Scholar Hilda Ellis Davidson proposes that Skaði's cult may have thrived in Hålogaland, a province in northern Norway, because " she shows characteristics of the Sami people, who were renowned for skiing, shooting with the bow and hunting ; her separation from Njord might point to a split between her cult and that of the Vanir in this region, where Scandinavians and the Sami were in close contact.

Scholar Hilda Ellis-Davidson draws a parallel between berserkers and the mention by the Byzantine emperor Constantine VII ( AD 905 – 959 ) in his book De cerimoniis aulae byzantinae (" Book of Ceremonies of the Byzantine court ") of a " Gothic Dance " performed by members of his Varangian Guard ( Norse warriors working in the service of the Byzantine Empire ), who took part wearing animal skins and masks: she believes this may have been connected with berserker rites.

Scholar Hilda Ellis Davidson proposes that a cult of the Vanir may have influenced a cult of the Æsir in the waning days of Norse paganism during the Christianization of Scandinavia, potentially resulting in the figure of Óðr in Norse mythology, which she refers to as a " strange double of Odin ".

Scholar Hilda Ellis Davidson comments that " some of the power of the old tale of Gefjon, creator of the islands, has been superbly expressed in the great fountain at the water's edge in Copenhagen, depicting her ploughing through the sea in a cloud of rising spray with her giant beasts.

Scholar Hilda Ellis Davidson says that while " the idea of a link with Sumerian Inanna, ' Lady of Heaven ', was attractive to early scholars " the notion " seems unlikely.

Scholar H. R. Ellis Davidson states that Sif may have been an ancient fertility goddess, agreeing with a link between her lustrous hair and fields of golden wheat.

Ransom has few peers among 20th century American university teachers of humanities ; his distinguished students included Donald Davidson, Randall Jarrell, Robert Lowell, Andrew Lytle, Allen Tate, Peter Taylor, Robie Macauley, Robert Penn Warren, E. L. Doctorow, Cleanth Brooks, Richard M. Weaver, and Constantinos Patrides ( himself a Rhodes Scholar, who dedicated his monograph on John Milton's Lycidas to Ransom's memory ).

He earned a bachelor's degree from Davidson College in 1972 and was named a Rhodes Scholar.

Born in Davidson, Saskatchewan, Robertson was educated at University of Saskatchewan, University of Oxford ( where he was a Rhodes Scholar ) and University of Toronto.

* Knight, William A. Memorials of Thomas Davidson: The Wandering Scholar.

" Scholar Bart D. Ehrman says that this confusion is because in Greek ( the language of the gospel ) the word again is ambiguous.

Scholar Carolyne Larrington says that the identity of Œdi is uncertain ; it has been theorized that this may simply be Óðr, or that the figure may be another lover of Freyja's.

Scholar Britt-Mari Näsström says that this reference likely does not refer to Óðr, rather being the product of the amendments of Sophus Bugge, and that the line simply points to Freyja's lust.

Scholar Rudolf Simek says that since Óðr appears in a kenning employed by the 11th century skald Einarr Skúlason ( in Skáldskaparmál ) and in the Poetic Edda poems Völuspá and Hyndluljóð, Óðr is not a late invention.

Legal Scholar L. Ali Khan says the Constitution of Medina was a social contract derived from a treaty and not from any fictional state of nature or from behind the Rawlsian veil of ignorance.

Scholar Rudolf Simek theorizes that Auðr is the invention of Snorri, but says that Snorri's reason for doing so is unknown.

Secretary of State Dean Rusk, a former Rhodes Scholar and Mills College dean, has headed the Rockefeller Foundation and in that role expended large sums for international cultural exchange.

Scholar David Aune has argued that the gospels were modeled after classical Greco-Roman biographies, and Justin's use of the term apomnemoneumata to mean all the Synoptic Gospels should be understood as referring to a written biography such as the Memorabilia of Xenophon because they preserve the authentic teachings of Jesus.

He founded the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy, in Aurora, Illinois in 1986, and has served in the capacity of Resident Scholar since 1998.

On the purpose of Acts, New Testament Scholar Luke Timothy Johnson has noted that " Luke's account is selected and shaped to suit his apologetic interests, not in defiance of but in conformity to ancient standards of historiography.

Since 2000, Roosevelt has been portrayed by a number of reprisers including historian and Rhodes Scholar, Clay Jenkinson of North Dakota and Joe Wiegand of Tennessee.

Scholar Germaine Greer has said that " it is one of the few remaining words in the English language with a genuine power to shock.

Scholar Bernard Brommel, author of a 1978 biography of Debs, has also donated his biographical research materials to the Newberry Library in Chicago, where they are open to researchers.

Scholar Jesse Byock notes that the goddess Skaði is also associated with winter and hunting, and that the episode in Volsunga saga involving the male Skaði, Sigi, and Breði has been theorized as stemming from an otherwise lost myth.

Since 2003, Juniata has produced eight Academic All-Americans, five American Physiological Society Undergraduate Research Fellows, four Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholars, seven Fulbright Scholars, seven Goldwater Scholars, two Pickering Fellows, eight St. Andrew's Society Scholars, and one Davies-Jackson Scholar.

Scholar David Carlyon has cast doubt on the " daring political jester ", calling historical tales " apocryphal ", and concluding that " popular culture embraces a sentimental image of the clown ; writers reproduce that sentimentality in the jester, and academics in the Trickster ," but it " falters as analysis.

