Rodney Shaclkleford, Do. Ph.D. Academic Chair, Society for Ritual Arts Board Member

Associate Professor of Pathology

University of South Alabama

Stanley Krippner, Ph.D. Advisor

Professor Stanley Krippner stands as a true trailblazer in the realm of consciousness exploration, pushing boundaries by delving into cross-cultural perspectives and the intriguing realm of non-ordinary experiences that boldly challenge conventional paradigms. With an extensive body of work, he is an award winning prolific author (Personal Mythology and Varieties of Anomalous Experience), and an esteemed researcher, diving into diverse subjects such as dreaming, psychedelics, creativity, shamanism, parapsychology, and trauma.

Helena Domenic, Arts Advisor and Editor MFA , Society For Ritual Arts Board Secretary

Artist in Residence 2025 (a yearly position)

Helena Domenic is an accomplished painter, writer, and mystic who has shown her work in Philadelphia, New York, across the United States and in Egypt and South Africa. Helena was born in Vicenza, Italy where she was exposed to great works of art from a very early age. After viewing the Sistine Chapel ceiling at the age of eighteen months, her mother predicted she would become an artist. She holds a BFA from Kutztown University, an MA in Art Education from The University of the Arts, and an MFA from Goddard College in Plainfield, Vermont.

Yvonne Owens, Ph.D. Advisor

Yvonne Owens is a past Research Fellow at the University College of London, and Professor of Art History and Critical Studies. She was awarded a Marie Curie Ph.D. Fellowship in 2005 for her interdisciplinary dissertation on Renaissance portrayals of women in art and sixteenth-century Witch Hunt discourses. She holds an Honours B.A. with Distinctions in History of Art from the University of Victoria, British Columbia, an M.A. in Medieval Studies with Distinction from The Centre For Medieval Studies at the University of York, U.K., and an M.Phil. and Ph.D. in History of Art from University College of London. Her publications to date have mainly focused on representations of women and the gendering of evil “defect” in classical humanist discourses, cross-referencing these figures to historical art, natural philosophy, medicine, theology, science and literature. Her essay, “The Saturnine History of Jews and Witches,” appeared in Preternature (Vol. 3, No. 1) in 2014, her book chapter, Pollution and Desire in Hans Baldung Grien: The Abject, Erotic Spell of the Witch and Dragon appeared in Angeliki Pollali and Berthold Hub, Eds., Images of Sex and Desire in Renaissance Art and Modern Historiography, her essay “The Hags, Harridans, Viragos and Crones of Hans Baldung Grien” was published as part of the Hans Baldung Grien: New perspectives on his work, International Conference Proceedings (October 18-20, 2018), Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe in 2019, and her book, Abject Eroticism in Northern Renaissance Art: the Witches and Femme Fatales of Hans Baldung Grien, Bloomsbury London, in 2020. She also writes art and cultural criticism, exploring contemporary post-humanist discourses in art, literature and new media. She is the editor for an anthology of essays titled Trans-Disciplinary Migrations: Science, the Sacred, and the Arts, from Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

https://yvonneowens.academia.edu/