Scott Atran

Anthropologist, Academic

1952 –

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Who is Scott Atran?

Scott Atran is an American and French anthropologist who is a Director of Research in Anthropology at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in Paris, Senior Research Fellow at Oxford University in England, Presidential Scholar at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York, and also holds offices at the University of Michigan. He has studied and written about terrorism, violence and religion, and has done fieldwork with terrorists and Islamic fundamentalists, as well as political leaders.

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Born
1952
New York City
Religion
  • Atheism
Nationality
  • United States of America
  • France
Profession
Education
  • Columbia University
Employment
  • University of Michigan
Lived in
  • France

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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