Soviet relations of that period, history of minorities in Poland in the 20th century and history of Pomerania.
Go to ProfileLisa Brooks is a historian, writer, and professor of English and American studies at Amherst College in Massachusetts where she specializes in the history of Native American and European interactions from the American colonial period to the present.
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John L. Brooke
1953 - Present (71 years)
John L. Brooke is an American historian. Life Brooke graduated from Cornell University in 1975, and from the University of Pennsylvania, with an M.A. and Ph.D. in 1982. He taught at Franklin & Marshall College, Amherst College, and Tufts University. He most recently teaches at Ohio State University.
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Wolfgang Scheffler
1929 - 2008 (79 years)
Dr Wolfgang Scheffler was a graduate and later, Professor of Political Science and History at the Free University of Berlin. In the 1960s, he was engaged in massive research of the Third Reich National Socialist policy toward the Jews in unpublished archival material, on behalf of Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft . He was a member of the German delegation at the Eichmann trial. In 1969, at the second Treblinka trial Scheffler submitted his expert opinion based on new evidence, estimating the total number of persons killed at the Treblinka extermination camp to be around 900,000 victims.
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David G. Marr
1937 - Present (87 years)
David George Marr is an American/Australian historian specializing in the modern history of Vietnam. Marr was born in Macon, Georgia, the son of Henry George and Louise M. . Marr studied at Dartmouth College , before joining the US Marine Corps as an intelligence officer. Marr learned Vietnamese in the US, then was assigned to Vietnam in 1962. He married there in April 1963, and was reassigned to marine Intelligence in Hawaii a month later. After leaving the Marines in 1964 he sought to understand the roots of Vietnamese patriotism as a graduate student at UC Berkeley . He taught at Universi...
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Sven-Eric Liedman
1939 - Present (85 years)
Sven-Eric Liedman is a Swedish author and Professor Emeritus of history of ideas at the University of Gothenburg in Gothenburg, Sweden. Liedman received his Bachelor of Arts degree in theoretical philosophy at Lund University in 1959. In 1961 he received a Licentiate of Philosophy degree in the same subject. His most important teacher in Lund was Gunnar Aspelin. He then moved to the University of Gothenburg, where he received his Ph.D. in history of ideas in 1966.
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Kenneth B. Pyle
1936 - Present (88 years)
Kenneth B. Pyle is a Japan historian and professor emeritus of History and International Studies at the University of Washington Seattle campus. He earned his BA from Harvard College in 1958. Since earning his PhD in Japanese History from Johns Hopkins University in 1965, he has become a major figure in the area of Japan studies, publishing several books on Japan and its international relations, serving as the first editor of the Journal of Japanese Studies from 1974 to 1986 and director of the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington from 1978 to 1988, and appointed by President George H.
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Wilbur Knorr
1945 - 1997 (52 years)
Wilbur Richard Knorr was an American historian of mathematics and a professor in the departments of philosophy and classics at Stanford University. He has been called "one of the most profound and certainly the most provocative historian of Greek mathematics" of the 20th century.
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François Hinard
1941 - 2008 (67 years)
François Hinard was a French historian of the Roman Republic. Work Books 1976: Introduction bibliographique pour l’étude de l’Antiquité , Lille1985: Les proscriptions de la Rome républicaine, 605 p., École française de Rome, Coll. de l’École française n° 831985: Sylla, 327 p., Fayard — . .1987: La Mort, les morts et l’au-delà dans le monde romain, 375 p., Actes du colloque, Caen 1988: Dictatures, 112 p., Actes de la table ronde, Paris, , Paris, de Boccard1992: Rome. L’espace urbain et ses représentations, 286 p., Presses universitaires de Paris-Sorbonne1992: La République romaine, PUF, serie...
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Ivan Jablonka
1973 - Present (51 years)
Ivan Jablonka is a French historian and writer. Scholarship Born in 1973 in Paris, an alumnus of the École normale supérieure, he is professor of Contemporary History at the Sorbonne Paris North University, editorial director of the collection “La République des idées” , and one of the editors of the online magazine La Vie des Idées.
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John R. Stilgoe
1949 - Present (75 years)
John Robert Stilgoe is a historian and photographer who is the Robert and Lois Orchard Professor in the History of Landscape at the Visual and Environmental Studies Department of Harvard University, where he has been teaching since 1977. He is also a fellow of the Society of American Historians. He was featured on a 60 Minutes episode in 2004 entitled "The Eyes Have It".
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Daniel K. Richter
1954 - Present (70 years)
Daniel Karl Richter is an American historian specializing in early American history, especially colonial North America and Native American history before 1800. He is the Roy F. and Jeannette P. Nichols Professor of American History at the University of Pennsylvania and the Richard S. Dunn Director of the McNeil Center for Early American Studies. His book Facing East from Indian Country was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2002.
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