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List of the most influential people in History,

#3351

Dominic Rathbone

#109059

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (25 years)

Dominic William Rathbone is British historian who is professor of ancient history at King's College London. He is a specialist in Greek and Roman Egypt, particularly as recorded on papyri, and is president of the Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies.

#3352

Warwick Anderson

#67559

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (67 years)

Warwick Hugh Anderson , medical doctor, poet, and historian, is Janet Dora Hine Professor of Politics, Governance and Ethics in the Department of History and the Charles Perkins Centre, University of Sydney, where he was previously an Australian Research Council Laureate Fellow . He is also honorary professor in the School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne. He is a fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities, the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia, the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences and the Royal Society of New South Wales, from which he received the History and Philosophy of Science Medal in 2015.

#3353

Azyumardi Azra

#27227

Overall Influence

1955 - 2022 (67 years)

Azyumardi Azra was an Indonesian public intellectual, Muslim scholar and Rector of Syarif Hidayatullah State Islamic University Jakarta. He graduated from Department of History, Columbia University in 1992. He was known as a prolific books writer; member of advisory board of a number of international organizations such as UN Democracy Fund , International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance . After serving as Rector at Syarif Hidayatullah State Islamic University Jakarta, he was the Director of Graduate School.

#3354

Fred Inglis

#35291

Overall Influence

1937 - Present (88 years)

Frederick Charles Inglis is Emeritus Professor of Cultural Studies at the University of Sheffield in the UK. Previously Professor of Cultural Studies at the University of Warwick, he has been a member of the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, Fellow-in-Residence at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study, and Visiting Fellow Humanities Research Centre, Australian National University, Canberra.

#3355

Naoko Shibusawa

#127585

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (61 years)

Naoko Shibusawa is an Associate Professor of History and an Associate Professor of American Studies at Brown University. Biography Shibusawa was born in Japan in 1964. She moved to the United States in her youth, growing up in New York, Texas and California. She received a B.A. in History from U.C. Berkeley in 1987. She received a Northwestern University Graduate Fellowship in 1989, completing an M.A. in History from Northwestern University in 1993. During the pursuit of a Ph.D at Northwestern, Shibusawa received the Center for International and Comparative Studies Graduate Grant and a fellowship from Chicago chapter of the National Association of Japan-America Societies.

#3356

Yves Modéran

#88309

Overall Influence

1955 - 2010 (55 years)

Yves Modéran was a French historian, a professor of Roman history at the University of Caen Normandy. Agrégé d'histoire in 1978, he was a specialist of North Africa during Antiquity and later, in particular of the Vandals period. He took part to the excavations at Bulla Regia as part of studies organized by the École française de Rome.

#3357

Hanna Yablonka

#73595

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (75 years)

Hanna Yablonka is an Israeli historian and scholar. Born in Tel Aviv, she is a Professor of Holocaust Studies at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and staff historian for the Ghetto Fighters' House.

#3358

Kenneth O. Bjork

#97816

Overall Influence

1909 - 1991 (82 years)

Kenneth O. Bjork was an American professor, historian and author. He served as managing editor for publications at the Norwegian-American Historical Association over a twenty-year period. Background Kenneth O. Bjork was born in Enderlin, North Dakota. His parents were Theodore C. Bjork and Martha Arneson . Both his parents had been the children of Norwegian immigrants. His father's family had immigrated from Kaupanger in Sogn and his mother’s family from Grue in Solør. Kenneth O. Bjork grew up in Enderlin, a small town where his father ran the hardware store. At home, he learned to speak B...

#3359

Nigel J. Ashton

#82118

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (60 years)

Nigel J. Ashton is professor of international history at the London School of Economics. He is a specialist in contemporary Anglo-American relations and the modern history of the Middle East. His book, Kennedy, Macmillan and the Cold War: the Irony of Interdependence won the Cambridge Donner Book Prize for excellence in advancing scholarly understanding of transatlantic relations.

#3360

Archibald Paton Thornton

#90760

Overall Influence

1921 - 2004 (83 years)

Archibald Paton Thornton was an academic and historian. He was the author of the seminal history of the British Empire, The Imperial Idea and its Enemies: A Study in British Power . He was professor of history at University College, University of Toronto.

