American anthropologist
Stephen D. Glazier (born Mystic, Connecticut) is an American anthropologist who specializes in comparative religion. Currently, he is a Senior Research Anthropologist at the Human Relations Area Files at Yale University. Since 1976, Glazier has conducted ethnographic fieldwork on the Caribbean island of Trinidad focusing on the Spiritual Baptists, Orisa, and Rastafari. He also publishes on Caribbean archaeology and prehistory. Glazier cataloged Irving Rouse's St. Joseph (Trinidad) and Mayo (Trinidad) collections for the Peabody Museum of Natural History. In 2017, Glazier retired as professor of Anthropology and Graduate Faculty Fellow at the University of Nebraska, where he taught classes in general (four-field) anthropology, race and minority relations, and a graduate seminar on the anthropology of belief systems.
Glazier began studies in anthropology at Princeton University under Martin G. Silverman, Benjamin Ray, Hildred Geertz, Alfonso Ortiz, and Vincent Crapanzano. He earned his MA (1976) and a Ph.D. (1981) in Anthropology from the University of Connecticut. His dissertation advisors at UConn were Seth Leacock, Dennison J. Nash, and Ronald M. Wintrob.
In 1974, he earned an M.Div. from Princeton Theological Seminary. His M. Div. thesis, "Schizophrenic Speech: A Typology," – directed by James Loder, Vincent Crapanzano, and Hildred Geertz – was based on experiences as an Assistant Chaplain at New Jersey Neuro Psychiatric Institute. In 2021, Glazier was awarded the STM (Master of Sacred Theology) degree from Yale University for a thesis addressing the rhetorical techniques of 18th-century theologians Isaac Backus and Jonathan Edwards.
Glazier was a lecturer in Anthropology at the University of Connecticut (Storrs); Visiting Associate Professor of Intercultural Studies at Trinity College (Hartford); lecturer in Anthropology at Connecticut College (New London); Associate Professor of Sociology at Westmont College (Santa Barbara), and Professor of Anthropology at the University of Nebraska. 
He served as book review editor of the journal "Anthropology of Consciousness" and was a member of the editorial board of the "Journal of the Virgin Island Archaeological Society." Currently, he is a member of the editorial advisory boards of the journals "Open Theology" and "Penteco Studies". He served two terms as president of the Society for the Anthropology of Consciousness. In addition, he served as vice president and secretary of the "Society for the Anthropology of Religion" and as a council member and as secretary of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion.
In 1977, Stephen D. Glazier married Rosemary Fitzgerald Custer. The Glaziers have one daughter and four grandchildren. 
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