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Lynda Barry
1956 - Present (68 years)
Linda Jean Barry , known professionally as Lynda Barry, is an American cartoonist. Barry is best known for her weekly comic strip Ernie Pook's Comeek. She garnered attention with her 1988 illustrated novel The Good Times are Killing Me, about an interracial friendship between two young girls, which was adapted into a play. Her second illustrated novel, Cruddy, first appeared in 1999. Three years later she published One! Hundred! Demons!, a graphic novel she terms "autobifictionalography". What It Is is a graphic novel that is part memoir, part collage and part workbook, in which Barry instruc...
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Rachida Triki
1949 - Present (75 years)
Rachida Triki, also known as Rachida Boubaker-Triki is a Tunisian philosopher, art historian, art critic, and art curator. She is a full professor of philosophy at Tunis University, specialized in Aesthetics.
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Katherine Flegal
2000 - Present (24 years)
Katherine Mayhew Flegal is an American epidemiologist and senior scientist at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Center for Health Statistics. She is one of the most highly cited scientists in the field of the epidemiology of obesity according to Thomson Reuters and has been called "one of the great epidemiologists" by former FDA Commissioner David A. Kessler.
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Inga Bostad
1963 - Present (61 years)
Inga Bostad is a Norwegian philosopher, writer and educator. She served as prorector of the University of Oslo from 2009 to 2013 and as director of the Norwegian Centre for Human Rights from 2014 to 2017.
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Leslie Francis
1946 - Present (78 years)
Leslie Pickering Francis is an American philosopher, currently Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Distinguished Professor of Law at University of Utah. Francis holds joint appointments as Alfred C. Emery professor of law and professor of philosophy, and adjunct appointments in Family and Preventive Medicine , Internal Medicine , and Political Science, at the University of Utah. She was appointed to the rank of Distinguished Professor in 2009 and became director of the University of Utah Center for Law and Biomedical Sciences in 2015. Francis was President of the Pacific Division of the American Philosophical Association in 2015-2016.
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Yvanka B. Raynova
1959 - Present (65 years)
Yvanka B. Raynova is a Bulgarian philosopher, feminist, editor, translator, and publisher. She is full professor of contemporary philosophy at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and director of the Institute for Axiological Research in Vienna. She elaborated a post-personalist hermeneutic phenomenology based on some gnostic ideas. Her works include studies on continental philosophy, phenomenology, hermeneutics, axiology , feminist philosophy, intercultural philosophy, religious studies, and translation studies.
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Nadežda Čačinovič
1947 - Present (77 years)
Nadežda Čačinovič is a Croatian philosopher, sociologist and author. She was born to Slovene parents in Budapest in 1947 where her father Rudolf Čačinovič was serving as a military attache. She graduated in philosophy and comparative literature at the University of Ljubljana. She subsequently studied at the University of Bonn from 1968 to 1970 where her father was serving as ambassador of Yugoslavia to West Germany. She obtained a doctorate and became a professor at the Department of Philosophy of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Zagreb, being employed there ...
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Ranjana Khanna
1966 - Present (58 years)
Ranjana Khanna is a literary critic and theorist recognized for her interdisciplinary, feminist and internationalist contributions to the fields of post-colonial studies, feminist theory, literature and political philosophy. She is best known for her work on melancholia and psychoanalysis, but has also published extensively on questions of post-colonial agency, film, Algeria, area studies, autobiography, Marxism, the visual and feminist theory. She received her Ph.D in 1993 from the University of York. She has taught at the University of Washington in Seattle and at the University of Utah, and...
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Anita Avramides
1952 - Present (72 years)
Anita Avramides is a British philosopher whose work focuses on the philosophy of language, and the philosophy of the mind. She is a reader at the University of Oxford, based at St. Hilda's College, where she is Southover Manor Trust Tutorial Fellow in Philosophy. Since 2014, she has served as Vice Chair of the Philosophy Faculty at Oxford.
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Martha Klein
1941 - Present (83 years)
Martha Klein is a philosopher, specialising in the intersection of the philosophy of mind and moral philosophy, and especially in the question of the freedom of the will. After a period as lecturer in philosophy at Christ Church, Oxford, Klein was elected a Fellow of Pembroke College, Oxford; she retired in 2006. Her research interests are in free will, moral responsibility and moral psychology.
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Yuriko Saito
1950 - Present (74 years)
Yuriko Saito is a retired Japanese-American philosopher specializing in aesthetics, including wabi-sabi, the Japanese philosophy of appreciating transience and imperfection. She is a professor emeritus of philosophy at the Rhode Island School of Design .