#3361

William L. Ochsenwald

#78534

Overall Influence

William L. Ochsenwald is an American historian and Emeritus Professor of History at Virginia Tech. He was awarded his PhD from the University of Chicago in 1971. Ochsenwald specializes in the history of the Middle East, particularly the unification of Saudi Arabia and dissolution of the Ottoman Empire. Ochsenwald has also written on Arab Muslims and the History of Palestine.

#3362

Michel Parisse

#112259

Overall Influence

1936 - 2020 (84 years)

Michel Parisse was a French historian who specialized in medieval studies. He was a professor emeritus at the University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne. Career Parisse earned his agrégation in history in 1959. He earned two doctoral degrees, with the first coming in 1966. His thesis was titled Actes des évêques de Metz . His second doctoral degree came in 1975, with the thesis La noblesse lorraine . He was a professor at Nancy 2 University from 1965 to 1993. He was the Director of ARTEM from 1983 to 1993, which conducted research on medieval texts and their meanings. He directed the French Hist...

#3363

Jonathan Reed Winkler

#48242

Overall Influence

1975 - Present (50 years)

Jonathan Reed Winkler is a historian and a professor of history at Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio. He teaches and researches on U.S. foreign relations, U.S. military and naval history, international history, security studies and strategic thought. He is the author of Nexus: Strategic Communications and American Security in World War I , winner of several prizes including the Birdsall Prize of the American Historical Association. His articles, commentaries and reviews have appeared in Diplomatic History, The Journal of Military History, the Naval War College Review, and other venues...

#3364

Claude Liauzu

#70873

Overall Influence

1940 - 2007 (67 years)

Claude Liauzu , was a French historian specializing in the history of colonialism. He was an ardent critic of the French law of February 23, 2005 of the teaching of French colonial empires describing the colonization positively. He was professor at the Sorbonne .

#3365

David C. Ward

#60783

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (73 years)

David C. Ward is an American historian, published poet and author, and civil servant. He served at the National Portrait Gallery as senior historian. Early life Ward studied under Christopher Lasch and Eugene Genovese at University of Rochester graduating in 1974 and subsequently attended graduate school at Warwick University and Yale University, MA , MPhil, 1977

#3366

Stephen Dow Beckham

#60753

Overall Influence

1941 - Present (84 years)

Stephen Dow Beckham is an American historian known for his work with Native Americans and the American West, especially the Pacific Northwest and the Lewis and Clark Expedition. He has authored many works, and is a Professor Emeritus of History at Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon.

#3367

Donald E. Worcester

#71547

Overall Influence

1915 - 2003 (88 years)

Donald E. Worcester was an American historian who specialized in Southwestern United States and Latin American history. He was president of the Western History Association from 1974-1975. Worcester graduated from Bard College in 1939. He received an M.A. from the University of California, Berkeley in 1941. He then served in the US Naval Reserve in World War II. He received a PhD. from Berkeley in 1947.

#3368

Jerzy Michalski

#69153

Overall Influence

1924 - 2007 (83 years)

Jerzy Michalski was a Polish historian, specializing in the 18th and 19th centuries. He was a professor of the Institutenof History at the Polish Academy of Sciences. Author of numerous works.

#3369

Radivoj Radić

#124025

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (71 years)

Radivoj Radić is a Serbian historian, specialist for Byzantine studies. Selected works Oblasni gospodari u Vizantiji krajem 12. i u prvim decenijama 13. veka, ZRVI 24—25. , 151—290.Vreme Jovana V Paleologa , Belgrade 1993.Strah u poznoj Vizantiji 1180—1453, I — II, Belgrade 2000.Iz Carigrada u srpske zemlje, Studije iz vizantijske i srpske istorije, Belgrade 2003.Srbi pre Adama i posle njega, Istorija jedne zloupotrebe: Slovo protiv „novoromantičara“, Belgrade 2005. .Vizantija, purpur i pergament, Belgrade 2006.Carigrad, priče sa Bosfora, Belgrade 2007.Vizantija i Srbija,Belgrade 2010Konstant...

#3370

Anthony Low

#53328

Overall Influence

1927 - 2015 (88 years)

Donald Anthony Low , known as Anthony Low or D. A. Low, was a historian of modern South Asia, Africa, the British Commonwealth, and, especially, decolonization. He was the Emeritus Smuts Professor of History of the British Commonwealth at the University of Cambridge, former Vice-Chancellor of the Australian National University, Canberra, and President of Clare Hall, Cambridge.

