Stephen Cavanna Headley (born 5 August 1943 in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania) is a social anthropologist and a priest of the Eastern Orthodox Church.
Headley was married to the American artist Anne Everett who died in 2013.
He is the son of Young Adult writer Betty Cavanna who died in 2001.
degree in Buddhist studies from Columbia University in 1969 and continued his studies in Paris with a diploma in Sanskrit philology at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes (1972) and a doctorate in social anthropology under Georges Condominas at the Sorbonne in 1979.
Between 1973 and 2005 Headley repeatedly did fieldwork in central Java, primarily in and around the village of Krendowahono.