Carol Delaney

Education

Delaney earned an Bachelor of Arts in philosophy from Boston University in 1962, an M.T.S. from Harvard Divinity School in 1976, and her Doctor of Philosophy in cultural anthropology from the University of Chicago in 1984.

Career

She specializes in the anthropological sub-discipline of cultural anthropology, focusing on gender and religion. Her original anthropological fieldwork was conducted in Turkey from 1979-1982. Additional fieldwork was conducted in Belgium, 1984-1985, among Turkish immigrants.

Recent research has focused on the religious beliefs of Christopher Columbus.

Delaney was Assistant Director of the Center for the Study of World Religions, Harvard University, 1985-1987. At Stanford University, she was Assistant Professor of Anthropology, 1987-1995.

Associate Professor, 1995-2005. Emerita, 2005. At Brown University, she was Visiting Professor in Religious Studies, 2006 and 2007.

From 2007 to the present, she served as a Research Scholar in that department and is also an Invited Research Scholar at the John Carter Brown Library at Brown University.

Achievements

• National Endowment for the Humanities, John Carter Brown Library at Brown University, 2004-2005 Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University, 1996-1997 Fellow, Harvard Divinity School, 1992-1993 Fellow, Stanford Humanities Center, 1989-1990 Mark Perry Galler prize for the most distinguished dissertation in the social sciences at the University of Chicago, 1985. Fulbright Advanced Research Fellowship, 1984-1985 Fulbright-Hays Dissertation Fellowship, 1981-1982 National Science Foundation, Dissertation Grant, 1981-1982 Fulbright Cultural Exchange Scholar, 1979-1980.