Dru Curtis Gladney (November 3, 1956 – March 17, 2022) was an American anthropologist who was president of the Pacific Basin Institute at Pomona College and a professor of anthropology there.

Gladney's 2004 book, Dislocating China: Muslims, Minorities, and Other Subaltern Subjects[4] was published by the University of Chicago Press.

[5][6] His 1991 Harvard East Asian Monographs 149 book was Muslim Chinese: Ethnic Nationalism in the People's Republic.

[7][8][9][10][11] He authored (1998) Ethnic Identity in China: The Making of a Muslim Minority Nationality;[12] and was editor of Making Majorities: Constituting the Nation in Japan, China, Korea, Malaysia, Fiji, Turkey, and the U.S.[13] Gladney joined the Pomona College faculty in 2006 as a professor of anthropology.

He was a consultant to the Soros Foundation, Ford Foundation, World Bank, Asian Development Bank, Getty Museum, National Academy of Sciences, European Center for Conflict Prevention, U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, and UNESCO.