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Aminata Diaw
1959 - 2017 (58 years)
Aminata Diaw Cissé was a Senegalese lecturer and political philosopher who taught at the Cheikh Anta Diop University . Influenced by Jean-Jacques Rousseau and her academia background, she wrote about citizenship, civil society, democracy, development, ethnicity, gender, globalisation, human rights, identity, nationality and the state in an African and Senegalese context by using a political insight. Diaw worked for the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa , Bellagio Study and Conference Center of the Rockfeller Foundation, National UNESCO Sub-Commission on Social S...
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Charles Warren Hostler
1919 - 2014 (95 years)
Charles Warren Hostler was an American diplomat. He served as the U.S. Ambassador to Bahrain from 1989 to 1993, as a political appointee. He also served as a colonel in the United States Air Force, an executive with McDonnell Douglas and adjunct professor of political science at San Diego State University.
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Tor A. Benjaminsen
1960 - Present (64 years)
Tor A. Benjaminsen is a Norwegian human geographer. He is a professor of international environmental and development studies at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences. Career He earned his cand.scient. degree in resource geography and landscape ecology at the University of Oslo in 1988 and his Ph.D. in geography and development studies at Roskilde University in 1998.
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John E. Reinhardt
1920 - 2016 (96 years)
John Edward Reinhardt was an American ambassador and diplomat. Reinhardt was born in Glade Spring, Virginia and raised in Knoxville, Tennessee. After graduating from Knoxville College in 1939, he attended the University of Chicago, initially pursuing a graduate degree in English, but did not finish on account to serving in World War II. His doctorate in English was completed in 1950 at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He was the American ambassador to Nigeria from 1971 to 1975. From 1975 to 1977, he was Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs. He became the director of the United States Information Agency from 1977 to 1980.
Go to ProfileGary A. Mauser is a Canadian criminologist and emeritus professor in the Beedie School of Business at Simon Fraser University. Education Mauser received his B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley in 1964 and his Ph.D. from the University of California, Irvine in 1970, both in psychology.
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A. F. P. Hulsewé
1910 - 1993 (83 years)
Anthony François Paulus Hulsewé was a Dutch Sinologist and scholar best known for his studies of ancient Chinese law, particularly that of the Han dynasty . Life and career Anthony François Paulus Hulsewé was born on 31 January 1910 in Berlin, Germany, where his father worked for a German firm as an electrical engineer. Hulsewé's family was from the Dutch province of Groningen and had traditionally been clergymen in the Dutch Reformed Church, though his grandfather chose to go into farming and business instead of church service. Hulsewé lived in Germany for the first several years of his lif...
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Oldřich Král
1930 - 2018 (88 years)
Oldřich Král , also known by his Chinese name Wang Heda , was a Czech sinologist, translator and writer. Biography Král was born on 13 September 1930 in Prague. He entered Charles University in 1949 and began his studies in Chinese language and literature. In the 1950s and 60s, he spent two periods studying at Peking University, during which time he translated Ba Jin's novel The Family and the Qing dynasty novel The Scholars. After that, he devoted his life to the translation of Chinese literature and philosophical works into the Czech language. His translations include the I Ching, Tao Te Chi...
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Moira Gibb
1950 - Present (74 years)
Dame Moira Margaret Gibb is a British public servant and social work adviser. After qualifying as a social worker, she worked for the London boroughs of Ealing, Kensington and Chelsea, and Camden, where she served as the chief executive of Camden London Borough Council from 2003 to 2011. Gibb served as a Civil Service commissioner from 2012 to 2016, and chaired the boards of City Lit and Skills for Care until 2022. She led a serious case review into safeguarding at Southbank International School, and into the Church of England's response to the case of Peter Ball.
