About

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

Loring M. Danforth, Charles A. Dana Professor of Anthropology, is the author of five books, The Death Rituals of Rural Greece; Firewalking and Religious Healing: The Anastenaria of Greece and the American Firewalking Movement; The Macedonian Conflict: Ethnic Nationalism in a Transnational World (all published by Princeton University Press); Children of the Greek Civil War (with Riki Van Boeschoten published by the University of Chicago Press); and Crossing the Kingdom: Portraits of Saudi Arabia (forthcoming from the University of California Press), and Phantom Punch: Contemporary Art from Saudi Arabia with Dan Mills.

Courses Taught:

• 101: Cultural Anthropology
• 134: Myth, Folklore, & Popular Culture
• 441: The History of Anthropological Theory
• s10: Encountering Community: Ethnographic Fieldwork & Service Learning
  • Here is a Link to Anthropology Students Tutoring African Immigrants: http://www.sunjournal.com/perspective