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Daniela Vallega-Neu
1966 - Present (58 years)
Daniela Vallega-Neu is a German philosopher and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Oregon. She is known for her expertise on hermeneutics, deconstruction and Heidegger's thought. Books Heidegger’s Poietic Writings: From Contributions to Philosophy to The Event, Indiana University Press, 2018The Bodily Dimension in Thinking, SUNY Press, 2005Heidegger’s ‘Contributions to Philosophy.’ An Introduction, Indiana University Press, 2003Die Notwendigkeit der Gründung im Zeitalter der Dekonstruktion: Zur Gründung in Heideggers 'Beiträgen zur Philosophie'; unter Hinzuziehung der Derridaschen ...
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Michele Moody-Adams
1956 - Present (68 years)
Michele Moody-Adams is an American philosopher and academic administrator. Between July 1, 2009, and September 2011, she served as Dean of Columbia College and Vice President for Undergraduate Education at Columbia University. She was the first woman and first African-American to hold the post. She has since resigned as dean, citing the decreasing autonomy of Columbia College. She remains a faculty member in the department of philosophy. In 2021, she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Go to ProfileRoopika Risam is an associate professor of film and media studies and of comparative literature and faculty in the Digital Humanities and Social Engagement cluster at Dartmouth College. She is a scholar of digital and postcolonial humanities.
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Doreen Massey
1944 - 2016 (72 years)
Doreen Barbara Massey was a British social scientist and geographer. She specialized in Marxist geography, feminist geography, and cultural geography, as well as other topics. She was Professor of Geography at the Open University.
Go to ProfileCynthia R. Nielsen is an American philosopher and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Dallas. She is known for her expertise in the field of hermeneutics , the philosophy of music, aesthetics, ethics, and social philosophy. Since 2015 she has taught at the University of Dallas. Prior to her appointment at the University of Dallas, she taught at Villanova University as a Catherine of Sienna Fellow in the Ethics Program. Nielsen serves on the executive committee of the North American Society for Philosophical Hermeneutics.
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Nadia Yala Kisukidi
1978 - Present (46 years)
Nadia Yala Kisukidi is a French philosopher, writer and academic, who has re-examined the notion of "blackness" with its colonial implications in France and the rest of Europe. Also interested in contemporary art, she has been selected as one of two curators for the 2020 Yango Biennale in Kinshasa. Kisukidi, who has written widely on French and Africana philosophy, published Bergson ou l'humanité créatrice in 2013.
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Martine Nida-Rümelin
1957 - Present (67 years)
Martine Nida-Rümelin is a philosopher. Biography Nida-Rümelin studied philosophy, psychology, mathematics and political science at the University of Munich. In her doctoral thesis, she discusses the knowledge argument, by the Australian philosopher Frank Jackson, which is directed against a materialist conception of phenomenal consciousness. In it she presents one of the most important arguments, which is based on qualia, i.e., individual instances of subjective, conscious experience.
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Agnieszka Kołakowska
1960 - Present (64 years)
Agnieszka Kołakowska is a Polish philosopher, philologist, translator and essayist. She is the recipient of the 2012 for the essay collection Wojny kultur i inne wojny. She was born in 1960 to the family of philosopher Leszek Kołakowski and Tamara Dynenson. She defines herself as a Jew, as her mother is a Polish Jew.
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Daryl Koehn
1955 - Present (69 years)
Daryl Koehn is an American philosopher and the Wicklander Chair in Professional Ethics at DePaul University. She is the co-editor-in-chief of Business and Professional Ethics Journal and managing director of the Institute for Business and Professional Ethics. Koehn is known for her works on ethics and corporate governance.
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Huda Zoghbi
1954 - Present (70 years)
Huda Yahya Zoghbi , born Huda El-Hibri, is a Lebanese-born American geneticist, and a professor at the Departments of Molecular and Human Genetics, Neuroscience and Neurology at the Baylor College of Medicine. She is the director of the Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute. She became the editor of the Annual Review of Neuroscience as of 2018.
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Alta Charo
1958 - Present (66 years)
Robin Alta Charo is the Warren P. Knowles Professor of Law and Bioethics emeritus at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and a leading American authority on bioethics. She held appointments in both Wisconsin's law school and medical school.
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Marina Garcés
1973 - Present (51 years)
Marina Garcés Mascareñas is a Spanish philosopher and essayist. She is a professor of philosophy at the University of Zaragoza and part of a collective project of critical and experimental thinking called Espai en Blanc . She has published several essays on contemporary politics and critical thought, including Filosofía inacabada , Fora de classe. Textos de filosofia de guerrilla , Nova il·lustració radical and Ciutat Princesa
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Diane Davis
1963 - Present (61 years)
Diane Davis is a post-structuralist rhetorician and professor of Rhetoric and Writing, English, and Communication Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. She was the Director of the Digital Writing and Research Lab at UT from 2009 to 2017, and is now the chair of the Department of Rhetoric and Writing. She holds the Kenneth Burke Chair of Rhetoric and Philosophy at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland, where she teaches intensive summer seminars on Jacques Derrida and Emmanuel Levinas.