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Ann Hunter Popkin
1945 - Present (79 years)
Ann Hunter Popkin is a long-time social justice and women's movement activist. As a northern college student she traveled to Mississippi to participate in Freedom Summer in 1964. She was a founding member of Bread and Roses, a women's liberation organization in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1969, and produced the first scholarly study of its appeal and impact. A photographer, film-maker, teacher, and counselor, Popkin has worked in a variety of university and community settings.
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Amie Kreppel
1968 - Present (56 years)
Amie Kreppel is an American political scientist and a Jean Monnet Chair , title awarded by the European Commission to top professors in the field of EU studies. She is currently Director of the Center for European Studies at the University of Florida, a federally funded comprehensive Title VI National Resource Center and a Jean Monnet Center of Excellence funded by the European Union. She was the President of the European Union Studies Association from 2011-2013 and served as co-editor of the peer-reviewed Italian Political Science Review published by Cambridge University Press. In 2016 Sh...
Go to ProfileLise Morjé Howard is a political scientist from the United States , an expert on United Nations peacekeeping, war termination, civil wars, and American foreign policy. She is currently a Professor of Government and Foreign Service at Georgetown University and President of the Academic Council on the United Nations System .
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Alma Adams
1946 - Present (78 years)
Alma Shealey Adams is an American politician who represents North Carolina's 12th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives. A Democrat, Adams represented the state's 58th House district in Guilford County in the North Carolina General Assembly from her appointment in April 1994 until her election to Congress, succeeded by Ralph C. Johnson. A college administrator and art professor from Greensboro, Adams is known for her many distinctive hats . She won the 2014 special election in North Carolina's 12th congressional district to fill the vacancy created by the resignation of Mel Watt, becoming the 100th woman serving in the 113th Congress.
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Timothy Colton
1947 - Present (77 years)
Timothy James Colton is a Canadian-American political scientist and historian serving as the Morris and Anna Feldberg Professor of Government and Russian Studies at Harvard University. His academic work and interests are in Russian and post-Soviet politics. He is currently an editorial board member for World Politics and Post-Soviet Affairs. He has been a fellow of the American Academy for Arts and Sciences since 2011. He is the brother of former CBC Radio Washington, D.C. correspondent, Michael Colton.
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Stein Kuhnle
1947 - Present (77 years)
Stein Kuhnle is a Norwegian political scientist. He was born in Bergen, a son of Jacob R. Kuhnle. He was appointed professor of comparative politics at the University of Bergen in 1982. Among his works is Velferdsstaten from 1985, and in 1995 he was co-editor of a book on the theory of political scientist Stein Rokkan. He is a fellow of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.
Go to ProfileAnn Bostrom is an American policy analyst who is the Weyerhaeuser Endowed Professor in Environmental Policy at the University of Washington. Her research considers risk perception and management during uncertain times. She is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
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J. A. W. Gunn
1937 - 2023 (86 years)
John Alexander Wilson "Jock" Gunn was a Canadian political philosopher. Early life and education Gunn earned a Bachelor of Arts in politics and history from Queen's University in 1959 and a Doctor of Philosophy degree from the University of Oxford.
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Paul Serruys
1912 - 1999 (87 years)
Paul Leo-Mary Serruys C.I.C.M. was a Belgian missionary, sinologist, and academic best known for his studies on the grammar of Classical Chinese, oracle bone script, and on the varieties of Chinese. He was a member of the Congregatio Immaculati Cordis Mariae missionary order, and proselyted in China in the 1930s, then later became a professor of Chinese at the University of Washington.
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Cees van der Eijk
1948 - Present (76 years)
Cees van der Eijk is a Dutch political scientist, a Corresponding Member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences , and a Honorary Fellow of the Amsterdam School of Communication Research, University of Amsterdam. He is Professor of Social Science Research Methods at the University of Nottingham. He was Professor of Political Science at the University of Amsterdam until 2004. Van der Eijk sits on the Research Advisory Board of the Committee on Standards in Public Life.
