Albert Ray Lang Professor of Anthropology at Stanford University
Tanya Marie Luhrmann is the Albert Ray Lang Professor of Anthropology at Stanford University, with a courtesy appointment in Psychology. Her work focuses on the edge of experience: on voices, visions, the world of the supernatural, and the world of psychosis. She was named to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2003, received a Guggenheim Fellowship award in 2007, and elected to the American Philosophical Society in 2022. She is the author of Persuasions of the Witch’s Craft (1989), When God Talks Back (2012), How God Becomes Real (2022), and is currently at work on a book entitled Voices. She has published over thirty op-eds in The New York Times.
