BONNIE GLASS-COFFIN, Ph.D.

Utah Professor of the Year (2004, CASE/Carnegie Foundation)

Professor of Anthropology
Department of Sociology, Social Work & Anthropology
Utah State University
Logan, UT 84322-0730
(435) 797-4064 e-mail: bonnie.glasscoffin@usu.edu or bglasscoffin@gmail.com

Education:
1985-1992 University of California, Los Angeles. Ph.D. Anthropology, 1992. Dissertation topic,
"Women as Shamans: Magical-Religious Specialists in Northern Peru."
1983-1985 University of California, Los Angeles. M.A., Anthropology. Masters thesis, "Health Care
Decision Making Among an Urban Middle-Class Population: Trujillo, Peru."
1976-1980 Whitman College. Walla Walla, Washington. B.A., Spanish literature Anthropology
combined major. Graduated cum laude.

Professional Employment/Activities:
Jan 2009-present Director, MSS Program, Department of Sociology, Social Work and Anthropology
Aug 2006-present Co-Director, Latin American Studies Minor, College of HASS
Aug 2007-present Managing Editor, Anthropology of Consciousness
Aug 2007-present Adjunct Professor, Religious Studies, Department of History, Utah State University (USU)
July 2006-present Professor of Anthropology, Department of Sociology, Social Work and Anthropology
(SSW&A), Utah State University (USU)
Jul 1999-June 2006 Associate Professor of Anthropology, SSW&A, USU
Jul 1999-Jun 2004 Anthropology Program Director, SSW&A, USU
Sept. 1993- 1999 Assistant Professor of Anthropology, SSW&A, USU
Jan.-May 1993 Visiting Assistant Professor. Department of Anthropology, Washington State University.
1990-1992 Instructor. Department of Anthropology, Oregon State University.

Honors, Grants, and Awards (funded projects and selection of key external grants that were not funded):
2008 NSF:REU, “Asset Based Community Development as an Innovative Model for International
Collaborative Research and Education,” ($153,252). Submitted August, 2008. Declined
2007 NSF:REU, “Asset Based Community Development as an Innovative Model for International
Collaborative Research and Education,” ($222,911). Not funded, encouraged to revise and
resubmit
2007 CIEE, “The Changing Social Face of Brazil,” Faculty Development Seminar in Bahia and Sao
Paulo, Brazil ($5000 funding from USDOE/UISFLP)
2006 Co-PI (with Tamara Shapiro and John Allen), “Applying and Evaluating an Asset-Based
Community Development Model in Huanchaco, Peru, Using Geographic and Ethnographic
Evaluation Criteria,” NSF/Advance Seed Grant #03-4080 ($8000).
2005-2007 Co-Project Director ($177,708), USDOE/UISFLP “Latin American Studies Program.”
(funded, Shannon Peterson/Project Director)
2005-2006 Co-PI NSF Research Experience for Undergraduates ($122,514) “Community-Based Tourism
in Latin America: an Undergraduate Ethnographic Research and Training Program in Peru
and Costa Rica,” (not funded, but will revise and resubmit based on panel review
recommendations)
2005 Named a FELLOW of the Society for Applied Anthropology
2005 Co-PI USDA/SCRP ($5,000) “Utah and Costa Rica: Building Collaborative Partnerships in
Sustainable Agriculture and Tourism,” (not funded, will revise and resubmit spring 2006).
2004 Utah Professor of the Year, CASE/Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.
2003-2004 College of HASS, Social Science Division “Teacher of the Year.”
2003-2004 College of HASS, "Undergraduate Research Mentor of the Year."
2002-2003 “Top Professor Award,” USU Mortar Board.
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2001-2003 Community/University Research Initiative #4-21427

($20,700, for Latino parent research)
2000-2003 P.I. USIA/College and University Affiliations Program ($80,809) “Ethnographic Methods
Field-Training in Cultural Anthropology: A Partnership-Based Approach” (not funded).
2000 Utah Humanities Council 13th Annual Governors Awards--Merit Award
($2500 to fund video-recording of O.C. Tanner Symposium, funded)
2000 Utah State University Course Enhancement Grant
($3300, to support classroom delivery of web-based technologies, funded),
1999 Utah State University FACT Technology Institute Workshop ($500, funded)
1999 Nominated for College of HASS (USU), "Researcher of the Year."
1998-2000 O.C. Tanner Foundation and College of HASS
($30,000) for organization of symposium entitled
"Body, Mind, and Spirit: Culture and Health in America"(funded).
1997-1998 "Top Professor" Award, USU Mortar Board
1997 Fulbright Scholar Award (Quito, Ecuador: June-August 1997 ($15,000, funded)
1997 AAUW Emerging Scholars Award—Logan Branch, AAUW
1996-2001 Women and Gender Research Institute Travel Grant ($3,500, funded).
1994-1995 New Faculty Research Grant #HS79404, Utah State University ($15,000, funded).
1. Dissertation Fellowship. Upaya Fund, Crestone, Colorado ($1,000, funded).

