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#4951

Julia Hillner

#144474

Overall Influence

1971 - Present (54 years)

Julia Hillner is Professor for Dependency and Slavery Studies at the University of Bonn. She was previously Professor of Medieval History at the University of Sheffield. She is an expert on late antiquity, applying digital methods of social network analysis to large data sets drawn from a wide variety of late antique and early medieval sources.

#4952

Gunnel Cederlöf

#124277

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (65 years)

Gunnel Cederlöf is professor of history at Linnaeus University and a working member of The Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities. She was previously professor in the Department of History at Uppsala University.

#4953

Arlette Jouanna

#132300

Overall Influence

1936 - 2022 (86 years)

Arlette Jouanna was a French historian and academic. She was professor emerita at l’Université Paul-Valéry . She was a member of the Centre de recherches interdisciplinaires en sciences humaines et sociales . She specialised in the political and social history of sixteenth-century France, especially the history of the nobility and the French Wars of Religion.

#4954

Marjorie Senechal

#53877

Overall Influence

1939 - Present (86 years)

Marjorie Lee Senechal is an American mathematician and historian of science, the Louise Wolff Kahn Professor Emerita in Mathematics and History of Science and Technology at Smith College and editor-in-chief of The Mathematical Intelligencer. In mathematics, she is known for her work on tessellations and quasicrystals; she has also studied ancient Parthian electric batteries and published several books about silk.

#4955

Milorad Ekmečić

#126205

Overall Influence

1928 - 2015 (87 years)

Milorad Ekmečić was a Yugoslav and Serbian historian. During World War II he became a member of the Yugoslav Partisans after the fascist Ustaše perpetrated the Prebilovci massacre, in which 78 members of his family were killed, including his father. He studied at the University of Zagreb and went on to be a professor at the University of Sarajevo, and later at the University of Belgrade. He was a member of several Yugoslav academies of sciences and arts, the author of more than a dozen historical books, and received several significant national awards. Ekmečić authored several important works...

#4956

Joachim Schwermer

Joachim Schwermer

#62602

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (75 years)

Joachim Schwermer is a German mathematician, specializing in number theory. Schwermer received his Abitur in 1969 at Aloisiuskolleg in Bad Godesberg and then studied mathematics at the University of Bonn. After graduating in 1974 with his Diplom, he received in 1977 his Promotion underi Günter Harder with thesis . In 1982 he received his Habilitation from the University of Bonn. From 1986 he was a professor at the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, then at the University of Düsseldorf, and finally in the 2000s at the University of Vienna. During the academic year 1980–1981 Schwermer was a visiting scholar at the Institute for Advanced Study.

#4957

Ruth Feldstein

#74902

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (60 years)

Ruth Sara Feldstein is an American historian with research interests in United States history; her work focuses on 20th-century culture and politics; women's and gender history; and African American history. Currently she is professor of history and American studies at Rutgers University.

#4958

Andrew Tallon

#81122

Overall Influence

1969 - 2018 (49 years)

Andrew J. Tallon was a Belgian art historian. He used lasers to create a precise model of Notre-Dame de Paris, among other buildings. Early life and education Tallon was born on 12 March 1969 in Leuven, Belgium to mother Mary Beth Tallon Vander Vennet and father Andrew F. Tallon. In the fourth grade, Tallon lived in Paris while his mother worked on a dissertation in theater history. He attended high school in the US, graduating from Shorewood High School in Wisconsin. Tallon attended Princeton University for his undergraduate studies where he earned a degree in music in 1991. While enrolled, ...

#4959

Mohamed Hédi Chérif

#93911

Overall Influence

1932 - 2021 (89 years)

Mohamed Hédi Chérif was a Tunisian historian and academic. He specialized in the modern and contemporary history of Tunisia. Biography After his studies at Sadiki College and the École pratique des hautes études, he earned an agrégation in history in Paris and a doctorate from the Sorbonne in 1979. He was a researcher at the French National Centre for Scientific Research from 1970 to 1974 before becoming a professor at the for over thirty years. He served as dean from 1987 to 1990.

