![]() Brent Horning graduated with honors from the University of California, Santa Cruz in 2023, earning a BA in Anthropology. He was an event organizer with Minorities in Anthropology, and a founding member of the UCSC Lambda Alpha Anthropology Honors Society. Passionate about integrating body/mind awareness within the discipline, he created Somatic Anthropology Sessions. He has been accepted into the PhD program in Religious Studies at UC Davis as a recipient of the Provost Fellowship and is excited to integrate into the UC Davis community and department of Religious Studies beginning in Fall, 2024.
He is a recipient of the Critical Language Scholarship, and Benjamin Gilman Scholarship in 2022. This included intensive Bangla language study in West Bengal, India at the American Institute of Indian Studies and ethnographic fieldwork for his thesis "Globalization of the Gaze: Divine and Secular Seeing in the Durga Puja Festival of Kolkata". The thesis was awarded the Deans Honors for undergraduate research and the Jeremy Demian Marx award for Cultural Anthropology. With his certifications and extensive work experience in massage therapy, yoga/meditation/sound therapy, and addiction counseling (CADC-1) a body-mind connection informs his explorations and research. Recent presentations of his research include the 2023 Society for the Anthropology of Religion biennial conference in British Colombia, the UCSC Digital Scholarship Symposium, and the World Anthropology Congress at Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences (KISS) in Odisha, India. |