Starn is the author of Ishi's Brain: In Search of America's Last Wild Indian and co-author of The Shining Path: Love, Madness, and Revolution in the Andes with Miguel La Serna; his other books include The Passion of Tiger Woods: An Anthropologist Reports on Golf, Race, and Celebrity Scandal, Nightwatch: The Politics of Protest in the Andes, and he is co-editor of The Peru Reader,[1] Between Resistance and Revolution, and Indigenous Experience Today.
He has appeared on many radio and television programs, and writes for newspapers including the Los Angeles Times and Chronicle of Higher Education.
Starn teaches courses about Latin America, Native American culture and politics, human rights, and sports and society, among other issues.
Starn wrote op-eds in North Carolina newspapers about the 2006 Duke University lacrosse case (among them, Let's talk sports[7]) and was quoted in other outlets, including The New Yorker [8] and The News & Observer.
"[9] He also accused bloggers of inaccurately portraying the involvement of Duke faculty in the lacrosse case in a January 2007 op-ed in the Durham Herald-Sun.