Tanya Luhrmann

(659) 723-3421

Personal bio
T.M. Luhrmann is the Watkins University Professor in the Stanford Anthropology Department. Her books include Persuasions of the Witch?s Craft, (Harvard, 1989); The Good Parsi (Harvard 1996); Of Two Minds (Knopf 2000) and When God Talks Back (Knopf 2012). In general, her work focuses on the way that ideas about the mind affect mental experience. She was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2003 and awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2007. In April 2014 she received the Grawemeyer Prize in Religion for When God Talks Back.

Currently teaching

ANTHRO 301: History of Anthropological Theory, Culture and Society (Autumn)
ANTHRO 443: Medical Humanities Workshop (Autumn, Winter, Spring)
BIOS 414: Philosophy of Psychiatry (Autumn)
ANTHRO 340: Lived Experience (Winter)
RELIGST 118X: Ghosts, Gods, Spirits, and Companion AI: Talking with Non-Human Others Across the World (Winter)
ANTHRO 118: Ghosts, Gods, Spirits, and Companion AI: Talking with Non-Human Others Across the World (Winter)
PSYCH 118A: Ghosts, Gods, Spirits, and Companion AI: Talking with Non-Human Others Across the World (Winter)
PSYC 286: Culture and Madness: Anthropological and Psychiatric Approaches to Mental Illness (Spring)
HUMBIO 146: Culture and Madness: Anthropological and Psychiatric Approaches to Mental Illness (Spring)
PSYCH 178: Culture and Madness: Anthropological and Psychiatric Approaches to Mental Illness (Spring)
ANTHRO 20MH: Medical Humanities Reading Seminar (Spring)
ANTHRO 286: Culture and Madness: Anthropological and Psychiatric Approaches to Mental Illness (Spring)
ANTHRO 186: Culture and Madness: Anthropological and Psychiatric Approaches to Mental Illness (Spring)

+ 18 independent studies...

Tanya Luhrmann (Professor)