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Erik Zürcher
1928 - 2008 (80 years)
Erik Zürcher was a Dutch Sinologist. From 1962 to 1993, Zürcher was a professor of history of East Asia at the Leiden University. He was also Director of the Sinological Institute, between 1975 and 1990. His Chinese name was Xǔ Lǐhe .
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Corine Mauch
1960 - Present (64 years)
Corine Mauch is an American-born Swiss politician who currently serves as Mayor of Zurich since 2009. She previously served on the city council of Zürich between 1999 and 2008 for the Social Democratic Party of Switzerland . Mauch is the first female and first openly lesbian person to be elected mayor of the city.
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Cynthia P. Schneider
1953 - Present (71 years)
Cynthia Perrin Schneider is an American diplomat and educator from Pennsylvania. She was the 61st United States Ambassador to the Netherlands from June 29, 1998 to June 17, 2001. She currently serves as a Distinguished Professor in the Practice of Diplomacy in the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University, where she co-directs the Laboratory for Global Performance and Politics with playwright and theater director Derek Goldman.
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Gaston J. Sigur Jr.
1924 - 1995 (71 years)
Gaston Joseph Sigur Jr. was the United States Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs from 1986 to 1989. Early years Sigur was born in Franklin, Louisiana on November 13, 1924. His post-secondary education began at Louisiana State University at the age of 16 in 1941. In 1943, he joined the United States Army and was pulled from regular duty after basic training to study Japanese at the University of Chicago, the University of Michigan, and at Fort Snelling where he was commissioned. At that time the war was over and Sigur was sent to Japan where he served as an Arm...
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James Kuklinski
1946 - Present (78 years)
James H. Kuklinski is an American political scientist. Kuklinski graduated from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1968 and earned a doctorate at the University of Iowa in 1975. He held the Matthew T. McClure Professorship at the University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign, and was granted emeritus status upon retirement.
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John E. Murray Jr.
1932 - 2015 (83 years)
John Edward Murray Jr. was a chancellor and a professor of law at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. He was a former dean of the University of Pittsburgh School of Law and the Villanova University School of Law, as well as a former president of Duquesne University.
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Zillah Eisenstein
1948 - Present (76 years)
Zillah R. Eisenstein is an American political theorist and gender studies scholar and Emerita Professor of the Department of Politics at Ithaca College, Ithaca, New York. Specializing in political and feminist theory; class, sex, and race politics; and construction of gender, Eisenstein is the author of twelve books and editor of the 1978 collection Capitalist Patriarchy and the Case for Socialist Feminism, which published the Combahee River Collective statement.
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Bryan Keith-Lucas
1912 - 1996 (84 years)
Bryan Keith-Lucas was an English political scientist. Education The son of Alys Hubbard Lucas and Keith Lucas, professor of physiology at Cambridge and an instrument designer, Keith-Lucas was born at Fen Ditton and educated at Gresham's School, Holt, and Pembroke College, Cambridge, where he read history and economics. In his Tripos he gained an upper Second in history and a lower Second in economics. While at Cambridge, he took a great interest in government, especially social policy and the problems of housing, thanks to two priests, Father Jellicoe and Father Scott, who had begun the St Pancras Housing Society.
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Alexander Haig
1924 - 2010 (86 years)
Alexander Meigs Haig Jr. was United States Secretary of State under President Ronald Reagan and White House Chief of Staff under Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford. Prior to and in between these cabinet-level positions, he was a general in the United States Army, serving first as the vice chief of staff of the Army and then as Supreme Allied Commander Europe. In 1973, Haig became the youngest four-star general in the U.S. Army's history.
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Samuel Braden
1914 - 2003 (89 years)
Samuel Edward Braden served as the tenth president of Illinois State University in Normal, Illinois. He was recognized for his work during an incredibly tumultuous time in United States history, as life proved difficult amidst the Vietnam War. While controversial, his presidency was among several fleeting terms held by other university presidents during this time. He served at Illinois State University between 1967 and 1970, a mere three years. The average term of presidency at the university during this time was only five years, as many presidents sought to develop their professional achieve...
