Steph McIsaac (any pronouns) is a cultural anthropologist, movement artist, and somatic educator. Steph holds a PhD in Medical Anthropology & Critical Theory from UC Berkeley and previously served on the faculty at Washington University in St. Louis and Bowdoin College. Steph’s research and writing explores how history lives in the body, and in the ways people and traditions access, express, and transform embodied history through healing practices. Steph’s teaching draws on body-centered and mindfulness-based pedagogies to engage questions of structural oppression, embodiment, performance, community, care, and healing. In addition to teaching anthropology, Steph is an active dance/performance artist and teaches movement, somatics, and meditation across New York.