#4960

Per Maurseth

#93400

Overall Influence

1932 - 2013 (81 years)

Per Maurseth was a Norwegian historian and politician for the Socialist Left Party. He was an associate professor at the University of Oslo from 1971, and was appointed professor at the University of Trondheim from 1982 to his retirement. Among his books are Fra Moskvateser til Kristianiaforslag from 1972, and volume three of the six-volume set Arbeiderbevegelsens historie i Norge from 1988, his part covering the history of the labour movement in Norway from 1920 to 1935. He also edited the academic journal Tidsskrift for arbeiderbevegelsens historie from 1976 to 1986. He was a fellow of the ...

#4961

Richard J Evans

#173430

Overall Influence

#4962

Enric Ucelay-Da Cal

Enric Ucelay-Da Cal

#102046

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (77 years)

Enric Ucelay-Da Cal is a historian specializing in contemporary history, who has done extensive work on Catalan history. He is at present Senior Professor Emeritus at the Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona and coordinator of a Research Group on States, Nations and Sovereignties, linked to the UPF.

#4963

John H. Morrow Jr.

#113018

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (81 years)

John Howard Morrow Jr. , is an American historian. As of 2022, Morrow is an Emeritus Professor at University of Georgia. From 1988 to 2022, he was the Franklin Professor and taught undergraduate and graduate courses in the history of Modern Europe and of warfare and society at the University of Georgia. His expertise included Modern European history, war and diplomacy, World War I, and world history. Morrow is the author of several books. His most recent publication is Harlem's Rattlers and the Great War: The Undaunted 369th Regiment and the African American Quest for Equality, which he co-authored with Dr.

#4964

Ewald Grothe

#122218

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (64 years)

Ewald Grothe is a German historian. Since 2009 he has been an extraordinary professor at the Bergische Universität Wuppertal and since 2011 he has been head of the Archive of Liberalism of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom in Gummersbach.

#4965

Helmut Müller-Enbergs

Helmut Müller-Enbergs

#81497

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (65 years)

Helmut Müller-Enbergs is a German political scientist who has written extensively on the Stasi and related aspects of the German Democratic Republic's history. Life Müller-Enbergs studied Political sciences between 1986 and 1989, initially at the "Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität“ in Münster and subsequently at the Otto Suhr Institute . From 1986 till 1989 he was a research student, later becoming a research assistant at the Free University's Central Research Institute. Meanwhile, he turned up as a press spokesperson for the "Bündnis 90" political grouping in the Brandenburg regional pa...

#4966

Matthias Stickler

Matthias Stickler

#115340

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (58 years)

Matthias Stickler is a German historian. Career Born in Aschaffenburg, Stickler attended the in Aschaffenburg and acquired there in 1986 the general university entrance qualification. From 1988 to 1993 he studied history, German studies and citizenship education for a chair at the University of Würzburg. In 1993 he became a member of the in the Cartellverband. After the first Staatsexamen, he received his doctorate in 1997 with a dissertation with . Afterwards, he was scientific assistant at the chair for Modern and Contemporary History II at the University of Würzburg with Harm-Hinrich Brandt and, from 2000, with Wolfgang Altgeld.

#4967

Tom Juravich

#75958

Overall Influence

Tom Juravich is a professor of Labor Studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Juravich is also a musician and labor movement activist. Education and career Juravich, a former mechanic, received a Ph.D. in sociology in 1983 from the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

#4968

Joe Moran

#69478

Overall Influence

1970 - Present (55 years)

Joe Moran is a social and cultural historian who has written about everyday life, especially British everyday life from the mid-twentieth century until the present day. Moran studied international history and politics at Leeds University before doing an MA in English literature and a DPhil in American studies at Sussex University. The Mass-Observation Archive at Sussex was what aroused his interest in studying the everyday; Moran credits his own interest in taking note of what normally goes unnoticed to the I-Spy booklets he consumed as a young boy.

#4969

Philippe Roberts-Jones

Philippe Roberts-Jones

#105617

Overall Influence

1924 - 2016 (92 years)

Baron Philippe Roberts-Jones was a Belgian art historian who was the head of conservation of the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium. A member of the Royal Academy of Science, Letters and Fine Arts of Belgium, of which he was president in 1980, he was also a member of the Free Academy of Belgium and a professor at the Université libre de Bruxelles. He was also a published poet.

