profil penelitian UAP
Diana Walsh Pasulka (Diana Heath)
Akademisi agama, teknologi, media, dan budaya UAP
- JabatanAkademisi agama, teknologi, media, dan budaya UAP
Gambaran umum
Diana Walsh Pasulka, sekarang dicantumkan UNCW sebagai Diana Heath, adalah professor yang meneliti religion, technology, media, dan emerging forms of belief. Karya UAP terpentingnya adalah American Cosmic (2019) dan Encounters (2023). [S1][S2][S3]
Arti pentingnya bukan menentukan physical UAP origin.
UAP juga merupakan cultural object: witnesses interpret events melalui existing categories, media membuat durable narratives, dan communities mengembangkan authorities, conversion experiences, dan expectations.
Religious studies dapat menganalisis proses ini tanpa memutuskan terlebih dahulu apakah event physically extraordinary.
Current name
UNCW mencantumkan Dr. Diana Heath (formerly Walsh Pasulka). [S1]
Earlier books menggunakan Diana Walsh Pasulka / D. W. Pasulka.
UAPRAD sebaiknya mempertahankan kedua nama.
Religious-studies background
Scholarship sebelumnya mencakup Catholic history, purgatory, supernatural narratives, religious media, dan material culture. [S1][S4]
Religious studies mempelajari texts, institutions, practices, experiences, bukan sekadar menentukan metaphysical truth.
UNCW 2026 account menggambarkan approach-nya sebagai disciplinary neutrality/non-belief. [S5]
Beginning UAP research
Sekitar 2012 ia mulai comparative study antara historical angel/soul imagery dan modern UFO imagery. [S5]
Similarity tidak membuktikan same physical phenomenon.
Perception, symbols, cultural transmission, narrative structures, atau other mechanisms dapat menjelaskan similarity.
American Cosmic
OUP menerbitkan American Cosmic pada 2019 setelah multi-year ethnographic work dengan scientists, professionals, dan technology-sector participants. [S2]
Buku menunjukkan UFO belief tidak terbatas pada marginal communities.
Film, television, digital imagery menyediakan cultural templates untuk interpreting unusual experiences.
Later memory dapat shaped oleh culture.
Belief versus physical evidence
Ethnographic access bukan physical confirmation.
Credentialled scientist belief adalah social fact, bukan independent physical proof.
Anonymous sources dan material stories dapat ethnographically important tetapi sulit independently verified.
Perlu membedakan statements, Pasulka observations, documented facts, dan physical interpretation.
Anonymous participants
Pseudonyms melindungi sources tetapi membatasi independent checking.
Internet identification bukan established tanpa confirmation.
Religion/media/technology
UFO narratives dapat mengandung revelation, hidden knowledge, insiders, conversion, apocalypse, sacred locations, authoritative images.
Ini tidak berarti setiap UAP imaginary.
Social life of evidence dapat berkembang terpisah dari original event.
Encounters
Encounters memperluas "nonhuman intelligences" ke AI, religious entities, anomalous experiences, dreams, dll. [S3][S6]
Evidence types sangat heterogeneous.
Common interpretive frame tidak membuktikan common physical source.
Extraordinary experience
Experience dapat menghasilkan real psychological/cultural consequences meskipun physical identity unresolved.
Serious study tidak memerlukan endorsement extraordinary physical claim.
Material claims
Material-search episode di American Cosmic bukan proof of non-terrestrial material.
Strong claims memerlukan provenance, chain of custody, lab methods/results.
Pasulka adalah ethnographer, bukan materials scientist.
Public role
Public prominence memperluas reach tetapi menciptakan ethnographic reflexivity karena researcher menjadi participant dalam culture yang dipelajari.
Analisis bukti
Strong contribution: culture, religion, media, experience.
Limit: ethnographic observation tidak boleh menjadi physical proof.
Religious studies tidak mengukur isotope ratios/manufacture history.
Yang telah ditetapkan
- UNCW religion/technology/culture professor. [S1]
- Current name Diana Heath, formerly Walsh Pasulka. [S1]
Bukti yang hilang atau tidak tersedia
Untuk physical claims: provenance, chain of custody, lab methods, raw results, independent replication.
Penilaian keseluruhan
Diana Walsh Pasulka penting karena UAP bukan hanya sensor problem tetapi juga culture/meaning problem.
Evidence menjadi culture dan culture membentuk later evidence interpretation.
Ethnography menetapkan experiences/beliefs/practices, bukan physical origin sendirian.
Sumber
[S1] UNCW. https://www.uncw.edu/profiles/p/pasulkad *[S2] American Cosmic. https://books.google.com/books/about/American_Cosmic.html?id=X-D4vQEACAAJ [S3] Encounters. https://academic.macmillan.com/academictrade/9781250879561/encounters/ [S4] UNCW Scholars. https://scholars.uncw.edu/display/pasulkad [S5] UNCW 2026. https://www.uncw.edu/news/advancement/2026/07/pints-with-professors-cosmic-evening [S6] Macmillan.* https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250879578/encounters/