Most Influential 40 Under 40 in Anthropology
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- #1
Amber Case
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#19023Overall Influence1987 - Present (37 years)Amber Case is an American cyborg anthropologist, user experience designer and public speaker. She studies the interaction between humans and technology. Biography Case was born in about 1986. She graduated with a bachelor’s degree in sociology from Lewis & Clark College in 2008, having written a thesis about cell phones. In 2008, she co-founded CyborgCamp, an unconference on the future of humans and computers. - #2
Zoe Todd
#23306Overall Influence1983 - Present (41 years)Zoe Todd is a Métis anthropologist and scholar of Indigenous studies, human-animal studies, science and technology studies and the Anthropocene. She is an associate professor in the Department of Indigenous Studies at Simon Fraser University and a Presidential Visiting Fellow at Yale University during the 2018–19 academic year. - #3
Benjamin R. Teitelbaum
#19393Overall Influence1983 - Present (41 years)Benjamin Raphael Teitelbaum is an American ethnographer and political commentator. An associate professor of ethnomusicology at the University of Colorado, Boulder and former Head of Nordic Studies at the same institution. He is best known for his ethnographic research into far-right groups in Scandinavia and commentary on immigration, and is frequently cited as an expert in Scandinavian and American media. - #4
Robin Rönnlund
#192328Overall InfluenceRobin Rönnlund is the Wenner-Gren fellow at the University of Thessaly for the department of History, Archaeology, and Social Anthropology. Rönnlund is best known for his role as director of the survey at Thessalian Vlochos in Greece. The survey focused on mapping the ruins of the ancient city and determining when the city was established and why it was abandoned.
- #5
Lawrence Shaw
#178870Overall Influence1986 - Present (38 years)Lawrence Shaw is a British archaeologist and the lead historic environment advisor for Forestry England. Shaw has worked and published on archaeological sites in Britain, Greece, Spain, the Cook Islands, and Easter Island. - #6
Michele Filippo Fontefrancesco
#190238Overall Influence1983 - Present (41 years)Michele Filippo Fontefrancesco is an Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology at the University of Gastronomic Sciences. His interested in economic anthropology and and anthropology of food.
- #7
Jaime Almansa Sánchez
#191369Overall Influence1983 - Present (41 years)Jaime Almansa Sánchez is a researcher at Institute of Heritage Sciences who specializes in public archaeology – theory and archaeological heritage management, with a focus on cooperation for development and contemporary daily conflict.
- #8
Marianne Hem Eriksen
#191642Overall Influence1985 - Present (39 years)Marianne Hem Eriksen is a professor at the University of Leicester School of Archaeology and Ancient History and Principal Investigator for an ERC Starting Grant, “Body-Politics: Personhood, Sexuality and Death in Iron and Viking Age Scandinavia.” Eriksen’s research focuses on the politics of the body and its connection to later pre-history Scandanavian architecture.
- #9
Lacey Wallace
#120332Overall Influence1983 - Present (41 years)Lacey M Wallace is an archaeologist and Senior Lecturer in Roman History and Material Culture at the University of Lincoln. Biography Wallace complete undergraduate studies at Boston University in 2004 before attending Queens’ College, Cambridge to complete her PhD in archaeology in 2011. She worked as a research associate in Roman archaeology at Cambridge before joining the University of Lincoln in 2016. Wallace was elected as a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London on 26 June 2021. - #10
Tereza Østbø Kuldova
#190995Overall Influence1985 - Present (39 years)Tereza Østbø Kuldova is a social anthropologist and researcher at University of Oslo’s Department of Archaeology. She focuseds on social anthropology, critical luxury studies, criminology, critical management studies, organized crime, corruption, and more.
- #11
George Paul Meiu
#191826Overall Influence1984 - Present (40 years)George Paul Meiu is Professor of Anthropology and Chair of the Institute of Social Anthropology at the University of Basel. He is an Associate of the Department of African and African American Studies and the Hutchins Center at Harvard University, where, until 2022, he has been a tenured, full professor. Meiu’s research and teaching focus on sexuality, gender, and kinship; ethnicity, belonging and citizenship; mobility, memory, and materiality; and the political economy of postcolonial East Africa and postsocialist Eastern Europe.
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Adam Parker
#189854Overall Influence1988 - Present (36 years)Adam Parker is a research student at Open University and is currently the Assistant Curator of Archaeology at Yorkshire Museum. His research interests include the investigation of archeological evidence of magic in Roman Britain and how the use of magic applies to specific societal groups over time.
- #13
David Nemer
1984 - Present (40 years)An ethnographer with fieldwork experience in Havana, Cuba, Guadalajara, Mexico, the favelas of Vitória, Brazil, and in the Appalachian region of eastern Kentucky, David Nemer is the author of Technology of the Oppressed: Inequity and the Digital Mundane in Favelas of Brazil (Forthcoming, MIT Press) and Favela Digital: The other side of technology (2013, GSA).
Source - #14
Johann Friedrich Tolksdorf
#191698Overall Influence1983 - Present (41 years)Johann Friedrich Tolksdorf is a German prehistoric archaeologist and researcher with the Bavarian State Office for the Preservation of Monuments. Tolksdorf is also affiliated with the University of Marburg and Technische Universität Darmstadt. He specializes in prehistory, sediments, geology, and landscape archaeology.
- #15
Martin Hora
#191960Overall Influence1983 - Present (41 years)Martin Hora is a biological anthropologist in the Department of Anthropology and Human Genetics at Charles University in Prague. His most well-known research paper is “Stature and body mass estimation from skeletal remains in the European Holocene.”