* Scholar Alan W. Pollack has pointed out that The Beatles ' I've Got a Feeling is a quodlibet of sorts.

Fordland has also found recent success in MSHSAA Scholar Bowl competition, qualifying for state competition three times ( placing 3rd in both 2005 and 2011 in class 2 ), winning multiple district titles ( 2005, 2006, 2009, 2010, & 2011 ), and winning several conference titles ( 2005 – 2009, & 2011 ).

Scholar Marged Haycock has suggested this battle can be identified with the Cad Goddeu, the " Battle of the Trees ," best known from the tenth-century poem Cad Goddeu.

He has published thirteen books and also written for such national periodicals as National Geographic, Smithsonian, and The American Scholar.

As a ' Visiting Scholar ' of the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, Wolfowitz has blogged with the group, and he also appeared in group events.

Scholar Ann Romines has suggested that Laura made Almanzo younger because it was felt that more modern audiences would be scandalized by the great difference in their ages in light of their young marriage.

His work comprises over 70 subject areas viewable at his Web site, and Google Scholar has almost 1, 200 citations of his work.

ECNU has a faculty body of over 4, 000, among whom there are 1986 full-time teachers ( including over 1, 000 professors or associate professors ), 11 academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences or Chinese Academy of Engineering ( six of them are academicians of both Academies ), 11 members of the “ State Council Academic Appraisal Committee ”, eight specially hired professors or lecture professors for the “ Yangtze Scholar Award Program ” sponsored by the Ministry of Education, nine “ state level talents ” chosen by the “ New-Century Talents Project ,” ten “ National Outstanding Youth Fund ” award winner, 80 specially hired professors or lecture professors for ECNU ’ s “ Zijiang Scholar Award Program ”, and 105 tenured professors.

Dr. Ilan H. Meyer, Williams Senior Scholar of Public Policy at the UCLA School of Law and expert on minority stress, has found through several empirical studies that gays and lesbians encounter a disproportionate level of stress and mental health difficulties because of discrimination and oppressive laws, and that these stresses amplify the social stigma that makes them more susceptible to depression, suicide and substance abuse.

This has been the tradition since the Fifth Dalai Lama, Ngawang Lobsang, recognized his teacher Lobsang Choekyi Gyaltsen as the Panchen ( Great Scholar ) Lama of Tashilhunpo Monastery ( Bkra-shis Lhung-po ) in Shigatse ( Gzhis-ka rtse ).

Scholar John McKinnell comments that this etymology suggests Skaði may have once been a personification of the geographical region of Scandinavia or associated with the underworld.

He had been a National Merit Scholar at Coral Gables High, an all-white school in Florida.

Scholar Stephan Grundy comments that while it is conceivable that Óðr may have been invented as a separate figure from Odin after Christianization, the notion is implausible because a separate, independent figure by the name of Wod survives in folklore involving the Wild Hunt in areas as far south from Scandinavia as Switzerland.

In an article appearing in the Glasgow Herald on 29 September 1936 it was noted that John Cairncross had scored an " outstanding double success of being placed 1st in the Home List and 1st in the competition for the Foreign Office and the Diplomatic Service ," and that he had been placed 5th in the ( Glasgow University ) bursary competition of 1930, and was also a Scholar and Bell Exhibitioner at Trinity College, Cambridge.

Beazley was educated at Hollywood Senior High School and later at the University of Western Australia and Balliol College, Oxford ( having been a 1973 Rhodes Scholar ), where he gained a Master of Philosophy degree.

Scholar Stephan Grundy comments that " the problem of whether Frigg or Freyja may have been a single goddess originally is a difficult one, made more so by the scantiness of pre-Viking Age references to Germanic goddesses, and the diverse quality of the sources.

Since 2002, Mitchell has been a Senior Fellow and Senior Research Scholar at Columbia University's Center for International Conflict Resolution, where he works to help end or avert conflicts between nations.

Scholar Marija Gimbutas's theories relating to goddess-centered culture among pre-Indo-European " Old Europe " ( 6500-3500 BCE ) have been widely adopted by New Age and ecofeminist groups.

Scholar Bradford A. Booth suggested in 1938 that Clairmont, driven by a need for money, might have been the true author of most of " The Pole ," an 1830 short story that appeared in the magazine The Court Assembly and Belle Assemblée as by " The Author of Frankenstein " Unlike Mary Shelley, Clairmont was familiar with the Polish used in the story.

Conte has been honored as a Fulbright Scholar in Paris ( where he studied with Nadia Boulanger ), a Ralph Vaughan Williams Fellow and an Aspen Music Festival Conducting Fellow.

Douglas received the 2000 Sackler Prize in theoretical physics, holds a Louis Michel Visiting Professorship at the Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques, and has been a Gordon Moore Visiting Scholar at Caltech, and a Clay Mathematics Institute Mathematical Emissary.

Scholar Sergio Pacifici states that no other Italian literary work, with the exception of the Divine Comedy, " has been the object of more intense scrutiny or more intense scholarship.

Eight of Ashford ’ s athletic programs have been named as NAIA Scholar Teams, which requires individuals on the team to maintain a minimum GPA of 3. 0 on a 4. 0 scale.

At Bethel College the athletes also compete academically ; 89 student athletes have been named American Scholar Athletes.

Scholar Rudolf Simek comments that the names were young when recorded, and may have been inventions of Snorri.

In addition, he has been the Cambridge University Hutchinson Visiting Scholar to China in 2003, touring Chinese Universities at the invitation of Li Ka Shing Foundation.