David Delgado Shorter
Dr. David Shorter is a tenured professor at UCLA, where he has taught the class "Aliens, Psychics, and Ghosts" for over a decade. He has been researching how science helps and doesn’t help us understand the paranormal. He is also the Director of the Archive of Healing, having been raised by a curandera, and learning with healers in Indigenous communities as well as in Japan. Most recently, Dr. Shorter has been named the Editor in Chief for the American Indian Culture and Research Journal, a leading scholarly journal in the field of Indigenous Studies. He has published scholarly essays in anthropology, Indigenous Studies, and the history of the sciences. He has produced films, created digital content, and curated art exhibits.
Latest articles by David Delgado Shorter
First contact with aliens could end in colonization and genocide if we don't learn from history
By David Delgado Shorter, Kim TallBear, William Lembert published
How humanity responds to the first contact with intelligent alien life could determine the very fate of our species. Here's what we can learn from history.
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