- #16
Diana E. Marsh
#191815Overall Influence1986 - Present (38 years)Dr. Marsh is an Assistant Professor of Archives and Digital Curation in the College of Information Studies and an affiliate faculty in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Maryland, College Park... Her current research focuses on discovery, use, and access for Native American and Indigenous communities, based on projects undertaken at the American Philosophical Society and the Smithsonian’s National Anthropological Archives.
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Ségolène Vandevelde
#191992Overall Influence1992 - Present (32 years)Ségolène Vandevelde is a French prehistoric archeologist currently working as a Post-Doc at ArScAn Laboratory. Vandevelde is best known for inventing fuliginochronology, the study of soot deposits left by prehistoric life at archeological sites to date their occupation of the sites. Her current project is “Fuliginochronology: micro-chronological approach of sooted concretions in caves/rock shelters.”
- #18
Maïlys Richard
#191755Overall Influence1987 - Present (37 years)Maïlys Richard holds a Ph.D. in Geochronology and Prehistory from the National Museum of Natural History in Paris. Her dissertation dealt with the chronology of late Middle and early Upper Palaeolithic sites in Western Europe, using electron spin resonance and uranium-series dating methods... Her primary research theme is the chronology of population dynamics in Eurasia and Africa during the Middle and Late Pleistocene.
Source - #19
Martin Odler
#192049Overall Influence1986 - Present (38 years)Martin Odler is a researcher at the Czech Institute of Egyptology, Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague. His interest lies in the social context of crafts in Ancient Egypt, especially metallurgy of copper and bronze... He has been taking part in the missions of the Czech Institute of Egyptology in Abusir since 2009, working mostly as a field archaeologist and a surveyor.
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Stefano Costa
#191938Overall Influence1983 - Present (41 years)Stefano Costa is an archaeologist officer at the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism. Costa specializes in Byzantium ceramics, Late Antiquity, and open data.
- #21
Dominik Hagmann
#191978Overall Influence1989 - Present (35 years)Dominik Hagmann is currently working on several projects primarily focusing on Roman archaeology in Austria and is a lecturer at the Department of Evolutionary Anthropology (University of Vienna)... As an archaeologist, Dominik focuses on provincial Roman studies in terms of settlement and landscape archaeology in Austria.
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Laerke Recht
#191905Overall Influence1983 - Present (41 years)Laerke Recht is a Professor of Early Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology at the University of Graz. Recht’s research focuses on the archaeology of the Bronze Age in the Mediterranean. Her most recent project is “The Spirited Horse: Human-equid relations in the Bronze Age Near East.”
- #23
Alejandro Quevedo Sánchez
#192113Overall InfluenceAlejandro Quevedo is a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Murcia Department of Archaeology. Quevedo specializes in Roman pottery and its role in the economy of ancient Rome. He uses ceramic evidence of commercial exchange between Spain, Italy, and North Africa in his research.
- #24
Luděk Jirka
1986 - Present (38 years)Luděk Jirka is a professor at the University of Hradec Králové Department of Cultural and Religious Studies. Luděk earned his P.h.D at Charles University in Prague, focusing on cultural anthropology.
- #25
Roland Betancourt
#191497Overall Influence1987 - Present (37 years)Roland Betancourt is Professor of Art History at the University of California, Irvine. In the 2016-2017 academic year, he was the Elizabeth and J. Richardson Dilworth Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. Betancourt’s work has looked at the role of Byzantine art in modern and contemporary art and popular culture, as in his edited volume “Byzantium/Modernism: The Byzantine as Method in Modernity (Leiden: Brill, 2015).”
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Sophie Charlotte Schmidt
#192295Overall InfluenceSophia Schmidt is a prehistoric and computational archaeologist that has been a researcher for the University of Bonn and the University of Cologne. Schmidt also served as a research associate for a project with the German Archaeological Institute. Some of her research interests include statistics, using GIS methods to study settlement archaeology and archaeogaming.
- #27
Hisashi Shimojō
1984 - Present (40 years)Hisashi Shimojō received his PhD from the Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies at the University of Kyoto in 2015. He is currently assistant professor at the School of International Relations of the University of Shizuoka. His research focuses on the anthropology and history of Vietnam, in particular on issues of everyday politics, cross-border migration, and multiethnicity in the Mekong Delta.
Source - #28
Johana Kotišová
#191483Overall Influence1989 - Present (35 years)Johana Kotisova is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow at the University of Amsterdam and was previously an Assistant Professor at Masaryk University in the Czech Republic. Kotisova’s current research investigates the emotional labor required of European crisis reporters. Her research interests include social anthropology, media studies, and creative research methods.
- #29
Céline Bon
#192243Overall Influence1983 - Present (41 years) - #30
Barbora Půtová
1985 - Present (39 years) - #31
Yoann Doignon
#191703Overall Influence1989 - Present (35 years) - #32
Nicolas Frerebeau
#192111Overall Influence1987 - Present (37 years) - #33
Susanna Sabin
1995 - Present (29 years) - #34
Ivana Vostrovská
#192105Overall Influence1985 - Present (39 years) - #35
Zuzana Mírová
1994 - Present (30 years) - #36
Felipe Cerezo Andreo
#192379Overall Influence1985 - Present (39 years) - #37
Jakub Mlynář
#191674Overall Influence1984 - Present (40 years) - #38
Violeta Moreno Megías
#192266Overall Influence1988 - Present (36 years) - #39
Paul Cazeaux
1986 - Present (38 years) - #40
Mirco Modolo
#192274Overall Influence1983 - Present (41 years)
