Michael Kimball

Professor of Anthropology at the University of Northern Colorado

Professor Kimball is an award-winning engaged teacher-scholar whose work includes community-engaged and cross/intercultural research, virtual cultural exchange, community-based cultural heritage studies, and conflict transformation. He serves on the executive boards for the international Society for Human Ecology and the American Anthropological Association’s Society for the Anthropology of Consciousness. 

As a mindfulness teacher certified by the Mindfulness Institute for Emerging Adults and founder of UNCO’s Mindfulness Teachers Collaborative, Kimball integrates and helps others integrate contemplative perspectives and practices into pedagogy, scholarship, and collaboration. He authored the book, Ethnowise, which synthesizes knowledge from the fields of anthropology, neuroscience, psychology, and mindfulness studies to show how culture shock can be used to cultivate resilience and interconnection.