Loring Danforth

Loring M. Danforth is Charles A. Dana Professor of Anthropology at Bates College in Lewiston, Maine, in the United States, where he has taught since 1978. Danforth received a B.A. from Amherst College in 1971 and a M.A. and Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1974 and 1978. He has written extensively about modern Greek religion, politics andculture. His books include The Death Rituals of Rural Greece (Princeton1982), Firewalking and Religious Healing (Princeton 1989), The MacedonianConflict (Princeton 1995), and Children of the Greek Civil War (with Riki Van Boeschoten, Chicago 2012). He is also the author of Crossing the Kingdom: Portraits of Saudi Arabia (California 2016). Danforth has received several awards from the National Endowment for the Humanities and has also been a recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship. In 2013 he received the Kroepsch Award for Excellence in Teaching.