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#3401

Dominique Avon

#72147

Overall Influence

1968 - Present (57 years)

Dominique Avon is a French historian. He is a scholar of Islam and Christianity and a professor at the Religious Sciences Section of the École pratique des hautes études. Work He has written several books on Catholic religious orders such as the Society of Jesus and the Order of Preachers and on Muslim groups such as the Hezbollah .

#3402

John Scheid

#69359

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (79 years)

John Scheid is a French historian. A specialist of ancient Rome, he has been a professor at the Collège de France since 2001. Biography After his secondary studies in Luxembourg, John Scheid came to France in 1966 in order to study history and classical letters first at the University of Strasbourg and then in Paris, where he was a pupil of Hans-Georg Pflaum. He obtained a 3rd cycle thesis scholarship that he led under the direction of Robert Schilling and which he supported in 1972 in Strasbourg.

#3403

Andrew H. Hedges

#104622

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (59 years)

Andrew H. Hedges is a co-editor of the Joseph Smith Papers, and from 1995 until 2009 was an associate professor of Church History and Doctrine at Brigham Young University . He received his bachelor's degree from Weber State University, a master's degree in Near Eastern Studies from BYU and his Ph.D. in American History from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

#3404

Michael Twyman

#52230

Overall Influence

1934 - Present (91 years)

Michael Twyman is a Professor Emeritus of the Department of Typography & Graphic Communication at the University of Reading. He joined the university staff in 1959. He established a BA course in Typography & Graphic Communication which eventually grew into its own department in 1974. Both the programme and the department are widely acknowledged to be the first of their kind in the world. He retired from full-time teaching in 1998 but still teaches postgraduate students and is also the Director of the Centre for Ephemera Studies.

#3405

Vladimir Plugin

#124757

Overall Influence

1937 - 2003 (66 years)

Vladimir Alexandrovich Plugin was a Russian historian, art historian and university professor. He worked in the fields of the history of Russia, source criticism, art history, social and political history, war history, history of the army and navy. He specialized in Old Russian Chronicles, Russian icons . He penned Rublev's biography titled The Master of the Holy Trinity: Andrei Rublev's Works and Days .

#3406

Michael A. Barry

Michael A. Barry

#64438

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (77 years)

Michael A. Barry is a Princeton University professor and historian of the greater Middle East and Islamic world. Since 2004 he has taught as lecturer in Islamic Culture in Princeton's Department of Near Eastern Studies, in addition to serving as consultative chairman of the Department of Islamic Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and special consultant to the Aga Khan Trust for Culture since 2009. An established authority on Islamic art and the history and culture of Afghanistan, on which subjects he has written extensively in both French and English, Barry's works include a standard Fren...

#3407

Mauro Canali

#65998

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (83 years)

Mauro Canali is a full professor of contemporary history at the University of Camerino in Italy. He is considered to be one of the most important scholars of the events leading to the crisis of the liberal Italian state and the rise of fascism. He has also researched and published extensively on the totalitarian structure of Mussolini's regime, its repressive mechanisms and its system of informants. He studied under Renzo De Felice, and has published in the Journal of Modern Italian Studies, the Italian dailies la Repubblica and Cronache di Liberal.

#3408

David Bates

#73754

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (80 years)

David Bates is a historian of Britain and France during the period from the tenth to the thirteenth centuries. He has written many books and articles during his career, including Normandy before 1066 , Regesta Regum Anglo-Normannorum: The Acta of William I, 1066–1087 , The Normans and Empire , William the Conqueror in the Yale English Monarchs series and La Tapisserie de Bayeux .

#3409

Oleg Ken

#129130

Overall Influence

1960 - 2007 (47 years)

Oleg Nikolaevich Ken was a Russian historian who worked in Saint Petersburg at Herzen University and European University at Saint Petersburg and specialized in the history of the Soviet Union, Poland and European diplomacy of the 1920s-1930s.

#3410

Klaus-Michael Mallmann

#70340

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (77 years)

Klaus-Michael Mallmann is a German historian at the University of Stuttgart. Scientific career Mallmann studied history, Sociology, Politics and German studies at the Saarland University. In 1979 he was awarded the Kurt Magnus Prize after working as a television journalist for Saarländischer Rundfunk from 1976 to 1987. He obtained his doctorate in 1980, with a study of the "beginnings of the mine workers' movement on the Saar ". He was an academic assistant at the Saarland university from 1988 to 1992, in a research project titled "Resistance and refusal in Saarland 1935 - 1945". Afterwards ...