International Consulting Experience:

2008 Consultant/Project Evaluator, Huntsman School of Business, Summer Abroad Program in Latin America.
(Oct. 16-22, 2008)
2007 Invited to participate as part of “advance team” to Brazil, Chile, Peru for set-up of College of Business
Study Abroad Program
2005 Invited to accompany Dr. Susan Mannon to Heredia, Costa Rica to facilitate incorporation of Heredia as an
additional site for Utah State University Ethnographic Field School
2003 Invited to accompany the Director of the Office of Study Abroad and the Vice Provost for Academic and
International Affairs to Ecuador and Peru to serve as liaison for various study abroad
programs.
2001 Consultant/content-expert for "Secrets of a Moche Tomb" The Learning Channel (Steve Talley/Director,
filmed in northern Peru, aired Summer 2003)
2001 Advisor and facilitator for inter-institutional agreement between Utah State University and
Universidad Privada: Antenor Orrego (Trujillo, Peru)
2000 Advisor and facilitator for inter-institutional agreement between Utah State University and
Universidad Privada del Norte (Trujillo, Peru)
1999 Advisor and facilitator for inter-institutional agreement between Utah State University and
Centro Regional de Desarrollo Integral Social (Trujillo, Peru)
1999 Advisor and facilitator for inter-institutional agreement between Utah State University and
Universidad Nacional de La Libertad (Trujillo, Peru)
1997 Advisor, Taller de medicinas tradicionales y sistemas no formales de salud (Universidad
Andina Simón Bolivar Sede Ecuador: Area de Salud)/Quito, Ecuador
1997 Advisor and facilitator for inter-institutional agreement between Utah State University and La
Universidad de Loja (Loja, Ecuador)
1997 Advisor and facilitator for inter-institutional agreement between Utah State University and
Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador (Quito, Ecuador)

Field Research Experience:

Summer 2002-present Ethnographic Field School Director (and founder), Huanchaco Peru. Program provides
intensive field-based research and service learning experiences for undergraduate and
graduate students that result in web-based publications. See www.usu.edu/anthro/peru and
www.usu.edu/anthro/peru/2006.html for samples of student reports.
Fall 2000-2003 Cache Valley, (Logan, UT) Building Educational Success Together: Latino parent
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Summer 1999 & 2000 Peru (study of the impact of commercialization on Peruvian healers and ongoing
ethnohistorical research)
Summer 1997 Ecuador (field-research funded by Fulbright Commission)
Summer 1996 Peru/Ecuador. Preliminary field-research among female shamans in Vilcabamba, Ecuador
and return visit to female shamans in northern Peru. Ethnohistorical research at the Archivos
Arzobispales de Lima.
1994-1995 Madrid and Sevilla, Spain. "Idolatries and Superstitions in Northern Peru: A Survey of Early
Colonial Manuscripts in Spanish Archives." Ethnohistorical study of the impact of Catholic
dogma and policies on the perception and expression of female healing in Colonial Peru.
1989-1991 Mid-Willamette Valley, Oregon. Study of factors determining migration patterns and social-
service needs including perception of barriers to utilization of public services among Mexican
nationals.
1988-1989 Chiclayo, Peru and environs. Ethnographic study of the therapeutic strategy and healing
philosophy of five contemporary female shamans and ethnohistorical research about the 18th
and 19th Century persecution of ritual healers in northern Peru.
1987-1988 Trujillo, Peru. Research Associate for NIMH Sponsored outcome study among 120 patients
of four traditional healers.
1984 Trujillo, Peru. MA research studying factors which influence differential use of bio-medical and traditional
forms of health care.
1982 Trujillo, Peru. Preliminary study among traditional healers.

Publications:
Books:
Under contract Ethnography in the Time of the Taripaypacha: Spirtual Transformation and Healing from the
Heart of the Andes to the American Heartland (Altamira Press, contract signed May, 2007)
2005 (with Richley Crapo) Anónimo Mexicano. Utah State University Press
1998 The Gift of Life: Female Spirituality and Healing in Northern Peru. University of New Mexico Press.

