Bonnie Glass-Coffin
Cultural Anthropology
Professor | Director of Interfaith Leadership Certificate Program

Contact Information
Office Location: Old Main 245FPhone: (435) 797-6817
Email: bonnie.glasscoffin@usu.edu
Additional Information:
Educational Background
Biography
Dr. Glass-Coffin's interests include both historical transformations and contemporary dynamics in Peruvian shamanism as well as the dynamics interfaith cooperation in higher education. She directs the Utah State University Interfaith Initiative and the Interfaith Leadership Certificate.
Teaching Interests
Cultural Anthropology, Peoples of Latin America, Ethnographic Methods, Medical Anthropology, Anthropology of Religion, Shamanism, Applied Anthropology, Interfaith Leadership, Experiential Pedagogies.
Research Interests
Religion and Anthropology, Interfaith Studies, Shamanism and Hospital Chaplaincy.
Awards
Ed Glatfelter Service Award (Nominated), 2016
CHaSS
Ed Glatfelter Service Award (Nominated), 2015
CHaSS
USU Diversity Award--Faculty Category, 2015
AA/EO
Last Lecture (Nominated), 2014
Utah State University
Last Lecture (Nominated), 2013
Utah State University
Franz Boas Global Citizenship Award, 2013
Center for a Public Anthropology
College of CHaSS Dean's Giraffe Award, 2012
College of CHaSS
Journal Article of the Year, 2011
Society for the Anthropology of Consciousness
Eleanor Roosevelt Global Citizenship Award, 2010
Center for a Public Anthropology
Certificate of Appreciation, 2010
Jon M. Huntsman School of Business
Fellow, 2005
Society for Applied Anthropology
Teacher of the Year, 2004
College of HASS- Utah State University
Undergraduate Research Mentor of the Year, 2004
Utah Professor of the Year, 2004
CASE/Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching
Top Professor Award, 2003
USU Mortar Board
Top Professor Award, 1998
USU Mortar Board
Publications | Books
- Glass-Coffin, B., Miro-Quesada, O., (2013). Lessons in Courage: Peruvian Shamanic Wisdom for Everyday Life. Rainbow Ridge Press *
- Crapo, R., Glass-Coffin, B., (2005). Anonimo Mexicano. Utah State University Press
- Glass-Coffin, B., Crapo, R., (2005). Anónimo Mexicano. Utah State University Press
- Glass-Coffin, B., (1998). : The Gift of Life: Female Spirituality and Healing in Northern Peru. University of New Mexico Press
- Glass-Coffin, B., (1998). The Gift of Life: Female Spirituality and Healing in Northern Peru. New Mexico Press
- Anderson, E., Glass-Coffin, B., (2013). I Learn By Going: Autoethnographic Modes of Inquiry: Handbook of Autoethnography.
- Glass-Coffin, B., (2009). La Mesa de Julia Calderón de Avila: Medicina Tradicional: Conocimiento Milenario . Trujillo: UNT/Museo de Arqueología
Publications | Book Chapters
An asterisk (*) at the end of a publication indicates that it has not been peer-reviewed.
Publications | Curriculum
- Glass-Coffin, B., (2017). Speed-Faithing Engages Big Questions and Builds Bridges of Empathy and Connection. Religious Studies News *
An asterisk (*) at the end of a publication indicates that it has not been peer-reviewed.
Publications | Journal Articles
Academic Journal
- Mannon, S., Glass-Coffin, B., (2019). Will the Real Rural Community Please Stand Up? Staging Rural Community-Based Tourism in Costa Rica. Journal of Rural and Community Development, 14:4, 71-93.
- Glass-Coffin, B., (2016). Building Capacity and Transforming Lives: Anthropology Undergraduates and Religious Campus-Climate Research on a Public University Campus. Annals of Anthropological Practice, 40:2, 258-269. doi: 10.1111
- Glass-Coffin, B., (2014). Comment: "The Ethnographic Field School as a Research Method" . Current Anthropology
- Glass-Coffin, B., (2014). Belief is Not Experience: the Role of Personal Transformation as a Tool for Bridging Ontological Divides in Anthropological Researching and Reporting. for International Journal of Transpersonal Studies, 32:1, 117-126.
- Glass-Coffin, B., (2013). Transformational Learning, and the Language of Affect in an Anthropology Classroom. Anthropology of Consciousness
- Glass-Coffin, B., A.D, (2012). Ontological Relativism or Ontological Relevance: An Essay in Honor of Michael Harner. Anthropology of Consciousness, 23:2, 113-126.
- Glass-Coffin, B., (2010). “Anthropology, Shamanism and Alternate Ways of Knowing/Being in the World: One Anthropologist's Journey of Discovery and Transformation” . Anthropology and Humanism Quarterly
- Glass-Coffin, B., (2010). Shamanism and San Pedro through time: notes on the archaeology, history, and continued use of an entheogen in northern Peru.. Anthropology of Consciousness 22(1), 58-82.
- Glass-Coffin, B., (2008). Editor’s Note. Anthropology of Consciousness, 19:2, 107-108. *
In-House Journal
- Clementz, J., Glass-Coffin, B., (2013). Post-Mortem Care Warfare: Can conflicts between Mandated Autopsies and Cultural Expectations for Post-Mortem Body Care be Resolved?. Further Perspectives: Anthropological Views of the World, 6, 27-36.
Professional Journal
- Glass-Coffin, B., (2017). The Role of Anthropology in Promoting Diversity on a Public University Camppus. Practicing Anthropology, 39:1, 26-29.
- Glass-Coffin, B., Balagna, C., (2005). The Ethnographic Field School as a Venue for Undergraduate Research. the Council for Undergraduate Research Quarterly, 25:4, 174-269.
Public or Trade Journal
- Glass-Coffin, B., (2011). "The Academic and the Adept: An Anthropologist's Heart Cracks Open...". Sacred Fire Magazine, 15, 42-47.
An asterisk (*) at the end of a publication indicates that it has not been peer-reviewed.
Publications | MultiMedia
An asterisk (*) at the end of a publication indicates that it has not been peer-reviewed.
Publications | Technical Reports
Other Reports
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Publications | Other
Magazine/Trade Publications
- Glass-Coffin, B., (2012). The Academic and the Adept: an Anthropologist’s Heart Cracks Open… . Sacred Fire Magazine *
Newspaper
- Glass-Coffin, B., (2016). Post-Election Grieving and Reconciliation on a Utah College Campus. HuffPost (Higher Education Section) *
Miscellaneous Extension
An asterisk (*) at the end of a publication indicates that it has not been peer-reviewed.