Orin Starn
Professor of Cultural Anthropology
Orin Starn is Professor of Cultural Anthropology and History. His interests include technology and internet studies; social movements and indigenous politics, sports and society;cultural theory and the history of anthropology; Latin America; Latinx experience; Europe; Native America. See www.orinstarn.com
for more information.
Current Appointments & Affiliations
- Professor of Cultural Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2005
- Professor of History, History, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2010
- Affiliate of the Duke Initiative for Science & Society, Duke Science & Society, Initiatives 2014
- Bass Fellow, Cultural Anthropology, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2011
Contact Information
- 205 Friedl, Durham, NC 27708
- Box 90091, Durham, NC 27708-0091
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ostarn@duke.edu
(919) 717-7090
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http://www.OrinStarn.com
- Background
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Education, Training, & Certifications
- Ph.D., Stanford University 1989
- B.A., The University of Chicago 1982
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Previous Appointments & Affiliations
- Chair in the Department of Cultural Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2018
- Chair in the Department of Cultural Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2008 - 2014
- Sally Dalton Robinson Professor of Cultural Anthropology in Trinity College of Arts and Sciences, Cultural Anthropology, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2010 - 2011
- Sally Dalton Robinson Professor of Cultural Anthropology in Trinity College of Arts and Sciences, Cultural Anthropology, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2005 - 2010
- Associate Professor of Cultural Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 1999 - 2005
- Assistant Professor, Cultural Anthropology, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 1992 - 1998
- Recognition
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In the News
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APR 28, 2022 Trinity College of Arts and Sciences -
MAY 3, 2019 Duke University Medium -
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Awards & Honors
- Expertise
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Global Scholarship
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Expertise
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- Research
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Selected Grants
- ACLS Collaborative Research Fellowship awarded by American Council of Learned Societies 2016 - 2017
- Wartime Stories in the Andes awarded by Josiah Charles Trent Memorial Foundation 1995
- Publications & Artistic Works
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Selected Publications
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Books
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Starn, Orin, and Miguel La Serna. The Shining Path Love, Madness, and Revolution in the Andes. W. W. Norton, 2019.
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Starn, Orin, ed. Writing Culture and the Life of Anthropology, 2015.
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Starn, O. The Passion of Tiger Woods: An Anthropologist Reports on Golf, Race, and Celebrity Scandal. Duke University Press, 2012.
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Starn, O., and M de la Cadena. Indigenous Experience Today, Translated into Spanish as "Indigeneidadas Contemporaneas: Cultura, Politca, y Globalizacion" (Lima: Instituto de Estudios Peruanos, 2010). Berg, 2006.
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Starn, O., and O. et. al. The Peru Reader: History, Culture, Politics (Revised and Expanded Editon). Duke University Press, 2005.
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Starn, O. Ishi’s Brain: In Search of America’s Last "Wild" Indian. W.W. Norton, 2004.
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Starn, O. Nightwatch: The Politics of Protest in the Andes. Duke University Press, 1999.
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Starn, O., and R. Fox. Between Resistance and Revolution: Cultural Politics and Social Movements. Rutgers University Press, 1997.
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Starn, O., Carlos Iván Degregori, José Coronel, and Poniano del Pino. Las Rondas Compesinas y la Derrota de Sendero Luminoso. Lima: Instituto de Estudios Peruanos/UNSCH, 1996.
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Academic Articles
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Starn, O. “Anthropology and the misery of writing.” American Anthropologist 124, no. 1 (March 1, 2022): 187–97. https://doi.org/10.1111/aman.13677.Full Text
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Starn, O. “Transnational fiesta: Twenty years later, Wilton Martinez and Paul Gelles (2017).” Crossings 9, no. 2 (October 1, 2018): 295–96. https://doi.org/10.1386/cjmc.9.2.295_5.Full Text
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Jones, G. M., R. Flamenbaum, M. Buyandelger, G. Downey, O. Starn, C. Laserna, S. Kelkar, C. Rouse, and T. Looser. “Anthropology in and of MOOCs.” American Anthropologist 116, no. 4 (December 1, 2014): 829–38. https://doi.org/10.1111/aman.12143.Full Text
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Starn, O. “Writing culture at 25: Special editor's introduction.” Cultural Anthropology 27, no. 3 (August 1, 2012): 411–16. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1548-1360.2012.01150.x.Full Text
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Starn, O. “Introduction to Special Issue 'Writing Culture at 25'.” Cultural Anthropology 27, no. 3 (2012): 411–16.
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Starn, O. “Here Come The Anthros (Again): The Strange Marriage Of Anthropology And Native America.” Cultural Anthropology 26, no. 2 (May 1, 2011): 179–204. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1548-1360.2011.01094.x.Full Text
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Starn, O. “Caddying for the dalai lama: Golf, heritage tourism, and the Pinehurst resort.” South Atlantic Quarterly 105, no. 2 (December 1, 2006): 447–63. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-105-2-447.Full Text
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Starn, O., and N. Bar. “An interview with Richard G. Fox.” Current Anthropology 47, no. 1 (February 1, 2006): 155–63. https://doi.org/10.1086/498956.Full Text
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Rockafellar, Nancy, and Orin Starn. “Ishi's Brain.” Current Anthropology 40, no. 4 (August 1999): 413–16. https://doi.org/10.1086/200038.Full Text
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Starn, Orin. “To Revolt against the Revolution: War and Resistance in Peru's Andes.” Cultural Anthropology 10, no. 4 (November 1995): 547–80. https://doi.org/10.1525/can.1995.10.4.02a00040.Full Text
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Starn, Orin, Olivia Harris, David Nugent, Stephen Nugent, Benjamin S. Orlove, S. P. Reyna, and Gavin Smith. “Rethinking the Politics of Anthropology: The Case of the Andes [and Comments and Reply].” Current Anthropology 35, no. 1 (February 1994): 13–38. https://doi.org/10.1086/204233.Full Text
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Starn, O. “Algunas Palabras Finales.” Allpanchis 39 (1992): 123–30.
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Starn, O. “Congreso Rondero: Los Nuevos caminos de las rondas.” Quehacer 71 (1991): 58–61.
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Starn, O. “Noches de Rondas: Por las serranías del norte.” Quehacer 69 (1991): 76–93.
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Starn, O. “reply to Sady.” American Ethnologist 14, no. 3 (January 1, 1987): 562–63. https://doi.org/10.1525/ae.1987.14.3.02a00110.Full Text
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Starn, O. “Reply to Sady.” American Ethnologist 14 (1987): 149–50.
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Starn, O. “In the Magical Land of MOOCs.” American Anthropologist 114, no. 4 (n.d.): 7–8.
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Book Sections
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Starn, O. “Ishi’s Spanish Words.” In Ishi in Three Centuries, edited by Karl Kroeber and Clifton Kroeber. University of Nebraska Press, 2003.
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Starn, O. “Villagers at Arms: War and Counterrevolution in Peru’s Andes.” In Between Revolution and Resistance, edited by Richard G. Fox and Orin Starn. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1997.
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Starn, O. “'I Dreamed of Foxes and Hawks': Peasant Protest, New Social Movements and the Rondas Campesinas of Norther Peru.” In The Making of Social Movements in Latin America, edited by Arturo Escobar and Sonia Alvarez, 89–111. Boulder: Westview Press, 1992.
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- Teaching & Mentoring
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Recent Courses
- CULANTH 89S: First-Year Seminar 2023
- CULANTH 101D: Introduction to Cultural Anthropology 2023
- CULANTH 291: Independent Study 2023
- CULANTH 293: Research Independent Study 2023
- CULANTH 791: Special Readings 2023
- CULANTH 793: Individual Research in Cultural Anthropology 2023
- ICS 101D: Introduction to Cultural Anthropology 2023
- CULANTH 101: Introduction to Cultural Anthropology 2022
- CULANTH 290: Current Issues in Anthropology 2022
- CULANTH 291: Independent Study 2022
- CULANTH 293: Research Independent Study 2022
- CULANTH 700S: Surveillance, Technology, and Capitalism 2022
- CULANTH 793: Individual Research in Cultural Anthropology 2022
- ECON 290: Selected Topics In Economics 2022
- GSF 290: Selected Topics in Women's Studies 2022
- HISTORY 290: Special Topics in History 2022
- ICS 101: Introduction to Cultural Anthropology 2022
- LIT 700S: Surveillance, Technology, and Capitalism 2022
- PUBPOL 290: Selected Public Policy Topics 2022
- SOCIOL 290: Advanced Special Topics in Sociology 2022
- SOCIOL 700S: Surveillance, Technology, and Capitalism 2022
- CULANTH 101: Introduction to Cultural Anthropology 2021
- CULANTH 207: Anthropology of Sports 2021
- CULANTH 273: Amazon.com and the Cybereconomy 2021
- CULANTH 291: Independent Study 2021
- CULANTH 293: Research Independent Study 2021
- CULANTH 302: Fieldwork Methods: Cultural Analysis and Interpretation 2021
- CULANTH 791: Special Readings 2021
- CULANTH 793: Individual Research in Cultural Anthropology 2021
- ECON 273: Amazon.com and the Cybereconomy 2021
- I&E 302: Fieldwork Methods: Cultural Analysis and Interpretation 2021
- ICS 101: Introduction to Cultural Anthropology 2021
- PUBPOL 252: Amazon.com and the Cybereconomy 2021
- Scholarly, Clinical, & Service Activities
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Presentations & Appearances
- A Career in Anthropology. November 5, 2012 2012
- Atelier@Duke, Archives of Race, 15th Anniversary of John Hope Franklin Cneter. December 23, 2011 2011
- Indigeneity and Class Politics. December 23, 2011 2011
- The Passion of Tiger Woods: Sex, Scandal, and Race Politics, November 12, 2010, Wednesdays at the Center Series, John Hope Franklin Center, Duke University. December 29, 2010 2010
- Here Come the Anthros (Again); The Strange Marriage of Anthropology and Native America. February 13, 2010 2010
- Ishi's Brain. December 27, 2009 2009
- Duke University Press Annual Meeting. October 15, 2008 2008
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