Psychedelic Sciences Scholarship
Academic Publications
Corbin, Michelle (2012) “Tactics of Legitimation in the Psychedelic Sciences: Lessons for Feminist Sociology of Knowledge”. American Behavioral Scientist. Volume 56 (10). Pp. 1413-1433
“Facing our Dragons: Spiritual Activism, Psychedelic Mysticism and the Pursuit of Opposition” (2006). Human Architecture: Journal of the Sociology of Self-knowledge. Vol. IV (Sum 2006): 239-247.
Book and Journal Reviews
Corbin, Michelle (2013) “Psychedelics Writ Small and Large” Book Review of “Darwin's Pharmacy: Sex, Plants, and the Evolution of the Noösphere” by Richard Doyle & “Psychedelic Psychiatry: LSD from Clinic to Campus” by Eryka Dyck. BioSocieties. Volume 8. Pp. 230–234.
Academic Conference Presentations
“The personal is political: The feminist possibilities of psychedelic praxis”
Invited panelist: Women and Psychedelics Forum
California Institute of Integral Studies; San Francisco, CA; November 19, 2018
“Psychedelic rituals of the Nacimera: Deconstructing whiteness in the history of LSD as chemical entheogen in its white, western homelands”
Invited Panelist: Reimagining Psychedelic Drugs as Medicines: Ethnography's Role in Assessing Ritualized Psychoactive Therapies
American Anthropological Association; San Jose, CA; November 2018
“Neuroshamanism: Negotiating the politics of location in the psychedelic bioprospecting of spirituality”
Invited Panelist: Psychedelic and Etheogenic Consciousness in Today’s World: Producing Anthropological Understandings
American Anthropological Association; Washington DC; December 2014
“Spirituality in the laboratory: Tactics of legitimation in the psychedelic sciences.”
Society for the Social Studies of Science; Washington, DC; October 2009
American Sociological Association, San Francisco, CA; August 2009
“Colorblind consciousness: Negotiating the politics of race in the psychedelic science.” Society of the Study of Social Problems, San Francisco, CA; August 2009
Invited Speaker: Women’s Visionary Congress; Petaluma, CA; July 28, 2012
Event title: Women’s Visionary Congress
Title of talk: The politics of consciousness: feminist spirituality and the pursuit of liberation
