Bradd Shore is Goodrich C. White Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at Emory University. A psychological anthropologist specializing in ritual studies, culture, and cognition, he is the author of over seventy papers and six books. He also served as Director of Emory's Center for Myth and Ritual in American Life for ten years. He was awarded the Society for Psychological Anthropology's Lifetime Achievement Award in 2019 after having served as its president.