J. Lorand Matory

J. Lorand Matory
J. Lorand Matory
	J. Lorand Matory in 2020
Nationality	American
Occupation(s)	Academic and professor
Awards	Staley Prize (2022)

J. Lorand Matory is an American academic and Lawrence Richardson Professor of Cultural Anthropology and African and African American Studies at

African American Studies department at Duke University. He is the author of Sex and the Empire That Is No More: Gender and the Politics of Metaphor in Oyo Yoruba Religion (Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press

1994; Second, Revised Edition, New York and London: Berghahn Books, 2005); and Black Atlantic Religion: Tradition, Transnationalism and Matriarchy in the Afro-Brazilian Candomblé (Princeton; Princeton University Press, 2005).

Matory supports

anti-Semitic in effect, if not intent."^[2] According to Matory, "the knee jerk accusation that targeted criticism of Israel singles out Israel is as absurd as stating that the anti-apartheid movement was singling out South Africa."^[3]

In the summer of 2005 Matory was one of the leaders of a group calling for a faculty vote of no-confidence in University President Larry Summers.^[4] Although Matory had tenure at Harvard, he complained about issues regarding his compensation and diversity at the faculty, and when he received the offer to come to Duke in 2008, Harvard made a counter-offer that Matory considered inadequate before he accepted Duke's offer and left in the fall to take up his new position.^[5]