Starn, Orin

Orin Starn is an anthropologist and writer at Duke University. He has chaired the Duke Cultural Anthropology department, directed the Duke Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, and been the faculty director of the Duke Human Rights Center. Starn teaches courses about Latin America, Native American culture and politics, human rights, and sports and society, among other issues. He received Duke University's Robert B. Cox Distinguished Teaching Award in 2004 and was awarded the Sally Dalton Robinson Distinguished Professorship in 2005. Starn has been researching the experience of Amazon warehouse workers. He worked for two years at Amazon warehouses and is a member of CAUSE, the worker-led union organizing drive at the RDU1 Amazon facility in Garner, North Carolina, and written about what it's like to work at Amazon and the fight for unionization there. Starn is the author, co-author, or editor of 11 books. He has appeared on radio and television programs, and writes for newspapers, including the Los Angeles Times and Chronicle of Higher Education.