#3411

Mia Bay

#91734

Overall Influence

Mia Bay is an American historian and currently the Roy F. and Jeannette P. Nichols Chair in American History at the University of Pennsylvania. She studies American and African-American intellectual and cultural history and is the author of, among others, The White Image in the Black Mind: African-American Ideas About White People 1830-1925 and To Tell the Truth Freely: The Life of Ida B. Wells.

#3412

Paul Otto

#70066

Overall Influence

Paul Otto is a professor of American history at George Fox University, and a researcher in the area of Dutch-Native American relations and wampum. Education and career Otto received his BA from Dordt University, his MA from Western Washington University, and his PhD in early American and Native American history at Indiana University. Otto has taught at Calvin University and Dordt University and currently teaches at George Fox University in Newberg, Oregon, where he has been since 2002. He has served as the chair of their History, Sociology, & Politics Department, 2005-2019. He teaches cours...

#3413

Klaus Bachmann

#63356

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (62 years)

Klaus Dieter Bachmann is a German journalist, writer, historian and political scientist. He is an author of books and writings on German, Austrian and Polish culture, history and politics, as well as on the European Union and German-Polish as well as Polish-Ukrainian relations. In 1988, Bachmann settled in Poland and began to write on a regular basis for various Austrian and German newspapers and weeklies , reporting on the revolutionary and evolutionary political, economic, social and cultural changes in the post-Soviet bloc countries. Since 1989, he worked as the accredited foreign correspondent based in Poland, and also from 1992, in Kyiv, Minsk and Vilnius.

#3414

Paul Adelman

#113447

Overall Influence

1925 - Present (100 years)

Paul Adelman is a British historian who specialises in British political history of the nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth century. Adelman has written four volumes in the popular Seminar Studies in History series, intended for undergraduate and younger study, and two in the Access to History series from Hodder intended for pre-university study. Adelman has also written for a number of journals, including History Today. He is a former school teacher and reader in history at Kingston University.

#3415

Jeffrey Schnapp

Jeffrey Schnapp

#49108

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (71 years)

Jeffrey Schnapp is an American university professor who works as a cultural historian, designer, and technologist. Until joining the Harvard University in 2011, he was the director of the Stanford Humanities Lab from its foundation in 1999 through 2009. At Harvard, he holds the Carl Pescosolido Chair in Romance and Comparative Literatures in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and also teaches in the Department of Architecture at Harvard's Graduate School of Design. Effective June 2015, he assumed the position of Chief Executive Officer and co-founder of Piaggio Fast Forward, the robotics division of the Piaggio.

#3416

Brian Brivati

#32602

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (59 years)

Brian Leopoldo Brivati is a British historian. He was a professor of contemporary history at Kingston University and worked as a director of the John Smith memorial trust from 2008 to 2012. His work has appeared in The Guardian, The Times, the Financial Times, The Independent on Sunday, The Observer, New Statesman, Progress, the Fabian Review and Parliamentary Brief. Brivati has appeared as a political commentator on BBC Radio 4.

#3417

Laure Murat

#47620

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (58 years)

Laure Murat, born 4 June 1967, in Paris, is a French historian, writer, and professor at the University of California, Los Angeles. Biography Laure Murat is the daughter of the writer and film producer Napoléon Murat and historian Inès d'Albert de Luynes.

#3418

Edward J. Cowan

#94001

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (81 years)

Edward James Cowan FRSE was a Scottish historian. Biography Cowan was born on 15 February 1944 in Edinburgh, Midlothian. He was a professor of Scottish History at the University of Glasgow and Director of the University's Dumfries Campus. He had previously taught at the University of Edinburgh and at the University of Guelph, Ontario. A fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, he was also a Visiting Professor in Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the United States.

#3419

Richard Broome

#59681

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (77 years)

Richard Laurence Broome, is an Australian historian, academic, and emeritus professor of history at La Trobe University, Melbourne. He is known as an authority on Aboriginal history in Australia. In 2007 Broome's book Aboriginal Victorians: A History Since 1800 won the Victorian Community History Awards for Best Print / Publication.

