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Swayam Bagaria, M.A., Ph.D.

Swayam Bagaria

Psychedelic Use, Law, and Spiritual Experience (PULSE) Affiliated Researcher

Assistant Professor, Harvard Divinity School

Swayam Bagaria is a cultural and cognitive anthropologist at the Harvard Divinity School with research interests at the intersection of spirituality, consciousness studies, anthropology of health, and psychiatry. He is currently at work on several related projects including the idea of fuzzy beliefs to understand the dynamics of cross-generational cultural and religious transmission, an intellectual history of psychiatry in India, and developing anthropologically oriented R/S assessments for global mental health.