#4970

Gary Kates

#70243

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (73 years)

Gary R. Kates is an American historian who specializes in the European Enlightenment and the French Revolution. He is the H. Russell Smith Foundation Professor of History at Pomona College in Claremont, California. He previously served as the dean of the college from 2001 to 2009.

#4971

Peter Liddle

#96548

Overall Influence

1934 - Present (91 years)

Peter Hammond Liddle is a British historian and author specialising in the study of the First and Second World Wars. In the 1960s he developed the Liddle Collection, a large collection of interviews and memorabilia mainly relating to the First World War that is now held at the University of Leeds.

#4972

Juan Marichal

#58454

Overall Influence

1922 - 2010 (88 years)

Juan Marichal was a Spanish-Canarian historian, literary critic and essayist. Marichal also served as a professor at Harvard University. Marichal spent years in exile during the Francoist State following the end of the Spanish Civil War.

#4973

John A. Moses

#98773

Overall Influence

1930 - Present (95 years)

John Anthony Moses is an Australian historian, history educator and Anglican priest. He is known for his work on modern German history, the history of trade unionism and the history of colonialism. He earned his B.A. at the University of Queensland in 1959, his M.A. at the University Queensland in 1963 and his PhD at the University of Erlangen in Germany in 1965. He taught at the University of Queensland from 1965 to 1994, as a lecturer, senior lecturer , and reader . He was head of the history department from 1986. He also became a priest in the Anglican Church of Australia in 1978. He has b...

#4974

Andrew Gow

#98657

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (63 years)

Andrew Colin Gow is a Canadian historian of medieval and early modern Europe and a noted scholar of early modern witchcraft. He completed his Ph.D. with the Reformation scholar Heiko Oberman. He has served as the Editor-in-Chief of Brill Publishers' book series Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions from 2000-2020 and was succeeded by Christopher Ocker in June 2020.

#4975

Ernst Homburg

#92895

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (73 years)

Ernst Homburg is a Dutch emeritus professor of History of Science and Technology at Maastricht University. He published on the History of Chemistry and Technology in the 19th and 20th century in the Netherlands and Europe.

#4976

Knut Vikør

#103045

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (73 years)

Knut Sigurdson Vikør is a Norwegian historian and a professor of history at the University of Bergen. He is known for his studies on the history of Islam and Islamic law. Biography Knut S. Vikør comes from a family of teachers whose father was an associate professor at Orkdal national gymnasium. Born on June 10, 1952, Vikør holds a master's in history and earned his PhD from the University of Bergen in 1992.

#4977

Joshua D. Zimmerman

#111375

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (59 years)

Joshua D. Zimmerman holds the Eli and Diana Zborowski Professorial Chair in Holocaust Studies and East European Jewish History at Yeshiva University. He is the author or editor of several works about the Holocaust, including Contested Memories. Poles and Jews during the Holocaust and Its Aftermath and The Polish Underground and the Jews, 1939–1945 .

#4978

E. Jennifer Monaghan

#81997

Overall Influence

1933 - 2014 (81 years)

E. Jennifer Monaghan , also known as Jennifer Monaghan, was an educator and historian. She was regarded as the leading expert on literacy education in early America. She published three books and dozens of book chapters and journal articles.

#4979

Saleh Abd al-Jawad

#94288

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (73 years)

Saleh Abd al-Jawad is a Palestinian historian. Born in Al-Bireh, he received his PhD in political science from Paris X-Nanterre University in 1986 and works as Professor of History and Political Science at Birzeit University since 1981.

#4980

Linda Bryder

#72779

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (69 years)

Linda Bryder is a New Zealand medical history academic. In 2008 she was appointed professor at the University of Auckland. Academic career After completing a MA at the University of Auckland, and a 1985 DPhil thesis on the social history of tuberculosis in Britain, at the University of Oxford, Bryder returned to Auckland, where she continued her research into the social history of medicine.

