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Neşe Devenot

Title: Senior Lecturer, University Writing Program

Institution: University

Discipline: Other/Interdisciplinary

Appearances: 1

Notable: Founded the Psychedemia Interdisciplinary Psychedelics Conference; European Romantic Review Article Prize (2020); inaugural award for Best Humanities Publication in Psychedelic Studies from Breaking Convention (2016); Research Fellow at the NYU Psilocybin Cancer Anxiety Study; featured in NPR, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and WIRED

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Biography

Nese Devenot is a scholar working at the intersections of health humanities, psychedelic bioethics, and comparative literature. They have been contributing to the interdisciplinary field of Psychedelic Studies since 2010 and are recognized as a leading voice on the ethics and policy dimensions of psychedelic research and therapy.

Sample Works

The Psychedelic Syndicate: How Silicon Valley Used Veterans to Hijack the Psychedelic Industry (2025) Article
Dark Side of the Shroom: Erasing Indigenous and Counterculture Wisdoms with Psychedelic Capitalism, and the Open Source Alternative (2022) Paper
Psychedelic Identity Shift: A Critical Approach to Set and Setting (2022) Paper
Right-Wing Psychedelia: Case Studies in Cultural Plasticity and Political Pluripotency (2021) Paper

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