I am an anthropologist and linguist trained in the UK and the Netherlands. My scholarly focus is on the Himalayan region, in particular Nepal, northern India, Bhutan and cultural Tibet. I am a core member of the Yale Himalaya Initiative, and I teach at Cambridge and Yale universities, where I also direct two international research projects. My present research focuses on initiatives that seek to document endangered languages and map global cultural diversity; research on linguistic policy and language activism with relation to the role of mother tongue instruction in education; and issues relating to the access and ownership of anthropological materials from ethnographic museums when they circulate online or are returned to source communities in digital form. I am a firm advocate of collaborative research at all levels, and believe in the importance of wider public engagement in anthropology.

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