#4981

Meribeth E. Cameron

#91972

Overall Influence

1905 - 1997 (92 years)

Meribeth Elliott Cameron was an American historian of China and academic who served as the 13th President of Mount Holyoke College from 1968-1969. She was a professor of Chinese History at Mount Holyoke from 1948-1970. She served as Dean and briefly as Acting President in 1954 and 1966 .

#4982

Jack Morrell

#133487

Overall Influence

1933 - Present (92 years)

Jack B. Morrell is a historian of science at the University of Leeds. Between 1964 and 1994 he was lecturer and then Reader in History of Science at the University of Bradford. He has also been a visiting professor at the University of Pennsylvania , a Supernumerary Fellow at Brasenose College, Oxford , and a Leverhulme Emeritus Fellow . Between 1978 and 1982 he was vice-president and then president of the British Society for the History of Science. Since 1984 he has been a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.

#4983

Deborah Oxley

#141075

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (62 years)

Deborah Oxley, is a Professor of Social Science History at the University of Oxford. Oxley's research focuses on the study of Australian convicts . Education Oxley completed her undergraduate and postgraduate degrees at the University of New South Wales, from 1982 to 1989.

#4984

Edith Saurer

#134708

Overall Influence

1942 - 2011 (69 years)

Edith Saurer was an Austrian historian, university professor at the University of Vienna, scientific author, and publisher. She is regarded as a central cofounder and advocate of feminist historiography in Austria. She received the Käthe Leichter Prize, Gabriele Possanner State Prize, and the Golden Medal for her services to the State of Vienna.

#4985

Miloš Pojar

#135856

Overall Influence

1940 - 2012 (72 years)

Miloš Pojar was a Czech historian, writer and diplomat. Pojar oversaw the establishment of diplomatic relations between the former Czechoslovakia and Israel following the Velvet Revolution. He became the first Czech ambassador to Israel following the revolution. Pojar served as ambassador from 1990 until 1994. His son, Tomáš Pojar, currently serves as the Ambassador of the Czech Republic to Israel, as of February 2012.

#4986

Sarah Pearce

#92106

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (60 years)

Sarah J. K. Pearce is Ian Karten Professor of History and Head of the School of Humanities at the University of Southampton. She is known in particular for her work on Jews in the Hellenistic world and the Roman Empire, especially the life and work of Philo of Alexandria.

#4987

Grzegorz Błaszczyk

#172432

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (72 years)

Grzegorz Błaszczyk is Polish historian, professor at the Adam Mickiewicz University. He graduated from the Adam Mickiewicz University in 1977 and gained a Ph.D. from this university in 1983. In 1993 he passed his habilitation. In 1999 Błaszczyk gained the title of professor.

#4988

Pavlo Hai-Nyzhnyk

#73484

Overall Influence

1971 - Present (54 years)

Pavlo Hai-Nyzhnyk was born on May 28, 1971, in Dunaivtsi of Western Podillya , Soviet Union and is a Ukrainian historian, Doctor of Historical Sciences, Academician of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences , Academician of the Academy of Political Sciences and Ukrainian poet . Deputy Director, Scientific Research Institute of Ukrainian Studies, Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine

#4989

Al Hester

#71702

Overall Influence

1932 - 2019 (87 years)

Albert L. Hester was a professor of journalism at the University of Georgia , a columnist, historian, newspaper reporter, and author. He wrote more than ten books including Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery: An African-American Historical Site about the Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery for African Americans in Athens, Georgia, and Enduring Legacy: Clarke County, Georgia's Ex-Slave Legislators Madison Davis and Alfred Richardson about Madison Davis and Alfred Richardson. He wrote Athens, Georgia, Celebrating Two Hundred Years at the Millenium with his wife Conoly Hester, who is also a writer and editor. He also...

#4990

Maciej Franz

#131556

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (56 years)

Maciej Franz is a Polish historian; the expert of the sea wars and Zaporozhian Hosts wars; professor at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. He was born in Toruń, but he moved to Poznań on the time of studies and settled here. He finished the Department of History on Adam Mickiewicz University. In 1993–2007 years taught at general education secondary school in Bolechowo near Poznań. He taught the history of the military on the department of the history in the Adam Mickiewicz University. He is the member of Instytut im. gen. Stefana Grota Roweckiego in Leszno and the solid co - worker of the...