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Adrian Parr
1967 - Present (57 years)
Adrian Parr is an Australian-born philosopher and cultural critic. She specializes in environmental philosophy and activism. In addition, she published on the sustainability movement, climate change politics, activist culture, and creative practice.
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Nita A. Farahany
1978 - Present (46 years)
Nita Farahany is an Iranian American author and distinguished professor and scholar on the ramifications of new technology on society, law, and ethics. She is the author of the critically acclaimed book, The Battle for Your Brain: Defending the Right to Think Freely in the Age of Neurotechnology. She currently teaches Law and philosophy at Duke University where she is the Robinson O. Everett Distinguished Professor of Law & Philosophy at Duke Law School, the founding director of the Duke Initiative for Science and Society as well as a chair of the Bioethics and Science Policy MA program. She ...
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Bartha Knoppers
1951 - Present (73 years)
Bartha Maria Knoppers, OC OQ is a Canadian law Professor and an expert on the ethical aspects of genetics, genomics and biotechnology. Born in Hilversum, Netherlands, she received a Bachelor of Arts from McMaster University , a Master of Arts degree in comparative literature from the University of Alberta , Bachelor of Common Law and Civil Law degrees from McGill University, where she was selected as an Executive Editor for the McGill Law Journal, a Diploma of Legal Studies from University of Cambridge , and a Doctorate of Laws from the University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne . In additio...
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Saba Soomekh
1976 - Present (48 years)
Saba T. Soomekh is an American professor and author. Early life and education Soomekh was born in Tehran, Iran, to a Persian-Jewish family. to Hamid and Manijeh Soomekh. She is a sister of Hollywood actress Bahar Soomekh. The Iranian-Jewish family moved to Los Angeles, California in 1978 to escape the Islamic Revolution of Iran with Soomekh only two years old.
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Kathryn Norlock
1969 - Present (55 years)
Kathryn Norlock is the inaugural Kenneth Mark Drain Endowed Chair in Ethics, the Chair of the Department of Philosophy, an affiliated faculty member in Sustainability Studies, and an associated faculty member in Gender and Women's Studies at Trent University.
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Clara D. Bloomfield
1942 - 2020 (78 years)
Clara Derber Bloomfield , was an American physician and cancer researcher. Her work focused on the genetic changes that are present in certain types of blood cancers, and how those can be utilized to improve treatment for the affected patients.
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Elsa Dorlin
1974 - Present (50 years)
Elsa Dorlin is a French philosopher and professor in the department of political science at University of Paris 8 Vincennes/St. Dénis. Dorlin earned her PhD in philosophy in 2004 at University of Paris 4 – Sorbonne. Her dissertation, "Au chevet de la Nation : sexe, race et médecine : XVIIe-XVIIIe siècles" was supervised by Pierre-François Moreau.
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Raili Kauppi
1920 - 1995 (75 years)
Raili Kauppi , professor of philosophy at the University of Tampere. She was an internationally recognized scholar of Leibniz and intensional logic. Main publications:Über die Leibnizsche Logik mit besonderer Berücksichtigung des Problems der Intension und Extension, Acta Philosophia Fennica, Fasc. XII, Helsinki, 1960.Einführung in die Theorie der Begriffsysteme, Acta Universitatis Tamperensis, Ser A, vol 15, Tampere, 1967.
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Catherine Otto
1953 - Present (71 years)
Catherine Mary Otto is an echocardiography specialist who serves as J. Ward Kennedy-Hamilton Endowed Chair in Cardiology at the University of Washington Medical Center. She has authored echocardiography textbooks. The major fields she works in are valvular heart disease, adult congenital heart disease, and echocardiography.
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Susan Mendus
1951 - Present (73 years)
Susan Lesley "Sue" Mendus, , FLSW is a Welsh academic specialising in political philosophy. She is currently Professor Emerita of Political Philosophy at the University of York. She was Vice-President of the British Academy between 2008 and 2012.
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Madalyn Murray O'Hair
1919 - 1995 (76 years)
Madalyn Murray O'Hair was an American activist supporting atheism and separation of church and state. In 1963, she founded American Atheists and served as its president until 1986, after which her son Jon Garth Murray succeeded her. She created the first issues of American Atheist Magazine and identified as a "militant feminist".
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Margaret Bent
1940 - Present (84 years)
Margaret Bent CBE , is an English musicologist who specializes in music of the late medieval and Renaissance eras. In particular, she has written extensively on the Old Hall Manuscript, English masses as well as the works of Johannes Ciconia and John Dunstaple.