Refereed Journal Articles/ Book Chapters

under revision "Culture-change and cognitive dissonance between Latino parents and school officials in a
Utah high school: narrowing the "expectation gap," Anthropology and Education Quarterly
(invited to revise and resubmit)
submitted 5/04 "Shamanism and San Pedro through time: notes on the archaeology, history, and continued
use of an entheogen in northern Peru." (For a book being edited by Bret Blosser and John
Chuchiak.)
in press “Balancing on Interpretive Fences or Leaping into the Void: Reconciling Myself with Castaneda and the
Teachings of don Juan,” IN Betsy Hearne and Roberta Trite, Eds. A Narrative Compass:
Women’s Scholarly Journeys. Urbana/Champagne: University of Illinois Press (estimated
release: Jan. 2009).
2008 “The Demonic Pact Then and Now: Transformations and transgressions in Peruvian Traditions,” IN Iris
Gareis, Ed. Entidades maléficas y conceptos del mal en las religiones latinoamericanas (Evil
Entities and Concepts of Evil in Latin American Religions). Bonner Amerikanistesche
Studien (BAS) 45. Aachen: Shaker Verlag, pp. 70-86.
2007 "The Emergence of the Modern Mesa: African Influence and Syncretism Revisited," Shamanism, Mesas,
and Cosmologies in the Central Andes, San Diego Museum of Man, publication # 44).
2006 “A Mother’s Love: Gender, Altruism and Spiritual Transformation,” Zygon: Journal of Religion and
Science 41(4): 893-902
2006 “Radical Empathy, Gender and Shamanic Healing: Examples from Peru,” in Joan Koss and Phil Heffner
eds., Spiritual Transformation in Healing: Anthropological, Theological, Neuroscientific, and
Clinical Perspectives, pp. 62-77. Lanham (MD): Altamira Press.
2005 (with Juan Castañeda Murga) “La Inquisición y el extraño proceso contra Juan Santos Reyes (1728-1750):
decifrando el por qué de los hechos,” IN Hiriyasu Tomoeda and Luis Millones, eds. Pasiones

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y desencuentros en la cultura andina. Lima: Fondo Editorial del Congreso del Peru, pp. 71-
97.
2005 (with Chad Balagna) "The Ethnographic Field School as a Venue for Undergraduate Research," invited
submission for special issue of the Council for Undergraduate Research Quarterly, 25(4):
269-174.
2004 "Ofensas Capitales: el diabólico y el exótico en la comercialización del curanderismo." Revista Andina, 38:
105-119.
2004 (with Douglas Sharon and Santiago Uceda), "Curanderas a la sombra de la Huaca de la Luna." Boletín del
Instituto Francés de Estudios Andinos 33(1): 81-95 (Lima, Peru)
2003 “La perspectiva de género en el curanderismo en el norte del Perú: Metáforas, modelos y manifestaciones
de la diferencia,” in Luis Millones, Hiroyasu Tomoeda and Tatsuhiko Fujii, eds. Tradición
popular: Arte y religión de los pueblos del norte del Perú (Senri Ethnological Reports,
National Museum of Ethnology: Osaka, Japan) 43:67-94. Reprinted in Hiroyasu Tomoeda,
Tatsuhiko Fujii and Luis Millones, eds, Entre Dios y el Diablo: magia y poder en la costa
norte del Perú Lima: PUCE (2004), pp. 93-119.
2003 "Anthropology and Shamanism: Bottom-Line Considerations in Image and Practice," in Joan D. Koss-
Chioino, Thomas Leatherman, and Christine Greenway (Eds). Medical Pluralism in the
Andes. London: Routledge, 234-249.
2002 "El pacto diabólico y la identidad cultural en el norte del Peru," Revista Andina, 35: 129-144 (Cusco, Peru)
2001 "Reflections on the Experience of Healing: Whose Logic? Whose Experience?" in Erika Brady (Ed.),
Healing Logics. Logan: Utah State University Press.
1999 "Engendering Peruvian Shamanism Through Time: Insights from Ethnohistory and Ethnography,"
Ethnohistory 46(2):205-238. Reprinted in Boletin del Institut de Derecho Indiano y de
Estudios Clásicos (2:40-55), Trujillo (Peru), 2001.
1997 "El Shamanismo y el Género en el Norte del Peru," Taller de medicinas tradicionales y sistemas no
formales de salud (Universidad Andina Simón Bolivar Sede Ecuador: Area de Salud, August,
1997)
1996 "Male and Female Healing in Northern Peru: Metaphors, Models and Manifestations of Difference,"
Journal of Ritual Studies, 10(1):63-91.
1996 [1991] With Rafael Vásquez Guerrero, "La Brujería en la Costa Norte del Peru del Siglo XVIII--El
Caso de María de la O." Journal of Latin American Lore, 17(1991):103-130. (To be reprinted
in the Revista del Museo de Arqueología [Universidad Nacional de Trujillo: Facultad de
Ciencias Sociales]).
1993 "Portrayals of Experience in Ethnography: Situated Knowledge or Castaneda's Revenge?" Anthropology
UCLA, vol. 20 (spring): 105-125.
1991 "Discourse, Daño, and Healing in North Coastal Peru." Medical Anthropology 13(1-2):33-55, 1991.
Reprinted IN Mark Nichter, ed., Anthropological Approaches to the Study of Ethnomedicine.
NY: Gordon and Breach, Science Publishers, 1992.
1988 "El Daño, el Cuento y el Chisme: el Poder de la Palabra en la Medicina Tradicional de la Costa Norte del
Perú. " MASA 3(2):48-51, 1988 and as "Secretos de Curandero." Gente 653:68-69, 1988.
Reprinted IN Actas del II Congreso Internacional de Medicinas Tradicionales. Lima, 1989.
Reprinted IN the Revista del Museo de Arqueología [Universidad Nacional de Trujillo:
Facultad de Ciencias Sociales], pp. 321-328 Trujillo, 1993.
1988 "Wandering ways of the light honed wood." Anthropology and Humanism Quarterly 13(3):77.

