Author Listings (Anthropology)
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| Patricia A. McAnany, Kenan Eminent Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, is an archaeologist by profession. She is the author or editor of six books, has published sixteen journal articles, and contributed chapters to over thirty edited books. Since 1990, she has d....[more] |
| Born in Basle, Switzerland in 1907, Frithjof Schuon was the twentieth century's pre-eminent spokesman for the perennialist school of comparative religious thought.
The leitmotif of Schuon's work was foreshadowed in an encounter during his youth with a marabout who had accompanied some members of his Senegalese village....[more] |
| Michael Szonyi is Professor of the Humanities at Harvard University, where he teaches Chinese history in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations. His most recent book is Cold War Island: Quemoy on the Front Line (Cambridge, 2008). His main research interests are the local history of southeast China f....[more] |
| Norman Yoffee, CV-1 page
(for full cv, see sitemaker.umich.edu/nyoffee)
Education: BA, Northwestern University (1966), PhD, Yale University (1973)
(also: University of Chicago (summer 1967), University of Munich (1969-70)
Honors: D Lit (honoris causa), La Trobe University (Melbourne), 1998
Major Grants: A....[more] |
| Deborah Arangno has taught university Mathematics and Physics for over 25 years. She taught at the US Air Force Academy before joining the University of Maryland - European Division in 2002, as associate professor of mathematics, where she has taught in Kosovo and Afghanistan and throughout Europe. Professor Arangno pr....[more] |
| Alan Axelrod was born on August 25, 1952, in New York. He was educated at Northeastern Illinois University and University of Iowa. He is a leading writer about American history, and is the author of The Complete Idiot's Guide to American History. In his books, Axelrod presents the facts, details, and faces that have he....[more] |
| Graham Campbell-Dunn was awarded his MA in Classics with First Class Honours by the University of New Zealand and went to Cambridge on a Postgraduate Scholarship. There he studied under the comparativists WS Allen and RG Coleman, and was privileged to be taught by John Chadwick, who worked on Mycenaean Greek. His teach....[more] |
| Hope Edelman is the internationally acclaimed author of five nonfiction books, including the bestsellers Motherless Daughters and Motherless Mothers, as well as the upcoming memoir, The Possibility of Everything. She has lectured extensively on the subjects of early mother loss and nonfiction writing in the U.S., Canad....[more] |
| Ruth Strother has been in the publishing industry for over twenty years. She was the first editor-in-chief of BowTie Press, the book division of BowTie, Inc., publisher of Dog Fancy magazine, among others. She is the author of fifteen books for children, including My Pet Dog, which was nominated for several prestigious....[more] |
| Hans-Dieter Sues is Senior Scientist and Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology at the National Museum of Natural History of the Smithsonian Institution. He is a leading expert on the evolutionary morphology, paleoecology, and phylogeny of Mesozoic reptiles and mammalian precursors. Sues received his Ph.D. in biology from ....[more] |
| Stephen Wilson is an author and advertising professional. Several of his screenplays have been awarded staged readings at the American Film Institute. He also wrote and directed the film, "Inside Jokes" which received a "Best Comedy" award at the independent film festival held each year in Las Vegas, NV.
His next bo....[more] |
| Carl Zimmer is the author of seven books about science and frequently for the New York Times, as well as for magazines including National Geographic, Discover, Scientific American, Science, and Popular Science. In 2007 he was awarded the National Academies Science Communication Award for "his diverse and consistently i....[more] |
| Saint Thomas Aquinas (1225 – 1274) was a Roman Catholic priest in the Dominican Order known for his philosophy and theology work. “Aquinas” indicates his residence – not his surname – so he is sometimes referred to as Thomas. Thomas is the father of the Thomistic school of philosophy and theology. He was the foremos....[more] |
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One of the preeminent American writers of the 20th century, James Baldwin is known for his commentary on the situation of blacks in the United States, using the mediums such as plays, novels, and essays to express his opinions and beliefs. Baldwin was born in 1924 and grew up poor in Harlem. When he was just seventee....[more] |
| An influence on many modern philosophers, Georges Bataille was born in France in 1897. While for some of his childhood, he considered the priesthood, even attending a Catholic seminary for a period of time, but soon changed his mind. After graduation from the university, Bataille worked as a librarian at the National L....[more] |
| Martin Buber (February 8, 1878 - died June 13, 1965)— died June 13, 1965) Buber born in Vienna, Austria-Hungary and died in Jerusalem. He was the son of Carl Buber and Elise Wurgast, who divorced when he was three years old, and for the next ten years he was raised by his grandparents, Solomon and Adele Buber. He was....[more] |
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