Dr. Mayanthi Fernando

Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Santa Cruz

I am a Professor of Anthropology at UC Santa Cruz and work on Islam and secularism; more-than-secular multispecies ecologies; histories of the body and consciousness; and gender and sexuality. I am the author of The Republic Unsettled: Muslim French and the Contradictions of Secularism (2014) and co-editor of Trouillot Remixed: The Michel-Rolph Trouillot Reader (2021). I am currently writing a book on secularity and the Anthropocene. I have held residential fellowships at the Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton) and the School for Advanced Research (Santa Fe). I also sit on the advisory board of Fireside Project, a psychedelic peer-support line.

See the abstract for Mayanthi's presentation, “Mushrooms, Mysticism, and the Fantasy of Disembodiment.”