Loring M. Danforth

B.A. Amherst College; Ph.D. Princeton University

Loring M. Danforth, Charles A. Dana Professor of Anthropology, is the author of three books, The Death Rituals of Rural Greece, Firewalking and Religious Healing: The Anastenaria of Greece and the American Firewalking Movement, and The Macedonian Conflict: Ethnic Nationalism in a Transnational World, all published by Princeton University Press. He is presently working on a book with Prof. Riki Van Boeschoten of the University of Thessaly in Greece about the experiences of refugee children from the Greek Civil War.

• Curriculum Vitae
  

Courses Taught by Prof. Danforth:

• 101.  Cultural Anthropology
• 225.  Gods, Heroes, Magic, and Mysteries: Religion in Ancient Greece
• 234.  Myth, Folklore, and Popular Culture
• 441.  History of Anthropological Theory
• S10.  Encountering Community