#3371

Edward Wallace Muir Jr.

#72418

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (79 years)

Edward Wallace Muir Jr. is a Professor of History and Italian at Northwestern University. He is also Clarence L. Ver Steeg Professor in the Arts and Sciences and Charles Deering McCormick Professor of Teaching Excellence. Known for his use of anthropological methods in historical research, he was a pioneer in the historical study of ritual and feuding. He has been especially influential in using and interpreting microhistorical methods, which were first devised by historians in Italy. His work has focused on Renaissance Italy, especially the Republic of Venice and its territories. He is presi...

#3372

A. D. Harvey

#77799

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (78 years)

Arnold D. Harvey is an English historian, novelist and hoaxer. He originated a hoax claiming that Charles Dickens met Fyodor Dostoyevsky, and has published work under a variety of other names, including Stephanie Harvey, Stephen Harvey, Graham Headley, Trevor McGovern, John Schellenberger, Leo Bellingham, Michael Lindsay, Ludovico Parra, and Janis Blodnieks.

#3373

Eckart Conze

#84153

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (62 years)

Dr. Eckart Conze is a German historian, author, and professor of modern history at the University of Marburg in Hesse. He has authored and co-authored more than thirty books and papers on modern German, European and international history, including works in English published by Cambridge University Press. His interviews and writing have appeared in German news magazine Der Spiegel.

#3374

William J. Fishman

#74398

Overall Influence

1921 - 2014 (93 years)

William J. Fishman was a British historian and academic. He was the author of several books on topics ranging from revolutionary advocacy in Europe during the late 19th and early 20th centuries to the history of the East End of London. He has been defined as a "libertarian Socialist."

#3375

Alec Rasizade

#43737

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (78 years)

Alec Rasizade is a retired Azerbaijani-American professor of history and political science, who specialized in Sovietology, primarily known for the typological model , which describes the impact of a drop in oil revenues on the process of decline in rentier states by stages and cycles of their general socio-economic degradation upon the end of an oil boom. He has also authored more than 200 studies on the history of international relations, Perestroika reforms and breakup of the USSR, oil diplomacy and contemporary politics in the post-Soviet states and autonomies of Russia, Central Asia and...

#3376

Andrew Hunt

#85254

Overall Influence

1968 - Present (57 years)

Andrew Emerson Hunt is a Canadian history professor, at the University of Waterloo in Canada. He is also the director of the Tri-University Graduate Program in History. Life Hunt was born in Calgary, Alberta. He is a descendant of one of the founders of the University of Deseret . At age one he was relocated to the United States with his American parents E. K. Hunt and Linda Hunt. Andrew has a brother, Jeff. Andrew Hunt's parents were active in the anti-war movement in the early 1970s. While a young boy, Hunt witnessed the California state convention of the Vietnam Veterans Against the War he...

#3377

William B. Provine

William B. Provine

#31645

Overall Influence

1942 - 2015 (73 years)

William Ball Provine was an American historian of science and of evolutionary biology and population genetics. He was the Andrew H. and James S. Tisch Distinguished University Professor at Cornell University and was a professor in the Departments of History, Science and Technology Studies, and Ecology and Evolutionary Biology.

#3378

Irene Flunser Pimentel

#90563

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (75 years)

Irene Flunser Pimentel is a Portuguese historian who concentrates on the study of the 20th century in Portugal, particularly during the time of the Estado Novo regime, with particular reference to the experiences of women.

#3379

William Gibson

#71633

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (66 years)

William Thomas Gibson is an English historian and professor who specialises in the history of religion in Britain in the early modern period. Education He received BA MA , PGCE , PhD , DLitt , FRHistS, FRSA, FBS. He was educated at Huish’s Grammar School, Taunton, Somerset; St David’s University College, Lampeter , Lincoln College, Oxford, and Middlesex University.

#3380

Herbert Lüthy

#68857

Overall Influence

1918 - 2002 (84 years)

Herbert Lüthy was a Swiss historian and journalist. His book France Against Herself, published in the mid-1950s, criticized French traditionalism. Life Born in Basel, Herbert Lüthy attended school in Glarus and St. Gallen. He then studied at the universities of Paris, Geneva and Zürich, gaining a PhD in history in 1942. He became a journalist, writing for the St. Galler Tagblatt during World War II. From 1946 to 1958 he lived in Paris, writing for Melvin J. Lasky's magazine Der Monat. He also wrote for Encounter. In 1958 he became Professor of Education and History at ETH Zurich. In 1971 he moved to the University of Basel, retiring for health reasons in 1980.