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Jelica Šumič Riha
1958 - Present (66 years)
Jelica Šumič Riha is a Slovenian philosopher, political theorist, and translator, associated with the Ljubljana school of psychoanalysis. Biography Riha studied philosophy at the University of Ljubljana, graduating in 1983. Initially member of the League of Communists of Slovenia, she left the party in October 1988, together with 32 other left wing intellectuals, as a protest against the Ljubljana trial, when four civilians were arrested by judged by a Yugoslav military court. In 1989, she was one of the co-founders of the Debate Club 89, which became the intellectual core of the Liberal Demo...
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Sharyn Clough
1965 - Present (59 years)
Sharyn Clough is professor of philosophy at Oregon State University. Her teaching and research specialties focus on public philosophy, Peace Literacy, philosophy of science, social epistemology, contemporary pragmatism, and feminist theory.
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Delia Graff Fara
1969 - 2017 (48 years)
Delia Ruby Graff Fara was an American philosopher who was professor of philosophy at Princeton University. She specialized in philosophy of language, metaphysics, and philosophical logic. Early life Fara's mother was African-American and her father was of Irish and Jewish ancestry. She was raised by her mother as a single parent in New York after her father died when she was a child.
Go to ProfileChristine Tappolet is a philosopher, academic, and author. She is a Full Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Montreal, and has authored and edited several books including, Emotions, Values, and Agency, and Philosophy of Emotion: A Contemporary Introduction.
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Rosalyn Diprose
1955 - Present (69 years)
Rosalyn Diprose is Emeritus Professor of philosophy at University of New South Wales. A graduate of the University of Technology Sydney, The University of Sydney and UNSW Sydney, she is known for her research on ethics, embodiment, generosity and cultural difference.
Go to ProfileChristine Edry Seidman is the Thomas W. Smith Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and director of the Cardiovascular Genetics Center at Brigham and Women's Hospital. She operates a joint lab with her husband, Jonathan Seidman, where they study genetic mechanisms of heart disease. In recognition of her scientific contributions, she was elected as a fellow of the National Academy of Sciences, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and National Academy of Medicine.
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Marcia Citron
1945 - Present (79 years)
Marcia Judith Citron is an American professor of musicology at Rice University in Houston, Texas. She is a leading musicologist specializing in issues regarding women and gender, opera and film. Life and career Marcia Citron graduated from Brooklyn College with a BA in 1966 and from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with an MA in 1968 and a PhD in 1971. She has been recognized with the Martha and Henry Malcolm Lovett Distinguished Service Professor of Musicology award, and has received grants from National Endowment for the Humanities, the German Academic and Exchange Service and Rice University.
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Heidi Ravven
1952 - Present (72 years)
Heidi M. Ravven is the Bates and Benjamin Professor of Classical and Religious Studies at Hamilton College, where she has taught her specialization, Jewish Philosophy, and general Jewish Studies since 1983. She is a Fellow in Neurophilosophy of the Integrative Neurosciences Research Program, which is co-directed by Vilayanur Ramachandran and Kjell Fuxe. She has been appointed Visiting Professor of Philosophy in the School of Marxism at Northeast Normal University, Changchun, China, for 2017-20.
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Clare Palmer
1967 - Present (57 years)
Clare Palmer is a British philosopher, theologian and scholar of environmental and religious studies. She is known for her work on environmental and animal ethics. She was appointed as a professor in the Department of Philosophy at Texas A&M University in 2010. She had previously held academic appointments at the Universities of Greenwich, Stirling, and Lancaster in the United Kingdom, and Washington University in St. Louis in the United States, among others.
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Allegra de Laurentiis
1952 - Present (72 years)
Allegra de Laurentiis is a European philosopher, educated at the Universities of Rome, Tübingen and Frankfurt, who has been teaching at American universities since 1987. She is now a Professor of Philosophy at Stony Brook University. She is known for her works on philosophy of Hegel.
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Marietta Stepanyants
1935 - Present (89 years)
Marietta Stepanyants is a Russian philosopher, the founder and the Chairholder of the UNESCO Chair in “Philosophy in the Dialogue of Cultures” and the Chief Research Fellow at the Institute of Philosophy, Russian Academy of Sciences. She is an Honored Scholar of the Russian Federation and an active member of the Academy of Humanities since 1995.
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Kiarina Kordela
1963 - Present (61 years)
A. Kiarina Kordela Career From 2010 to 2017 Kordela was an Honorary Adjunct Professor at the Writing and Society Research Center, University of Western Sydney, Australia. Her research combines philosophy, political theory, psychoanalysis, film theory, literary theory and literature, analysis of culture and ideology, intellectual history, and biopolitics.
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Sabina Alkire
1950 - Present (74 years)
Sabina Alkire is the director of the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative , an economic research centre within the Oxford Department of International Development at the University of Oxford, England, which was established in 2007. She is a fellow of the Human Development and Capability Association. She has worked with organizations such as the Commission on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress, the United Nations Human Development Programme Human Development Report Office, the European Commission, and the UK's Department for International Development.
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