Bonnie Glass-Coffin received her PhD in anthropology at UCLA in 1992 and has been on the faculty at USU since 1993. Currently, she is a professor of cultural anthropology as well as an adjunct professor of Religious Studies and the co-director of the Latin American Studies minor. Her areas of interest include medical anthropology, anthropology of religion, ethnohistory, shamanism, Andean Latin America, gender, experiential anthropology, applied anthropology, and community development.

She has spent more than 6 years living in Peru, 1.5 years in Spain, and she was the recipient of a Fulbright fellowship to Ecuador in 1997. She has particular interest/expertise in Andean traditional medicine and shamanic traditions and has published widely on this topic. She is active in university wide initiatives that promote international opportunities for faculty and students as well as college initiatives focusing on globalization and cultural inclusiveness of our core liberal arts curriculum. She just completed a term as Managing Editor for the Anthropology of Consciousness, and continues as an Associate Editor of that journal.

She is also active in community service, teaches workshops on earth-based spirituality, and serves on a regional council for The Heart of the Healer Foundation as well as on the Board of Directors for Cache Valley’s own “The Cosmic Nudge.” In 2004, she was named CASE/Carnegie Professor of the Year for the State of Utah because of her extraordinary dedication to undergraduate teaching. She has two children, ages 9 and 17.
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