Advisor: Professor Jeffrey J. Kripal

Ayesha Adamo is an academic, performing artist, and filmmaker currently working towards a PhD in Religion at Rice University. Her project explores fluid cosmological ideas, both historically and in current quantum mechanics. She holds an MA in Religious Studies from Universiteit van Amsterdam’s Centre for the History of Hermetic Philosophy & Related Currents and is a graduate of Barnard College, Columbia University, with a degree in music. Rumor has it she was once in an Asian pop band on EMI Records. Her most recent articles can be found in Anthropology of Consciousness and Religious Studies Review.

Academic Publications

“On Gothic Sovereignty: Street Gangs and Statecraft in Honduras” (long form review article). Religious Studies Review 49, no. 4 (Wiley/Rice University, 2024): 611-614.

“The League of Endarkenment: Hakim Bey and the Way of Disappearance into Nature.” Anthropology of Consciousness 34, no. 2 (Wiley/American Anthropological Association, 2023): 278-294.