Dr. Lisa Gezon

Professor of Anthropology, University of Alabama at Birmingham

Dr. Lisa Gezon is Professor and Chair of the Anthropology Department at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Her areas of research interest have included various topics in environment and health. She has done research on the drug khat in Madagascar (Drug Effects: Khat in Biocultural and Socioeconomic Perspective. Left Coast Press, 2012), and she co-authored a textbook on drugs (Carrier, Neil & Lisa L. Gezon. The Anthropology of Drugs. New York, 2024). Her current ethnographic research is on psychedelic integration groups in the U.S. South, and she is developing projects on ketamine use.

See the abstract for Lisa's presentation, “Sacred Substances, Sacred Wounds: The Intersection of Psychedelics, Adverse Religious Experiences, and Spiritual Healing.”