Michael James Winkelman

Biography

Michael Winkelman’s wide-ranging teaching and research interests focus on shamanism, consciousness, psychedelic medicine. He teaches in the Human Health Program on the ASU Polytechnic Campus, and he has served as President of the Society for the Anthropology of Consciousness and the Founding President of the Anthropology of Religion Section of the American Anthropological Association. Michael received his B.A. from Rice University (1976), a Ph.D. from the University of California, Irvine (1985) and a Masters in Public Health in Community Health Practice from the University of Arizona (2002). …