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Michael Hudson
1938 - 2021 (83 years)
Michael Craig Hudson was an American political scientist, the director of the Middle East Institute and professor of political science at the National University of Singapore. He was also professor emeritus at Georgetown University, where he was professor of international relations since 1979 and Saif Ghobash Professor of Arab Studies since 1980 in the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service. While at Georgetown, Hudson served as director of the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies intermittently for over twenty years, most recently from 2007 to 2010.
Go to ProfileWendy Rahn is an American political scientist. She is a professor of political science at the University of Minnesota, researching social capital, partisanship and civic engagement in American democracy, and the role of emotions in political behavior.
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John Rapp
1953 - Present (71 years)
John A. Rapp is an American political science professor teaching at Beloit College, USA since 1986. He primarily specialises in "Chinese politics, Communist and post-Communist systems, comparative democracies and electoral systems, and Chinese and comparative political thought."
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Kennedy Stewart
1966 - Present (58 years)
Edward Charles Kennedy Stewart is a Canadian academic administrator and politician who served as the 40th mayor of Vancouver from 2018 to 2022. He previously was the member of Parliament for the riding of Burnaby—Douglas and Burnaby South , serving in the House of Commons as a member of the New Democratic Party caucus.
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Kenneth Wong
1955 - Present (69 years)
Kenneth K. Wong is an American political scientist, currently the Walter and Leonore Annenberg Professor of Education Policy, Chair of Education, Professor of Urban Studies and Professor of International and Public Affairs, Professor of Political Science at Brown University. He has been listed in Who's Who in American Education, Who's Who in the Midwest, Who's Who Among Asian Americans, Who's Who in the World.
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Alex N. Dragnich
1912 - 2009 (97 years)
Alex N. Dragnich was a distinguished Serbian-American political scientist, and author of several works on the Balkans. Biography Born on 22 February 1912, he was the son of Serbian immigrants from Montenegro,who had a homestead in Ferry County in the State of Washington. In his youth, he attended elementary and high school there and worked on his parents' farm during the Great Depression. Upon graduation from high school, he enrolled at the University of Washington in Seattle in 1934 and graduated Phi Beta Kappa in 1938. He then went on to obtain his master's degree in 1940. For the next two ...
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Dominic O'Sullivan
1970 - Present (54 years)
Dominic O'Sullivan is a New Zealand-Irish-Australian political scientist and Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand. , he works at Charles Sturt University. Academic career O'Sullivan currently works at Charles Sturt University where he is a professor of political science. O'Sullivan is also an adjunct professor in the Center for Maori Health at AUT University. Prior to his work at Charles Sturt University, he was a senior teacher and research fellow at the University of Waikato where he completed his PhD titled Faith, politics and reconciliation: the Roman Catholic Church, New Zealand Maori and indigenous Australians.
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Wilt L. Idema
1944 - Present (80 years)
Wilt L. Idema is a Dutch scholar and Sinologist who taught at University of Leiden and Harvard University , presently emeritus at both universities. He specializes in Chinese literature, with interests in early Chinese drama, Chinese women's literature of the premodern period, Chinese popular narrative ballads, and early development of Chinese vernacular fiction.
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John Blaxland
1963 - Present (61 years)
John Charles Blaxland is an Australian historian, academic, and former Australian Army officer. He is a Professor in Intelligence Studies and International Security at the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre at the Australian National University.
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Carolyn McAskie
1946 - Present (78 years)
Carolyn McAskie is a Canadian diplomat and former assistant secretary-general for peacekeeping at the United Nations. She was the head of the United Nations mission to Burundi in 2004, making her the first Canadian to lead a United Nations peacekeeping mission following the UN's switch to complex missions.
