Team members

Project Team

People currently associated with The Psychedelic History Archive.

Project Team

Benjamin Breen

Benjamin BreenProject teamUC Santa Cruz

Paul Gillis-Smith

Paul Gillis-SmithProject team

Anne Harrington

Anne HarringtonProject teamHarvard University

Rebecca Lemov

Rebecca LemovProject teamHarvard University

Advisory Board

Erik Davis

Erik DavisAdvisory board

Alexis Turner

Alexis TurnerAdvisory board

Contributors

Students whose writing is published in the archive.

JPJamie Penilla2024 UCSC student internJamie Penilla worked on the Psychedelic History Archive as a UCSC undergraduate research intern in spring 2024. Her research for the project focused on psychedelics in Cold War America, including the CIA's LSD experiments and the death of Frank Olson, and she wrote the archive's historical-context essay on R. Gordon Wasson's 1957 Life article "Seeking the Magic Mushroom."

Past Project Contributors

UCSC student interns who worked on the project in 2024.

Dagny Hatch2024 UCSC student intern
Galen Latham-Fairchild2024 UCSC student intern
Molly Maher2024 UCSC student intern
Emily Vasquez2024 UCSC student intern
Richard Wolf2024 UCSC student intern
Walter Barnaby2024 UCSC student intern
Owen Casey2024 UCSC student intern
Francisco Moreno2024 UCSC student intern
Alia Moore2024 UCSC student intern