Fellows

Meera Baindur is an environmental philosopher, educator, and researcher at the Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Bengaluru Campus. Her work spans different aspects of Environmental Humanities, including nature and environment in Indian philosophical and cultural traditions, cultural geography, and eco-pedagogies.

Currently on a Fulbright-Nehru Postdoctoral Research Scholarship at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Ruokuonuo Rose obtained her Ph.D in Archaeology from the Department of Ancient Indian History, Culture and Archaeology, Deccan College Post Graduate and Research Institute, Pune Email- rose@highlandinstitute.org

I am a social anthropologist and carried out long-term ethnographic and historical research among the upland and tribal Nagas in India’s generally lesser known Northeastern Region, writing about insurgency, violence, vernacular politics, capitalism, resource-extraction, and social history. My main research area and focus today are environmental humanities, climate change, water, and human-animal-plant entanglements in Bhutan,

Anna Notsu holds an MSc in Cultural Anthropology from Leiden University, where she currently works as a junior lecturer. Her research interests involve political ecology, agricultural practices, environmental degradation, and more-than-human healing. At present, she is looking to start her doctoral research on customary land usages and emergent forms of regenerative practices – relatives to

I have an outstanding international reputation for innovative archaeological research leadership in difficult areas. I have had a four-decade working life dedicated to opening new research pathways in the prehistory of the Middle East and Central Asia. Over the past two decades, I have been particularly concerned with the influence of Eurasian innovations on the

Ketoukhrieü (Ph.D.) is currently working as an Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Kohima College, Kohima under Nagaland University, Nagaland.    She has obtained Ph.D in Political Science on the topic, “Society and Politics in the Borderlands: A Case Study of a Konyak Naga Village Located at the Indo-Myanmar Borderland” from Gauhati University Assam in 2015. Her academic

Junior Fellow Akumjung Pongen is currently pursuing his postgraduate studies in Philosophy and Theology at the University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar. He holds an undergraduate degree in Philosophy from St. Stephen’s College, University of Delhi. He studies and researches themes of metaphysics and epistemology as they concern topics in the philosophy of language and

Dr Bisakha Goswami is an Assistant Professor of Musicology at Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata, where she has taught since 2012, and Founder Secretary of Muktabodha, a centre for Indological studies and research. Her main research interests are the historical musicology of South Asia as reflected in Sanskrit treatises, Tagore’s approach to music education, and the

Wayne, an environmental science graduate, is experienced in the creation of mass participation projects involving partnerships between academic, commercial and voluntary organisations. He also has a Master of Philosophy, obtained through research into education programme evaluation. Using a bespoke method to improve participation developed over the last 10 years, Wayne has provided logistics and support

Kadiguang Panmei is a researcher and musician studying the culture of northeast India and its people through various lenses, including culinary anthropology, migration, geopolitics, and the arts. During the academic year 2022-2023, he pursued his research as a Fulbright Scholar at UCLA’s Herb Alpert School of Music, in the Department of Ethnomusicology.He has varied experiences