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Paul K. Davis (born 1952) is an American historian specializing in military history. Education and career. Born in Texas, he was educated at Southwest Texas State ...
Robin Davis Gibran Kelley (born March 14, 1962) [1] is an American historian and academic, who is the Gary B. Nash Professor of American History at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). [ 2 ] [ 3 ]
David Israel Kertzer (born February 20, 1948) is an American anthropologist, historian, and academic, specializing in the political, demographic, and religious history of Italy. He is the Paul Dupee, Jr. University Professor of Social Science, Professor of Anthropology, and Professor of Italian Studies at Brown University.
Davis is known for work in strategic planning methods such as exploratory analysis under uncertainty and capabilities-based planning, and also for modeling. His modeling has included social-behavioral modeling and applications such as using qualitative causal models rooted in social science to understand motivations for terrorism and public ...
William Boyd Allison Davis (October 14, 1902 – November 21, 1983) was an American educator, anthropologist, writer, researcher, and scholar who became the third African American to hold a full faculty position at a major white university when he joined the staff of the University of Chicago in 1942, after only Dr. Patrick Healy and George F. Grant, where he served for the remainder of his ...
Loren Eiseley (1907–1977) University of Pennsylvania School of Arts and Sciences class of 1937, MA and Ph.D.: Benjamin Franklin Professor of Anthropology and History and Sociology of Science at the University of Pennsylvania, anthropologist, philosopher, and natural science writer (such that Publishers Weekly referred to him as "the modern ...
[1] [2] According to American anthropologist Paul Hockings, whose research on the Badagas spans nearly six decades, "the (Badaga) tribe despite its sketchy history is as indigenous to the Nilgiris as the English are to Britain." [3] They claim to come from seven siblings living in the Thalaimalai Hills. After they fled from a Muslim ruler who ...
Frank Hamilton Cushing (July 22, 1857 in North East Township, Erie County, Pennsylvania – April 10, 1900 in Washington, D.C.) was an American anthropologist and ethnologist. He made pioneering studies of the Zuni Indians of New Mexico by entering into their culture; his work helped establish participant observation as a common anthropological ...