#4991

George E. Taylor

#83771

Overall Influence

1905 - 2000 (95 years)

George Edward Taylor was a prolific and influential scholar of Chinese studies, professor at University of Washington, Seattle from 1939 to 1969, and director of the Far Eastern and Russian Institute at the University of Washington from 1946 to 1969. He became a naturalized U.S. citizen on May 11, 1943. He married Roberta Stevens White in 1933. She died in 1967. He married Florence R. Kluckhohn in 1968.

#4992

Paul G. Pickowicz

#117797

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (80 years)

Paul G. Pickowicz . is an American historian of modern China and Distinguished Professor of History and Chinese Studies at University of California at San Diego. He specialises in the history of China in the 20th century.

#4993

Gouri Sankar Bandyopadhyay

Gouri Sankar Bandyopadhyay

#68397

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (63 years)

Gouri Sankar Bandyopadhyay is a historian based in West Bengal, India. He was awarded as the Best Educationist 2015 from the International Institute of Education and Management, New Delhi, India. He is serving as the principal of Syamsundar College since 2015. Bandyopadhyay spent his early days serving as a lecturer and reader in the Department of History at Saldiha College and Bankura Christian College in Bankura, West Bengal, India. He is also in the scientific committee of the International Scientific Conference on Economic and Scientific Development.

#4994

James Vernon

#129879

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (60 years)

James Vernon is a British historian. Vernon studied at the University of Manchester beginning in 1984. At Manchester he also received his Ph.D. and was a professor until 2000, when he was appointed professor of history at the University of California at Berkeley. His teaching there focuses on global and British history. Vernon is noted for his books on 19th century British history, on the history of hunger, and for his attention to questions related to the cultural and postcolonial turns.

#4995

Carolyn Hamilton

#168162

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (67 years)

Carolyn Hamilton is a South African anthropologist and historian who is a specialist in the history and uses of archives. She is National Research Foundation of South Africa chair in archive and public culture at the University of Cape Town.

#4996

Aleksander Kan

#105632

Overall Influence

1925 - 2017 (92 years)

Aleksander Sergeevich Kan was a Russian born historian and professor at Uppsala University in Sweden. Biography Aleksander Kan was born in Moscow. During World War II he served as an interpreter in the Soviet Army 1944 – 1945. In the Soviet Union he wrote several books about the history of Scandinavia from a Marxist standpoint. He emigrated with his family to Sweden in 1987 with help from the Swedish Prime Minister Ingvar Carlsson, and became a Swedish citizen in 1992.

#4997

Gordon Iseminger

#173707

Overall Influence

Gordon L. Iseminger is an American author and historian. A professor of history at the University of North Dakota, he is the university's longest-serving faculty member, having joined the faculty in 1962. His work has appeared in the North Dakota Quarterly, Minnesota History, Agricultural History, Pennsylvania History, The Journal of American History, and the Middle East Journal, as well as the Encyclopedia of the Great Plains.

#4998

Javier Moreno Luzón

Javier Moreno Luzón

#139767

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (58 years)

Javier Moreno Luzón is a Spanish historian, professor of the History of Thought and Social and Political Movements at the Complutense University of Madrid. He is an expert in the political history of Restoration Spain.

#4999

Howard Hotson

#88921

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (66 years)

Howard Hotson is Professor of Early Modern Intellectual History at the University of Oxford, and a Fellow of St Anne's College, Oxford. Life and career Born in the United States and raised in Canada, Hotson was educated at Trinity College, University of Toronto, and Corpus Christi College, Oxford. He has held research fellowships from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the Institut für Europäische Geschichte , Brasenose College , the Herzog August Bibliothek , the Center for Seventeenth and Eighteenth-Century Studies , the Max-Planck-Institut für Geschichte , and the British Academy .

#5000

Michael Weiner

#108610

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (76 years)

Michael Weiner is a professor of East Asian history and international studies and is the director of international studies at Soka University of America . Previously, he was professor and chair of Asian studies at San Diego State University. He received his B.A. from Sophia University in Tokyo, and his Ph.D. from University of Sheffield, England.

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