WRITING

Books

Seale-Feldman, Aidan. 2025. The Work of Disaster: Crisis and Care along a Himalayan Fault Line. University of Chicago Press.

Peer-Reviewed Articles

Seale-Feldman, Aidan. 2025.  “Anxious Projections: Mass Hysteria and the Problem of Interpretation.” Medical Anthropology Quarterly e70007 (early view).

Devenot, Neşe, Aidan Seale-Feldman, Elyse Smith, Tehseen Noorani, Albert Garcia-Romeu, and Matthew W. Johnson. 2022. “Psychedelic Identity Shift: A Critical Approach to Set and Setting.” Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal 32 (4): 359–399.

Seale-Feldman, Aidan. 2022. “The Possibility of Translation: Turning Ghosts into Psychosomatic Disorders in Nepal.” South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies 45 (1): 130–45.

Seale-Feldman, Aidan. 2020. “The Work of Disaster: Building Back Otherwise in Post-Earthquake Nepal” Cultural Anthropology 35 (2): 237-263.

Seale-Feldman, Aidan. 2020. “Historicizing the Emergence of Global Mental Health in Nepal (1950-2019)” HIMALAYA- The Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies 39 (2): 29-43.

Seale-Feldman, Aidan. 2019. “Relational Affliction: Re-conceptualizing ‘Mass Hysteria’” Ethos 47 (3): 307-325.

Editor-Reviewed Articles

Seale-Feldman, Aidan. 2024. “Seeing the Mother’s Face,” Special Issue: Flash Ethnography, HIMALAYA: The Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies 43(2): 20-21.

Seale-Feldman, Aidan. 2022. “What Does It Mean to Lose a World?” Anthropology News, June 6, 2022.

Seale-Feldman, Aidan and Upadhaya, Nawaraj. 2015. “Mental Health after the Earthquake: Building Nepal’s Mental Health System in Times of Emergency.” Fieldsights–Hot Spots, Cultural Anthropology website, October 14, 2015. 

Seale-Feldman, Aidan and Upadhaya, Nawaraj. 2015. “भूइँचालोपछिको आपतकालीन अवस्थामा नेपालमा मानसिक स्वास्थ्यको स्थापना” (Mental Health after the Earthquake: Building Nepal’s Mental Health System in Times of Emergency.)  Manosamajik Suswasthya–Psychosocial Hub for Nepal, October 14, 2015. 

Book Chapters

Seale-Feldman, Aidan. 2025. “Psychological Anthropology and the Moral/Ethical Turn.” In The Cambridge Handbook of Psychological Anthropology, edited by Edward Lowe. Cambridge University Press.

Seale-Feldman, Aidan, and Luis Felipe R. Murillo. 2023. “Thomas Csordas.” In Antropologia: ensino, pesquisa e etnografia hoje, edited by Kleyton Rattes, Marcelo Moura Mello, and Simone Silva, 67–100. Niterói: Eduff.

Seale-Feldman, Aidan. 2022. “The Place of Nepal in Psychological Anthropology.” In Nepalese Psychology: Volume One, edited by Yubaraj Adhikari, Sujan Shrestha, and Kripa Sigdel, 21–46. Chattisgarh, India: Evincepub.

Book Reviews

Seale-Feldman, Aidan. 2023. There Is Nothing Heroic About This Text. Somatosphere.

Seale-Feldman, Aidan. 2019. “Book Forum: The Blind Man.” Visual and New Media Review, Fieldsites, June 4. 

Seale-Feldman, Aidan. 2019. “Cinematic Experiments and Ethical Transformations.“ Visual and New Media Review, Cultural Anthropology website, January 10, 2019. 

Seale-Feldman, Aidan. 2017. “Jackson, Michael and Albert Piette (Eds.) 2015. What Is Existential Anthropology? Berghahn Books. 248 Pp. Hb.:$95.00, ISBN: 9781782386360.” Social Anthropology/Anthropologie Sociale 25 (2): 256–58. DOI:10.1111/1469-8676.12407 

Public Scholarship

Seale-Feldman, Aidan. 2021. “Wutharr, Saltwater Dreams.” Visual and New Media Review, Fieldsights, March 18.

Seale-Feldman, Aidan. 2020. “Trembling Mountain.” Visual and New Media Review, Fieldsights, December 23.

Seale-Feldman, Aidan, and Andrés Romero. 2020. “Castaway Man.” Visual and New Media Review, Fieldsights, December 10.

Seale-Feldman, Aidan, and Andrés Romero. 2020. “Who Will Be a Gurkha.” Visual and New Media Review, Fieldsights, November 19.

Seale-Feldman, Aidan, and Andrés Romero. 2020. “Ethnocine: Nobel Nok Dah.” Visual and New Media Review, Fieldsights, August 13.

Romero, Andrés, and Aidan Seale-Feldman. 2020. “Swim Lesson.” Visual and New Media Review, Fieldsights, May 21.

Seale-Feldman, Aidan. 2020. “Fragments of a Transient Affliction: ‘Mass Hysteria’ and the Question of Subjectivity.” Somatosphere.

Seale-Feldman, Aidan. 2019. “Thinking with Ghosts.” The Record Nepal.

Seale-Feldman, Aidan and Andrés Romero. 2019. “The Possibility of Spirits.” Visual and New Media Review, Fieldsights, September 26.

Seale-Feldman, Aidan, and Andrés Romero. 2019. “Ghosts and Numbers.” Visual and New Media Review, Fieldsights, August 14. 

Seale-Feldman, Aidan, and Andrés Romero. 2019. “The Screening Room.” Visual and New Media Review, Fieldsights, August 14. 

Seale-Feldman, Aidan. 2018. “Images.” Correspondences, Cultural Anthropology website, March 2. 

Interviews

Fisher, Daniel, and Aidan Seale-Feldman. 2021. “Filmmaking and Worldmaking: An Interview with the Karrabing Film Collective.” Visual and New Media Review, Fieldsights, March 18.

Seale-Feldman, Aidan. 2020. “Sunyata Cinema: An Interview with Kesang Tseten.” Visual and New Media Review, Fieldsights, November 19.

Media Coverage

Em Sandberg. 2025 . “Dr. Aidan Seale-Feldman.” Psychedelics in Social Work (Podcast). Crown Family School for Social Work, Policy, and Practice, University of Chicago. May 26. https://open.spotify.com/episode/2B0xbujxo7Q93ecuD5sOtZ?si=3OCczMdST9-uxAxSFMFavA

Jane Hu. 2025. “Spiritual Crisis and Psychedelics: 5 Questions for anthropologist Aidan Seale-Feldman.” The Microdose. February 10. https://themicrodose.substack.com/p/spiritual-crisis-and-psychedelics

Shayla Love. 2024. “The Horseshoe Theory of Psychedelics: Donald Trump’s Campaign Has Cemented the Right’s Romance with Psychedelics.” The Atlantic. November 1. https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2024/11/psychedelics-maga-kennedy-trump/680479/?gift=vaU_BsG0tnmqKgTvTtvqWu6ISO7w2fi-8Iad3FNeHHo&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

Kinney, Mary. 2024. “‘The border between the secular and sacred’: Anthropologist Receives Templeton Grant for Research on Psychedelics, Mental Health, and Spiritual Yearning.” University of Notre Dame College of Arts and Letters News, March 27.

DeStazio, Tracy. 2023. “Anthropologist Offers Blueprint for New Ways of Being and Relating to Others in Wake of Disaster.” Notre Dame News, December 19.

Summers, Lachlan. 2020. “A Sudden Shock of Care: An Interview with Aidan Seale-Feldman.” Supplementals, Fieldsights, August 18.