Michael G. Horowitz

:For the American writer and father of Winona Ryder, see Michael Horowitz. For the British poet, see Michael Horovitz.
Michael Gene Horowitz (born in New York City on 2 September 1945) is a U.S. sociologist, specializing in the anthropology of ancient and medieval Indo-european speakers, including the anthropology of ancient science in Greece.
He earned his B.A. and M.A. in politics at Brandeis University and New School university respectively, then an interdisciplinary Ph.D. in urban life from the College of Public Affairs at Oregon's Portland State University. Horowitz was a student of Herbert Marcuse's at Brandeis and Hannah Arendt's at New School, before completing his Ph.D. dissertation under Carl Abbott at Portland State, a former president of the Urban History Association. He recently completed a three-year tenure as university dean at Ê»Atenisi institute in the Kingdom of Tonga in the South Pacific and is currently Visiting Scholar in Pacific Studies at the University of Otago in New Zealand.
Selected articles
*"Iceland's Pjódveldi (930-1264) and the Traditional Innovation of IE Speakers", Journal of Indo-European Studies, 31: 95-105 (2003)
*"Friedrich Nietzsche and Cultural Revivalism in Europe (1878-88)", Mankind Quarterly, 40: 203-14 (1999)
*"The Scientific Dialectic of Ancient Greece and the Cultural Tradition of Indo-European Speakers", Journal of Indo-European Studies, 24: 409-419 (1996)

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