#3420

Ann Twinam

#90371

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (79 years)

Ann Twinam is an American historian of colonial Latin America. Education Twinam graduated from Northern Illinois University in 1968, and earned her master's and doctorate in history from Yale University. Her dissertation was published as a monograph in 1982 as Miners, Merchants, and Farmers in Colonial Colombia and in a Spanish translation, Comerciantes y Labradores: Las Raíces del Espiritu Empresarial en Antioquia: 1763-1810 .

#3421

Chrystelle Trump Bond

#32859

Overall Influence

1938 - 2020 (82 years)

Chrystelle Lee Trump Bond was an American dancer, choreographer, dance historian, and author. Bond was the founding chair of the dance department at Goucher College. She was the co-founder and director of Chorégraphie Antique, the dance history ensemble at Goucher. Bond was a dance critic for The Baltimore Sun.

#3422

Maria de Fátima Silva de Sequeira Dias

#48864

Overall Influence

1958 - 2013 (55 years)

Maria de Fátima Silva de Sequeira Dias was an Azorean historian, author, and academic. A professor in the Department of Management and Economics at the University of the Azores, she specialized in the history of the Azores, an autonomous region of Portugal.

#3423

Christopher Robert Reed

#108511

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (83 years)

Christopher Robert Reed is an American historian known for his expertise on the African American experience in twentieth century Chicago, Illinois. Reed was assistant professor of Black Studies at the University of Illinois from 1982 to 1987, and professor of history at Roosevelt University from 1987 to 2006 as an associate and then full professor. He has published a number of books in his fields.

#3424

Herbert Kliebard

#32840

Overall Influence

1930 - Present (95 years)

Herbert M. Kliebard was an American historian of education, and professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He is best known for his 1995 book, The Struggle for the American Curriculum. Early life Kliebard was born in the Bronx on July 24, 1930, the only child of Yetta and Morris Kliebard. He graduated from Christopher Columbus High School, thereafter attending City College in New York, where he obtained his A.B. in English and, thereafter, his M.A. After teaching for a year at Bronx Vocational College - the inspiration for the novel and movie Blackboard Jungle - he served in the Army's Medical Corps, returning upon completion of his stint to his prior teaching position.

#3425

Richard Baum

#19397

Overall Influence

1940 - 2012 (72 years)

Richard Dennis Baum was an American China watcher, professor emeritus of political science at UCLA, and former director emeritus of the UCLA Center for Chinese Studies, noted for his many academic works on Chinese politics. Baum credited Rhoda Sutherland of Oxford University with inspiring his interest in linguistics.

#3426

Henryk Markiewicz

Henryk Markiewicz

#57371

Overall Influence

1922 - 2013 (91 years)

Henryk Markiewicz was a Polish historian, specializing in the history and theory of literature, with the particular focus on the Polish literature of 1864-1939. He was a professor emeritus of the Jagiellonian University, where he was a director of the Institute of Polish Philology. He was a member of the Polish Academy of Science and the Polish Academy of Learning. He has been one of the editors of the Polski Słownik Biograficzny, as well as several other historical book series. He has published a number of books and articles.

#3427

Carlrichard Brühl

#98319

Overall Influence

1925 - 1997 (72 years)

Carlrichard Brühl was a German historian of medieval history and philatelist who, in 1986, was awarded the Crawford Medal by the Royal Philatelic Society London for his Geschichte der Philatelie. His main research focus in historical science was the Frankish Empire and the subsequent realms of France, Italy and Germany. Brühl wrote numerous studies on the economic basis of medieval kingship in a comparative European perspective, on the sites where rulers exercised their power, and on the travel routes of medieval rulers.

#3428

Ulrike Jureit

#89315

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (61 years)

Ulrike Jureit is a German historian. Career Jureit studied history, theology and social pedagogy from 1983 until 1989 at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität in Münster. From 1991 to 1995 she was a research assistant at the Neuengamme concentration camp. In 1998 she received her doctorate at the University of Hamburg. The topic of her work was Memory Patterns. On the Methodology of Life History Interviews with Survivors of the Concentration and Extermination Camps. Jureit then worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Bielefeld University and then supervised a research project within the framework of the University of Hamburg's special university program.

