Stephen D. Glazier, Date of Birth, Date of Death
TweetStephen D. Glazier
American anthropologist
Date of Birth: 10-Jun-1949
Date of Death: 01-Jan-1992
Profession: anthropologist
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Gemini 
About Stephen D. Glazier
- Stephen D.
- Glazier (born Mystic, Connecticut) is an American anthropologist.
- Currently, he is a Research Anthropologist at the Human Relations Area Files at Yale University.
- He has conducted extensive fieldwork in Trinidad focusing on Caribbean religions such as Rastafari, Orisa/Sango, and the Spiritual Baptists.
- He also publishes on Caribbean archaeology and ethnohistory and cataloged Irving Rouse's St.
- Joseph (Trinidad) and Mayo (Trinidad) collections for the Peabody Museum of Natural History.
- In 2016, Glazier retired as Professor of Anthropology and Graduate Faculty Faculty Fellow at the University of Nebraska where he offered classes in general (four-field) anthropology, race and minority relations, and a graduate seminar on the anthropology of belief systems.
- Glazier began graduate studies in anthropology at Princeton University under Martin G.
- Silverman, Hildred Geertz, Alfonso Ortiz, and Vincent Crapanzano.
- In 1974, he earned an M.Div.
- from Princeton Theological Seminary.
- His M.
- Div.
- thesis—based on experiences as an Assistant Chaplain at New Jersey Neuro Psychiatric Institute —dealt with patterns of schizophrenic speech.
- He was awarded a Ph.D.
- in anthropology from the University of Connecticut in 1981.
- His dissertation advisors were Seth Leacock, Dennison J.
- Nash, and Ronald M.
- Wintrob.
- Glazier served as book review editor of the journal Anthropology of Consciousness.
- He was a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of the Virgin Island Archaeological Society and currently is a member of the Editorial Advisory Boards of the journals Open Theology
- Glazier served two terms as President of the Society for the Anthropology of Consciousness.
- In addition, he served as Vice President and Secretary of the Society for the Anthropology of Religion
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