#3381

I. R. Christie

#79522

Overall Influence

1919 - 1998 (79 years)

Ian Ralph Christie, was a British historian specialising in late 18th-century Britain. He spent most of his academic career at University College London , from 1948 to 1984. Early life He was born in Preston, Lancashire, to John Reid Christie and his wife, Gladys Lilian Christie. He was educated at home as he was unable to attend school due to glandular fever and a bronchial illness. After his recovery, he moved to Worcester to live with an aunt and was educated at Worcester Royal Grammar School . He was senior prefect in his last year and his chosen sixth-form subjects were history and English literature.

#3382

Knut Helle

#53977

Overall Influence

1930 - 2015 (85 years)

Knut Helle was a Norwegian historian. A professor at the University of Bergen from 1973 to 2000, he specialized in the late medieval history of Norway. He has contributed to several large works. Early life, education and marriage He was born in Larvik as the son of school inspector Hermann Olai Helle and teacher Berta Marie Malm . He was the older brother of politician Ingvar Lars Helle. The family moved to Hetland when Knut Helle was seventeen years old.

#3383

Yvon Garlan

#95259

Overall Influence

1933 - 2022 (89 years)

Yvon Garlan was a French historian and academic. He specialized in classical antiquity. Biography Born in 1933, Garlan studied at the École normale supérieure and earned an agrégation in history. A specialist in the Hellenistic period, he was a professor at Rennes 2 University. His research led to the expansion of knowledge on Ancient Greek slavery, the Greek wars, and the . His studies on the stamp systems of Thasos, Sinope, and Heraclea Pontica were highly notable.

#3384

Øystein Sørensen

#86455

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (71 years)

Øystein Sørensen is a Norwegian historian. A professor at the University of Oslo since 1996, he has published several books on the history of ideas, including Norwegian nationalism and national socialism, as well as general Norwegian World War II history.

#3385

Arihiro Fukuda

#97509

Overall Influence

1963 - 2003 (40 years)

Arihiro Hoeber Fukuda was a Japanese historian who was an associate professor at the University of Tokyo Faculty of Law and specialised in the history of Western political thought, particularly the republican the ideas of James Harrington, Thomas Hobbes, David Hume, and Niccolò Machiavelli.

#3386

Victor E. Neuburg

#55428

Overall Influence

1924 - 1996 (72 years)

Victor Edward Neuburg was a scholar. Neuburg was born in Steyning, Sussex, the son of Victor Benjamin Neuburg and his wife Kathleen Rose Goddard. He was educated at the University of Leicester where he received the degree of Master of Education in 1967.

#3387

Robert Skotheim

#47214

Overall Influence

1933 - Present (92 years)

Robert Allen Skotheim is an American educator who has served as president of several colleges and institutions. Biography In 1933, Skotheim was born to Sivert O., an emigrant from Norway, and Marjorie Skotheim, school teachers in West Seattle. He attended Fauntleroy School and West Seattle High School. He was educated at Princeton University, graduated with a B.A. in history from the University of Washington, and went on to obtain a Ph.D. from University of Washington Graduate School. In 1966, he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship and spent a year in France. Afterwards, he taught history at ...

#3388

Geoffrey Irwin

#34137

Overall Influence

1941 - Present (84 years)

Geoffrey Irwin is a professor of archaeology at the University of Auckland. He was a professor of anthropology at the University of Auckland until he retired in 2008. He is the author of The Prehistoric Exploration and Colonization of the Pacific .

#3389

Kerby A. Miller

#74140

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (81 years)

Kerby Alonzo Miller is an American historian and emeritus professor at University of Missouri. He is known for his works on Irish immigration to and identity in the United States. Life Miller graduated from Pomona College, and from University of California, Berkeley, with an MA and PhD in 1976. He is a visiting researcher at Queen's University Belfast.

#3390

Léopold Genicot

#96589

Overall Influence

1914 - 1995 (81 years)

Léopold Genicot was a Belgian historian and medievalist and an activist for the Walloon Movement. He established a centre for the study of rural history and an influential series of guides to medieval historical sources.