#3429

Jerzy Samp

#40435

Overall Influence

1951 - 2015 (64 years)

Jerzy Samp was a Polish writer, publicist and historian of the literature and culture of Pomerania and especially of the Kashubian literature. He was also an activist in the Kashubian-Pomeranian Association .

#3430

Isaiah Gafni

#82561

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (81 years)

Isaiah Gafni is a historian of Judaism in the Second Temple and Talmudic periods. He is the Sol Rosenbloom Chair of Jewish History at Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and president of Shalem College in Jerusalem.

#3431

David Rothman

#39426

Overall Influence

1937 - 2020 (83 years)

David Jay Rothman was professor of Social Medicine at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. He also served as the president of the Institute on Medicine as a Profession . Rothman's work focused on the social history of American medicine and current health care practices. His research also explored human rights in medicine, including organ trafficking, AIDS, and the ethics of research in developing countries.

#3432

Niccolò Guicciardini

#55004

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (68 years)

Niccolò Guicciardini Corsi Salviati is an Italian historian of mathematics. He is a professor at the University of Milan, and is known for his studies on the works of Isaac Newton. Guicciardini obtained his Ph.D. from Middlesex Polytechnic in 1987 under the supervision of Ivor Grattan-Guinness.

#3433

Chad Van Dixhoorn

#42172

Overall Influence

1971 - Present (54 years)

Chad B. Van Dixhoorn , a Canadian-born theologian and historian, is the editor of the five-volume The Minutes and Papers of the Westminster Assembly: 1643-1652 published by Oxford University Press in 2012. In 2013 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society in recognition of his work on the Westminster assembly. In 2014 Banner of Truth Trust published Van Dixhoorn's second work, Confessing the Faith: a reader's guide to the Westminster Confession of Faith.

#3434

Selma Jeanne Cohen

#68184

Overall Influence

1920 - 2005 (85 years)

Selma Jeanne Cohen was a historian, teacher, author, and editor who devoted her career to advocating dance as an art worthy of the same scholarly respect traditionally awarded to painting, music, and literature. She was the founding editor of the six-volume International Encyclopedia of Dance, completed in 1998.

#3435

Franklin T. Lambert

#50121

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (82 years)

Franklin T. Lambert is a professor of history at Purdue University. He received his PhD from Northwestern University in 1990 and has special interests in American Colonial and Revolutionary Era history. Before earning his PhD he was also a punter for the Pittsburgh Steelers from 1965 to 1966.

#3436

Mirta Núñez

#49116

Overall Influence

Mirta Núñez Díaz-Balart is a Cuban-Spanish historian. Life Mirta Núñez Díaz-Balart was born into a family marked by history: her father, the lawyer Emilio Núñez Blanco was a notorious anti-Castro activist; her mother, Mirta Díaz-Balart, was the first wife of Fidel Castro. Mirta Núñez was at the same time the half-sister of the only "official" son of the Cuban president, Fidel Castro Díaz-Balart , and the first cousin of two U.S. Republican congressmen, Lincoln Díaz-Balart, and Mario Díaz-Balart.

#3437

Norman Itzkowitz

#60992

Overall Influence

1931 - 2019 (88 years)

Norman Itzkowitz was an American academic who was a professor of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University. He was an Ottoman historian who brought perception of psychoanalysis into Near Eastern Studies.

#3438

Gert Oostindie

#83694

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (70 years)

Gert Jan Oostindie is a Dutch historian and professor who specialises in Dutch colonial history and the Dutch Caribbean. He was Director of the Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies from 2000 until 2021. From 1993 until 2006, he was professor Anthropology at the University of Utrecht. From 2006 until 2015, he was professor Caribbean History at Leiden University.

#3439

Mark E. Neely Jr.

#72846

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (81 years)

Mark E. Neely Jr. is an American historian best known as an authority on the U.S. Civil War in general and Abraham Lincoln in particular. Biography Neely was born in Texas. He earned his BA in American Studies and PhD in history at Yale University in 1966 and 1973. Yale's Graduate School awarded him a Wilbur Cross Medal in 1995.

#3440

Philip J. Pauly

Philip J. Pauly

#90689

Overall Influence

1950 - 2008 (58 years)

Philip Joseph Pauly was an American historian of science known for his work on the history of biology in the United States. A professor at Rutgers University, he published three books: Controlling Life: Jacques Loeb and the Engineering Ideal in Biology; Biologists and the Promise of American Life: From Meriwether Lewis to Alfred Kinsey; and Fruits and Plains: The Horticultural Transformation of America. His final book was honored with the Council on Botanical and Horticultural Libraries Annual Literature Award in 2009.

