Orin Starn
My blogs
| Industry | Education |
|---|---|
| Occupation | Professor and Writer |
| Introduction | I'm an anthropologist at Duke University in North Carolina, and teach about sports and society among other interests. I've played golf since childhood, and enjoy the game even after six back surgeries over the past few years. My writing about golf appears in the Los Angeles Times and other newspapers, and I've been on ESPN, NPR, and various other programs. My book "The Passion of Tiger Woods: An Anthropologist Reports on Golf, Race, and Celebrity Scandal" was published in 2011 by Duke University Press. I'm the co-author of a new book called "The Shining Path: Love, Madness, and Revolution in the Andes" about a bloody Peruvian revolutionary group. The online platform Coursera hosts my on-line course "Sports and Society," available for free at https://www.coursera.org/learn/sports-society |