Alex K. Gearin

 

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Professor Alex K. Gearin

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Assistant Professor

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Professor Alex K. Gearin

Title:
Assistant Professor

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Dr. Alex K. Gearin, Ph.D., is an Australian medical anthropologist who has researched psychedelic substance using networks and practices across the globe. Graduating from the University of Queensland in 2015, he has published ethnographic research on the intercultural ethics of medical tourism, spirituality and individualism among psychedelic healing groups, and metaphor and therapeutic literacies in psychedelic medicine. His book Global Ayahuasca: Wondrous Visions and Modern Worlds (Stanford University Press, 2024) explores the psychoactive plant brew “ayahuasca” in Peru, Australia, and China. His work is featured in Current AnthropologySocial Science and MedicineFrontiers in Pharmacology, The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, and other outlets, and he is co-editor of The World Ayahuasca Diaspora: Controversies and Reinventions (Routledge, 2017). Alex is a passionate teacher and has delivered courses and workshops on cross-cultural health, bias and social justice in medicine, culture and psychopharmacology, gift economies and personhood, and Indigenous health in the modern world.

Professional Qualifications
YearAwarding InstitutionQualification
2015University of QueenslandPhD in Anthropology
2011La Trobe UniversityBA in Anthropology
Professional Societies
Term PeriodPositionProfessional Societies
09/2023-09/2026Editorial Board MemberPsychedelic Pharmacology Journal
08/2021-07/2023Global CoordinatorThe Hong Kong Anthropological Society
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