Carolyn Fluehr-Lobban facts for kids

Quick facts for kids Carolyn Fluehr-Lobban
Carolyn Fluehr-Lobban in 2003
Born	(1945-01-06) January 6, 1945 (age 80) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Occupation	Anthropologist author beekeeper conservationist professor political candidate
Political party	Democratic
Spouse(s)	Richard Lobban ​ (m. 1968)​
Education	Temple University (BA, MA) Northwestern University (PhD)
Scientific career
Institutions	Rhode Island College Naval War College
Thesis	An anthropological analysis of homicide in an Afro-Arab State: the Sudan (1973)

Carolyn B. Fluehr-Lobban (/ˈflʌr ˈloʊbən/; née Fluehr; born January 6, 1945) is an American anthropologist, beekeeper, and a co-founder and past president of the Sudan Studies Association. Fluehr-Lobban is a specialist in Islamic law, anthropology and ethics, human rights, cultural relativism and universal rights, and has authored texts books on Islamic societies and on race and racism. She is professor emerita of anthropology at Rhode Island College, in Providence, Rhode Island, and helped start its beekeeping program. Fluehr-Lobban is also a lecturer at the Naval War College, in Newport, Rhode Island. She established a scholarship at Georgia State University where she took her first anthropology course, as well as the scholarships she and her husband established at Temple and Northwestern Universities. She was the secretary of the Rhode Island Beekeepers Society and also lectures on bees and beekeeping. A three-time Democratic party candidate for election to the New Hampshire House of Representatives, she ran unsuccessfully in 2020, lost by four votes in the 2022 general election against John Sellers, and was also unsuccessful in the 2024 general election against Donald McFarlane.

Life

Carolyn Fluehr-Lobban received a Bachelors of Arts degree and a Master of Arts degree in anthropology from Temple University. She received a Doctor of Philosophy degree from Northwestern University in 1973. She is married to the archaeologist Richard Lobban, whom she met in Temple University's Department of Anthropology. Together, they established the Dr. Richard A. Lobban Jr. and Dr. Carolyn B. Fluehr-Lobban Pre-Dissertation Research Award in Anthropology at Temple University.

Fluehr-Lobban and her husband Richard Lobban have helped place 170 acres in permanent watershed protection for Newfound Lake. They have donated to the Lakes Region Conservation Trust and joined some of their neighbors in placing conservation easements on their property.

Electoral history