Barbara Jean Garrity

Barbara Garrity is a cultural anthropologist and author. She teaches marine fisheries policy at the Duke University Marine Laboratory, which takes an ethnographic approach that introduces students to a variety of marine fisheries stakeholders, scientists, and managers. Garrity is author of The Fish Factory (University of Tennessee Press), and co-author of Fish House Opera (Mystic Seaport Press with Susan West) and Living at the Water's Edge (UNC Press with Karen Amspacher). She lives in Gloucester (Carteret County) with her husband Bryan Blake, where they organize the Gloucester Mardi Gras and the Wild Caught Local Seafood and Music Festival.