Michel Foucault

Michel Foucault

male, deceased (1984)
Michel Foucault (October 15, 1926 - June 25, 1984) was a French philosopher and historian. He held a chair at the Collège de France, giving it the t...
Blaise Pascal

Blaise Pascal

male, deceased (1662)
Blaise Pascal, (June 19 1623-August 19 1662) was a French mathematician, physicist, and religious philosopher. He was a child prodigy who was...
Gregory Bateson

Gregory Bateson

male, deceased (1980)
Gregory Bateson was a British anthropologist, social scientist, linguist, and cyberneticist whose work intersected that of many other fields. Some...
Ibn Khaldun

Ibn Khaldun

male, deceased (1406)
Ibn Khaldūn or Ibn Khaldoun (May 27, 1332 AD/732 AH - March 19, 1406 AD/808 AH), was a famous Arab Muslim polymath, historian, historiographer, d...

Timothy Luke

male
Timothy W. Luke is University Distinguished Professor of Political Science in the College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences as well as Program...

Émile Durkheim

male, deceased (1917)
Émile Durkheim was a French sociologist whose contributions were instrumental in the formation of sociology and anthropology. His work and e...

John White

male
John White was a leading loyalist in Northern Ireland. White began his career in Loyalism with a group called the Woodvale Defence Association, a...
Michel de Certeau

Michel de Certeau

male, deceased (1986)
Michel de Certeau was a French Jesuit and scholar whose work combined psychoanalysis, philosophy, and the social sciences. Michel de Certeau was...
Stein Rokkan

Stein Rokkan

male
Stein Rokkan was a Norwegian political scientist and sociologist. He was a professor in comparative politics at the University of Bergen....
Howard S. Becker

Howard S. Becker

male, 81 years old
Howard Saul Becker was born in Chicago, Illinois on April 18 1928. As an undergraduate and later a graduate student at the University of Chicago,...