Education
People remembered for their work in education. 108 people are remembered here. Light a candle, read their story, and add a memory of your own.
Shirley Strum Kenny1934 – 2026 · English scholar (Restoration and eighteenth-century British drama)Gave Stony Brook a heart and a beautiful campus.
84 candles · 6 tributes
Robert Alexy1945 – 2026 · German jurist and legal philosopherMade principles optimization commands and insisted law claim correctness.
82 candles · 7 tributes
Konrad H. Jarausch1941 – 2026 · German-American historianTransatlantic historian who taught Germans and Americans to face a shattered past and rebuild civil society.
75 candles · 6 tributes
Sir Anthony Kenny1931 – 2026 · PhilosopherDevout agnostic who made the great philosophers lucid.
71 candles · 6 tributes
John Broughton1947 – 2026 · AcademicMāori health professor and playwright who wove hauora and theatre into Aotearoa's story.
55 candles · 6 tributes
Ivan T Berend1930 – 2026 · Historian and economistHe survived Dachau at 14 and spent a long life teaching how Central Europe's economies rose, failed, and changed.
53 candles · 4 tributes
Margaret Clark1941 – 2026 · Political scientistFirst New Zealand woman professor of political science; a wise Wellington teacher.
47 candles · 3 tributes
James T. Laney1927 – 2026 · Methodist ministerLed Emory's quantum jump and sought peace on the Korean peninsula.
38 candles · 4 tributes
Sandra Birchmore1997 – 2021 · Teacher's assistantA young woman failed by those sworn to protect her.
36 candles · 5 tributes
Lesley Urbach† 2026 · Holocaust educatorG2G co-founder who turned a Kindertransport family story into classrooms of remembrance.
32 candles · 3 tributes
Sachidananda Mohanty1953 – 2026 · Literary scholarScholar of Sri Aurobindo who brought Odisha's forgotten women writers back into the light. Teacher, translator, university leader.
10 candles · 1 tributes
Irene Hasenberg Butter1930 – 2026 · Professor Emeritus of Public HealthHolocaust survivor, U-M professor emeritus, and peace educator who taught never to be a bystander.
10 candles · 1 tributes
Wm. Roger Louis1936 – 2026 · Historian of the British EmpireHistorian of the end of the British Empire, who taught at UT Austin for 50 years and edited The Oxford History of the British Empire.
9 candles · 1 tributes
Kamene Okonjo† 2026 · Sociologist and professorPioneering Nigerian sociologist, scholar of Igbo women and queen mother of Ogwashi-Uku.
9 candles · 1 tributes
Barrie Sketchley† 2026 · School principal and educatorThe longest serving TDSB principal, remembered for kindness and the arts school he built.
9 candles · 1 tributes
Stephen Dow Beckham1941 – 2026 · HistorianIf you can imagine a source exists, it probably does exist, and then your job is to find it.
9 candles · 1 tributes
Carter Umeoduagu1982 – 2026 · MicrobiologistA scholar and lawmaker who gave his last energy to the university he led.
9 candles · 1 tributes
İoanna Kuçuradi1936 – 2026 · PhilosopherShe taught philosophy as the art of being human, and spent a lifetime defending human dignity.
9 candles · 1 tributes
Henning Wrede1939 – 2026 · Classical archaeologist and university teacherGerman classical archaeologist of herms, Roman art and the history of collecting.
9 candles · 1 tributes- LLinda Scheulen1959 – 2026 · Student accounts representative
Dominican University bursar staffer devoted to Tim, Timmy and students.
9 candles · 1 tributes 
Nico Perrone1935 – 2026 · HistorianHistorian of Mattei and modern Italy who taught generations to question familiar accounts.
9 candles · 1 tributes
Arthur Asa Berger1933 – 2026 · Media scholarSF State media scholar who taught the world to read ads, comics and everyday signs.
9 candles · 1 tributes
Oded Stark† 2026 · EconomistEconomist who put the family at the heart of migration theory and mentored generations across Bonn and Warsaw.