#3441

Geoffrey Blodgett

#66088

Overall Influence

1931 - 2001 (70 years)

Geoffrey Blodgett was Robert S. Danforth Professor of History at Oberlin College, located in Oberlin, Ohio. Career As a student at Oberlin from 1949-1953, he was a student of Oberlin history professor Robert Samuel Fletcher He was also a wide receiver on the Yeomen, the college's men's football team. After graduating Phi Beta Kappa from Oberlin in 1953, Blodgett served two years with the United States Navy in the Pacific Fleet. He received a PhD at Harvard University in 1961, and returned to the college a year later to join the History Department. His dissertation focused on a group of politi...

#3442

Alan Gilbert

#25192

Overall Influence

1944 - 2010 (66 years)

Alan David Gilbert AO was an Australian historian and academic administrator who was until June 2010 the president and vice-chancellor of the University of Manchester. During his tenure as vice-chancellor of the University of Melbourne, he pushed for and established Melbourne University Private, a private university offshoot which ultimately failed. This, and his well-known controversial views on private funding of universities, led to Richard Davis in 2002 dubbing him the "doyen of economically rationalist vice-chancellors".

#3443

Malcolm Crook

#62219

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (77 years)

Malcolm Crook is Emeritus Professor of French history at Keele University and was editor of the journal French History. He is also a trustee of the Historical Association and The Society for the Study of French History.

#3444

Artur Patek

#129991

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (60 years)

Artur Patek is a Polish historian at the , specializing in 20th century Polish-Jewish-Soviet history as well as the history of Polish film.

#3445

Marcel Le Glay

#52637

Overall Influence

1920 - 1992 (72 years)

Marcel Le Glay was a 20th-century French historian and archaeologist, specializing in ancient Rome. His work focused in particular on Roman religion and North Africa during Antiquity, especially from Latin literature epigraphic: his monumental thesis, dedicated to the cult of Saturn in Africa, is meeting his three favorite areas.

#3446

Mireille Hadas-Lebel

#103029

Overall Influence

1940 - Present (85 years)

Mireille Hadas-Lebel, , is a French historian of Ancient history, specializing in the Jewish history. Biography She was born on September 26, 1940, in Tunisia into a Jewish family of Livorno origin. Also vice-president of the Amitié judéo-chrétienne de France , Mireille Hadas-Lebel is the wife of the senior civil servant Raphaël Hadas-Lebel. They have five children: Anne, wife Miller, senior civil servant; Jean; Hélène; Emmanuelle; Laure.

#3447

Anna Haebich

#81147

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (76 years)

Anna Elizabeth Haebich, is an Australian writer, historian and academic. Career Haebich is a John Curtin Distinguished Professor and Senior Research Fellow in the Faculty of Humanities at Curtin University. She was formerly a Research Intensive Professor at Griffith University and prior to that was the foundation Director of the Centre for Public Culture and Ideas at Griffith University. She also led the Griffith Research Program "Creative for Life" that addressed creativity across cultures and generations and was the Griffith University Orbicom UNESCO Chair.

#3448

Louis S. Warren

#98990

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (63 years)

Louis S. Warren is an American historian and a W. Turrentine Jackson Professor of Western U.S. History at the University of California, Davis, where he teaches environmental history, the history of the American West, and U.S. history.

#3449

Baruch Halpern

#69093

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (72 years)

Baruch Halpern is the Covenant Foundation Professor of Jewish Studies at the University of Georgia. He was a leader of the archaeological digs at Tel Megiddo 1992–2007, as well as of an archaeological survey in southeastern Cilicia . As an undergraduate at Harvard in 1972, he wrote a political analysis of the Bible, which subsequently influenced research into its authorship.

#3450

Carlo D'Este

#37367

Overall Influence

1936 - 2020 (84 years)

Carlo D'Este was an American military historian and biographer, author of several books, especially on World War II. He was a decorated U.S. Army lieutenant colonel. In 2011, he was awarded the Pritzker Literature Award for Lifetime Achievement in Military Writing.

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