Dr. Frederique Apffel-Marglin

Frédérique Apffel-Marglin, PhD is Professor Emerita, Department of Anthropology at Smith College. She has also taught at Harvard University, Wellesley College, and Wesleyan University.

She founded the Sachamama Center for BioCultural Regeneration (SCBR) in the Peruvian High Amazon in 2009 and has spent years in India doing fieldwork at the Jagannatha Temple in Puri, Odisha, India, and in Peru working in indigenous communities. Frederique was a WSRP research associate between 1976-78 and apparently did most of her research work from the CSWR’s basement. Despite that, she has very fond memories of her time at the CSWR and has even donated to us some artwork that is now part of the Center’s permanent art display.

She has authored and edited 17 books and has published more than 70 articles and book chapters, including most recently a book, written with Randy Chung Gonzales, “Initiated by the Spirits: Healing Ills of Modernity through Shamanism, Psychedelics and the Power of the Sacred”. Randy’s original art work is being exhibited at the Center this semester, and we invite you to attend the opening reception and view the exhibit on September 10, 5.30pm.