9 candles · 1 tributes
Meta Grosman1936 – 2026 · AnglistSlovenian scholar of reading who reshaped how literature was taught.
8 candles · 1 tributes
Chris Wickham1950 – 2026 · Historian of medieval EuropeHistorian of the early Middle Ages who studied history from the bottom upwards.
8 candles · 1 tributes
Colin Mackerras1939 – 2026 · SinologistSinologist who spent six decades building bridges of understanding between Australia and China.
8 candles · 1 tributes
Emily Edgar† 2026 · School superintendentShe gave 37 years to Opp City Schools and led them as superintendent. Once a Bobcat, always a Bobcat.
8 candles · 1 tributes
N. K. Ramachandran Menon† 2026 · EducationistBanker-turned educationist who built Bhavans schools across the Gulf.
8 candles · 1 tributes
Jean-François Le Nail1945 – 2026 · Archiviste-paléographeArchivist and historian of the Hautes-Pyrénées and their place-names.
8 candles · 1 tributes
Zimani Kadzamira1941 – 2026 · AcademicA scholar who built universities and opened Africa's research networks.
8 candles · 1 tributes
Ann Kaiser1948 – 2026 · Special education professorKidTalk founder who taught families to grow language in everyday moments of play.
8 candles · 1 tributes
John Iliffe1939 – 2026 · historianCambridge historian who put African voices at the centre of the continent's past.
8 candles · 1 tributes
Peter Howell1941 – 2026 · ClassicistClassicist and tireless champion of Victorian architecture for more than sixty years.
8 candles · 1 tributes
Jason Arday1985 – 2026 · SociologistCambridge professor of sociology of education whose life and work sparked a national debate.
8 candles · 1 tributes
D. Y. Patil1935 – 2026 · EducationistPadma Shri educationist who took professional learning to ordinary India and served as governor of three states.
8 candles · 1 tributes
Gregor McLennan1952 – 2026 · sociologistBristol sociology chair and Stuart Hall collaborator who rebuilt a department and loved the mountains.
8 candles · 1 tributes
Ralph G. Wright1935 – 2026 · TeacherLongest-serving Speaker of the Vermont House of Representatives.
8 candles · 1 tributes
Nancy Bingham1950 – 2026 · Teacher and Dallas ISD trusteeA teacher for three decades who fought for every Dallas ISD student as a trustee.
7 candles · 1 tributes
Pirouz Mojtahedzadeh1946 – 2026 · Political geographerPolitical geographer who mapped Iran's Gulf and borders in scholarship and public life.
7 candles · 1 tributes
Kamal Mitra Chenoy1950 – 2026 · Political scientistA teacher who carried his arguments from the lecture hall to the street.
7 candles · 1 tributes
Theodore J. St. Antoine1929 – 2026 · LawyerA teacher, dean and arbitrator who believed fairness at work was a matter of law.
7 candles · 1 tributes
Ron Miles† 2026 · Local historianHe spent his life telling the story of Jackfield and the Ironbridge Gorge.
7 candles · 1 tributes
Bob Agee1938 – 2026 · Baptist ministerOBU president who joined academic excellence with faithful Christian discipleship.
7 candles · 1 tributes
Carles Solà1945 – 2026 · Chemical engineerUAB rector and Catalan universities minister who built a young campus.
7 candles · 1 tributes
Konrad Jarausch1941 – 2026 · HistorianUNC German historian who built bridges across the Atlantic.
7 candles · 1 tributes
Randal C. Picker† 2026 · Legal scholarChicago law professor who brought game theory into law and championed free inquiry.
7 candles · 1 tributes
Arnon Soffer1935 – 2026 · Geographer and professorA founder of Haifa's geography department who spent his life studying Israel's land and people.
7 candles · 1 tributes
Gennady Sobolev1935 – 2026 · HistorianLeningrad historian who survived the blockade as a child and spent his life writing its history.
6 candles · 1 tributes