About me
Tanya Marie Luhrmann is the Albert Ray Lang Professor in the Stanford Anthropology Department. She is a medical and psychological anthropologist, and also an anthropologist of religion. More recently she describes her work as an anthropology of mind. Her recent work has been on voices, visions, felt presence and other remarkable events. She was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2003, received a John Guggenheim Fellowship award in 2007, and was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 2022. She has published over thirty OpEds in The New York Times, and in many other literary outlets such as Harper’s. Her books include Persuasions of the Witch’s Craft, The Good Parsi, Of Two Minds, When God Talks Back, Our Most Troubling Madness (co-edited with Jocelyn Marrow), and How God Becomes Real. In 2026 Norton will publish Voices.