#3391

Rory Sweetman

#52195

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (69 years)

Rory Sweetman is a professional New Zealand historian. He teaches at the University of Otago in modern Irish history and has published widely on New Zealand's ethnic and religious past. Early life Sweetman was born in Ireland and spent his childhood there and in New Zealand. He received his secondary education at St Peter's College, Auckland, New Zealand. He commenced his tertiary studies at the University of Auckland. He has history degrees from Trinity College Dublin and Peterhouse, Cambridge . Sweetman's doctorate from Cambridge University was on the subject, New Zealand Catholicism, War,...

#3392

Nick Salvatore

#96967

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (82 years)

Nicholas Anthony Salvatore is an American historian who serves as the Maurice and Hinda Neufeld Founders Professor of Industrial and Labor Relations and Professor of American Studies at Cornell University.

#3393

MacGregor Knox

#70055

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (80 years)

MacGregor Knox is an American historian of 20th-century Europe, and was from 1994 to 2010 the Stevenson Professor of International History at the London School of Economics. He is the son of the British-born classical scholar and historian Bernard Knox and the novelist Bianca VanOrden.

#3394

Andrew C. Isenberg

#128644

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (61 years)

Andrew C. Isenberg is the Hall Distinguished Professor of American History at the University of Kansas. He is a specialist in environmental history, Native American history, and the history of the North American West and its borderlands. He was born in Chicago, Illinois, and educated at St. Olaf College, from which he graduated magna cum laude. He received his Ph.D. in History from Northwestern University. He previously taught at the University of Puget Sound, Brown University, Princeton University, and Temple University.

#3395

J. Spencer Fluhman

#97982

Overall Influence

J. Spencer Fluhman is a professor of history at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah. Fluhman received a bachelor's degree from BYU and a master's degree from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Fluhman also has a Ph.D. in American religious history from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. His doctoral dissertation was on 19th-century anti-Mormon literature. As a graduate student, Fluhman was part of a summer seminar on Mormon History at BYU run by Richard Bushman. Fluhman has held a fellowship at the Center for the Study of Religion and American Culture at IUPUI.

#3396

Joan M. Jensen

#87527

Overall Influence

1934 - Present (91 years)

Joan M. Jensen is an American historian. Life She attended Pasadena City College, and earned a master's degree and a PhD at the University of California at Los Angeles. From 1962 to 1971, she taught at U.S. International University, in San Diego, California. She left her job to join a farming commune in southern Colorado. From 1974 to 1975, she taught at Arizona State University, and from 1975 to 1976 she taught at UCLA.

#3397

Veronica Strong-Boag

#83755

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (78 years)

Veronica Jane Strong-Boag is a Canadian historian specializing in the history of women and children in Canada. She is a Professor Emerita at the University of British Columbia, where she was Professor of Women's History and the founding Director of the Centre for Women’s and Gender Studies.

#3398

Anna Wolff-Powęska

#50518

Overall Influence

1941 - Present (84 years)

Anna Wolff-Powęska is a Polish historian and political scientist specialising in Polish-German relations. She was the director of the Western Institute in Poznań from 1990 to 2004. She is one of the foremost authorities on Germany in Poland.

#3399

Jerry Brotton

#94126

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (56 years)

Jerry Brotton is a British historian. He is Professor of Renaissance Studies at Queen Mary University of London, a television and radio presenter and a curator. Brotton writes about literature, history, material culture, trade, and east-west relations, particularly in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. He employs interdisciplinary approaches, looking at art, politics, history, travel writing and literature. His book A History of the World in Twelve Maps has been translated into twelve languages. It was accompanied by a three-part series on BBC Four, Maps: Power, Plunder and Possession. ...

#3400

William B. Jensen

#44442

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (77 years)

William B. Jensen is an American chemist and chemical historian. Jensen, son of a sign painter and librarian, went to school in Wausau, Wisconsin. He became interested in chemistry at an early age and, after reading Discovery of the Elements by Mary Elvira Weeks, he also became interested in the history of chemistry. He studied chemistry at the University of Wisconsin – Madison, taking a bachelor's degree in 1970, a master's degree in 1972 and a doctorate in inorganic chemistry in 1982. He was then appointed as assistant professor of inorganic chemistry at the Rochester Institute of Technolog...

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