Book Reviews, Museum Guides, Op-Ed Pieces, Encyclopedia Entries and Conference Proceedings
2005 “Influencias cubanas en los altares de curanderos nor-peruanos: una primera aproximación,” IN Conference
Proceedings of the IV Coloquio Internacional de Religión y Sociedad: Religiones
Afroamericanas y las Identidades en un Mundo Globalizado, La Habana, Cuba, July 19-22.
2005 Book Review of “La Voz del Kultrun en la Modernidad” (by Ana Mariella Bacigalupo) for the
Anthropology of Consciousness 15(1):52-53.
2004 "Peruvian shamanism," in Mariko Walter and Eva Fridman, eds., Encyclopedia of Shamanism. Santa
Barbara (CA): ABC Clio. Vol 1 (of 2): 439-446.

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2004 Book Review of Mesoamerican Healers. (Brad R. Huber and Alan R. Sandstrom) for the American
Anthropologist, 106(1): 192-193
2001 "El shamanismo y el género: un caso desde la costa norte del Perú," IN Jacques Mabit, (ed.), Memoria del
segundo foro interamericano sobre espiritualidad indígena: ética, mal y transgresión. Tarapoto
(Peru): Takiwasi/CISEI, pp. 47-57.
2000 "The Meaning of Experience: Theoretical Dilemmas in Depicting a Peruvian Curandera's Philosophy of
Healing," IN Armin W. Geertz and Russell T. McCutcheon (Eds.), Perspectives on Method
and Theory in the Study of Religion. Adjunct Proceedings of the XVIIth Congress of the
International Association for the History of Religions, Mexico City, 1995. Leiden: Brill, pp.
226-237.
1998 "Manejando y Manejado: la Dinámica Eclesiástica/Popular en el Curanderismo de la Costa Norte del Peru,"
Actas del IV Congreso Internacional de Etnohistoria, Tomo III Lima: Fondo Editorial de la
Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, pp. 116-133.
1998 Book Review of Keepers of the Sacred Chants: The Poetics of Ritual Power in an Amazonian Society
(Jonathan D. Hill) for the American Ethnologist, vol. 25 #1, Feb. 1998.
1996 "El chamanismo, el San Pedro y la mesa: notas preliminarias sobre el género, el estado modificado de
conciencia y la curandería en el norte del Perú," Actas Completas del II Congreso
Internacional Para el Estudio de los Estados Modificados de Consciencia held at Lerida,
Spain, October, 1994. (Barcelona: Institut de Prospectiva Antropológica).
1995 "Encantos and Illness in Northern Peru: the Role of Symbolic Geography in Shamanic Healing,"
Traditional/Alternative/Complementary Health Care Issues and Society: Proceedings of the
VIII International Conference of Traditional Medicine and Folklore held at St. John's,
Newfoundland, Canada, August 18-21, 1994. Published at St. John's, Newfoundland:
Memorial University of Newfoundland.
1994 "Anthropology, Shamanism, and the 'New Age,'" Chronicle of Higher Education, June 15, 1994, p. A48.
1991 Contributor to museum exhibit guide, Cosmic Thresholds: Psychotropic Plants in South America,
(compiled and edited by Johannes Wilbert), Museo de Las Americas, Madrid, Spain.

