Associate Professor, UiT The Arctic University of Norway
Michael T. Heneise is co-founder and former executive director of the Highland Institute, and Associate Professor of religious studies at UiT The Arctic University of Norway. He has conducted anthropological research in the South American Andes, and in the Indian Himalayas. His doctoral research at the University of Edinburgh explored the relationship between dreams and agency among the Nagas in the Indo—Burmese highlands. Prior to Edinburgh, he studied anthropology in Ecuador at the Latin American School of Social Sciences (FLACSO). He is the editor of the journals Himalaya and Highlander and operates Highlander Press.