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Christopher Pepin-Neff
Christopher Pepin-Neff is an American-Australian social scientist, public policy lecturer, and LGBTQ rights activist. He is known for his research and findings on public behavior and shark attacks. Pepin-Neff is a former president of the Gay and Lesbian Activists Alliance.
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Sheila Simon
1961 - Present (63 years)
Sheila J. Simon is an American politician who served as the 46th Lieutenant Governor of Illinois, from 2011 to 2015. In 2014, she was the Democratic nominee for Illinois State Comptroller, losing to Republican incumbent Judy Baar Topinka. Simon is the daughter of former U.S. Senator Paul Simon, who had previously served as Lieutenant Governor of Illinois , and his first wife, former Illinois State Representative Jeanne Hurley Simon.
Go to ProfileLouis E. Newman is the John M. and Elizabeth W. Musser Professor of Religious Studies, emeritus at Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota and Associate Vice Provost and Director of Undergraduate Advising and Research at Stanford University.
Go to ProfileChristian Robert Grose is an American political scientist. He is a professor of political science and public policy at the University of Southern California, academic director of the USC Schwarzenegger Institute for State and Global Policy, and served as director of the Political Science and International Relations PhD Program from 2015 to 2018. He studies behavioral elite decision making in politics, racial and ethnic politics, public policy, voting rights, political representation, and legislative politics.
Go to ProfileJavier Roiz is the founder of the journal Foro Interno. Anuario de Teoría Política, and "one of the most original thinkers in Europe today". He also founded a Permanent Research Seminar which, since 1992, has brought together important researchers and students of political theory.
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Eugénia da Conceição-Heldt
1970 - Present (54 years)
Eugénia da Conceição-Heldt is a Portuguese-German political scientist. From 2016 to 2021, she was the reform rector of the Bavarian School of Public Policy at the Technical University of Munich and the founding dean of the TUM School of Governance. She is known for her research on the delegation of power to international organizations, European integration, global economic governance, two-level games theory, international negotiation analysis, as well as power and accountability in global governance.
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Susan McWilliams Barndt
1977 - Present (47 years)
Susan McWilliams Barndt is an American political theorist. She is the co-editor of the peer-reviewed academic journal American Political Thought and chairs the politics department at Pomona College.
Go to ProfileBrenda V. Smith is a law professor at American University's Washington College of Law. She served on the National Prison Rape Elimination Commission. Early life and education She graduated magna cum laude from Spelman College in 1980 and from Georgetown University Law Center in 1984.
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D. C. Lau
1921 - 2010 (89 years)
D. C. Lau was a Chinese sinologist and author of the widely read translations of Tao Te Ching, Mencius and The Analects and contributed to the Proper Cantonese pronunciation movement. D. C. Lau studied Chinese under Xu Dishan at the University of Hong Kong, but fled to Mainland China in 1941 just before the Japanese occupied Hong Kong. In 1946, he was offered one of the first scholarships for a British university and studied Western philosophy in Glasgow University . In 1950, Lau would take up a post at London University's School of Oriental and African Studies, developing SOAS into a world...
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Ian Shirley
1940 - 2019 (79 years)
Ian Francis Shirley was New Zealand's first professor of public policy and an advocate for social justice. He established the Institute of Public Policy at Auckland University of Technology. Academic career Shirley was appointed as a lecturer in the Social Work Unit at Massey University in 1977, and promoted to senior lecturer in 1980. In 1982, he succeeded Merv Hancock as the director of the unit. In Shirley completed a PhD through Massey, on social practice within a capitalist state. He moved to the Auckland University of Technology in 2000, where he established the Institute of Public Policy, and also served as pro vice-chancellor.
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Krista E. Wiegand
1971 - Present (53 years)
Krista Eileen Wiegand is an American political scientist. She is a full professor of Political Science and Director of the Global Security Program at the Howard H. Baker Jr. Center for Public Policy at the University of Tennessee. She is also the Co-Editor-in-Chief of the journal International Studies Quarterly until the end of 2023.
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