Presentations:
Conferences or Symposia Organized and/or Chaired:
2008 “Crossing Boundaries/Building Bridges: Latin American Studies at Utah State University,” Campus-wide
symposium for Deans and faculty of Utah State University to inform and build interest for
Latin American Studies Minor (June, 2008).
2007 “Immigration: Speak Out!,” State-wide symposium on local immigration issues (March, 2007).
2006 “Latino Issues in Utah Education,” teacher-training workshop (Oct, 2006).
2006 “Latin American Cultural Extravaganza,” Week-long, campus-wide celebration of Latin American culture
(March, 2006).
2004 “Fieldworking: confronting the challenges and possibilities of ethnographic fieldwork,” panel organized for
annual meeting of Western Social Science Association, (Salt Lake City, April 21-24, 2004).
2004 “Field School Ethnographies: Case Studies from Huanchaco,” panel organized for annual meeting of
Western Social Science Association, (Salt Lake City, April 21-24, 2004).
2003 with Joan Koss-Chioino “Spiritual Transformation and Healing Process: (Near) Universal Aspects?”
(Reviewed and accepted by the Society for Anthropology of Religion Section), American
Anthropological Association (Chicago, November 19-23, 2003).
2002 "Raising Voices for Our Children's Education: Hispanic Parents Speak Out," Panel organized for One
Future Many Families: Educators for Diversity Annual Conference, Utah State University,
March 15-16, 2002
2000 Co-organizer and co-chair of I Seminario Internacional: Medicina y Cultura: Salud Integral para el III
Milenio" (28-29 August, Trujillo, Peru)
2000 Organizer and Chair of the O.C. Tanner Symposium held at Utah State University. Theme: "Body, Mind,
and Spirit, Culture and Health in America." Budget: $30,000). Web site:
http://www.hass.usu.edu/tanner
1998 Co-organizer and co-chair of panel on "Women and Healing" at the Segundo Foro Interamericano Sobre
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1993 Co-organizer and co-chair of panel at 92nd annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association
entitled, "Ethical Issues in the Study of Spiritual Traditions: Exploitation or Cultural
Borrowing." Washington D.C.
1989 Chaired panel on "Medicina Tradicional" at VIII Congreso Peruano del Hombre y la Cultura Andina.
Trujillo, Peru.
1982-1983 Organizer and co-Chair of international conference, U.S./Mexican Borderlands Issues,
sponsored by Latin American Center, University of California, Los Angeles.

