Paul D. Starr
Paul D. Starr is Professor of Sociology at Auburn University . He was awarded his Ph.D. from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and has engaged in post-doctoral studies at Harvard, UC Berkeley, Oxford and Sussex (U.K.) He has taught at the American University of Beirut, the American University in Cairo, the University of Pittsburgh Semester at Sea Program, Zayed University in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, and been Pew Faculty Fellow in International Affairs at the JFK School at Harvard. His teaching and research interests include race and ethnic relations, social psychology, qualitative research methods, development studies, and the Middle East . He directed a large-scale reforestation research project in Haiti in collaboration with CARE International and the Pan American Development Foundation, and has served as a consultant with the World Bank in the Caribbean and West Africa . He recently provided instruction to 27 educators from the Middle East and North Africa in the Educational Leadership Institute of the University of the Middle East Project in Toledo , Spain . He currently also teaches in the Human Odyssey Program at Auburn , unique interdisciplinary courses which examine issues in science and the humanities.
Office: 7058 Haley Center
Phone: (334) 844-2828
E-mail: starrpd@auburn.edu
Website: www.auburn.edu/~starrpd
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