Carolyn Fluehr-Lobban

Carolyn B. Fluehr-Lobban (; ''née'' Fluehr; born January 6, 1945) is an American anthropologist, beekeeper, and a co-founder and past president of the Sudan Studies Association. Fluehr-Lobban is a specialist in Islamic law, anthropology and ethics, human rights, cultural relativism and universal rights, and has authored texts books on Islamic societies and on race and racism. She is professor ''emerita'' of anthropology at Rhode Island College, in Providence, Rhode Island, and helped start its beekeeping program. Fluehr-Lobban is also a lecturer at the Naval War College, in Newport, Rhode Island. She established a scholarship at Georgia State University where she took her first anthropology course, as well as the scholarships she and her husband established at Temple and Northwestern Universities. She was the secretary of the Rhode Island Beekeepers Society and also lectures on bees and beekeeping. A three-time Democratic party candidate for election to the New Hampshire House of Representatives, she ran unsuccessfully in 2020, lost by four votes in the 2022 general election against John Sellers, and was also unsuccessful in the 2024 general election against Donald McFarlane. Provided by Wikipedia