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Tanya Luhrmann
Howard and Jessie Watkins University Professor in Anthropology and psychology (by courtesy)
Tanya Marie Luhrmann focuses her research on the way that ideas held in the mind come to seem externally real to people, and the way that ideas about the mind affect mental experience. She has taught courses on culture and madness, research methods in anthropology, ethnographic writing, glimpses of divinity, spirituality and healing, and other minds.
She has written a number of books including Persuasions of the Witch’s Craft, The Good Parsi, Of Two Minds and When God Talks Back. One of her recent projects compares the experience of hearing distressing voices in India and in the United States.
- Fulbright Senior Research award for research in India, 1990
- National Academy of Education Spencer Fellowship, 1981, 1982, 1985
- Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Palo Alto, 1994-1995
- Distinguished Lecture, Frontiers of Science Series, American Psychiatric Association, 2007
- John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, 2007-2008
- Fellow, Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences, 2007-2008
- President, Society for Psychological Anthropology, 2007-2009
- Editorial Board, American Ethnologist, 2008-2011
- Participating fellow, Institute for Advanced Study, Hebrew University, 2009
- Victor Turner Prize for Ethnographic Writing: for Of Two Minds, 2001
- Bryce Boyer Prize for Psychological Anthropology: for Of Two Minds, 2001
- Gradiva Award from the Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis: for Of Two Minds, 2001
- When God Talks Back selected as a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, 2012
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