Manvir Singh

MANVIR SINGH is an assistant professor of anthropology at the University of California, Davis. He holds a bachelor's degree from Brown University and a PhD in human evolutionary biology from Harvard University. He is a regular contributor to The New Yorker , and his writings have also appeared in Wired , Vice , Aeon , and The Guardian , as well as in leading academic journals, including Science , Nature Human Behaviour , and Behavioral and Brain Sciences . He has studied the use of psychedelics...See more

MANVIR SINGH is an assistant professor of anthropology at the University of California, Davis. He holds a bachelor's degree from Brown University and a PhD in human evolutionary biology from Harvard University. He is a regular contributor to The New Yorker , and his writings have also appeared in Wired , Vice , Aeon , and The Guardian , as well as in leading academic journals, including Science , Nature Human Behaviour , and Behavioral and Brain Sciences . He has studied the use of psychedelics in the rain forests of Colombia and, since 2014, has conducted ethnographic fieldwork with Mentawai communities on Siberut Island, Indonesia, focusing on shamanism and justice. He lives with his wife, Nina, and daughter, Zora, in Davis, California. See less