C.A.R. Hawkins Lewis
Hawkins (t/he/y) is a doctoral student in Latin American religions advised by J. Michelle Molina. Their research interests include asceticism and healing, shamanism and ontological anthropology, queer aesthetics, and the sensory. He investigates the cosmopolitics of the sacred through critical missionary history, contemporary performances of settler subjectivities, and their impact on Indigenous religiosities—namely, “mutual entrapment” and the extraction of epistemological-cum-ecological resources. Their dissertation will undertake a hemispheric study of Andean/Amazonian esoteric movements to ask: how does spiritual tourism mobilize transnational spiritual practices between North and South America yet mediate those mystical experiences in dialogue with both Eastern and Western religious discourses? Hawkins has conducted fieldwork in Peru, Nepal, South India, and Indonesia. He holds an M.A. in Anthropology from the University of Chicago and an M.A. in Depth Psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute.