Kelsey Grubbs
Job Title
PhD Candidate
Research interests
Research interests
Ethnographic Documentary Filmmaking, Visual Anthropology, Shamanism, New Age Spirituality, Commercialization of Spirituality, Sensory Politics, Medical Anthropology, Ontologies of Health, Identity, Ecotherapy, Sustainability, Scottish Culture, Ancestral Trauma.
Background
My doctoral research decenters the human and explores how humans, plants, and nature spirits commune and communicate with each other for personal and planetary health, situated at the Findhorn spiritual ecovillage in Northeast Scotland. I employ multimodal ethnographic methods including ethnographic documentary filmmaking, photography, photovoicing, autoethnography, and shamanic journeys.
EDUCATION
M.A. Anthropology, The New School for Social Research 2011
M.A. Applied Anthropology, University of North Texas 2008
B.A. Anthropology, Lawrence University 2007