Conference Papers/Presentations:
2008 Invited presentation, “Anthropology, Shamanism and Alternate Ways of Knowing/Being in the World: One
Anthropologist's Journey of Discovery and Transformation,” paper accepted for presentation
at the annual meetings of the American Anthropological Association, San Fransisco, CA,
Nov, 2008
2006 Invited discussant, “Beyond Vicos: Forty Years of Change in Andean Applied Anthropology,” (panel
organized by Tom Greaves and Ralph Bolton), American Anthropological Association, San
Jose, California
2006 (2nd author with Susan Mannon) “Community Based Tourism in Costa Rica,” paper submitted for
presentation at the annual meetings of the American Sociological Association, Montreal,
Quebec.
2006 “Shamanism, Spiritual Transformation and Healing,” Society for Cross-Cultural Research, Savannah,
Georgia, Feb. 22-25, 2006
2005 “A Mother’s Love: Gender, Altruism and Spiritual Transformation,” paper presented at the annual meeting
of the American Anthropological Association, Washington D.C., Nov.
2005 “Influencias cubanas en los altares de curanderos nor-peruanos: una primera aproximación,” paper accepted
for presentation at the IV Coloquio International de Religión y Sociedad, (ALER), La
Habana, Cuba, July 19-22.
2005 “Ethnographic Field schools as Tools for Change: Challenges and Recommendations from Huanchaco,
Peru.” Paper accepted for presentation at Society for Applied Anthropology Annual
Meetings, Santa Fe, April 2005.
2004 "Curanderismo y Género en el Norte del Peru," Conferencia Magistral (Keynote Address), Universidad
Privada de San Pedro, Sede Trujillo, July 7th, 2004.
2004 "Involving Hispanic Parents: Challenges and Opportunities," (with Dan Coffin), Invited presentation given
for the Bridgerland Professional Academy of Teachers of History in Schools (PATHS).
American West Heritage Center (Logan, UT), March 8th, 2004.
2004 “The Emergence of the Modern Mesa: African influence and Syncretism Revisited,” invited presentation
given at San Diego Museum of Man: 12th Latin American Symposium, March 6, 2004.
2003 “Radical Empathy, Gender and Shamanic Healing: Examples from Peru,” accepted for presentation at the
annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association. (Chicago, Nov. 2003).
2003 "Conversations About Teaching," Led round-table discussion sponsored by Council on Anthropology and
Education at the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association (Chicago,
Nov. 2003).
2003 (with Corey Larsen and Chad Balagna) "'You should be doing more for (y)our children:' Culture-change
and cognitive dissonance between expectations of minority parents and school officials in a
Utah high school," paper presented at the Western Social Science Association, 45th Annual
Conference, April 9-12, 2003
2003 (with Corey Larsen and Chad Balagna). "What Hispanic parents expect of schools is not what schools
expect of parents: how can we narrow the gap?" Paper presented at the 3rd Annual Educators
for Diversity conference, Utah State University, March 7-8, 2003.
2002 "New Age Redemption or the Devil's Due: Commercialization and its Consequences for Peruvian
Shamanism," paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Anthropological
Association, New Orleans, Nov, 2002.
2002 "Shamanism as New Age Healing: The "Pros," the "Cons" and the Cautions," paper presented at the
Annual Meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, Salt Lake City, October
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2002 "Gender, Shamanism, and Theology in Northern Peru: Correspondences Worth Noting in Symbolism and
Practice," paper presented at the IX Congreso Latinoamericano Sobre Religion y Etnicidad,
Lima, Peru August 5-8, 2002.
2001 "Community-Building Among Latino Parents of High-School Students in Northern Utah: A Preliminary
Report," paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology.
Mérida, Mexico, March 2001.
2000 "Género y Medicina Tradicional" and "Biomedicina y la Medicina Tradicional--Sistemas Culturales
Paralelos." Both papers presented at the I Seminario Internacional: Medicina y Cultura: Salud
Integral para el III Milenio" (Trujillo, Peru).
1999 "Anthropology and Shamanism: Bottom-Line Considerations in Image and Practice," paper presented at the
Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association. Chicago, November 1999.
1999 "The anthropologist as sub-altern: Ecuadorian "new-age" tourism events and the construction(s) at
Cochasquí '97." Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology.
Tucson, Arizona, April 1999.
1999 "Mujeres y hombres curanderos peruanos: diferencias teóricas y prácticas en sus trabajos y las
implicaciones de estas," paper presented at the XIII Congreso Internacional de Medicinas
Tradicionales. Lima, Peru, October 26-29, 1999.
1998 "What's in a name? Labeling and identity politics of yachajkuna and curers in pluri-national Ecuador,"
paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology. San Juan,
Puerto Rico, April 1998.
1998 "El shamanismo y el género: un caso desde el norte del Perú," paper presented at the Segundo Foro
Interamericano Sobre Espiritualidad Indígena. Tarapoto, Peru, November 9-14, 1998.
1997 "El pacto diabólico y la identidad cultural en el norte del Peru," paper presented at the panel entitled
"Colonialismo e identidad cultural," (organized by Iris Gareis, Pater Masson, and Nicholas
Griffiths) at the 49th the International Congress of Americanists Quito, July 7-11, 1997.
1997 "Ofensas Capitales: el diabólico y el exótico en la comercialización del curanderismo," paper presented at
the panel entitled "Etnomedicina en Mesoamérica y en Andinoamérica," (organized by
Segundo Moreno, Edgardo Ruiz, and Douglas Sharon) at the 49th International Congress of
Americanists Quito, July 7-11, 1997.
1997 "The feminine connection: engendering shamanism in Northern Peru," invited lecture presented at a
symposium entitled "The Art of Healing: Ancient and Modern Shamanism in Northern Peru,"
de Young Museum (San Francisco Fine Arts Museum), June 7, 1997.
1996 "Shamanic Opposition, Mediated Dualism And The Umbilicus: Further Discussions Of Mesa Symbolism
In Northern Peru," paper presented at the 95th annual meeting of the American
Anthropological Association. San Francisco, Nov. 1996.
1996 FIFE Folklore Conference on Folk Medicine, June 1996. Three invited lectures entitled: "Magic,
Medicine, and Traditional Healing in Northern Peru: An Overview," "From Folklore to
Pharmacy: Plants, Politics, and People in Context" and "So You Want to be a Shaman: The
Dynamics and Dilemmas of Transcultural Healing."
1996 "Manejando y manejado:la dinamica eclesiastica/popular en el curanderismo de la costa norte del Perú:
siglo XVIII," paper presented at the IVth Congreso Internacional de Etnohistoria. Lima, June
1996.
1995 "The Meaning of Experience: Theoretical Dilemmas in Depicting a Peruvian Curandera's
Philosophy of Healing," paper presented at the XVIIth International Congress of History of
Religions, Mexico City, August 1995.
1995 "Ties that Bind: Sorcery, Society, and the Social Scientist in Northern Peru," invited lecture presented at
the FIFE Folklore Conference, Logan, Utah, June 1995.
1994 “El chamanismo, el San Pedro y la mesa: notas preliminarias sobre el género, el estado modificado de
conciencia y la curandería en el norte del Perú.,” paper presented at the II International
Congress for the Study of Modified States of Consciousness, Lérida, Spain, October 1994.
1994 "Encantos and Illness in Northern Peru: the Role of Symbolic Geography in Shamanic Healing," paper
presented at the VIII International Conference of Traditional Medicine and Folklore, St.
Johns, Newfoundland, August 1994. Published as part of the conference Proceedings,
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1994 "Challenges to Regionalism from the Ground of History: the Emergence of Shamanism as a Regional
Tradition in Northern Peru," paper presented at Regional Legacies: Places Where Cultures
Mix Conference, Utah State University, May 1994.
1993 "Shamanic Introductions: When Fieldwork Becomes a Forum for Cultural (Ex)Change,"
paper presented at the 92nd Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association.
Washington D.C., November 1993.
1992 "On the Record: the Historical Dimensions of Shamanism in Northern Peru," paper presented
at the 91st Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association. San Francisco,
CA, December 1992.
1992 "La Polémica de los Discursos de Resistencia: El Caso del Amor-Mágico en el Perú Colonial
y Contemporaneo," paper presented at the X International Symposium of the Latin American
Indian Literatures Association, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
1990 "Therapeutic Strategy and Gender Cosmology: Male and Female Shamans in North Coastal
Peru," paper presented at the 89th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological
Association. New Orleans, Louisiana.
1989 "Daño, Discourse and Healing in North Coastal Peru," paper presented at the 88th Annual
Meeting of the American Anthropological Association. Washington D. C.
1989 "Medicina Tradicional y Medicina Académica: ¿Cómo se Entiende su Integración?" Paper
presented at the VIII Congreso Peruano del Hombre y la Cultura Andina, Trujillo, Peru.
1988 "El Daño, el Cuento y el Chisme: el Poder de la Palabra en la Medicina Tradicional de la
Costa Norte del Perú," paper presented at the II Congreso Internacional de Medicinas
Tradicionales, Lima and Trujillo, Peru.
1988 "Medicina Académica y Medicina Tradicional: ¿Es Posible su Integración?" Round table presentation to
Peruvian physicians of Colegio Médico del Perú. I Seminario Taller Nacional: Medicina
Tradicional y Académica--Encuentros. (Lima, Peru).
1988 "Características que Determinan la Manera de Acudir al Herbolario y la Farmacia en
Trujillo," paper presented at the VII Congreso Peruano del Hombre y la Cultura Andina,
Huaraz, Peru.

