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.
Mohammad Solaiman1955 – 2026 · Professor of marketing and university vice-chancellorChittagong marketing professor who led two universities and was mourned as a devoted guardian.
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Che Hongcai† 2026 · Linguist and lexicographerHe kept a promise for 36 years and gave China its first Pashto dictionary.
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Lou Yulie† 2026 · Philosopher and professorPeking University philosopher who spent sixty years making Chinese tradition clear to everyone.
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John E. La Tourette1932 – 2026 · EconomistEconomist and builder who led NIU into its second century.
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Elizabeth "Liza" Lee† 2026 · EducatorHeadmistress who led Hockaday with principled, caring leadership.
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Rachel Rabin1925 – 2026 · EducatorKibbutz Manara pioneer and educator who taught generations and guarded her brother's memory.
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Patricia Easterling1934 – 2026 · Classical scholarFirst woman Regius Professor of Greek at Cambridge, and a quietly transformative teacher of tragedy.
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Nooran Rezayi† 2025 · High-school studentA Longueuil teenager whose death at 15 forced Quebec to keep asking for answers.
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Antonio Moscato1938 – 2026 · Historian and political activistA historian of the workers' movement who taught generations to read the past as a call to act.
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Mauro Canu† 2026 · Teacher and head teacherSardinian head teacher who was strict for his pupils' own good and never stopped listening to them.
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Jean Borella1930 – 2026 · Philosopher and theologianA Christian metaphysician who restored the depth of the sacred symbol.
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Sidney Zoltak1931 – 2026 · Holocaust survivorHe carried the memory of a vanished town to every young person who would listen.
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Idowu Sobowale† 2026 · Journalism scholar and educatorTeacher of teachers who brought opinion polling to Nigerian journalism.
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Warren Madden1939 – 2026 · University administratorIowa State leader for fifty years who helped build the campus and the city of Ames around it.
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B. Alan Sugg1938 – 2026 · University administratorHelena's pole vaulter who led the University of Arkansas System for 21 years.
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Göran Djupsund1952 – 2026 · Political scientistFinnish political scientist and Finland-Swedish media commentator who built political science at Åbo Akademi in Vaasa.
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Toshio Kamo1945 – 2026 · Political scientistA scholar of cities and local self-government who championed small communities.
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Carl Berger1939 – 2026 · Historian and professor of Canadian historyToronto historian whose Writing of Canadian History showed Canadians how their past was told.
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Suresh Raj Sharma1940 – 2026 · EducationistFounding KU vice chancellor who modernised Nepal's technical and higher education.
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Kyle Kennedy1984 – 2026 · Educator and disability rights advocateEducator, runner and mother who fought for fairer schools and for the dignity of disabled patients.
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Gaylord Mather Seabrook Bryant1945 – 2026 · TeacherLowcountry teacher and equestrian who shaped generations of learners.
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Oscar Wambrauw1968 – 2026 · AcademicHumble Biak-born rector who led Uncen from the lecture hall to the senate.
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Victoria Okojie1959 – 2026 · LibrarianFounding AfLIA voice who made African libraries speak with one platform.
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A. Bryant Mangum1943 – 2026 · English professorBeloved VCU professor and F. Scott Fitzgerald scholar who taught with kindness for 51 years.
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Richard Salvatore Vacca† 2026 · Professor emeritus of educationScholar of school law who helped educators understand the rules that shape classrooms.
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P. David Pearson1941 – 2026 · American reading and literacy scholarA reading scholar who showed how children make meaning from what they read.
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Marjory Allingham Ramey1925 – 2026 · University administratorUO's first female Housing Director; Mazamas climber who lived to 101.
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Angela Michelle Perkins1973 – 2026 · TeacherA devoted teacher and daughter who encouraged her students and cherished her family.
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Gordon S. Wood1933 – 2026 · HistorianPulitzer-winning historian of the American Revolution and Brown University professor.
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Lily Wong Fillmore1934 – 2026 · Linguist and Professor of EducationMaestra to migrant children, she fought for every child's right to learn English without losing home.
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Timothy Smiley1930 – 2026 · Philosopher and logicianA Cambridge logician who gave 71 years to Clare and taught generations to reason with care.
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Mordechai Shechter1937 – 2026 · Environmental economist and university administratorPioneer of environmental economics in Israel, Haifa rector and Tel-Hai president.
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Gregory Ibe1963 – 2026 · EntrepreneurFounder of Gregory University, Uturu, who turned a childhood of hardship into a life of building schools, skills and chances for others.
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Joseph Sciorra1955 – 2026 · FolkloristHe found the sacred in the everyday and made Italian American folk life worthy of the most careful study.
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Irene Butter1930 – 2026 · Public health scholar and Holocaust educatorHolocaust survivor and public health scholar who taught generations never to be bystanders.
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Lucien Lazare1924 – 2026 · HistorianResistance scout who chronicled the Righteous and taught that rescue is courage.
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Judy Bainbridge1936 – 2026 · HistorianFurman professor and Greenville historian who taught the city its own story.
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Asher Matathias1943 – 2026 · political science professor and Holocaust educatorWoodmere Holocaust survivor and Singing Professor who taught Greek-Jewish memory for decades.
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Iris Engstrand1935 – 2026 · HistorianSan Diego's preeminent historian who taught at USD for nearly five decades and opened California's Spanish past to the public.
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Gaylyn Studlar† 2026 · Film scholarFeminist film scholar who remapped cinematic pleasure.
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Sara Castro-Klarén1940 – 2026 · Latin American literature and culture scholarPeruvian-born Latin Americanist who bound Johns Hopkins to the Andes with rigor and warmth.
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Rex A. Wade1936 – 2026 · Historian and professorA historian who spent a lifetime helping students understand the Russian Revolution.
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Carlo Ginzburg1939 – 2026 · HistorianItalian historian who helped found microhistory and recover forgotten voices.
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Roza Aitmatova1937 – 2026 · PhysicistA scientist and teacher who fought for Kyrgyz women and kept her family's history alive.
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Paul Gay† 2026 · Educator and outdoor education advocateHe led Southland's children into Fiordland for 43 years so they could know the natural world.
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Craig L. Symonds1946 – 2026 · Naval historianLincoln Prize naval historian who taught generations of midshipmen how sea power shaped America.
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Ori Goldberg1975 – 2026 · Scholar of Iran and Shi'i IslamA scholar of faith and politics who said plainly what he believed.
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Ted Humphrey1941 – 2026 · PhilosopherFounding dean of Barrett Honors College; Kant scholar who taught students to think freely.
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