Gregory Starrett

PROFILE:

Gregory Starrett is Professor of Anthropology in the College of Humanities & Earth and Social Sciences at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. He has conducted field research in Egypt and the United States on the cultural politics of Islamic education and popular culture, and he teaches courses on religion, the Middle East, the history of anthropology, and the development of anthropological theory. He has served as the editor of the Middle East Studies Association’s journal Review of Middle East Studies, as the President of the Faculty at UNC Charlotte, and as the Chair of the Anthropology Department. His research has appeared in some of anthropology’s most important journals, including American Anthropologist, American Ethnologist, Cultural Anthropology, and the Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute.

EDUCATION: Ph.D. From: Stanford University

SPECIALTIES: Anthropology of Religion, Anthropological Theory, History of Anthropology, Islam in the Middle East, Political Anthropology

Professional Website:

http://clas-pages.charlotte.edu/gregory-starrett/