Invited presentations/lectures/interviews
2007 Keynote Speaker, Seventh International Gathering/Heart of the Healer Foundation, July 22-
25, 2007 (Pisac, Peru)
2007 SSW&A Department Brown-bag presentation: “An Ethnographic Field School Comes of
Age,” Feb.
2005 Keynote Speaker, Fifth International Gathering/Heart of the Healer Foundation, Sept 22-25,
2005 (Shelby, Michigan).
2004 Presentation to Anthropology Student Association, Universidad Nacional de Trujillo
2002 SSW&A Department "Brown-Bag" presentation "Tourism and Culture Change in a Peruvian
Fishing Village: A Summary of Student Reports from the 2002 Ethnographic Field School
2002 USU Society for Advancement of Qualitative Studies "Organizing an Ethnographic Field
School: Tips and Cautions"
2002 SSW&A Department "Brown-Bag" presentation "Working with Local Latino Communities:
Adventures in Applied Anthropology."
2001 The Book Table book club (Logan, UT) Discussion of The Gift of Life
2000 Rotary Club International (Logan, UT) Presentation of research on Peruvian shamans
2000 College of HASS "Brown-Bag" presentation (as part of Tanner Symposium Activities): "'New
Age' Shamanism in Peru".
2000 Featured in newspaper articles, The Utah Statesman (USU), The Herald Journal (Logan, UT)
and The Salt Lake Tribune
2000 Interviewed for "Access Utah" Radio Program (KUSU) Topic: Body, Mind, and
Spirit:Culture and Health in America
1999 SSW&A Department "Brown-Bag" Presentation of Summer, 1999 research in Peru, "What,
Another Enema? What I Did With My Summer Vacation or the REAL Consequences of
Participant Observation Research in Anthropology."

