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Justine Buck Quijada

Associate Professor, Department of Religion, Wesleyan University

I am an anthropologist of religion, who studies post-Soviet shamanic revival. I work on ritual, shamanism, and comparative secularisms. My book, Buddhists, Shamans and Soviets: Rituals of History in Post-Soviet Buryatia, recently won first best book in the History of Religions from the American Academy of Religion. https://global.oup.com/academic/product/buddhists-shamans-and-soviets-9780190916794?cc=us&lang=en&

Experience

  • –present
    Associate Professor, Department of Religion, Wesleyan University

Education

  • 2009 
    University of Chicago, PhD Anthropology