Graduate Student Spotlight: Elyse Smith

The UConn Department of Anthropology is home to a diverse community of graduate students studying a variety of subfields. Continue reading to learn more about their favorite parts of their research, why they became interested in anthropology, and fun facts about them!


Elyse Smith

Elyse Smith

Program Entrance: 2021

Research Interests

Psychedelics; critical medical anthropology; public health/evidence-based drug policy reform & harm reduction practices; trauma-informed human rights perspective; prosociality & community mental health access; biopolitics; medical rhetoric & neoliberalism; decolonizing ethnomedicine/ethnobotany; environmental ethics; indigeneity; consciousness & spirituality