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1998 Interviewed for "Access Utah" Radio Program (KUSU) Topic: The Gift of Life
1998 Featured in periodical articles, Utah State Magazine, Bridgerland Magazine, Catalyst
Magazine Topic: The Gift of Life
1997 AAUW (Logan Chapter) Discussion of The Gift of Life
1997 Featured in newspaper articles, The Utah Statesman (USU), The Herald Journal (Logan, UT)
and The Salt Lake Tribune
1996 FIFE Folklore Conference Faculty Fellow (Featured Speaker)/USU
1996 Interviewed for "Access Utah" Radio Program (KUSU) Topic: Research in Peru
1995 FIFE Folklore Conference Lecturer/USU

Other Professional Experience/Consultation/Service Activities:

Professional Association Memberships
Latin American Studies Association (2004-present)
Western Social Science Association (2003-present)
National Association of Practicing Anthropologists (1999-present)
Consejo Interamericano Sobre Espiritualidad Indígena/Mexico (1998-present)
Society for Applied Anthropology (1992-present)
Research Associate: San Diego Museum of Man (1987-2006)
American Anthropological Association (1985--present)
Article Reviewer for Professional Journals
Bulletin del Institute Francais des Etudes Andines
Journal of Latin American Anthropology
Medical Anthropology Quarterly
American Anthropologist
American Ethnologist
Journal of Latin American Lore
Journal of Anthropological Research
Mountain Research and Development (MRD/University of Berne)
Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine
Conference Program Planning Committees
Educators for Diversity Annual Meeting Program Planning Committee (2001-2004)
Anthropology Program Coordinator for Western Social Science Association (2003-2004)
O.C. Tanner Symposium Conference Planning Committee, Chair (1998-2000)
Recent Boards and Advisory Committees
Executive Board Member, Society for the Anthropology of Consciousness (2006-2009)
Utah State University Prehealth Professions Evaluation Committee (2004-present)
Utah State University International Academic Advisory Board (2004-present)
Educators for Diversity Task Force (Founding member, 2001-present)
State-Wide Curriculum Articulation Committee/Utah Office of Higher Education (1998-2004)
Latin American Studies Minor/College of HASS (2004-present)
International Studies Major/College of HASS (2003-present)
Religious Studies Major/College of HASS (2003-present)

Teaching:
Courses Developed and Taught:
2002-present Ethnographic Field School in Huanchaco, Peru (USU)
2001-present Career Options and Field Methods in Anthropology (USU)
1999-present Applied Anthropology Practicum (USU)
1998-present Contemporary Theory and Method (USU)
1998-present Introduction to Cultural Anthropology (USU)
1997 Andean Ethnomedicine (Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador)
1996-1998 Practices and Principles of Cultural Anthropology (USU)
1996-1998 Ethnographic Methods (USU)
1995-1998 History of Anthropological Theory (USU)

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1995 Research/Proposal Design (USU)

1993-present Medical Anthropology (USU)
1991-1998 Shamanism and Traditional Medicine (OSU, WSU, USU)
1993 Psychological Anthropology (WSU)
1992-1998 Introduction to Anthropology, 4 field approach (WSU, USU)
1991-present Peoples of Latin America (OSU, USU)

References: available upon request

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